Battlestar Galactica: Season 4

Friday's episode was better, but not by much. I just have no interest in madam president, sorry. What the **** happened to Starbuck? Don't they know she is the star of the **** show? To top it all off, next week is the last episode THIS YEAR! (although the previews looked good, it is still depressing to think we waited so long for this season, we got served **** and now it is over...) [quote] [B] What the Frak? No New Battlestar Until 2009[/B] Battlestar Galactica fans are well-advised to sit back and savor this Friday's midseason finale, because the balance of Season 4 -- the series' last, lest we forget -- won't be hitting the tube until after "the first of the year," says executive producer Ronald D. Moore. And that's a best-case scenario. At a Wednesday-night screening of this week's episode, Moore explained to TVGuide.com that even though they are currently filming the series' final scenes, the "practical realities" of post-production -- coupled with the formidable end-of-year competition presented by new fall series, baseball and football -- places the onset of the final episodes at the start of 2009, at the earliest. "Realistically, there's no way to get back on the air faster," he apologetically added.[/quote][[URL="http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-News-Blog/Todays-News/Galactica-Series-Finale/800041381"]via TV Guide[/URL]]

[quote=maybeshesright;15496]wait-- which cylon impregnated another?[/quote] Colonel Tigh got a Six pregnant~! They didn't say a word about it this week. No idea how it is possible. Seems a bit far fetched given the rules that the show has seemingly set in place concerning cylon on cylon action.

[quote=jobson;15503]So on a side note... Is the new show Caprica supposed to be a series or a mini- series? I read somewhere that the tentative air dat was 12/08. Wouldn't that conflict with the last half of BSG in 2009?[/quote] I heard that it was just a pilot with a pickup contingent on ratings. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_%28TV_series%29"]The wiki page[/URL] doesn't give an air date. I am going to go on record right now saying that I hate prequels in general - but the cast looks great and I'll give it a shot.

Well, it is over. Done. We will now have to wait until 2009. Although I enjoyed last night's episode, it misfired on many levels and could have been much, much better being it was the big payoff episode that we have been waiting for since the premiere. Best moment of the mid-season finale: I was almost sure Tigh was going to be shot out the airlock! I was thinking, "Hmm there are only 10 episodes left. Killing off a lead at this point is totally within the realm of possibility." I thought that finding earth was much less exciting then it could have been. I didn't realize they had found it until I actually saw it. I figured it was going to take 20 jumps or something like that over another 5-9 episodes. I guess the shocker for me was that earth was destroyed. I always wondered how "we" would react to colonists when they got here. I guess the answer is "wez be dead." lol ;) What did everyone think? Where is this going to go next?

[quote]The final fate of the survivors of the 12 Colonies is a little bit closer. According to [I]Entertainment Weekly’s[/I] Michael Ausiello, the final ten episodes of [I]Battlestar Galactica[/I] will begin airing on Sci Fi on January 16th at 10pm, which, if the episodes are being shown weekly, will put the series final on March 20th. Timing and scheduling, of course, is a little unclear, as Executive Producer Ron Moore has said that the final 10 episodes will run 11 hours in length – or longer, with the series finale running three or more hours. According to the [I]Chicago Tribune’s[/I] Maureen Ryan, there will be websiodes in the lead-up to the final episodes.[/quote][via [URL="http://www.newsarama.com/tv/100816-BSG4.html"]newarama[/URL]] I can only hope that the final 10 episodes of BSG are epic! [URL="http://vevmo.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=901"][IMG]http://vevmo.com/imagehosting/1490f3620b2ee8.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote=jobson;44835]Ok, she's the fifth? I feel so let down![/quote] Yes, that was a giant, "WHO CARES!" moment. All that build up for her? Sheesh, I hardly noticed she was gone. Still, I didn't think the episode was an entire waste. As always I enjoyed the scenes with Kara, thought the Admiral was compelling and was totally shocked that Dee blew her brains out (I thought she was the 5th the way the episode was going.) Not sure what the deal is with Kara being dead and alive if the final cylon has been revealed, but obviously that is what everything will be hinging on in the upcoming weeks.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1XUopDRVU]YouTube - Preview for "A Disquiet Follows My Soul"[/url]

Looks like the ratings are in and they are good for a Sci-Fi channel series. Hopefully there was enough there to keep viewers coming back. [URL="http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/01/20/battlestar-galactica-returns-with-double-digit-gains/11149"]Battlestar Galactica Returns With Double Digit-Gains[/URL]

