So Say We All

It is finished.

Battlestar Galactica, that is. All four five four seasons (bloody Season 2.0, 2.5, 4.0 and 4.5...) of it.

We've not been one to really follow tv serials much post-uni due to a few reasons, and we must say that we find it liberating to have kicked the tv habit. Gives us more time to do other stuff. The only show we'd watched (asides our Sailormoon) was Heroes, and that was because lad and Joery was kind enough to pass us all the episodes to devour one after another without waiting an entire week for the next episode. And even for Heroes we've yet to start on Season 3.

So why the sudden urge to watch Battlestar Galactica?

Not sure really.

Probably 'cos every time sis comes back we both end up at the local DVD store picking out movies and tv series.

Probably 'cos the iTunes Store was featuring Season 4 sometime back early this year. Also with free webisodes that we'd downloaded.

Probably 'cos we'd stumbled onto the Battlestar Wiki and started checking up what's the difference between the old series and this new one.

Probably because there was that episode where Xena, Warrior Princess first show up.

Probably because it was only four seasons long and that it has just finished, so we wouldn't be caught halfway in some cliffhanger, and the general reviews said that the show ended with a good finale.

Whatever it was, we finally decided to pick up Season 1 in April and work out way from there.

What we weren't prepared for was the first two episodes to be 2 hours long each. Seriously. We picked up Season 1 on Saturday, popped Disc 1 at night, and next thing you know it was morning before we even see the credits, and mum coming down to the living room stating that we're going to church soon. For a moment we thought that they intentionally made the DVD version sans opening and credits between episodes, but it turns out that the first two episodes were miniseries to build up the storyline. Episodes 3 onwards were the regular 45 minute fare.

Plus it wasn't easy finding time after midnight just to catch an episode. Especially on some episodes where it ends in a cliffhanger - once you start you can't stop.

And now we've finally finished the entire series! Now to store the boxsets somewhere, and figure if we shall take a break from nighttime DVDs or to start on Gossip Girls, since we're curious as to why some people are so worked up over this series.