Battlestar Galactica is the best TV show I watch right now. It never fails to entertain. God I love that show. The mid-season finale had an incredible ending. I think it’s a better show than Lost, even though I consider Lost my favorite show. BSG is a remake of a TV show made decades ago, but they completely transformed it. The writing is incredible. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
When a TV show loses an actor or actress, the writers have to replace their character with a new one and make sure it’s all consistent with the plot. This takes valuable time away from what could have otherwise been a kick-ass space battle.
I’d be too impatient to artfully work around a change in cast. I wonder if you could get away with doing a half-assed job of replacing the actor or actress but essentially keep the character the same. You could introduce the new character, make a lame attempt to flesh them out for that episode, then forget all that and write the new character just like the old one: same personality, same way of speaking, same past, knowledge, etc. You’d just pretend that nothing really happened and continue on. It’d be hilarious!
My roommates and I tried to cancel our TV service last week. Dish Network told us they would charge us a cancellation fee because we were apparently signed up for an 18-month service plan. That didn’t make sense because we started the TV service when we had only six or seven months left on our lease. So apparently they felt they should sign us up on our behalf. How thoughtful.
While dealing with the cancellation fee, another shady act came to light. We started our TV service as a bundle with an existing AT&T phone service. A few months later, that bundle inexplicably “expired” and the two services were separated into individual bills. They conveniently failed to notify us that the elapsed time of our service plan reset to zero when the bundle expired. So after several months of paying for TV service, we had still officially only paid for zero of the 18 months of service. Makes sense from a money-grubbing-bastard point of view.
Maybe it’s just better to avoid package deals and pay month-to-month. They’re all crooks.
