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Battlestar Galactica To Continue After All

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the setting-things-straight dept.

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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  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

  2. Triumph of Commercialism over Content by theolein · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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."

  3. Rome was good,....Deadwood = Awesome by LibertineR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  4. UBUNTU STUDIO RELEASED!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First edition of UBUNTU STUDIO - multimedia derivate of Ubuntu Linux has been released! No story on slashdot yet! Why???
     
    The long-awaited Ubuntu Studio 7.04, a variant of Ubuntu aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast, has arrived: "The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its first release: 7.04 for Intel i386-compatible processors. With this release, which you can download for DVD in little over 860 MB, we offer a feature that is somewhat reminiscent of Ubuntu Server: on installation, you can choose between the Audio, Graphics or Video tasks; and choose also to install a number of plugins, which for this release is mainly aimed at audio production. We have endeavoured to keep as many of our packages in the standard Ubuntu repositories as possible." Read the rest of the release announcement and visit the project's home page to learn more about Ubuntu Studio. Download:

  5. Star Trek linked to pedophilia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This has very little to do with the article, but the L.A. Times recently published an article regarding the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit that focused on their fight against child pornography ("Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl"). They are the law enforcement organization that photoshopped the victims out of child porn photos in order to get the public's assistance in identifying the backgrounds (it worked). In any case, the article had this amazing claim:

    On one wall is a "Star Trek" poster with investigators' faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie.

    Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.

    So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article. He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?

    Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."

    Det. Constable Warren Bulmer slips on a Klingon sash and shield they confiscated in a recent raid. "It has something to do with a fantasy world where mutants and monsters have power and where the usual rules don't apply," Bulmer reflects. "But beyond that, I can't really explain it."

    I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.

  6. Re:Battlestar Craptastica by dn15 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Funny" would be a much more appropriate rating for the parent than "interesting". Someone with mod points is a little confused. :)