Battlestar Galactica fans-I need some help here!

[Fillyjonk]

DP is a Battlestar Galactica fan. I am really not, but I like knitting and can see how the two could be not incompatible.

It is our anniversary next week and woohoo older kids are off with gps, SO I want to buy him one of the BS box sets. I only want to buy one season, we don't normally get a chance to watch tv.

Obvious thing would be to buy season 1.

BUT seem to recall DP saying that BS got significantly better after a few series. Does this make any sense? Could it have been series 3?

Any thoughts, because I have no frakking idea....

(note kids are off with GPs for three whole days.

We are not spending our anniversary watching BS.)

Series 1 is cringe-worthy. We battled our way through as we heard (on Mumsnet) that it did get better. Series 2 is very good - we are about halfway through.

Oh, and there are only 4 series.

I really think you have to start at the beginning - it's all arc storyline.

Has he seen it all? You can't go in at series three unless he has. We watched all of it and I struggled at times to follow it through!

DP thinks HMV have a sale on series 1-4 boxset... will see if I can get him to find a link!

If it's within budget it's the way to go according to DP!

oh yes he has seen it all

do you think series 3, but then he gets additional fun of explaining it to me?

there is a miniseries too, how does that work?

you know what ewe that isn't a bad idea

but what is this miniseries? do i need that too?

What about mini series for Father's Day? Then the full boxset for anniversary?

A word of warning on the boxset though - Make sure it actually has all of the episodes on it. DP bought one on sale in HMV a few months ago and it only has half of season 4 on it, as the rest of the final season was only released a couple of weeks ago.

ah i see re boxset. oh dear

so there is a miniseries AND a proper series?

Series one was good, series 2 was crap. Series 3 is good afaik! Not seen series 4 yet.

and then there is the film - you need to see that really as well.

There was a three hour long miniseries, which was followed by seasons 1, 2 and 3, then a feature length episode called Battlestar Galactica : Razor, then the final fourth season. All of the above are included on the boxset linked to above but the second half of season four is missing.

As far as I know.

The mini series is the prequel to the BG series. More like a film, setting the scene, than a series iyswim.

Tidey is right about the box set and disc four as it has a break due to the writers strike so is a two part series. You would have to buy the fourth series in two parts anyway so you are better off getting the box set still.

This appears to be the whole lot but is quite a lot more expensive than the one from HMV.

That is only available for pre-order too Tidey.

Oh yeah, I didn't notice that Ewe! I just thought maybe they were selling off the incomplete boxsets cheap because that was out already and mad sci-fi collector people would want it [D'oh emoticon]

I expect at some point near Christmas there will be a special edition box set which will include all even the webisodes I live in hope and saving money and request for that treat

ok

given we have about 2 evenings, max, how about i just buy series 3, and some beer. Would that work?

I'm sure it would, Fillyjonk, and then you could buy him the other seasons for other occasions. My DP has been receiving various sci-fi DVDs for every birthday, Xmas and Father's Day for some time now Very handy if he's collecting something, much easier to think of gifts!

'ello

have bought season 3

nearly bought miniseries but then discovered it had dead babies in it and can't have that...

(thanks all, btw! frakking great. Yes. )