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Ronald D. Moore: Season Four Will Be GALACTICA’s Last!!
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The 22-hour fourth season of SciFi’s “Battlestar Galactica,” set to kick off in November with a Pegasus-centric flashback movie and conclude in 2008, will be the series’ last, according to “Galactica” mastermind Ronald D. Moore.
Series lead Edward James Olmos told reporters at the Saturn Awards May 10 that "Galactica's" fourth season would be its last. "Galactica" producer David Eick replied a few hours later that season four was not necessarily the series' last.
Apparently, things have changed.
Read all of Variety’s report on the matter here.
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Please say this isn't true!
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This show needs to end. It's already gone past it's prime.
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...season for BSG. Well, that was expectable. It is a 20 episode season though, so that's plenty of time to end the story right. I just hope they won't rush the whole "Final 5 Cylons" storyline. And no more stand-alone, low-budget, boring episodes, please.
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Does no one research before posting an article here?
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Imagine their reactions if they pick up an oldies station and hear some Dylan...
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Series lead Edward James Olmos told reporters at this year's Saturn Awards that "Galactica's" fourth season would be its last. "Galactica" producer David Eick replied a few hours later that season four was not necessarily the series' last.
Apparently, things have changed. -
...then producer David Eick says Olmos is senile and should stick a sock in it (not in so many words but hey, I can read between the lines), and now Moore has to correct this dumb shit. Maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't say shit before you actually come to a final descision. Or else your organisation comes off as a tad bit stupid-lookin'. But what the hell do I know. I'm not the one running a multi-million dollar TV show, right?
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This sucks
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but at least there'll be no excuse for filler...hopefully.
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but Moore refuted it soon after... so this is actually news... just not that cool. It's a shame. While season 3, mostly the mid-section, had its weak episodes I can't help but feel there's more story to tell / arcs to explore. To me, 4 seasons says "cancelled" whereas 3 or 5 suggests a nicely-rounded trilogy or pentalogy of seasons that have reached a natural conclusion. Or something. Still, if it's going to end I hope it's all wrapped up as tightly as possible and in a way that doesn't feel rushed.
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Law & Order: Battlestar Galactica
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I think it's just about run it's course as a show. I have to admit that last season's finale almost lost me. I'm still like WTF? I hope they can resolve this in a way that doesn't suck. I mean c'mon! The Chief? Anders? TIGH???
Better not suck! -
End on a high note before that horse is glue I say. Good show with its odds and ends and I look forward to a good ending that is really original and thought out - I hope.
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That's what will keep it alive, and in twenty years someone will come along and say,"Hey why don't we do a Battlestar Galactica series remake?"
All that mystery, all those questions people want answered; that should do it. -
The fleet arrives on Earth in 900 B.C. It looks like the Cylons will wipe out the Colonists once and for all, but the ancient Greeks and Romans use arrows and giant logs to crush the Cylons' helpless metal bodies.
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Seriously, NBC's ratings couldn't be worse. Why don't they give a network run to BG repeats over the summer, see how they do. Not like they'd be paying to create new episodes so the costs would likely be lower and if the ratings suck they can pull it. If the ratings are good though it could only help both NBC and BG.
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Well, the silver lining would be if this clears the way for a second revival in a few years, such as the DeSanto sequel series that was originally planned. I'd still pay money to see that.
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The struggle to secure a fourth season was probably difficult enough. If they're not able to increase viewership, or even if they do and it's not up to Sci-Fi's standards, then they get canceled and are forced to throw together a lackluster series finale that ties up as many threads as possible in a short amount of time. And that's only saying if they're given time to do that.By doing it this way, by going out on THEIR terms, they're able to service the story a lot better. Moore said that he was coming into the last chapter anyway. Maybe he could have stretched it out to another 40-odd so episodes, maybe not. But this way, it's going to get told. At least I know I'm going to get an actual conclusion now. Whether or not I like it remains to be seen, but at least I know it's coming.
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i am fucking well gutted, was hoping for a season 5
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and The Woman King & Hero!
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They arrive on Earth to find its ruled by APES!
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and ram the Voyager.
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The apes ride up on horseback...
"What are those coming out of those ships?"
"Looks like Colonial Warriors.."
"Shit--there goes the planet!!"
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Oh, well. Still a great show. I'll always remember it.
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...at least it's not 3, 16 episode seasons spread out over THREE FUCKING YEARS like some other silly show I watched occasionally (read: totally fucking addicted). As for the ending: They duke it out with the Cylons over Earth and everyone is destroyed. All that's left is the top of a black coffeetable that falls to earth, ending up standing upright in the desert for monkeys to find. So they can throw a bone at it. Too far fetched?
