Lower Decks

Lower Decks will be live blogging SCI FI Channel’s Battlestar Galactica marathon all day.  It began this morning at 8AM ET with a recap special and the last three episodes of Season Three but we’re starting with “He That Believeth in Me,” the Season Four premiere, at 11:30AM ET.

9:59PM – forst – Well, that’s it.  One last promo for the new episode at 10PM plus the one in the closing credits makes four.  I assume there were about a million shown throughout the marathon.  I had hoped other writers here at Lower Decks would have joined in the live blogging fun but I guess I’m the only one who had nothing better to do.  I’m not going to bother live blogging “Sometimes a Great Nothin” because we hope to have a review of published by Monday.  Remember that the episode tonight runs 3.5 minutes past the hour.

9:56PM – forst – Please show the Statue of Liberty. Please show the Statue of Liberty…

9:55PM – forst – Nice looking blue skies. Check. White clouds. Check. Radioactive wasteland. Check.

9:52PM – forst – Jeez, people, you’d think you might want to, you know, look around before all the celebrating.

9:51PM – forst – Confirmation from Gaeta?  It’s Earth!

9:46PM – forst – We’re off to find Earth!  Yay.

9:42PM – forst – Peace between the Cylons and the Colonials?

9:36PM – forst – Kara!  We were so close to seeing Tigh sucked into space and you ruined it.  Also, promo #2.

9:31PM – forst – Oh Kara.  It’s hard not to feel sorry for you but I can do it.

9:27PM – forst – Poor Adama.  He’s lost the faith.

9:26PM – forst – Smash your little ship again, Adama.  Smash it!

9:23PM – forst – Is this really the first promo?  Could be.  Only 37 minutes to go.

9:22PM – forst – Oh Bill, you’re only thinking what tons of Battlestar Galactica fans are thinking.  How can Tigh be a Cylon?  It boggles the mind.

9:21PM – forst – Tigh admits to Adama that he’s a Cylon!  He’s one of the Five.  Adama sure doesn’t believe it.

9:17PM – forst – The music is back, it seems, and so is Tyrol’s hair.

9:17PM – forst – What is Tigh going to do?

9:15PM – forst – Of course Baltar has to pretend he knew Tory was a Cylon.  His ego would never recover if he thought he had been deceived.  Also, Tory makes a wonderful Cylon.  But why have the others (Tigh, Tyrol and Anders) not become so Cylon-ified.

9:07PM – forst – Tory was the first two make her way to D’Anna.  Why am I not surprised?

9:00PM – forst – This is it, the last episode from the first half of Season Four.  I imagine some pretty shocking things happen over the course of the next hour.

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I’ve been watching The Twilight Zone on SCI FI Channel since 8AM this morning (there are some episodes I’ve seen upwards of five or six times — wow) and it seems as if every commercial break has at least one promotional spot for the return of Battlestar Galactica on January 16th, 2009.  Not to mention those annoying quarter-of-the-screen banners that run for a few seconds after a commercial ends.  If only there were more than two or three spots SCI FI was rotating.  I’ve seen each of them a dozen times and its getting annoying.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this promotional push isn’t going to help Battlestar Galactica gain new viewers.  There are only two types of viewers tuning in to this marathon: 1) regular SCI FI Channel viewers who are already highly anticipating the return of Battlestar Galactica, and 2) fans of The Twilight Zone who are only watching the channel because of the marathon.  In other words, please, SCI FI, cut back on the Battlestar Galactica overdose!