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Battlestar CANCELED!

Looks like the producers (not the SciFi Channel or NPC Universal TV) are pullin' the plug on the best TV series ever to hit the airwaves.


The fourth season will air in its entirety, staring in five months (November).

This last season is supposed to bring the storyline to a close.

It's a sad day for Supplement Four.
 
"Battlestar" gets grounded by Sci Fi

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter


The upcoming fourth season of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" will be its final one after all.
After months of speculation, the show's producers are set to make the announcement at a press conference Friday.
Ending "Battlestar" with the upcoming 22-episode fourth season was a creative decision made by the hit show's executive producers Ronald Moore and David Eick.

"This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and, finally, an end," Eick and Moore said in a statement Thursday. "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. 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."

The fourth and final season of "Galactica" will kick off in November with "Razor," an extended two-hour episode, with the rest of the season slated to run beginning in early 2008.
Sci Fi executive vp original programming Mark Stern said the channel's brass "respect the producers' decision to end the series."
For months, Sci Fi had dispelled rumors about "Battlestar" ending its run after the fourth season.
A couple of weeks ago, one of the show's stars, Edward James Olmos, was quoted as saying that the upcoming batch of episodes were definitely the last ones. Sci Fi issued a statement denying such a decision had been made.
 
Do a remake of Galactica 1980
 
Well I prefer that they discover Earth, rather than almost discovering Earth one episode and almost discovering Earth another, and have them keep on stringing out the audience episode by episode until they cancel it without finishing it as in the original BSG series. Anyway I wouldn't want to turn BSG into another episode of Heroes due to the planet's "low gravity".
 
I look at this as good news. The producers and writers will be able to tell the story and maintain a lelel of creative integrety. I love BSG and I would much rather see it go out on a high note than mired in mediocrity.

Some things are not meant to last for ever.
 
It is the final period. Time to rally. Go CYLONS!!

... I may be in the minority view on this.
 
To be fair it's not being cancelled, it's finishing. It's nice and refreshing to see a series tell its story and then finish. I've always hoped BSG would do this and they are.
 
Originally posted by atpollard:
It is the final period. Time to rally. Go CYLONS!!

... I may be in the minority view on this.
To the airlock with this one!

Seriously though, I think this is all for the best. Much as I enjoy this show, I'd rather see it go out on its own terms.
 
I never really got into the new series, it always seemed to be a cross between Space Above & Beyond with JAG. Never really found the Space Fantasy that I loved in the original series to be present. This was very gritty drama and I could appreciate it for that. It had elements that I could see used in Traveller but then was lacking in so many others. It just got also freaky when the Cylons got all emotional and the shots of the environs of Vancouver constantly got to be tiresome...just as they did with Stargate.
 
I like a story that has an ending. B5 was supposed to be like that. It's a classy way to do things.

Not to sound predatory, but this opens up the door for Firefly's comeback.
Yeah, I know, it ain't gonna happen...
 
Originally posted by robject:
I like a story that has an ending. B5 was supposed to be like that. It's a classy way to do things.
The last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a rag-tag, fugitive fleet on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth.
 
I have to agree with the other posters who are happy the whole story (of this show, at least) will get told properly. While it would be nice to have, say two more seasons instead of just one, I'm just happy to know that the series will conclude in the manner the creative team wants it to conclude, as opposed to withering away or coming to a hastily-arranged full stop.
 
I heard about this a couple of days ago and I too have mixed feelings.

I LIKE that the Producers are the ones that decided to end the show. That to me anyway, says that they are in control and will indeed END the show. It also gives them the entire season to build up to the story. I would say that NO character is safe this last season. I look forward to finding out what Earth will look like.


MY VISION OF THE FINAL SCENE:

Earth is a nuclear wasteland with no people and no life....

Adama to Number 6, "Damn, the whole frackn' thing was a waste of time."

Number 6 turns to Adama and says, "Not entirely." Then she breaks his neck and blows up Galactica taking the rest of the Fleet out as well.

What, too dark?
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MY VISION OF THE FINAL SCENE:

Earth is just like it is today. It's the real world that Galactica finds, at our present technology. Bush is President. Trouble in the Middle East. The whole thing is real.

The crew of the Galactica realize that the god of the Cylons is the real God.

And, as the last moments air, we cut to a misc. human on earth. It's just somebody going to work.

And, we see that WE are Cylons.

And, we don't even know it.
 
Originally posted by Supplement Four:
...And, as the last moments air, we cut to a misc. human on earth. It's just somebody going to work.

And, we see that WE are Cylons.

And, we don't even know it.
That's actually really cool! It also sets the stage for a present-day or near-future "Galactica 2008" ("Galactica 2058?") sequel series about the human resistance fighting all us Cylons to reclaim the Thirteenth Colony. I hope the producers are reading this...
 
How about we are in the process of building a fleet of our on and strike back against the cylons all the way back to the colonies.
 
Originally posted by robject:
I like a story that has an ending. B5 was supposed to be like that. It's a classy way to do things.

Not to sound predatory, but this opens up the door for Firefly's comeback.
Yeah, I know, it ain't gonna happen...
Not unless Fox gives up the rights. And the movie didn't do well enough for another network to pony up the cash to buy Fox's rights.
 
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