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Oh, wait. I hated Return of the Jedi. My theory how it ends: 5000 B.C. They find earth. They destroy their technology, so the Cylons won't find them. The Cylons know about them in spite of this. They decide to leave the Humans alone. The Cylons don't see them as a treat without their technology. CUT TO 7008 years later....Cylons Attack us! On 2008, The Earthlings are going to get a rude awakening! Setting up the new T.V. show Battlestar Earth. The fight for survival!
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It's better to burn out than fade away, but I hope this is happening for the right reasons. It would be unfortunate to find out sometime after the end of this series that the people working on it had some great ideas for season five had they been able to do it. There were those who complained about the "filler" in season three, and I'll admit that that season was more episodic than the first two, which made it a bit of throwback to when TV episodes stood alone before shows like "The Sopranos" came along and helped popularize the idea of having each episode flow into the next, following a larger overall seasonal arc. But even these so-called "filler" episodes are a lot better than most of what's on TV in general. If "Battlestar Galactica" has dipped in quality, then it's only by its own standards. Personally I think whatever "dip" in quality it may have made is generally minor and forgivable. It has in no way become the kind of circle jerk that now overrated shows like "Lost" have become. *Spoilers ahead!* Right now, though, my biggest concern for the show is with the return of the Starbuck. When the new BG began, I thought they could have called it "Battlestar Galactica: The True Story," and actually may have gotten away with such a ridiculous sounding title. The idea seemed to be to take Glen Larson's scenario and play it out as believably as possible, instead of turning it into series of worn out western, fantasy, and sci-fi clichés, all wrapped up as something essentially designed to cash in on "Star Wars." Any clichés the new show has have been played down and made to flow well with the show's overall tone of creating what is possibly the most realistic "space adventure" I've ever seen committed to television. Which is why I'm concerned about bringing Starbuck back from the dead. When Starbuck "died," the show made a point in that this BG is about war and harsh survival and that anyone, even main characters, can be killed at any time. This added to the believability of the show and would have been a brave move had the show's handlers stuck with it. Bringing Starbuck back isn't something I'm necessarily immediately against, but the show now has to be very careful. If the only real reason as to why Starbuck is back is to make fans feel better, then it's a mistake. I'm half-hoping that it's an illusion and that Starbuck really is dead. But if she really is back then I hope this show has an excellent reason and explanation for her return. We'll see in season four, I guess.
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Fantastic news. How often do we get the chance to let dedicated series creators end their show on their own terms. The fact that they will have 20 plus episodes to rap up all the storylines should give us one of the strongest seasons ever in a science fiction series.
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I agree with you sir. I'd rather watch reruns of BG than any episode of The Black Donnely's od Deal or No Deal or any of the crap they got on their shitty network. Seriously. Plus, John Q public isn't too framillar with BG anyway. It might actually get good ratings.
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Yes, because people are dying to see a haughty, four-year-old show that grows angstier by the minute on prime-time network TV.
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Maybe when Moore's finished with this he can go save the Star Trek franchise. Again. Or Babylon 5? I just hope they explain the timeline in BSG. I mean, those Lords Of Kobol guys have clearly been back and forth from Earth before the 13th colony left. What did they find? Why did they leave?
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"Oh my God. I'm back! I'm home! All the time, it was... We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
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'cause Eick et al politely dissed him when he declared this a few weeks back.
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...AND THE CYLONS. I totaly agree with Dersu. Im from Central Europe and when I first rented the Pilot I was blown away by the itensity of the scenes, the doku-style, by the magnitude of the production and of course by these great actors. I was hooked from the very first episode. TV didnt air them so I have friend who dowloaded the miniseries and bam! again. just unbeliveable. Each and every episode just broke with each other, what I mean is - the epiosdes pushed the envelope a little further, each story was unique and spotlighted not only the innerverse of the characters but also the bsg-universe. I just couldnt wait to see the next episode. I told my girlfriend (she actually likes scifi to a certain point) about bsg, and she was like oh yeah bring it on - and she was also stunned by it. Season 2 came - and we actually like it, even this weird cliffhanger at seasons end - it was kind of cool- and i thing Ronald D. Moore and his team did take great risks. He said didnt want to solve it a la Dallas-dream (altough Apollo gets later back in shape after only one episode), and I liked that of zooming a year ahead. My personal oppinion, and i respect the artistic approach, was it just took to long to get of new caprica. I think that was the point that many casual viewers didnt get it, or didnt want to get it anymore. That, and with slot shifting was the point, where ratings were lost. My girlfriend didnt the new caprica arch, my friends were like hmm, yeah, ok. As soon the action came back with Adamas rescue, everybody must have felt - allright - we´ve been waitng for that for months (if you count the many month between the seasons) and so season 3 was seeming to pick up momentum again. Only it wasnt that way. Part 2 of season 3 - I wasnt that hungry anymore for new epidoses. I didnt call my friend if he´d downloaded the new one yet, it was all like ok. i love the show but id rather love it like i did the first time around. I m really saddened that BSG will end next season. I think one more season would have made it just perfekt. Season 4 could have been the exploration of the myth, the religious aspects of this universe only to incorporate it into the final season #5. I hope they leave a little door open for future movies- series or whatever.... Caprica - it would be so cool to see a whole dynastie of Cylon Manufacturers. But guys - lets start a petition for future life of BSG!!!!
