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."

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Re:Battlestar Craptastica

[Kjella]

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.