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Olmos: Season Four Is GALACTICA’s Last!!
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“We’re heading into the final season,” “Battlestar Galactica” star Edward James Olmos told If Magazine at Thursday night's Saturn Awards. “This is the final season as we speak. All of us are very saddened by that, but we always knew there was going to be a conclusion and we would find Earth, so we will be finding Earth this season.”
Season four of "Galactica" hits the SciFi Channel early next year.
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Hmm...
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It was said long ago that if the episode number was increased from 13, it would signal the end of the series.
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Galactica tries to be so smart, with its 9/11 allegories and the "authentic" shaky cam, but it's just boring. I stopped watching after Season 2 anyway :P
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But I'll be grateful for the ride. It's the first SF show I've gotten passionate about since Babylon 5.
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BSG was the best thing to happen to sci-fi tv since Firefly, and they REALLY dropped the ball. Too many standalone throwaway and uneventful eps this season just about sealed it. Then, they makea gigantic big deal about Thrace dying, and she's gone for like three episodes. After a VERY strong start this season, it just died. At least I know it will all end. Right about now I hope they decide to go ahead and do a true follow-up to the original series. Hatch has proved himself- let's give him back Apollo.
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Four seasons is more than enough to tell the kind of story they're trying to here. Any more than that and they're just stringing it out for the sake of it.
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but even I have to admit that Season 3 was a bit off. The most glaring (annoying) thing they did was set up a love triangle b/w Apollo, Starbuck, and Duala. That annoyed the shit out of me!
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Yes it was an uneven third season, but this show is still one of the best out there by far. This last season is going to be super intense/focused probably without any stand-alone/throwaway episodes. I can't wait for it start, but I would have been fine for at least 2 more seasons.
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Fanboys can moan about the lack of space battles all they want. I prefer the characters and existential craziness on BSG. Season Three absolutely ruled.
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The one thing any show can do to drive me away is to start preaching at me on social/political topics the writers/directors think are important. They lost sight of the fact that a TV show is supposed to entertain the audience. The rapid decline in viewers should have told them back in Season Two that audiences weren't being entertained. But it's all water under the bridge now. Battlestar has been given it's death sentence and LOST has been renewed for three more seasons. ;)
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DAGNABBIT!!!
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Ohh well I suspected it very much but it still makes me sad to see it go. I don't know if they can't/couldn't have stretched it one more season but it stands as an awesome show and after its conclusion will be a benchmark for any series.
Its bittersweet but the most important thing to me is that the writers get to do this exactly how they want it so the plot and story comes to the end at the right pace and how it should.
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People suck.
Someone always gotta be displeased about something instead of appreciating what is head-and-shoulders (not shampoo) above all competition. 'throw-away' episodes aren't 'throw-away' they are simply stories that do happen and are worth telling while not necessarily pertaining to the 'big' plot of things.
Season 3 was definitely a great season and while different from the two first, certainly not so in a bad way.
Love it or leave it, gents. -
Battlestar is one of the best shows on TV without a doubt.
This is perfect from them to wrap up. And by the way, Season three, while still being the weakest of the seasons, was still better than 99.9% of the shit that is usually shown on the boob tube. -
The new "Battlestar Galactica" is remarkable for how it took an old program that was, for the most part, quite bad and found a way to remake it into something great. But as much as I love this show, its cancellation after season four is probably a good thing. If the people working on this show can properly end it on a high note while it's still in peak form, then they should do it. While season three had more than its fair share of "filler" episodes, these episodes were still a lot better than most of what's on TV. Even at its worst, it's still a lot better than where shows like "Lost" or "Smallville" are now, which is why it should end. If they had moved this show to NBC and it continued for several more seasons, then it would probably have ended up fizzling out before season five, and former fans would be wondering what happened to ruin this once-great show.
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See what I did here, I used the lyrics from the Smurfs song to tie into the season finale of BSG. Insomnia rules. Fire up the Flux capacitor, we're going BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!
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can any sci-fi original show last more than 4 seasons, I truely have my doubts....
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but not the money. He said he wanted to buy a channel I believe, have full control. And just put on quality shows. Give one to Joss, and so on... I think if there was a pay channel, that was a SUBSCRIPTION base only, so ratings would be crap, just subscribers, and the networked carried lets say... BSG, Firefly, Arrested Development, ROME, shows that CANT be made, but have HUGE followings... screw ratings, its like HBO, no one freaking watches the some of the shows on Showtime, but give the people a chance to PAY for it, and then charge $100 for a box set of the DVDs and you will be quality shows, that can run thier course, and they will still make money. Comments? THIS is what I think he blogged about.... and it makes sense... but who has this kinda cash? Anyone know Bill Gates :)
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Remember this bit of advice from our good friend, Edward, before the series began?
