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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.
cancer with the magic cylon juice.
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.
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?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Not to mention that they find out about 20 episodes later that he isn't really dead through a dream of a crew member and they start looking for him (5 episodes), find him in some unprobable place (2 episodes), free him from the cylon prison (1 episode) only to find out that he's a cylon imposter (1 episode) and spend a bit of time trying to hunt him all over the ships (5 episodes), until they corner him and he claims he's a traitor and wants to aid humanity (1 episode), leads them to some fuel depots (2 episodes)...
I think I should ask them if they hire new writers.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I think I should ask them if they hire new writers.
Sounds like you write for them already.
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Look, I loved Babylon 5. I even liked season 5, and consider the hate it gets to be typical mobthink (notice how other fans always append "except season five" like a mantra). I also know that this is all a matter of personal taste, but your review here is filled with hyperbole. Porn? A handful of sexually charged scenes is not porn. What are you, an evangelical? The camera work lends a nice feel to the space shots. I dunno, man, it's called artistry and creativity. Should BG be a static 3 camera set piece like a sitcom? And "better scripting on daytime soaps" is where you completely lose it. Seriously, something else has to be at the core of your hate here. Are you a big fan of the original series? Are you a Cylon? What?
Please. I got tired of Enterprise when they did more time traveling than Doctor Who!
I'm really hoping for some experimental episodes where the camera just slowly pans up and down Tricia Helfer's body while she tries on different outfits for 40 minutes.
Right now, the Cylons seem not to have any motivation. They wanted to eliminate humanity because, after the last war, they saw it as an 'us or them' situation in the long run, and decided in favour of their own survival. A perfectly logical (if somewhat cold) decision for a civilisation to make.
Now, they want to find Earth because...? They don't seem to consider destroying the Galactica a priority anymore, which is fine. It's not really a threat, and by the time it is even in the position to form a self-sustaining colony the Cylons could have spread out over hundreds of systems. Their growth rate is exponential, and they have a significant head-start on the humans now they've destroyed the twelve colonies. It doesn't seem likely that humanity could ever threaten more than a few percent of the Cylon race again.
But, they want to find Earth. Because, uh, actually, I have no idea. I'm not sure that the writers do either. The Cylons just aren't a believable enemy unless they have some motivation for their actions, and right now they don't seem to. Maybe it will be revealed later, but I don't hold out much hope.
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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.
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I guess no body listens to the podcasts. The producer/writer, Ronald D. Moore, mentioned this a month ago on a podcast. The network made him sweat it out with that "12 episodes" thing but finally said ok to a twenty-something deal. He also said the show has TWO seasons left. He hasn't signed two seasons, he just thinks the story arc has two seasons left. I highly recommend the podcasts by the way...
"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie
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.
During the first season commentary, the producers explain that the entire bit on Caprica was basically done because it was cool. The producer who came up with it (I can't remember which one) had no idea where it was going or why Sharon showed up again on Caprica, he just "thought it would be cool." As the story progressed, they eventually hit on the idea of Cylons trying to procreate, which has never really been well explained.
So, yes, I expect you're completely correct - the writers are doing this by the seat of their pants and have no idea where it's going either. The Cylons may have a plan, I just wish they'd share it with the writers...
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