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I've got a great idea, why don't we all send a packet of nuts to Ron Mo...
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James Edward Olmos wakes up and just realizes he dreamt the whole thing. All four seasons were in his head. He has fallen asleep at his desk. He see Sonny Crocket staring at him wondering what the hell is going on. JEO tells him to get the hell back to work.
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...because Sci-Fi sucks and cancels all their good shows. I'm sure the cost to produce / ratings ratio wasn't good enough for them, kinda like what happened with Farscape. I'm still ticked about that who fiasco. So it's smart for the producers to go out on their own terms and not get yanked in the middle of a story arc.
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And this show can have a PROPER planned ending. Best news ever for the rag tag fleet. I'd love the standard 7 season as much as anyone else but these days I'm more than happy to have 4 GREAT seasons that go as the writers planned.
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not gonna lie this show is kinda boring.
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At least it'll end before it gets REALLY bad. There were a few lackluster eps this past season so maybe it's time.
The show did, however, deserve better ratings. NBC should've picked it up.
Here's to hoping that WHAT DO YOU MEAN, FLASH GORDON APPROACHING? can fill the void. -
they'll make Galactica: 2008 where some Galactican children will learn about farming, baseball and polution.
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so much nothing. The finale didn't leave me wanting more and I was really put off by the lame and rushed way they revealed who was a cylon.
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They arrive in Earth's future, and Adama starts singing American Pie ...
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I mean, they showed it on the History Channel, and everything they show on the History Channel is History, right?
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I have no problem if they tie up the story and just end it gracefully. Failing to do so leads to last season B5, where they were just treading water.
There is no shame in completing a story.
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As much as I think BSG was the second coming, it lost its way a bit in season 3. Great ending though. Lee should get an oscar for his courtroom speech. Hey ho. Bring on Earth.
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I disagree that BSG lost its way in S3. It had maybe 4 bad episodes and the rest were either good or superb. However, I agree with you about Bamber's performance in the last episode of S3. Amazing. Sadly, the Emmy's will never recognize how brilliant that performance was.
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Scifi Channel is supposed to be one of the networks that Directv is adding to its HD lineup in the 3rd quarter of this year. I enjoy rewatching BSG on the Universal HD channel, but it will be awesome to see the show first run in high-def. If Directv would just hurry the frak up and turn that satellite on...
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FRACK.
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When is SciFi going to start broadcasting Torchwood???
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a bunch of garbage that nobody will watch.
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Sci-Fi, meanwhile, will bring you such fine programming as ALLIGATOR VS. MANSQUITO.
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...whereupon she ends up possessed by the spirit of BOB and later smashes her head into a mirror while cackling the words "How's Billy? How's Billy?"
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all this will happen again.
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What a treat this show turned out to be. When I first heard about a new BSG, the psshhhaw's flowed like water. Who gives a shit about BSG? Instead, I was treated to a fantastic parable about what a society will do in order to stay alive. It became one of my favorite programs of all time. If four seasons is what I get, I'm thankful for it. Complain away, fuckers. Bitch and moan about this or that. I just give a tip of the cap. What a pleasant surprise this show has been.
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I stand by what I posted back in that Olmos thread a few weeks ago. Keep the season lean, mean, and end it on a convincing high note. BSG is one of the best shows to have ever hit the airwaves. I'm glad to see they know where they're going and that they can see the finish line ahead.Stand by FTL...JUMP!
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That sucks.
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It's a good thing they have some lead time before next season to outrun all of this ridiculous wavering.
MNG is correct... this last season needs to get straight to the point. There's no more time for Lost-style flashbacks and boxing matches that get the story nowhere. It would, also, be nice if Apollo would go ahead and finally grow himself a pair. -
Sure Exodus II is the finest piece of TV evar. Then what?? Nothing.Battlestar Mope.
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And don't have them come to Earth of the future, and have it decimated due to global warming or some other depressing environmental paranoia. That would be so completely gay.