From this very website:
A bit of sage advice from Edward James Olmos, who stars as Commander Adama in the new Ronald D. Moore-scripted Battlestar Galactica? miniseries (due to air on SciFi this December):
"Please don't watch this program," Olmos advised fans of the 1978 original as he spoke during the current TCA press tour. "Buy yourself the new DVDs that they're putting out of the old episodes, and whenever we come on, just put that one in. ... Trust me. Don't watch it. If you're a real, real staunch Battlestar Galactica person, please don't watch it."
"I would not advise [the fans] to watch this program. It will hurt them . . .
"The intent and the way we've built the reality is very different from the reality of the original."
"I know the Sci Fi wants to say that everyone's going to like it," Olmos said. They're not.
This reminds me of all the talkbackers who said that the American "Office" would fall on it's face. -
I don't know how to separate paragraphs in the talkback. The last and first sentences are mine, as well as "From this very website". Everything else is Olmos.
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...after the average, f-in audience didn't like Season 3 and the ratings gone south. Fuck 'em! Bring the GRAND FINALE IN! Eddie Olmos rocks by the way!
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...they find out that it's uninhabitable, because the Decepticons and the Autobots destroyed it thousands of years earlier.
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i just hope getting to Earth involves slightly more than a shot of Galactica and the rest of the fleet approaching Earth's orbit in the final moments of the series fucking finale, a la Voyager. i hope we find out *when* on earth it is and *who* rules it: whether it's monkeys, mayans, morlocks, mole people or republicans...
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Best case scenario? Powers Boothe is the leader of Earth when the Galactica touches down. Boothe then defeats all the Cylons with his "badassery overload".
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Now I will be able to catch up on it. I'm still on SG-1 season 5. I have to get through this first. Then Atlantis. THEN Galatica will be on DVD by the time I finish that.
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All shows have lapses in quality, but apart from a couple of episodes all of BSG has been fantastic. Diehard fans are anal. I'm a Brit but I love the US Office just as much. Do people really expect that old shows they watched decades ago will be resurrected exactly the same? BSG has been excellent in having some episodes that are satirical of current events but the messages are timeless. The quality should define your reaction, not your disgust that it's so different.
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Galactica: 2010 here we come! Or not, whatever. Seriously though, it'll be sad to see the show go, but on the upside at least they know going into the new season so there's no reason why thy we shouldn't get a proper send off and sense of closure for the show.
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I love this show, but with just about every great American show it gets run it into the ground. End with the going is good. 4 to 5 seasons is enough. think back to star trek. DS9 4-7 good, 1-3 crap. same goes for TNG. the simpsons had their run from 3-8. seinfeld 3-7. sopranos 1-3. most shows really only have the ticker for 4 to 5 seasons max. and BSG hit the ground running. they didn't need to develop it over a few seasons as the mini series set it up very nicely.
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i'm not. just look at the recent episodes.
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That's the real question!
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gave them a seasons notice instead of just cancelling them. I think this is good news and I think the 2010 deal for Lost is good news, because now they can wrap up the story on their own terms.
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i was hoping for at least 2 more seasons. this show is soooooo good. Sci Fi does have a rep of ending shows quick. *cough Farscape cough*
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I just don't get it.... Sci-Fi could be raking in the dough if they would give things a chance. If they didn't have such a long hiatus in between seasons, they would probably have a larger following... and less stand alone episodes...
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to get all weird...sleeping with Lee, then marrying Anders, and acting all weird and treating him like shit. Then it seemed like the show just got more and more surreal.
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And if they want to go the Galactica 80 route, how about getting those cool flying bikes?
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Yes, you're right, because science fiction has never been used as a genre to explore social and political issues. It's only supposed to exist for entertainment that never touches on the social and political issues of the day. Oh, wait, no it isn't.
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I hope they make us Earth people kick ass so we can help out in the War. But that would be too cool so it's probably going to be in the now where is sucks just as hard as it did in the 80's.
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New Caprica, the first 4 eps of season 3, were great. Court room drama in the last 2 eps were nice, as well. Everything in between was shit.
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...little kids and gays.
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...nerds and pedophiles.
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...and it's run by damn dirty apes!
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Demode, what have YOU been smoking? And where can I get some? Adam West is the reason it took so long to get a real Batman movie to the screen in the first place! A better analogy would be Bonanza's Lorne Greene meeting the original BSG's Lorne Greene. ;)
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...then I'll be happy. I can't wait to see her as a kickass crazy bionic chick!
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so long as they make season 4 super-tight. Unlike a lot of BSG fans, I liked many of the so-called filler episodes, e.g. 'The Woman King' was a good standalone ep that developed Helo & Boomer/Athena's relationship and the social background of the 12 colonies; same with the episode about Chief Tyrol and the unions. But there's so much to resolve about the Cylons and Earth that I don't think they can afford to waste a single episode on the weaker filler stuff, like the backstory to Adama's dead wife or Baltar's Oirish lawyer. Also, I expect that if season 4 does well enough, they can set themselves up for more TV movies.
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You know, the Vader rip-offs.
