[UPDATE: Click here if you're looking for our: Battlestar Galactica Finale Review ]
So why do I only have half a Viper pictured? That’s because Battlestar Galactica is having its final season split into two.
You have got to be frakkin’ kidding me! (Read that with the angry, gravel-sounding voice of Col. Tigh in your head because it’s the only way to interpret that line.)
As I noted here back in April, I think one of the biggest mistakes in recent history of Sci Fi television is the Sci-Fi Channel splitting up the final 20 episodes of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica into two, separate, 10-episode runs with tonight’s (Friday, June 13th) episode being the “mid-season” break.
Oh but wait, that was the good news. Not only is this episode the breaking point for the show, but we’re going to have to wait until the beginning of next year, that’s right, 2009, before the show starts up again.
The Sci-Fi Channel didn’t want to tell anyone themselves, so they gave Ronald D. Moore the dour job of breaking the news to the media last Wednesday night at a screening.
The reasoning given for the show not starting back up until next year is “end of the year competition” such as new fall television series’, baseball and football.
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I can sort of understand new shows competing even if The Sci-Fi Channel doesn’t have a ton of competition Friday nights at 10 pm, but come on, baseball and football? Am I that dense or more to the point, how can daytime sports impact a Friday-night-at-10PM sci-fi show? Someone goofed when making up that excuse. (Yes, I said excuse and I explain a little later why)
Moore was quoted as being apologetic when he announced this, and I’m sure he not only feels bad, but is anxious to see his vision of the series realized for the fans and for the actors.
When NBC Universal exec Bonnie Hammer was asked when, exactly, Battlestar Galactica will be back on, she replied: “We don’t have a locked in schedule yet,” but added “We just know that it’s always better to leave the fans just titillated a little bit, but it will definitely be back.”
Titillated my… sorry.
So why don’t I believe anything Bonnie Hammer says and why am I going to use her name repeatedly?
The first reason: Even though the Sci-Fi Channel has trumpeted this as being the show’s FINAL season, they’ve gone and split it up, making this the next-to-last final season, and 2009 will be the final-final season. Ten episode seasons suck Sci-Fi! Do you hear the words that are coming out of my mouth?
The other reason I don’t believe Bonnie Hammer:
In September of 2007, (Hmm, that far back? Sounds more like a plan than a response to present-day market pressure) in Atlanta at Dragon Con, it was reported that the show would be split into two 10-episode segments, with the second set of episodes airing in February of 2009.
Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama) gave up the ghost on this one and he’s quoted as saying something I loved reading:
“the channel is not used to producing high quality material and now that it has a hit, it doesn’t know what to do with it.”
Bamber went a bit further and said that is how Sci-Fi essentially gets two final seasons for the cost of one. No wonder we don’t see him in other NBC projects these days! (Side note: He’s in two new projects. One from Distant Horizons and another from Marathon Productions.)
I suppose we’re going to have to really wait to see who the final Cylon is, won’t we?
At this point, I don’t care what they say. Do You?
Sources: TVGuide, AintItCool
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49 Comments
I guess that BSG will last until all the enemies of the human race (in bsg
are gone.And that could take a while…
Aye, just download the bloody show, I know I will (I have been)
Bugger the Sci-fi channel.
I love, love, this this program and was just so disappointed when it ended. I could not believe that this was the end of the series. They found earth and it had been destroyed. I kept looking for more on the tube and nothing but re-runs. How heart breaking for real fans. Now they are going to play the next ten episodes next year. Does that mean it starts in January 2009 or June 2009? I only ask because it could be any the way these executives work. It has just left a bad taste in my mouth and I was a great fan of the show. I am so hurt, hurt to the core. Ten episodes and that constitutes a season. There were so many questions left unanswered. Where were the other toasters and do they catch up with the others. I am just disappointed. This is the worst programming I have ever seen. Actually I have never seen anything quite like it int he history of telivision. The executives that decided this should be ashamed of themselves. I really don’t know whether I will watch the rest of the show. I certainly am sick of watching the re-runs.
Elizabeth,
We here at ScreenRant are here to help.
And we can help in this regard… to some degree. So take a nice easy deep breath and try to get past the wonderful, creative program handling that the Sci-Fi Channel has done and check out this link for air dates for the back half of the final season:
http://screenrant.com/battlestar-galactica-final-season-return-date-brusimm-4011/
Enjoy and have a great day!
I thought the rumors of a 20 episode season were false and the story ended. So I searched for the “lost episodes.”
Frankly - I have lost interest in the series now, its been so long since there have been any episodes on air - even repeats.
I posted earlier in this thread thinking I would not loose interest.
I have now lost interest. The dishonesty of the network left a bad taste in my mouth, time has paste. Someday I will watch it, but not during its first broadcast time. I have other things to do.
Those greedy network execs suck.
forrest
I was completely immersed in Battlestar Galactica when episodes ended in summer 2008.
Now that it is winter 2009, I find that I can’t remember most of the details of the show. I don’t even remember how that one BSG crewman had his leg amputated.
I even taped and saved the last two episodes of the summer 2008 season, but still cannot remember most of that season. Too much time has passed.
As a result, after watching the first episode of the “final final” season (and I am not going to talk about the plot, lest people who have not yet seen it read this), I find it hard to follow and remember. I am glad I taped those final two episodes as a reference.
Something should be said about the plot and the acting. The actors seem to now be over-acting, and the writers are dragging out the plot. Just make your point already and get on with it. One thing about the original Battlestar Galactica series was they told the story in as few episodes as possible. No filler episodes. Then the story was over and the series ended. That is how this should be. And let’s give these characters a happy ending, shall we? I hope so, after all this time. Let’s not kill off all the interesting characters and have everyone be a Cylon and leave the series without any hope.
After what was a roaring good start to this series in Season One, I am seriously disappointed with the SciFi channel. Please don’t have a crappy last season. I was not that impressed with the first episode of the “final final” season. SciFi should not have split it up into two seasons. The story has lost its momentum. Fans suffered as a result. I used to tell people what a good series this was, but now it has gone from “good” to merely “okay.” I want to see what will happen to these characters that I care about, but don’t drag out the plot and take these characters in directions that will not please me, or as a fan it will be hard to stay loyal to the series.
Is there any website that has the last few shows on it. I never got to see them I have found older up to part of season 4
Thanks
I too was really hacked at the BSG Finale till I came across this detailed CAPRICA the SERIES DETAILED REVIEW. It really does explain why the final five couldn’t reveal more, it would have shot down the pilot! The BSG Finale makes a lot more sense now.
http://www.fmqinc.com/caprica-preview/
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