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Here come the sharks, baby. Are the sharks shockingly revealed to be Cylons, too?
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If they are no more stories to tell then end it and end it strong. I am sick and tired of the network philosophy that they need to hit the "magical" 100 episode mark. As a result many good shows are watered down and the good stuff diluted to make that mark. Heck even if they do not find earth that is cool with me. They just need to make EVERY episode count for something.
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Ok, stick with me on this one. Three words: MEXICAN SOAP OPERAS. Yup, mexican soap operas, they run for a season or two. They tell a story, and they GET OUT! The end it. THEN, they get the same writers and creators to make a new show. If fans still want show #1 to come back, they write a type of sequel to that show. If by the end of show #1 the fans of show #2 want that one back, they bring it back after #1.They wash, rinse and repeat. Ok, shutting up now...
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(even though he said the exact same thing I've been saying for the past two seasons. I still feel the writers owe me money)
Ahem, anyway: The scene is ridiculous. No, not because of what Apollo says, or about calling Counsel to the stand. It's the fact that THEY COULDN'T MAINTAIN CONSISTENCY FOR THE ENTIRE SCENE! Or am I the only one still waiting for the prosecuting attorney to get closing remarks?!? They tell her *in the scene* that there will be closing remarks, but then they go off to render a verdict when the scene ends. HELLO?!? -
I dig "Battlestar Galactica" a lot, and I've enjoyed its characters, writing, and overall story arc. But I think a specific ending point will allow David Eick and Ron Moore to delve deep into the story and give the show a truly kickass finale. No cliffhangers. No unresolved character arcs. Just the end of Galactica's glorious journey, whatever that might be.
I'm looking forward to it. -
in the courtroom scene. Quality stuff. The season that brought us Exodus pt2 and that Courtroom scene was also the weakest season. Such a shame. Whenever something hectic comes up now, I always say "Prepare for turbulence!""So Say We All"
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...but frack it all, i loved this show. i'm glad they get an entire season with enough time to make it all work so they can end on their terms, but i also hate to see this show go. it's the best new thing i've seen on TV in a long time. (well, i'm loving heroes, too, but anyway). come on, mr. moore & co., knock it outta the park!
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Was the spinoff series cancelled at some point? I missed it if it was...
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I cringe still when I hear that line from Mansquito. And the last time I happened on that movie was what, a year ago?
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I'd say that there's probably little chance of it happening now. I don't think Moore was ever seriously enthused about it, and with the drop in BSG's ratings Sci-Fi probably doesn't want to take a chance on it.
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after thinking about it...they are going to have to arrive a the earth of the past. otherwise, how else will we speak the same language that the current BSG crew speaks? the odds of two civilizations speaking the SAME language in the universe is nill.
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I would like to see Socrates and Plato singing the Yub Yub song while using empty toaster heads as drums. Either that or we get Bill and Teds excellent BSG adventure! So yub yub we all!
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is not a fucking word.
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seemed like a bad premise when you could just flashback to past events on Battlestar itself
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seemed like a bad premise when you could just flashback to past events on Battlestar itself
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... I think a lot more shows should do this instead of dragging it out. It's a brave move to admit this and frankly sticking it on prime time would never have worked. Sci fi on prime time never does, audiences always get bored of it after one season, if that. It's a niche thing and it deserves to be where it is. I hope they do cram every good idea into the final eps and go out with a bang. Let's see that big battle in the sky and some fantastic revelations! Oh and you lucky Americans... you get Torchwood in September, probably one of the worst shows you'll ever witness! Put it this way, if you can imagine the quality of Galactica, then look down a mega powerful telescope (you'd probably need the Hubble) to the exact opposite of that (say in the shitsverse), you get Torchwood.
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Piece of shit Stargate is on for what, 10 years? To use a football analogy, I'm glad the show is walking off the field instead of crawling, but still. There is just so much crap on television that seems to last forever.
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Very Last Scene:
Starbuck is looking at herself in the mirror, she whips out her 13incher, puts it back in again, and exits stage left.
Fade to Black -
That's the favorite word of networks who air stuff on basic cable channels a few days after their broadcast network airing? But the instant I saw the final shot of season 3 (Earth), I kinda knew BSG was going into the home stretch. At the time of the Frak Party podcast, I believe RDM said the writers had broken the first 9 episodes of season 4 already. And 'Razor', the Pegasus semi-prequel, I think counts against the 22 episode order, so we'll actually have 20 true season 4 installments when it comes back in mid-(?)January. I echo whoever said at this rate, as the great ones are dropping like flies (Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars to name 2), all TV will be is a Superfund toxic waste dump full of Farmer Wants a Wife, American Idiot Karaoke and Pussycat Whore-a-Palooza.
