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Battlestar Galactica To Continue After All
turboflux writes "According to executive producer David Eick, Battlestar Galactica is still an open-ended adventure and it will not be ending after the 4th season as previously reported. Evidently Edward James Olmos jumped the gun on confirming the show would be ending while attending the Saturn Awards this month. Eick goes on to say that the fourth season would actually be 22 episodes (2 more than prior seasons) rather than the reported 13 episode order."
If the extra episodes are just more of the filler crap they had last season then I wont be watching. Battlestar is a good show when they are actually trying to tell a story. Filler like Black Market sucked. At least Lost had the balls to say the show ends in 48 episodes. If Battlestar keeps the season format they had last season you only need to watch the first 3 and last 3 episodes because everything in the middle isnt related to the story at all.
Yes I liked the show but the drama crap and all the story rewrites to try to find a new audience is pissing me off.
They're going to try to milk it way after its expiration date.
And here I was with such great hopes after the last finale.
The writers boxed themselves into a void in the last season. The cylons as evil killing machines with the capacity to be anyone as a sleeper agent, that was good television--even at times good social/political commentary. The best sci-fi works on all of these levels. So, bringing back the chase and eliminating the soap opera narratives will bring the show back. I don't think they've jumped the shark quite yet.
You ARE aware that a Cylon winning a dogfight would lead to at least 10 episodes of mourning, griefing and goth-like navel contemplation, yes?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They did something great in the pilot episodes and first season, but now we'll have to see yet another great show die a slow and painful death.
I wish they'd wrap up the show and stop it when they've run out of material and said what they want to say. But even the best show is doomed to drag on our screens, while the rating brings in ad money. It's so sad.
It was especially harsh and sad in Prison Break, originally an amazing 14 episode mini-series. Then in the last moment extended to a full season ("oh shit they changed the pipes, well all we did for 14 episodes now doesn't make a damn sense, does it"), and then to a second season ("don't move or I'll use my tattoo against you! i'm not afraid to!").
Good, now just go back to blowin shit up, dammit!
Maybe this was a joke, but it exemplifies the problem with a lot of modern genre fandom. "Eeeew! Drama! Eeeew! Humanity and emotional stuff! Eeeeew! Icky girls!" It's this sort of thing that keeps SF and fantasy so marginalized.
And while season 3 had some weak points, this whole WORST SEASON EVER stuff is so silly. Seriously, a lot of folks here are The Comic Book Guy incarnate.
It's the unfortunate tension of television that the business side demands an open ended series that can run as long as possible while the artistic side would usually be better served by a finite length and definite ending.
I am a huge, huge fan of BSG (warts and all) and was actually happy to see the earlier report that the 4th season would be the end. I am one who thinks the writers would be doing a better job if they knew what the hell the point of each episode should be.
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
First you want sci-fi, they give it to you... The sci-fi they give you, is the best sci-fi that we have seen on tv... They tell you that they will continue to make said sci-fi... ...and all you do is whine about it.
No wonder people make fun of us.
-groovyghoul
IMO, the show could use just a *pinch* of levity. I mean hell, even Children of Men squeezed in a "Pull my finger" joke to keep it from inducing mass suicides in everyone who watched it.
Meanwhile, BSG has been dark moment after dark moment. You can't tell me that nobody ever does a shaving cream joke on a pilot while he/she's in their rack, that nobody hops into a Viper to find a waiting whoopy cushion, that nobody pranked Tigh by replacing his precious booze with *gasp* water?
I mean, come ON people, just because 9/11 happened in the real world, doesn't mean we don't have to feel guilty to laughing at fantasy now and then, or for that matter, real life.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
BSG is a story based show with a definitive ending, it just doesn't seem to know how to get there.
The last two seasons, particularly the 3rd, have left me hugely frustrated. The show had so much promise at the start, good cast, gorgeous effects, an interesting plot etc. But it seems to me they just don't know what to do with it all, they have their 'ending' worked out, no doubt, but they just don't seem to know how to flesh out the bit known as the middle.
They should have planned this out episodically before filming ever began (like JMS did with B5). Not only would it have ensured consistency throughout (read less filler), but it would also have given them an exact number of seasons to aim for and enable them to better budget themselves as well. As I recall Bab5 was consistently *under* budget as a result of the excellent planning which no doubt ensured that it got it's intended 5 seasons, despite some doubts around Season4. Given how exec's like axing sci-fi, being prudent would be a top priority to me.
I really feel there will be a truckload more filler next season if it isn't the finale. I would rather they just let Zoic create a whole batch of 45 minute space combat sequences, if they can't come up with anything better than love triangles etc - But that would destroy the budget... so no doubt were going to be subjected to more 'Whose in Lee's bed tonight' episodes. At least they blew up the Pegasus, or no doubt they'd go through half a dozen new captains for her as well.