Battlestar Galactica Revival

Well then:

Sci Fi Channel sent us the press release confirming the show is ending....

"This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and finally, an end. Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end and we've decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms," Eick and Moore said in the statement. "And while we know our fans will be saddened to know the end is coming, they should brace themselves for a wild ride getting there –- we're going out with a bang."

confirmation. muy triste.

So when are they going to Hollywood and riding motorcycles??

But that was a ripoff of Chips, so the equivalent would have to feature Apollo doing his David Caruso.

battle of the battlestar threads

this is good news

i am a bit sad abt this news but not super sad - i would've liked 2 more seasons
xpost yeah yeah

pika-chuuuu :-(

Maybe they realized that they can't sustain the dramatic tensions over more than one season, considering the last season finale.

its good to have limits

s4 is gonna rule dudes

I like that they are doing this with both BSG and Lost. Nobody wants to watch shows as they descend into X-Files/Alias nonsense.

yeah open-ended shows are always tarnished by their latter-day suckage.

(Sopranos also wise to do this)

more shows should do this. it was so sad see the x-files become a lame parody of itself.

Especially ones with BIG SECRETS (Lost, Alias, X-Files) or Gilligan's Island syndrome (BSG, Lost).

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Counter-example, however - Star Trek Voyager - weak-ass, tacked-on, convoluted ending due to waning ratings.

that one sucked from the beginning

Indeed it did. However, I think you may mean Star Trek: Enterprise, which was even worse (but actually was cut short at four years instead of going the seven allotted to TNG, DS9 and even the foetid Voyager.)

Enterprise was downright blasphemous in its suckitude

at least it was attempting something different. voyager was just bland.

predship

gornship

"predship"

ouch! lol

I just meant the bit where Voyager finally makes it home. Maybe it wasn't due to bad ratings, but it jut felt wrong (and managed to work in some lame time-travel angle too). I like the idea of the writers at least having some idea of where a show is going, rather than just figuring it out as they go (see - or rather DON'T SEE - : the last few seasons of 24).

omg i just watched the episode where there's the virus, and then sharon puts the wire in her wrist and then they build and ship and name it after the president and and omg

bit of a tearjerker that one

I vaguely remember the wrist thing.

just watched season one and first ep of season two

occasionally think bits are stupid (getting away from baddies easily, usually) or the typical having difficulty not thinking about "earth" stuff appearing in "alien" culture but do manage to forget about it, mostly. a couple of devices that I think, were they described to me, I might have thought "that will be bad and annoying" I have been able to almost not mind. wonder about the weird, shakey, zooming camerawork and lens flare in completely CGI scenes. the bit at the start, where they have the drums over bits from the ep you're about to watch, is annoying, too. on the whole, I think it's really pretty good

not thinking about "earth" stuff appearing in "alien" culture

waht this is not an alien culture

but they have earthly stuff plus check out my inverted commas

bit of a tearjerker that one

totally!

also rjg, stick with it, it only gets better

what do you mean - that they all look like humans? that they have names similar to ancient earth cultures? that they developed telephones? I don't get it... I mean its made rather sledgehammer-obvious that the colonies' cultures are precursors/contemporaries of earth's.

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like why wouldn't you expect them to develop pants and whiskey and poker chips and have dogs for pets

precursors?

(and actually while I really enjoy it I'm not sure I would say it gets better - the miniseries has yet to be topped imho)

yeah precursors like they had their thing going and then a colony got lost and left for earth - are you sure you're watching this show?

in old battlestar there was the line "some say life here began out there"