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So the FUCK what? It SUCKS. The lead, who plays a "man of action" cannot even handle a firearm wihtout looking like a total fairy. Oh. Wait.
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apollo's speech itself was brilliant but the rest of the courtroom scene was ridiculous. i'm usually happy to afford a certain degree of artistic licence when watching tv courtroom dramas: not everything has to be procedurally accurate. but BSG is an intelligent show and it kinda grates when they just throw everything out the window for the sake of drama.
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They find Earth. Earth is populated with a civilization that is not as advanced (think modern day). But there are no humans. THEY'RE ALL LIZARD PEOPLES!
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If you didn't see this coming, you just haven't been paying attention.
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I love it, and I loved Season 5, but getting from where they are now to Earth/The End, and taking two seasons to do it, would mean a lot of meandering. I think this will make the writers tighten it up just right.
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This has been coming. If you didn't see it coming based on what happened in the S3 finale, then you are like those fools at karaoke who can't seem to understand that when the bouncing ball gets to the end of the line... you start reading on the other side.
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Me really liking a show is pretty much a guarantee of early cancellation, so I'm personally thrilled to see it lasted 4 full seasons and is given the chance to end properly. I was hooked on BSG from the start and look forward to what should be a very satifying ending based on Moore's track record with the show. Even the "worst" episodes were entertaining and really only suffed when compared to BSG's best. At least the new Futurama episodes should be starting up not long after the final BSG, so I'll have a reason to keep my TV for a while longer...
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Jun 01, 2007 11:44:52 AM CDT
Moore cancels BSG and kills the fat kid from Bad Santa
by cletus van damme
Thurman Merman was a cylon
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Lexx came to a natural, and very satisfying conclusion after four seasons. I don't mind if BSG does the same, as long as it does it in style.
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I was really worried that Eick wanted to stretch the series beyond breaking point when he said the next season might not be the last. I guess Moore pushed really hard in order to get a proper ending.
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He was rather good in that also. But that chick needs to get a tan....stat!
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So say we all.
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He'll kill you if you disagree anyway.
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Best show on Tv in years and years. But yah id rather they wrap it all up now in 4 seasons then to have it run and turn to shit ala x files.To me it will be a perfect 4 seasons of quality.
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Inane, homophobic remarks about "fairies" are sooooo twentieth century. But yeah, TORCHWOOD does pretty much suck.
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This is a good thing. I love the show. But it is better to go out with a plan and with class than trying to run the show out for all it is worth. Unlike the people over at ABC running Lost into the ground.
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of what happens when the writing wanes, I'm glad they are going to end it while it's still strong. Because if they have to keep shoveling out filler material to avoid advancing the story to it's inevitable conclusion, it's going to jump the shark and I'd rather not see that happen.
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Moore & Co. have made pretty clear that they've been winging the overarching aspects plot since the mini ended and the series began. Over the last three seasons, the writers have done a bang-up job of pulling rabbits out of hats and making the various plot threads cohere while continuing to offer surprises, but sooner or later they're going to write themselves into a corner. I'd rather they wrack their brains coming up with a compelling and logical conclusion to the show in 22 eps, rather than try to spin out more "blow your mind" cliffhangers ad infinitum. That's what happened to "Alias."
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That was pretty funny dude....pretty funny.
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I would rather they end it with "The search continues..." If they can find earth in about 5 years why didn't they ever look for it before? Hell if NASA could get people on an inhabitable planet in 5 years, we would be all over it. Plus leaving it open leaves room for movies. I want to see some of these crazy space battles on the big screen.
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calling people gay... still funny in the 21 century.
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Played by a digital John Denver.
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I used to watch but only like the old 1980 ABC network version. That was because it was the only Sci-Fi show on at the time.
This new version beats anything the old show ever did in many different ways- better plots, better actors, better direction, and so on.
I used to painfully cringe every time Dirk Benedict or Laurette Spang would say some poorly-acted line, or some idiotic BSG phrase like
"Felgercarb" or "Centons"
Ugh. I always thought that they said 'felgercarb' they were talking about some kind of German Carburetor, or whatever.
That was a horribly acted show back then, with even worse actors and actresses.
My only gripe with this new BSG incarnation is the over use of the jerky camera motion. They needed to get rid of that kind of scene filming, because it made the show unwatchable for the most part. I don't know about you guys, but it gave me headaches and motion sickness with every jerky camera motion they shot.
All in all though, a well-made show that worked in many ways.