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My biggest concern for the next season is what they do with the Gaius Baltar storyline. My second biggest concern is that we'll never get to hear the Cylons say 'By your command'
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Maybe if these both focused on good storylines and characters instead of their Get Bush/Save the Terrorists sidebars, they might have lasted longer. (HEROES take note.) Both of these were a year past expiration and dead series walking going in. When BSG finds Earth, will anyone care? Can they resist some sort of last irrational extremist statement? How about... Dems win, radical Islamists take over the globe, Hollywood and Las Vegas are burned to the ground, homosexuals and non-believers are put to the sword, women are burka suffocated chattel, and Libs' tongues are cut out. Now THAT would be 'fair and balanced'. ...P.S. Though not as deserved, I'll bet a no-prize that LOST doesn't LAST until it's due date, because it already has exhausted its credibility. So 'can' the countdown. They might like to last until 2010, but saying it don't make it so. And 24 is down 'til about half past 21:00. They'll be shopping for a safer time slot, 'cause the audience is fading fast with the quality. Next year is likely ITS last. Hey, all good (and bad) things must end. They had nice long runs, and soon will make room for more scripted 'reality' shows. Or, my pitch baby, AMERICAN ALLAH IDOLITRY. Where new North American zealots sacrifice themselves in creative ways for the faith. Grand prize of 72 palaces and virgins determined by home audience vote. Panel of Ayatollahs weigh in, with Osimon Bin Laden always saying he's seen it before in a lounge act or just wasn't painful enough. Fun for the whole family. Can't miss, I tell ya.
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Possibly the geekiest statement I've read here in a long time. Thanks for the laugh.
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That is all.
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i remember geeking out over the first series as they showed it in the uk first on sky, thatt first season was amazing. it'd been a great ride, i was really concerned about season 3 because of the amount of filler episodes, and was thinking if they get a 22 run on season 4 its gonna get worse. Kudos guys, levae while you are on top and dont stretch it out ( like lost), make 'em all awesome episiodes ron.
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Didn't a "6" say that to Boomer as the last line of the mini series?
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all u people in these talkbacks dont read.... BSG is not getting cancelled, theyre going into their final season.... gilmore got cancelled, firefly got cancelled, etc.... all 3 seasons to date have been great, and im sure the 4th will knock 3 out of the park...and would all of u with "filler" and "throw-away" episode comments stow it...every episode moves the plot along in small steps...i have not seen many standalone episodes at all on this show...and i grew up with the original BSG and loved it, and now that im an adult i love this one..its the same tale, just told better and not cheesey..no reboot of the original series, dont need it..we all should be glad that they do have an ending in mind, just like LOST, dont need these shows to drag on for years and years and years like ER , law and order, 7th heaven, etc..
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It's about time they cancelled this drivel. Characters were good but WAY underwritten. Plots were WAY too couched in modern day analogies. When I watch Sci-Fi I want to be transported away to fantastic realms and surreal situations. I don't want to watch a doctor smoking a cigarette while he hovers over a bullet-ridden chest. I can see that on CNN. Sayonara Galactica!
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atlantis? that painkiller jane is just awful. LOrd please give The Lost Room a chance
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There won't be much reason for me to turn on SciFi anymore with Stargate and BSG gone. I'll still watch SG Atlantis but the rest of the shows on SciFi are crap.
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They find the planet is overrun by the next generation of Cylons, which are all Robbie Rist clones on flying bicycles. All vegetation on the planet has been decimated except for green astroturf. If you don't know who Robbie Rist is you are not a true geek. Leave this site immediately.
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That will free up a lot of money for them to start doing new episodes of Firefly. I guarantee you they are thinking about it.
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It all depends on the ratings for season 4. Didnt B5 get its 5th season almost at the last moment?
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Her amazing character, Starbuck, is essential to the series, but she is too much of a spoiled little princess to appreciate it. I might have otherwise watched Bionic Woman, but not with this BSG traitor in the lead role.
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You know they'll release DVD's for years continuing the story.
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isn't this completely OLD news? as a big fan of both the original series and this one, i will be sad to see the series go, but i thinki it's very smart to go out on a high note. i think it's been a fantastic series. suck it, haters.
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I don't think we'll get the whole save BSG, ala Firefly, Farscape. There is a sense the the story is almost closed so fans are pissed that they will be missing out in the future.
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Four years is fine. At this rate, EVERYONE will have found to have been a Cylon by season five. Although, if you want to talk about a mind blowing twist, that Earth is actually the new Cylon homeworld...and the entire war was actually Cylon on Cylon violence...f-me running.
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if they can end it well, and wrap up the loose ends satisfactorily, i really don't care if it's 1 season or 100; 4 works just fine.
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C'mon..Lost is awful...just not going anywhere...the fact that it is going to 2010 amazes me, because the show 'lost' the plot when they killed off Libby and Echo - idiots! BSG going season 4 makes sense...the show was dragging in season 3 - it just was...but hopefully this will convince the money TV men that quality shows WORK. Awful shows like Dresden doesn't work. Scifi-fantasy-whatever can only work when money is spent on the writing...never overlook the writers - you do so at your own peril!
