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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."
In the true spirit of the RIAA, MPAA and other *AAs, where the notable inability of overpaid executives to tell between a good story and a one that simply makes lots of money (Hi Hollywood, you listening?) resulting in thousands of superficial shows with the same mindless plots and heavy application of special CGI effects, all based on a blockbuster two decades ago (actually three, but still).
When audiences get tired of spending their dollars on this, the *AAs then get on their high horse and accuse almost everyone from consumers to vague thirld world nations of piracy and "stealing their profits".
If Battlestar Galactica, which was, up until now, a fantastic show, but which was really starting to show warning signs of producer self overestimation and ego growth in the last series with the drop off over the edge into the supernatural, I sadly suspect that the next series will only get worse if the producers are not under pressure to produce a good finale to the show.
In English there is a saying: "too much of a good thing."
HBO is doing really good stuff these days (minus Sopranos), but Rome wasnt the best, Deadwood was just insanely great. But, like with Rome, the lavish sets caused them to run out of money for lack of viewers. Its a crime to kill off shows like this, when they could have benefitted from better marketing. Most people have never seen Rome, Deadwood, The Wire, or other great HBO productions. Deadwood had better T&A too, though some of it was on the chunky side.
"Funny" would be a much more appropriate rating for the parent than "interesting". Someone with mod points is a little confused. :)