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Olmos opened his pie-hole too soon. It's up to the network or showrunners to make those statements. I'm not sad about it being the last. I just haven't really enjoyed the show much since they killed off michelle forbes. The pegasus crisis was it's height in my eyes. I think they'll get back on track in S4. And frankly, if they end as I suspect they will, they'll find an earth that is more advanced than the cyclons. Anyway, the end of the series doesn't mean it can't someday return, and hopefully with an occasional alien. A scifi series bounded by no aliens is kind of a joke really. They should have killed off adama and gotten rid of that constraint.
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the cat fraking
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It just doesn't.
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Starbuck (not a hallucination) informs Adama that everything they think they know about the Lords of Kobol, about Earth is wrong and she leads the fleet to our Solar System -in 7,000 AD.
We find out that Earth is the homeworld and that 6,500 years ago (500 years from now) there was a war that almost destroyed humanity. Following the war, 12 ships (all named after Zodiac signs) left Earth for places unknown, determined to start again, free of war...ultimately they landed on Kobol. For the next 2,000 years, their society grew and expanded, but over time, history began to fade, people began to forget their origins and embrace ancient literature and myth as being their true history, apart from one small group of colonists who knew the truth about their past. Eventually these colonists decided to return to Earth, leaving markers along the way for anyone who wished to follow them home in the future.
On Kobol, those who remained created machines to make their lives easier...but of course the machines turned on them and there was another war, forcing the humans to leave Kobol and head for a solar system that strangley had 12 inhabitable planets wich would ultimately form the 12 colonies.
Anyways, by the time Galactica reaches Earth, they find a world rich in advanced technology, far superior to that of even the Cylons. The Galactica and other colonial ships are considered relics, kinda like finding old stone tools from the stoneage.
In any case, the Earth government offers the colonists sanctuary and sends a message to the Cylons, telling them to turn around and never come back. The Cylons ignore the message and attack Earth, and in a final climactic battle, the Cylon fleet is utterly destroyed.
All of the Colonial ships land on Earth, there is a gathering of the colonists and Admiral Adama gives a speech...
"We have been through a lot. We have lost many lives, and we shall remember those souls - always. I sat down last night to write this speech and I struggled...I struggled to think of any words that could ever be worthy of this day. We fought for our survival and now we have the chance to begin again. And I realised, I don't need to give a big speech, I don't need to mark the occasion with words that will never live up to the meaning of this day. Because there is really only one thing that needs to be said....Welcome to Earth."
The crowd cheers and the Colonial Anthem (aka Battle Star Galactica theme from the old show) starts to play, as everyone hugs each other, some people laugh, some people cry, and then the camera starts to pull back, up into the sky and out of the atmosphere, eventually stopping, giving us a full and final view of the planet called Earth...fade to black
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..NOOOOOOO
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Starbuck (a hallucination, but nonetheless a convincing one) informs Adama that everything they think they know about the Lords of Kobol, about Earth is partially incorrect and she leads the fleet to our Solar System - in 1973 AD.
We find out that Earth is the homeworld and that in the paelolithic era, there was an advanced space-faring civilization based on earth but ridden by warfare. Following the war, 12 ships (all named after Zodiac signs) left Earth for places unknown, determined to start again, free of war. Meanwhile, the losers were left on Earth and hypnotized to forget all their advanced technology.
Anyways, by the time Galactica reaches Earth, they find that Earth's most powerful leader is a tyrannical Republican in the middle of a reelection campaign. The Galactica and other colonial ships land on earth but are ignored due to the election coverage. At the same time, the Cylons arrive in orbit and contact earth's leader.
The Cylons help earth's leader by breaking into the Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. The Colonial fleet, meanwhile, discover the Cylon's duplicity and help the democratic resistance by feeding leaks from the FBI investigation to a couple of reporters at the Washington Post.
Eventually the tyrannical leader is forced to resign, and the Colonial fleet are given prime beachfront property in Florida as a site for their new settlement.
The End.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is hands down the best drama on television, as well as the most critically praised. How unfortunate that the majority of TV viewers won't give it a chance. I've loved EVERY episode and feel no need to see the show end on its fourth season. I have no doubt, however, that the final season will be just as great as the others.
To the producers of BSG, I say "Thank you" for the many hours of enjoyment you've given me. -
Stargate is a fluke (on top of coming off of five years on Showtime), but most of the Sci-Fi channel's best shows don't seem to get a good solid 7 year+ run. I'll give the BSG writers this, they aren't going to let it go stale. And they aren't having the rug pulled out from under them like Farscape had. Still, I feel a big like Sci-Fi should be honest about it's limitations even with successful shows. I don't think this is a completely creative decision.