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This is why why BSG is the much better show: the people behind it have the balls to listen to their hearts and not their pocketbooks.
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And the best SF property in years.
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Sci-Fi channel sucks. Congratulations Sci-Fi ... it was the ONLY show I watched on your crappy network. Now --- zip. Guess that's what your advertisers wanted to hear.
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...while I agree that an episode or two like The Woman King were a bit heavy-handed, I do not agree that the third season lost it's way. When BSG finishes its run next season, they will have produced unequivocably the finest science-fiction series ever, with Exodus Part II the finest single hour of science-fiction broadcast history.Those of you who do not enjoy the social commentary aspects of the show need to reexamine your idea of science-fiction. Do you like science-fiction, or science-fantasy? If you like science-fantasy, go watch Stargate. If you like science-fiction, watch BSG. Examine the metaphor and allegory in the show. If it makes you uncomfortable, perhaps you need to reexamine your views of the real world.
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BSG is constantly in a state of change. The characters and plot on Lost have grown stale from overuse.Maybe if we're lucky, Sci-Fi will realize that at the end of this season they'll have 79 hours of BSG. A fifth season of 21 hours would put them at the magic 100 hour mark for syndication.
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Produce another Stargate spin-off.
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They reach earth, and join up with Starfleet for a big crossover Human vs. Cylon vs. Borg battle?
Man, that was so geeky, I need to go kick my own ass. Please excuse me. -
I like the idea that they are now letting series` end gracefully so let them find Earth, cancel it as a series and make a great BG movie every few years! It should be the patern of all great shows. We should be watching 24 movies in the theater instead of the horrible show it has become. Alias should have ended 3 seasons early and would have been a great big screen property, and on and on and on...
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Followed, of course, immediately by a hug filled with forbidden love.
Considering how much this series costs to produce, it needed higher ratings to keep justifying its existence. Here's hoping we finally learn what the Cylon's "plan" is in Season Four...
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May 11, 2007 9:30:53 AM CDT
I'll accept this if they make a post-season 4 TV movie
by performingmonkey
The upcoming TV movie isn't even going to continue the series, it's going back to the Pegasus, probably standalone with lots of action and 'drama'.
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I'll miss BSG, but glad to see it will go out with it's quality intact.
Some good news today according to Aimee Teegarden: "Ok guys I just got the word and drove home to my computer to let you know that it is official FNL has been picked up for 22 ....a full season order...Yeah!!! Thanks for everyone's support...You all rock...
Friday Night Love,
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As demonstrated by the previous season, there isn't much more plot and tension to be wrung from this premise. Let's hope it goes out on top.
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Well, I'll miss it when it goes, as I think it could have done more. It's not quite the show I originally thought I was getting in the miniseries or 33, but it still turned out damn good, even if it feels like it dropped the ball somewhere just after the Adama FTL Spectacular. Not sure why. But idiots like this on the IF site just don't know shit from wild honey:
"Phew..........no more rape scenes, Galactica in name only will be gone. Let's face it, fans leaving in droves was sending a message. Perhaps, given time the tarnished name of BSG can recover.....and a Continuation of the original show can happen, complete with its morals, spirit, integrity, and family values."
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A couple of months ago I would've said I wanted more but we're having to wait so long for the next season I doubt I could maintain interest for a 5th season anymore. Heroes completely lost all momentum by taking a mere 6 week break at an inopportune time. These people need to learn that you have to wrap things up a bit before taking a long break.
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I wonder if Ron Moore has made an official statement yet.Considering how they changed the 4th Season episode order from 13 to 20+ and made it clear that the new season would not start until 2008, I think this is more expected than a surprise. It's a fine choice which (once again) shows just how big this show's balls are.Without a doubt, "Battlestar Galactica" has been one of the most intelligent and best written shows ever on TV (it hasn't always been perfect - but when it's on, it's ON). Not to mention the great ensemble cast that continues to elevate the sci-fi premise into an outstanding human drama.While I'm sad to see that the finish line has been revealed, I'm very glad they know where they're going and know when to say, "We're home".So say we all.
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I hated the show to begin with. from the mini series it was unwatchable and never got any better, only more preachy. I hated the shaky cam. I hated that they changed all the black characters. I hated that the cylons were human looking. It just sucked ass and I am glad it's gone. Now they have a time slot to redo the Greatest American Hero and make that all dark and brooding and use it to make social commentary about how much America actually sucks and have Ralph use the suit to round up and torture those who oppose America. I LOVE AMERICA! AMERICAN AND PROUD! LONG LIVE THE 80'S TV SHOWS!!!
