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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."
cancer with the magic cylon juice.
That's when I hit the power button on my control, when I realized that this is where it's going. Cylons looking like humans, everyone could be one, general distrust and the felt backstab-threat... Sounds familiar?
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Does that comment seem more like damage control than a reversal of statements?
It's not a "drama rewrite", it's that the basic premise is extremely limiting. It's about the Battlestar Galactica carrying the last survivors, and they're being chased by Cylons. There's is no BSG (the series) without the BSG (the ship) or the Cylons. You can't make a "BSG: The Next Generation" because it's not a stable universe, it's a tale of that one ship. You can't add new races, it's not an open universe like Stargete with a colorful selection of races. There's just this chase, these players and the ultimate outcomes are roughly:
1) The Cylons destroys the BSG
2) The BSG destroys the Cylons
3) The Cylons leave the BSG and humanity alone
4) They end up in a fairytale peace
5) They find earth and earth kicks the Cylon's ass
In any case, it's pretty much the end of the story which means they can't actually come to a showdown. They've tried every variation of tangling them together with both sides coming out alive but it gets old. I mean the Cylons must be very close to the prize for most indecisive killers in history. So what can you do if you can't have them actually clash in a meaningful way? Well, you get all the tedium of being on the run. Resource shortages, black markets, equipment failure, insurgents and sabotage, Adama's "keep us going at all cost" attitude, a few skirmishes and mourning a few fighter pilots here and there and some religious search for the way but there's no real dynamic in the show. The basic premise is exactly the same as it was in episode one. They're the BSG, and they're being chased by Cylons, looking for Earth.
BSG is a show standing still. The only difference is that as of late it's been bad drama instead of good drama.
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Well, to be fair, the show used to have that, back when Baltar was half crazy. The scenes with him being distracted by Number 6 while talking to other Galactica members was pretty much priceless.
I also remember one scene I really like. I think it was Laura, Lee and his father cleaning the dishes after an eating with Tigh and his wife and I think Laura said something like "I think this one is not right for him. She makes him drink all the time and is miserable. I think he'd be better off without her." And then everybody stops cleaning the dishes for a few seconds, realizing he was exactly like that before he got back with her. And then resumed. That was laugh out loud funny.
I can't recall exactly when the show stopped being funny. I think it's around the time they when they went in a cave on a earth-like planet that Roslin guided them to and saw the earth's sky, confirming the prophecy.
If you look at some of the setting of the series, particular the pilot and first season, you will find that there are hint to where the humans are from and thier ancient history. Taken that with the sparse information we have about the cylons, I think this is the most likely ending;
6) Earth is the home planet of the cylons (and it is the source of the human models.)
Depending how it is on earth, you can have the series continue after BSG finds earth, since finding it only closes one major plot (and please do it in season 4, no more stupid fluff fillers).
Carbon based humanoid in training.
You people are forgetting the most obvious conclusion to the series. I came to this right after the pilot movies.
You see, kobal wasn't the home of the human race. It was a planet colonized by seeder ships from Earth thousands of years ago. We'll call humans from Earth humans 1.0 and the seeded humans, humans 2.0. Well humans 2.0 build a civilization apart from human 1.0 on Earth. Mean while humans 1.0 are carefully watching over humans 2.0 from a distance. When human 2.0 are threatened by a natural disaster humans 1.0 guide human 2.0 to safety at the new colonies. This is where the names of the ancient gods came into play.
During all this or before this the humans on Earth, humans 1.0, underwent a vorlon like transformation and became humans 3.0. Now the new humans 3.0 decided that after they had lead humans 2.0 to safety it was time for human 2.0 to live on their own. So humans 3.0 left humans 2.0 to fend for themselves.
Now when human 2.0 reach Earth followed by the Cylons they will find a civilization so far in advanced that they can barely comprehend them. Humans 3.0 will simply tell them there is nothing for them at Earth and they cannot interfere in their affaires. They will send humans 2.0 to their fate.
As for the thirteenth tribe, they didn't go discover Earth, they just went home.
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naww, I think the best BSG has always been about what makes us human and what seperates them from the cylons. it's not really about the end game. unfortunately, I think the last season has had too many "filler" episodes that just didn't have the hard edge of the first two seasons. Plot threads like the crazy admiral (Michelle Forbes) and Adama wanting to assassinate each other were incredible and entertaining. it also doesn't help that they keep putting in these 6-8 month breaks!