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SciFi doesn't cancel shows because they want to. They cancel them because those shows lose their audience and the cost vs. profit doesn't make sense anymore. Yeah scifi showsa lot of crap but their lameass monster movies get better ratings than their shows.
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I really wanted to see the end to this show, but after that finale, I wasn't going to stick with it unless the next season was it's last. And that's saying a lot since I very rarely give up on a show once I'm into it. I didn't want to miss out on the next Exodus II, but the rest was getting too boring/stupid to sit through. I usually found myself doing something else about halfway through the episodes in season 3.
This show is very erratic, which means as sucky as they ended it, there are likely to be some kick-ass eps next season. Moore simply doesn't have the attention span for a long run. At least now, I can look forward to it some. Lost, on the other hand, with three more season to go is a tougher call for me. I think I only still watch that one for the sake of discussing it with work buddies.
So many cancellations, but at least we got Heroes, Dexter and the Tudors (I like it anyway) new this season. Next season doesn't look as promising. I hope TV executives will start to learn how important it is to have valuable product. I know HBO will learn when the subscription cancellations start rolling in after the Sopranos. Although, the execs will probably just blame it on piracy and get a pass.
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First of all I can't believe that everyone fell for the joke, tyrol, tigh and others are NOT cylons. You guys bit that one hook, line and sinker.
Secondly, it is time for bsg to go out with a bang. In the middle of season 2 I told myself that they had better bring it to a close in four seasons. (five at the most) Gods know that we didn't want bsg to turn into a modern gilligan's island. And I don't know why you all want 7 seasons like other shows. BSG is not a regular tv show, it's an EPIC. Besides, if they do too many seasons, I can never pull a marathon. . .
Thirdly, I am not worried that the last season will be hastily thrown together, or that there will be too many unanswered questions, or stupid answers. This epic, is composed of some of the most well-thought-out writing that i have EVER seen, at least on tv. They will pull through for their fans. At least, they haven't let us down yet. . . -
yes, the revelation that 4 of the Galactica crew were Cylons was obviously a joke. how could anyone miss it, what with the laugh track and the trombone slide??
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It was a well planned clifhanger. They haven't revealed the final 5 yet. They just want us to think that we know, just like they wanted us to think starbuck was dead (i didn't fall for that one either).
Besides, it doesn't make sense. Tigh's friendship with Adama dates back to before the cylon wars, red flag. Tyrol had a baby, red flag. Yes, it is possible that they still might be cylons, but c'mon.
Just because they're hearing music makes them cylon. Starbuck and Roslin have been seeing prescient images like cylons do for crying out loud, that's wierd too but there can only be 5 more cylons. Tyrol only said that they were cylons, that doesn't make it true.
I can't explain what the jimmy hendrix music is all about, but I doubt cylons are hendrix fans. I may turn out to be wrong, but in the meantime, i rest my case. -
Second to last episode:
At the end of the ep, the fleet jumps into Earth's atmosphere. Moments later, the entire cylon fleet shows up, an overwhelming force.
Last Episode:
Galactica makes a last ditch effort do defend the fleet, when all of a sudden the supremely more technlolgically advanced earth forces come out to play.
--30 min battle sequence ensues--
The cylon forces are completely destroyed, and the colonists live happily ever after. -
They arrive on earth, evading the cylons who never find them. On earth they become celebrities and live out their lifes fully and happily. But just as the screen fades we see the cylons lurking in the shadows. It was a fake cylon-created earth.
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that those 4 are in fact cylons, didn't he?
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I am soo much going to miss this show.
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...SciFi to allow there to be a 4th season? They fucked over Farscape and SG1, and there is nothing stopping them from fucking BSG too.
ComicCon should be interesting, "Hi this question is for SciFi, so who's the fucktard that cancelled BSG?" -
I say this as the biggest BSG fan out there, I'm glad they aren't pushing their luck. Season 4 should packed with awesomeness.
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. . . The end of the fourth season will still not be the end of the story.
They are apparently planning to finish the BSG story with one or two feature films, not "made for tv movies".
BSG is definately bigscreen quality. Oh, and I am the biggest BSG fan out there, sorry. lol -
People are living in the clouds thinking there'll be no filler because they need to tell the story. There'll be just as much filler as seasons 2 and 3. Just like there'll still be room for plenty of filler in Lost's 16-episode seasons.
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To be honest, I've become a big fan of the Babylon 5 approach to TV - making a story with a beginning, middle and end, rather than just continuing on ad-infinitum (which of course rarely lasts). So if Ron Moore says Season 4 is the big finish - so be it. Can't wait, in fact.
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No one picked up on that? She's the fifth. Dead is dead on Galactica unless you're a Cylon.