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No offense, but I don't think anyone with the word "Borg" in their screenname should be accusing others of geekiness. LOL
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This show started taking a nosedive for me around the second part of that cylon virus episode. Not to say that season 2 didn't have a decent amount of clunkers as well. But it's been drifting aimlessly for some time and where as this was once my favorite show, I welcome this news. And I'm very happy to see they were given a full season notice instead of just pissing off all the fans. Maybe networks are finally starting to learn, thanks to the internet perhaps. And I was on the fence about watching (or watching regularly) next season, this move pulls me back into the fold for the conclusion.
Still, shows get canceled faster than I find new ones to replace them. I hope Sci-Fi has some idea of what it needs to do for the future. They need to given either Joss Whedon, Rocke O'Bannon or J. Michael Stracynski a show. They need a name. I tend never to give these other tiny Sci-Fi shows a chance cause they never last long. I'm still missing The Invisible Man and G vs. E. Get a good front runner and give him full control over the show and the audience is built-in.
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That's who! I wouldn't wish the end to a show I didn't like just because I didn't like it if I knew other people enjoyed it.
Some people take so much pleasure out of being negative! Why don' you take that energy and go direct it towards something you do like rather than commenting on something you hate just to make other people feel bad. -
...is that they watch a show they hate. Masochist.
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you sound like a bunch of ungrateful bitches
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Then there's no need to bother with a "Caprica" series. MAYBE a mini-series would be interesting, but I don't see a BSG-Universe show that has NO BSG being that inspiring to watch. But that's just me.
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I don't force myself to watch 7th Heaven or One Tree Hill and I don't troll the talkbacks for shows I hate ripping on them when I could be putting my energy into talking about things I like with people who like them (I have been engrossed in Lost message boards all week with all of the speculation and I have to say I have never enjoyed rampant speculation so much!)
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Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Corey and Trevor.
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A teensy bit hit and miss this season, but cracking stuff anyway. All is forgiven after the Glory That Is "Exodus pt2". Please do more like that for season 4. I will be there :)
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Season four, 13 shows, no more,no less.
introduce a new character who is actually a Battlestar in human form, orgin unknown. have him or her get mad over what the Cylons did to the Colonies, have him or her relentlessly hunt and destroy Cylon after Cylon. Show us Cylons as the under-dogs, show us Cylons who are scared. -
Let's see: We'll have the Pegasus story before the end of the year (I hope), Galactica in '08. Bring 'em on!! Here's hoping for a mini-series of one of the best shows on tv every other year. Maybe Sci-Fi is saving money for a Firefly show? I'll be in my bunk. ;)
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and yeah, that kind of includes Bonnie "I Killed Farscape" Hammer for not screwing a good thing up (I'll never forgive her for that and she'll never give a damn). This has been an amazing show with multiple layers of emotion, drama and action. Truly one of the best shows on TV and IMHO the best Sci-Fi show on TV right now. It's great that all parties involved are going to end the story in an organic way instead of a mostly financial way.
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but man, I gotta think they have like 2 more seasons left in them.
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Kristin reported this last year, among other people, that if they extended the episode order of the season from 13 to 22, that it'd mean the series was ending! This isn't new.
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Those are some bitter, angry, grumpy sons of bitches on there. At our worst, we usually keep a little humor in the thread. Those guys are like super-pissed at the world!
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I was wondering how long it would take someone to point that out. Live long and prosper!
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Rag-tag fleet arrives in Earth orbit to be met by original series ENTERPRISE. Young and brash Captain Kirk welcomes Adama and crew, destroys the Cylons hot on their tail, chuckles at the backwards technology, and hands Adama a broom to begin his new job at Starfleet Headquarters.
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The virus storyline was the jump the shark moment, stories were too compartmentalized afterwards and questioning the "morality" about genocide against a race your race created was just not in the spirit of the show.. that and everything else that followed was just bad star trek episodes..
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Same premise as you've set, but when Kirk decides to attack the basestars coming after Galactica, he realizes D'OH! I don't have any fighters in my ship! Why the heck did Starfleet stick me with these two boxy shuttlecraft. Enterprise proceeds to get pummeled to shit while Adama and Tigh smoke cigars while watching it unfold from his bridge, which he was smart enough not to put ON TOP OF HIS FRAKKING SHIP! ;)
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then to drag it out season after season until it finally ends because nobody cares one way or the other; kinda like The X Files did. I think it's the smart thing to do, going out on a high note. Besides there is always room for BG movies afterwards.
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Kirk: "Shields up!" "Fire photon torpedoes!" "Beam over any survivors" "Yeoman, is that new perfume?" Adama: "Do you want fries with that?" Don't get me started on Imperial Cruisers. :)
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so I have never seen this show, which I've seen called the best show on TV today (or at least Friday). I have a friend who hates it because it's not exactly faithful to the original. He's almost always wrong about everything and only likes things from his awful '80s childhood. I was going to post my idea for a series ending, then got to this end of the talk back and saw several others have already done it. Anyway: The Battlestar Galactica reaches Earth, passing the runaway Space 1999 moon and the star with the Andromeda trapped in orbit around it in the way, arrives at Earth and collides with Voyager, where 7-of-9 assimilates the Cylons.
