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Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed

Posted by Zonk on from the well-frack dept.

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."'"

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  1. ...then make it... ROCK! by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > 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."

  2. The Cylons Have A Plan by wiredog · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:The Cylons Have A Plan by richdun · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  3. Re:This really....sucks. by dyslexicbunny · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Olmos quote... by hal2814 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.