No season 5? Season 3's ratings sucked and were way down from season 2. Simple dollars and cents decision. -
= Tylenol P.M. Puts me to sleep every time.
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now its time for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA films. and not the dirct to DVD kind. the BIG screen.
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Were they not planing on doing some DTV movies?
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I think the more likely scenario is that the crew of the Galactica will finally reach Earth around the middle of the 1970's, which will be just in time to switch places with the horrible actors that were their predecessors on the first awful and lame BSG incarnation from 1978.
The good news, is that no one will ever utter those famous words of
"Oh Frac" and "Oh Felgercarb" ever again!
Either that, or they will find lasting fulfillment helping out Gopher, Doc and Julie by taking orders from Captain Stubing on the
"Love Boat".
I can just hear the cheesy yet immortal theme song from Jack Jones playing on endlessly in my mind right now!
Set your phasers to fun! -
If you believe BG to be "realistic", you'll also believe in horse-drawn starships. Plugging jump-capable ships together with 80s technology is about as unrealistic as you can possibly get.
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The Galactica comes upon the Earth right after Taylor launched the Cobalt Bomb. They terraform Mars and mourn Earth.
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...when it was called Desperate Housewives.
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I'm just sayin'.
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"they are going to have to arrive a the earth of the past. otherwise, how else will we speak the same language that the current BSG crew speaks?" a) how do you know the characters in BSG "really" speak English? b) there was no English language on Earth before a thousand years ago -- English as we know it was formed from the fusion of old Anglo-Saxon and Norman French following the Norman Conquest in 1066. I don't see much room for getting the Galacticans in there.
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Ron Moore has confirmed in interviews that Tigh et al. are cylons and that Starbuck is not.
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Lost didn't steal your concept bitch!
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only to see this saf ducking news. This sucks.
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When "Transformers" cleans up at the box office, watch Tom DeSanto reignite his BSG project. The "real" Starbuck and Apollo will return. :)
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I suspect that all 12 Cylon models were modeled after real, living people who had been abducted and then used to model the 12. But the final 5 were flawed and became wholly indistinguishable from the humans that they had replaced. The final 5 fled and in time they had forgotten what they really were and embraced the lives of those that they had replaced, flaws and all.
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...we take one look at Olmos' "ethnic" face and say "No thanks, we've got enough undocumented aliens, but we'll take the cylons." Or Earth has been destroyed by Global Warming, so after all that running around, "You blew it up!" (I think that's the eight Apes reference in this thread.) Or Earth is incapable of defending itself , so the Galacticans surrender to the Cylons and everyone dies in a suicide bombing--a "good" suicide bombing. Or Earth can defend itself just fine and wants nothing to do with either group, stranding the Galacticans like boat people, yet another hard-hitting political episode making a statement. And they tell us really, this time we're gonna tell you a shocking surprise--someone in the crew is a Cyclon! Shock! Of course I've never seen an episode, obviously.
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When Bob Newhart wakes up and realizes it was all a dream.
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No surprise the season with almost no battles in it wasn't very popular. I'm suprised it didnt' have the "laundry day" episode. -
All's well that ends well...Season 4 should be the most memorable.
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good.
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there was so much quality in Season 3 what are people moaning about? Woman King was a good well written episode, the opener and closers were good as were the Jupiter eps. Not to mention the one where Kat bought it and the ones with the circle.
Sure some of the other relationship eps weren't as good, but they were so much better than most other sci fi.
Stargate, Atlantis, Charmed? How do these shows get renewed.
Torchwood is half decent. It had some cracking episodes quite brutal in places. -
I have been waiting for Season 3 to come out on DVD so that I can watch it...anyone know when it is available???
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Remember what happens to shows when they live beyond their natural lifespans. They become mutant monstrosities from Hell sent to Earth to torture and maim. I'd much rather the show leave on a high note, while it still has credibility (for opposite,see:The X-Files, Series Finale).
As for the Season 3 DVD, I can't find any info. Anyone know? I wonder if they're gonna wait to release it so that it's release date is close to the season premiere...?
As for those complaining about Season 3, just remember the quality level of third installments we've seen this summer and thank the gods (or you can do yourself a favor and thank the one, true, Cylon God) that it was at least as good as it was. Admittedly, not the best. -
Because Admiral Cain is the last Cylon. There is no other reason to go back to a Pegasus story.
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Asked if they have any regrets about something they wish they'd done differently with "Battlestar," Eick joked, "We never got Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Number Six (Tricia Helfer) together." Eick, you REALLY should not tease about things like that...
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...fought each other on Caprica for Apollo's arrow. Or was Eick referring to a sex scene?
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