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Kirk: "What do you mean the phasers and torpedos only fire straight ahead?? What if they're behind us??" "Shields are at 10%? They're ALWAYS at 10%!! WTF, Scotty?!" Gotta agree about the cruisers, though.
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I heartily endorse the recent pattern of shows continuing for long enough to be satisfying, but bowing out before the audience gets too tired. Six Feet Under. The Sopranos. The Wire. Lost. BSG. Maybe if more shows did this then people would be willing to commit to the entire run. Rather than watching for a couple of seasons and wandering off as they wonder if it will go anywhere.Heroes would do itself a great favour if, on Monday, the announcement was made that "There will be a maximum of 5 seasons". This would, of course, still give NBC wiggle-room to cancel earlier if ratings plummet. Committing to 5 seasons up front would be commercial madness, but setting a maximum would not.I think such a tactic would boost audiences in the long run as people would be more likely to commit to a particular series. It should also boost DVD sales as a story that is satisfying and self-contained within a few seasons would be a very attractive purchase. This wouldn't be suitable for all shows, but a lot would benefit.
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Supertoyslast, I think Heroes is actually a concept show more than a character show, and as much as we might like a particular "Hero" on the show, this type of program can last for a long time, as long as the talent in front of and behind the camera is there. Everyone loves Hiro, but we'd love another quirky character if done right. The IDEA of a show is what gets stale, and THAT is the best reason for shows like BSG and Lost to give themselves the framework of a finite series.
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It would have made me very sad to see the new BSG stretched out into seven, eight, nine seasons and become increasingly inane, rehashed, and trite, like nearly every other successful show... go out while you're still strong and move on to do cool new things!
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After Michelle Forbes' Pegasus storyline ended. Ever since then it's been meh.
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the people saying 'good to not have it drag out' are ignoring the fact that it would never have dragged out, the ratings wouldnt allow it. we arent seeing a merciful act for our benefit here, keeping it short but sweet; we're seeing a cancellation before its time. there are many stories still to be told and its plainly obvious that 5 series was the goal, the number of episodes alone tells us that, if you choose to ignore the creators own wishes. scifi sat down and said 'we will not financially support a 5th season like you want; this 4th is your last one".its not a shrewed 'prevent it from getting lame' move. its just been cancelled. the only good thing you can take from it is that with an extremely finite amount of time left to tell their story, every damn episode will be full fat, hi octane.
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Let's assume they find earth at the end of the series. It's safe to assume that they won't end it "to be continued". And either the Cylon threat is neutralzied somehow or all of humanity is destroyed. I seriously doubt it's the latter. And thus, there is likely room for TV movies and a potential spinoff. It's a big galaxy.
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They get to Earth and its inhabited by the Lost Colony Hybrids.And rather than the Fleet vs The Cylons,they team up against the Hybrids who want to destroy them both.Thus ruining Earth for everyone with another nuclear holocaust.
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Doctor Zee was played by Patrick Stuart (Of All My Children, not Stewart of STTNG) Not Robbie Rist. Shame on you all who call yourself geeks and claim to believe the lie.
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Classic rock station ... I'm listening and they play Free Falling (someone please explain to me how the fuck this song is considered 'rock' because I have no fucking clue) and I think, I really want to hear All Along the Watchtower (this TB was on my mind), and I consider calling and requesting it but the station recently changed their number so I can't. Anyhoo, a couple errands later I get in the car and what's playing? All Along the Watchtower.
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"Prison Break." Much as I like the characters, the attempts to sustain the plot at this point are past the point of plausibility.
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Grey's Anatomy. For obvious reasons.
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Anyone played this? They only have a demo out now, but that alone kicks ass. The project can be found here: http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/
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if they're smart, they will make this the best season yet and do major motion pictures every so many years (star trek, james bond).
If they're smart. -
Then I remembered what a crapfest Lost is about to have with 3 more seasons of dragging out a 3 season idea.
This is a good idea. Tell the story and be done with it.
Hopefully this anouncement turns into to good news for the chances of the prequel series. There's still plenty of stories to tell in the BSG universe. -
Is too immature for the show. Go watch the starship enterprise fire some phasers and torpedos and reset everything to normal with the transporter in the end.
This is another in a long line of ballsy moves on behalf of the BSG production team, and Ronald D. Moore. Instead of LOST's "We're telling a story in 9 or more seasons....but that's it!", they're doing what no other show has had the courage to do before - say "We'll do something spectacular, then quit while we're ahead." -
We call him Obi Ben Cartwright.
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Much as i think it makes sense for BSG to stop at 4 seasons (because the last thing anyone needs is for them to risk banking on a 5th season to tell their story and then get cancelled), let's not go overboard with the whole 5 seasons schmeel. Some shows have actually produced some of their best work after season 5: TNG, Buffy, Cheers, South Park. Fuck, even seasons 6 to 8 of the Simpsons (before it went to shit in 1997/98). Angel is another show that could have easily gone another 2 seasons. Not every show needs to end at 4 or 5.
