Battlestar Galactica DVD Movie In the Works?

Philias writes "Although Battlestar Galactica has been going down in ratings and has yet to get picked up for another season, the sales of its DVDs has got Universal thinking of a Direct-To-Video Movie. GeekMonthly.com is reporting that plans are afoot for a film that will bridge the gap between Galactica and the new spinoff 'Caprica.' The film would be shot in March during the usual hiatus between seasons. The big difference between this and the mini-series and other seasons would be that this would be sold on DVD before being aired on the SciFi channel."

Comments

no wonder ratings are declining!

[CheechBG]

I just hit the scifi.com main page, and there is not ONE mention of BSG anywhere on the page. If you stop advertising the show, only the die-hards will watch and it will descend into cult status.

Farscape

[pkbarbiedoll]

Farscape suffered a similar untimely fate. The show was wonderous and innovative to most who saw it, yet in the middle of season four Sciffy announced that the second half of season four was actually season five, and killed the show with a final movie (after much hellraising from Farscape fans).

Bayships?

[Anonymous Coward]

How about Base Ships?

Re:No surprise ratings are falling.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just a side note, does it irk anyone else that the Galactica has either gotten twice as powerful, or its crew twice as competant since the start of the show? At the start, the most Galactica seemed to be able to hope for against even a single base star was to just buy time and hold them off. The first base star they blew up was by sneakily planting a nuke on board, and the first they defeated in open combat was halfway through season 2, when they had the Pegasus with them. Now they seem to be able to take on base stars much more effectively... seems like it shifts the balance of the show a little.

This is pretty fanboyish, but I think that in the Galactica has had the benefit of consolidating the Pegasus resources since New Caprica. They definitely have all of Pegasus' Mark VII Vipers (Lee left them behind with the fleet when he embarked on the Pegasus' suicide mission, and they evacuated the Pegasus with all of its Raptors), and Galactica probably obtained other resources like hull plating and ammunition. They probably also shared their nukes; I think Galactica only had 4 of them after Ragnar, but in the last episode they seem to have more.

Along with all the hardware, Galactica also inherited most of Pegasus' pilots and crew. These are huge differences from the mini-series, when most of Galactica's pilots were eliminated right at the beginning.

Re:BSG is top-rated cable series on Friday

[rtrifts]

BSG is on broadcast TV?

I'm in Canada. Every one of my friends watches BSG religiously. Every single week.

But not a single one of them watches it on Space. BSG is the reason for bittorrent. What's the adjusted ratings for bittorent users? :)

As for the ratings discussion...they are not that bad nor at any sort of critical stage. Leave it to the Slashdot crowd to ignore the Direct To Video movie discussion and seize on the ratings speculation one-liner.

As for the Iraq war parallels. They were strong, solid scripts. The ranting about those issues regarding the show come from American viewers - not those from other countries. Methinks your flag is getting in the way of your enjoyment of the best show on TV.