Zzzzzz.....Zzzzz.....Zzzzzz.... Whoa. What? Huh? Oh, sorry - I [strike]was counting tiles[/strike] finished the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica. Umm, ya. It wasn't pretty. I was tempted to use the fast forward button, but then I just zoned out staring at the weird tile pattern on my bedroom ceiling that I never fully noticed, or appreciated. Very interesting stuff. There is some sort of crazy alternating thing going on and if you stare long enough, shapes start jumping out at you. After about 15 minutes of focus, I saw a giant shark with a space ship leaping over it with the date, RIP 2006 boldly emblazoned across it... Errr....back to BSG. Total snooze fest. I don't care about the frakking Quorum. I don't care about the frakking President. I don't care about bitter frakking Gaeta and I especially don't care about frakking Zarek. This coup is going to kill the remaining episodes. The direction things are going is unfathomably awful. Not only is the human race doomed, but so are the viewers! Where are the bad Cylons? Why only 45 seconds of Starbuck? Why doesn't the Admiral say Frak off and take Galactica and those that want to come along with him? It was hard to watch. Even worse, when I saw the preview for next week (which in this last season has been the best part of every episode) it made me consider not even watching. This show is seriously limping toward conclusion. Sure, we might get a few cool moments along the way, but at this point I think they would have been better off rapping this up in a two hour TV Movie.

[quote=jobson;45944]I'm considering scrapping the rest of the season & waiting unitl the final episode- I'm sure I won't miss a thing.[/quote] Oh ya, you could probably watch 6 of those "What the frak happened" one minute clips fully apprised for the finale. They could easily fit all the good stuff into 6 minutes, lol. I can almost guarantee that next week is going to suck royally. The weird thing is that all the reviews I have been reading are treating the last two episodes like they were totally epic! I just don't get it...

I am going to offer more thoughts going forward, but I think that last night's episode was actually good. It was the first time in a long time that I felt like something was actually happening. Maybe I jumped to conclusions and there is still hope...

[quote=jobson;46779]And next week looks promising. Do you really think they'll air lock Adama?[/quote] That is the crazy part. They just might! I really got a sense that almost anything can happen and I know from what I have read about the final episodes before hand - some very bad things happen (although my gut says he lives to fight another day.) My favorite part last night was Starbuck killing the guy holding Lee. It was totally unexpected and then she shot the next guy. I was like, "Yes! BSG is back with some balls and Starbuck is ******!"

[quote=Binary Solo;46832] Am I the only one rooting for Zarek/Gaeta though? Possibly. . .[/quote] Yes? lol I am on whatever side Starbuck is on. :D

I am actually excited for tonight. I hope I am not disappointed.

I found it to be a mediocre episode, but not as bad as the first two. There was some action and I agree that the quorum being slaughtered came as a surprise. At least Zarek is gone for good this time and I was not a big Gaeta fan after New Caprica, so I won't miss him. The thing I miss the most about BSG these days is number 6. What happened to that once great character? Now all the 6's are total wimps. Remember when 6 used to constantly screw with Baltar? That was fun! (...and yes, if Baltar slipped out of an air lock next week I'd savor the moment.) I could care less about Ellen, so I am not that excited for next week - although maybe that will bring us back in contact with the evil cylon faction as we work our way toward conclusion. I will say that her being the final cylon was the biggest disappointment in the history of BSG disappointments. Actually, I was not happy with the whole final five thing anyway. I understand why it was done. It was what was needed to bridge the cylons with the humans, but it just felt cheap and still doesn't fully make sense (i.e. how the final 5 seem to age normally unlike the others - i.e. Ty working with Adama for 20 years - yet in the flashbacks to ty on Earth, he looks exactly like he does now.) I think the entire story is so convoluted it will never be satisfactorily explained and the worst part about it is that you can tell it was a last minute addition to the script. If they had this planned all along, it would have been genius because there could have been clues placed along the way. However, there were not as it was a fly by night decision (with even the cast being ****** about it.) Anyway, I am still watching and hoping for a bit of redemption in the coming weeks.

Not sure what to think of this week's episode. On one hand, we learned more this week than we had learned of the course of years. On the other hand, this wealth of information felt forced on us through a less than ideal recollection of events from Anders and Ellen. I'm glad that we know how everything came into being, but also disappointed that it was not approached in a more through and lifelike manner. Why couldn't we have had true flashback episodes that went through how this all came to be rather then have it thrust upon us in one giant dose? Probably because the writers thought they'd lose the edge of the unknown in the storyline and decided to hold out for years instead of informing us all along. In other words, I felt like last night's episode was a hodge podge of fill in the gap antics, none of which we saw or will ever see. Still, I guess it is cool that we are over that hump and moving forward. p.s. If Starbuck is a Cylon I'm going to be ******.

These episodes are just burning off at this point. What I hate the most is the preachiness of the storytelling. The analogy to reality is not very subtle. Also, I'm not a fan of all the time devoted to the final 5 bonding and let out a big sigh when Baltar showed up on scene. I just want a conclusion at this point.