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They are hurting for new series over there. An unedited BSG on HBO would be ideal. Even if they find Earth at the end of this season, I'd like them to continue on HBO.
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They are hurting for new series over there. An unedited BSG on HBO would be ideal. Even if they find Earth at the end of this season, I'd like them to continue on HBO.
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They are hurting for new series over there. An unedited BSG on HBO would be ideal. Even if they find Earth at the end of this season, I'd like them to continue on HBO.
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I certainly didn't post more than the one comment. Hmmm.....
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I'm all for ending shows when the story's been told but, man.... no more BSG would suck big time. I might be willing to settle for a 2 part mini series every year for the the next 10 years though. Well, here's hoping they replace it with something just as good.
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limit themselves. The problem is that TPTB are afraid that if they resolve the core 'mystery' too soon, that the viewers will flee. So you get the X-Files languishing for way too many seasons. Cheers, Simpsons et al can go as many seasons as possible because they lack a core storyline.
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Great minds think alike - like I was talking about earlier with Heroes - that show doesn't HAVE to have the typical "arc," because it can go the comic book style.
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As soon as the order went from 12 or 16 to 24 I knew it was over. The Kara story arc seemed to come on quick, as did the revelation out of nowhere of the Final 4 Cylons (assuming Kara is the 5th) which seemed to indicate to me that the writers knew it was time to put the show into overdrive. It was a great season, but the show is going to have some serious heavy lifting to get everything wrapped up. However, BSG is the most consistently excellent sci-fi television series ever so I have faith the series will end on a high note.
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... so they get to earth in the distant past, settle the planet, build pyramids etc, and in the future we go out an establish the other 12 colonies, build cylons...
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But chrth, if I read you correctly, you're saying that the head honchos are worried about revealing the core myster too soon, so they stretch it? I believe they just don't care either way...they're in it for the money and want it on no matter what. Chris Carter new he was in this situation and HAD to drag it on and on with some kind of end in sight. The recent LOST announcement is truly unprecedented. With BSG it seems like the writers are getting close to the ending so it makes sense. But it's never been a HUGE money making machine for sci-fi. That would be a different story if it were....
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The most logical next step after BSG is gone is to remake Galatica 80. Break out that old "Earthquake" stock foto. In the amazing casting twist, make Doctor Zee female and have Dakota Fanning take the role. Hera Agathon and Nicholas Tyrol will all be grown up and the center of the story. Only Admiral Adama returns and will not have aged eventhough it is supposed to be 25 years later. Come on! It would be great!
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Many pitched concepts end with the resolution of the core mystery. Sure, RDM & Co. may have a vague idea where to take the series after they get to Earth, but most likely they don't. Therefore, there is the fear on the creator's part that tying up the big plot will leave them without anywhere else to go. They could start doing "filler" eps after resolving it (or BSG 1980), but then (again) there's the fear the viewers would flee. So they move the "filler" eps to the middle of the show, stretching out the time until the core mystery is resolved.
What made X-Files great in the beginning was that their filler eps were in many ways better than the core eps. The other advantage X-Files had was that the primary subject matter, the X-Files division itself, was not limited to the core mystery. It was only when the core mystery started dominating proceedings -- and moved too slowly towards a resolution -- that X-Files lost its way. BSG and Lost don't have that luxury. Because they both have core mysteries that are upfront and in your face all the time, filler eps are just that: filler. And the more filler eps you have, the more the fans gripe you're not moving the core mystery forward. -
you know where boomer opened a vein in her arm and made the cylons do funny things. if i were adama id be pumping all kinds of fruit juice into her veins by now. this show is just dumb.
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except the folks making FARSCAPE were promised a 5th season, then Sci-Fi pulled out that "it's too pricey per episode" and "it's ratings slipped a bit" bullshit excuse, upsetting thousands of fans around the world. Fuck Sci-Fi and their dumb movies and programming.
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Sci-Fi did it right this time, giving them a chance to finish things out. They saved themselves a big headache from fans constantly bitching about how they left us dangling. It give me hope that the networks are starting to learn from their mistakes.
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At least now I will officially have no reason to watch the Sci-Fi channel anymore.
Can you even fucking imagine the utter shit that Flash Gordon is going to be? Lexx, maybe even Sinbad bad. -
I feel that they have had an idea about where to end the show since the beginning. It's just that like any well written show controlled by a big business, that is until the recent announcement of LOST, they just don't know when they are going to be able to reach that end point, thus, they are blind and fearful of revealing the story too soon and having to create filler episodes. I guess I'm just assuming that the writers of BSG, after having done season 1, would have been comfortable knowing that it would only go to season 4 and then could have planned things accordingly. This is what the LOST writers have wanted, so I'm assuming that BSG is the same. But BSG has always seemed to fight for ratings so I just don't know. And in my opinion the reason the core mystery of the X-Files moved too slowly was for the same reason...Fox wouldn't let the show go and Carter wanted to go down with the ship. If a timetable had been set toward the end, the X-Files would have ended differently...
