Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed

Ant writes "Via Dark Horizons, IESB reported from the 10th annual Saturn awards yesterday, and spoke with Battlestar Galactica stars Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff. Olmos confirmed that, as far as the show that's been running so far, the fourth season will be the last one. It's currently slated to start airing in January of 2008. 'Olmos says "This will probably be the most extraordinary season of 'Battlestar'. It's the final season, so it's definitely going to be the most vicious. As far as we know, in respects of the way we have this show constructed, this is the final season." Sackhoff says "I think part of the problem is that it's an expensive show. It is [a great show], but we don't have the viewership that a great show should get."'"

Comments

vicious - ouch!

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's the final season, so it's definitely going to be the most vicious."

So even more shakiness used for shakey-cam? *sigh*

Puzzled

[Stanistani]

I don't understand the buzz about a space opera starring Lorne Green with a bunch of villainous robots in tin suits with a single shiny red eye...

Re:Puzzled

[dtolman]

Hey buddy - there's THREE networks out there- just because you only spend your nights watching Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers over on NBC, doesn't mean we can't turn the dial over to ABC and enjoy the realistic special effects.

My only question is when CBS is going to get the message and launch there own series? I mean c'mon, The Incredible Hulk is just too campy for my tastes.

...then make it... ROCK!

[Tackhead]

> I hate to say it, but this REALLY.....REALLY sucks. SciFi must care more about wrestling then anything else.

And what's wrong with wrestling? Open the event with the battle of the MILFs -- President Laura "The Amazon" Roslin vs. D'Anna "I'm Not Xena" Biers. Have Boomer walk the ring in a tight bikini, holding up the round cards. End the series with the grand finale: Starbuck vs. Six, and hold it the landing bay of a Cylon base star's worth of jello!

> there's STILL time!

After sitting through an entire season of budget-constrained character development... "there sure is, buddy, there sure is."

The Cylons Have A Plan

[wiredog]

I just hope they've finally decided to share it with the writers.

Re:The Cylons Have A Plan

[richdun]

They have. In the finale, we'll find out that:

- RDM is the final Cylon, and this whole "plan" has been to show everyone what Voyager could have been with decent writing and a little continuity of shuttlecraft, battle damage, etc.
- William Shatner is the ship's cook.
- Scott Bakula will finally get to leap out of Brother Cavell when they find Earth.
- Fry and Leela will be married.
- Q will appear and say that humanity has once again proved itself worthy of existing for at least more study, but that we'll never actually see him again so the storyline is left open but dead.
- The Baltar is a Prophet.
- Adama tells Starbuck he's her father, then cuts off her hand. Due to budget constraints, in the very next scene, she'll get a new hand, and that'll be the end of that.
- A centurion is left on a mid-industrial civilized planet, and they begin to shake their heads around as they walk so their entire lives will be lived in shakey-cam mode.
- FEMA was behind the whole "nuke the colonies" thing so they could take over the government, but when the plot is exposed, everyone just laughs at how stupid it is to think that FEMA could have come up with such an elaborate plan.
- The Fifth Element is Tricia Helfer.
- The Cylons are really the "humans" as we know them, and the humans are really the "Cylons," and they've all been living in an 18th century village with a major highway just beyond those trees over there that noone but some blind chick has been able to find.
- The centurions almost overthrow the human-looking Cylon models, but are majorly nerfed in 2.1 and can't take all those pots at once any more.
- Lee keeps hearing "Save Starbuck. Save the world" but realizes his world has already been nuked a couple times so screw it.

Re:The Cylons Have A Plan

[Anonymous Coward]

OR ...

The ships in the fleet will start having problems, and they'll have to create new ships, which (coincidentally) all look like airplanes. Baltar manages to poison the entire fleet causing them to go unconscious. When they arrive at Earth, the Cylons pile all the bodies around the world's volcanoes ... then start nuking the planet.

Prior to this, they've re-configure one of their 'resurrection ships' to capture the souls of the dead humans. In the resurrection ship, they show movies to confuse them. The ship stays in hidden orbit around Earth forever trapping all the confused souls there to inhabit the descendents of the few survivors (Helo and Sharon's offspring, maybe.) ...

No ... that can't be it. I mean who would possibly be able to suspend their disbelief for a story that dumb.

Re:The Cylons Have A Plan

[richdun]

They're Cylons - they count starting at 0. Number Six is actually index 5 in the array ;D

Re:deja vu

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, I expect that they will replace all the major characters soon, find earth, and then sneak around in flying motorcycles reporting to their leader, who we find out later is the omniscient child of Starbuck.

Re:Good

[Lumpy]

Yes.

Battlestar Galactica 2010 where the crew hides the ship in orbit and go down to earth and try to blend in with the low tech people that live there. It will be gritty and cutting edge!

I just realized that I made almost all BSG fans that remember the old show spit all over the screen and scream "OH GOD NO!"

I agree "we" are the Cylons, Cylons are earthlings

[Anonymous Coward]

How else would the Cylon plants in last season's final know "All Along the Watchtower?"

Re:This really....sucks.

[dyslexicbunny]

Lost brainstorming session - 2/25/2004
Damon note: We have gathered hippies and provided them with Absinthe and pot. They have been prompted to talk.

Hippie 1: Hey, lets have polar bears on an island!!
Hippie 2: Evil companies are bad. DOWN WITH THE MAN!!!
Hippie 3: SO MANY SCARY NUMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hippie 4: (munch munch munch)
Hippie 2: Wars are killing the goodness in the Earth.
Hippie 3: Dude, don't you guys see that man in that chair over there.
Hippie 1&2: No man. There's nothing there.
Hippie 3: I'm serious dudes.
Hippie 4: Anyone want to go to Whitecastle? Might as well get fat as hell, it's awesome.
Hippie 2: What if everyone was interconnected to EVERYONE!
Hippie 1: Man if I crashed on an island, I'd have like no pot.
Hippie 2&3: OH NOES!!!!
Hippie 4: (passed out)

Carlton note: Well Damon, I think we have some good ideas.
Damon note: Yep, let's get started.

Olmos quote...

[hal2814]

When asked about the end of the show, Olmos said, "Too bad it won't live but then again what does." He then proceeded to leave oragami unicorns all over the set.

Re:you can always count on the Sci-Fi channel...

[MMC Monster]

Married with Children ran for 10 years. Pretty good for a half-hour comedy. If that's considered killing something off early, then what they did with Firefly is like a first trimester abortion.

Re:This really....sucks.

[baboo_jackal]

THAN....THAN anything else, do Americans know the difference between then and than, proper grammar should be a requirement for posting a response online !
No, we don't know the difference between "than" and "then." But we're pretty good at recognizing run-on sentences and sentence fragments. So we've got that going for us.

Re:Good

[ngworekara]

only thing I could think at the end of that episode was, "WTF? Bob Dylan is a Cylon?"

Re:Why so expensive?

[Anonymous Coward]

Star Trek is SUPER cheap to produce! Have you actually watched those episodes?? Every planet is a series of caves!

Tubes?