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I guess I'm not up on my L337-lingo and Internets shorthand, IIRC. So WTF does OLMOS stand for? ROLFMAO, IMHO.
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I swear, I don't know if I can stop myself from murdering the next delusional fanboy that says SCIFI or anyone else is seriously eyeing bringing Firefly back. Sure they are, and while they're at it, they'll also order full seasons of that gay X-Files spinoff "The Lone Gunmen," Chris Carter's failed Matrix rip-off "Harsh Realm," and an updated sci-fi take on The Golden Girls. I hear Blanche is a cyborg. Bitches, please. Let's be clear about this: FIREFLY SUCKED. Space cowboys my ass. Enjoy the DVDs fangirls, that's all you'll ever get. Deal already.
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OLMOS isn't an acronym. Olmos is short for Edward James Olmos, the actor who plays as Admiral Adama.
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Firefly is pretty cool, not "OMGZ!!1!!! AW3S0M3S" as browncoats chant, but -
IT. IS. FUCKING. DEAD!
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it sucks balls.
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Thoughts on Jacob...could be a time-tripping Locke or alt-dimension Locke. Either way, I'll bet it is Locke.
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You didn't like it? Fine by me, but it still tops DVD box set sales and still holds the record for most box sets sold. And I ain't no Browncoat, those are just the facts.
And SciFi can kiss my ass, I'm sorely pissed off about this BSG news. Anyone who says this is a good thing is retarded. Cuz yeah, having your favorite show get cancelled is always a good thing...idiots. They aren't even going to have enough episodes for syndication, guaran-fucking-teeing that the show will be dead forever. No more series, and no follow up films, just forgotten like all the other shows SciFi has cancelled, only those shows fucking deserved it. -
S1 and S2 were great, S3 was just so-so, and S4 really should be the end. There is only so long that this show can last. We don't want it turning into Star Trek where they find a new planet and a new race on their road to Earth each week, and there is only so much story they can pull from these people being trapped in those tin cans. I love the show, but better to end it on a high note than kill it slowly like X-Files, or equally horrifying, try to stretch it out and have it get cancelled with no real conclusion to the series. This way the writers can plan out the ending and the road to it. Look at Lost, doing the same thing. This is a much better way to wrap up shows. Too many series have ended just hanging, frustrating fans that invested so much in them.
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Instead, your deserve Star Trek a la Enterprise and Voyager. You deserve shows like Drive. The show was not perfect... but then again nothing is.
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That would be awesome, and I'm not joking here...it would be geek overload. Or at least Dirk Benedict somewhere. With KFI in LA broadcasting the arrival of the fleet to the rest of the world.
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episodes for syndication. Galactica will wrap up with a bit more than 40. At least for animated 1/2 hour shows that's all that's required. Could be different here...
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I think "Battlestar Galactica" needs to wrap things up so it tells its story and ends. Like "Babylon 5" and unlike fucking "Star Trek." A good novel doesn't need 4000 pages to tell its story and, in the same spirit, neither does a good tv show.
Since only 22 episodes remain and the first two episodes are being released as a movie (with a simultaneous DVD release), I'm glad to know Battlestar's writers can wrap things up neatly, cleanly, and give us some serious drama as a result. Endings need to happen. In books, television, and movies. Otherwise events tend to drag on and on into stupid land. I'm very glad to know this won't happen with BSG. Looking forward to season 4. -
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Now we can all argue for the next year on when the show is going to end. Blurg.
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...any of you think this is a good thing. I really can't. This is SciFi giving us another ass reaming. First they killed the ratings by breaking up SciFi Fridays, next they kill their overall ratings further by continuously releasing shows months and months after the Canadians and Brits get them, driving people to the internet instead of watching the shows later, and then they fucking blame us for the ratings dips and cancel shows. Fuck SciFi in their stupid asses, they are full of shit, and the above bullshit above no decision being made...yeah right, like we should trust ANYTHING those assholes say anymore? Fuck them!
I say we bombard them at ComicCon with nothing but "So who's the asshat that keeps fucking around with BSG?" questions. Fuck em, fuck em, fuck em!!! -
I may be spoiling some peeps here, but I have to say it: we will never know the true date of earth when Galactica finds it. It would just open up a whole can of plotworms that I personally don't want to see. Like, Starbuck putting a bullet to Bush's head because he's a Cylon spy. Or Chief wrestling with a baby dinosaur. Or Helo disguised as a 50's homeless guy trying to save the whales.
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There are some cutsie wootsie moron trolls here!
This is a great show! I think it will probably end on 4 but you never know ( especially since the producer has said this isn't the final word ). It's just these idiots who think they look clever when they only look like little kids. -
BSG gets 4 Seasons and Stargate gets 10 plus Atlantis?
Assinine
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