It's just a soap now

[Aegon the Unworthy]

In the podcast for the last episode RDM says there is a definite conclusion and did hint that this is the last season.

For the record BSGs ratings werent that good. The audience was reasonably broad but it lost a third of its numbers to TIVO/DirectTV. Advertisers dont pay for those numbers because most of us fast forward through the commercial. Where BSG rocked the house was critical acclaim, received praise and what not and raised the prestige of the network. Without the critics and peer reviews the network would have cut the show.

Dont think Im smart, this is all in the podcast I mentioned above.

[Connavar]

Sci fi channel sucks apparently.

I dont see how they can lose viewers with shows like BSG.


Still about being the last, it isnt confirmed. Hint or not.

[Brown Rat]

Originally Posted by Aegon the Unworthy

In the podcast for the last episode RDM says there is a definite conclusion and did hint that this is the last season.

Yes, in the podcast he said that this show has a definite arc and that in writing this show they thought about it "in context of what's the end of the show, what's the third act of Battlestar Galactica." He said that this episode "pushes us to the end" and that we are now "moving into the final chapters of what the show is." He also said that Tigh and the others being Cylons--"these poor people are Cylons"--ties into that end.

But I don't know if that means one more year, or two more years, because later, someone said that he seemed to mean two more seasons, and he didn't deny or confirm that speculation.

He did say definitely that he didn't want the series to last seven or eight seasons, because it has "a certain narrative arc" that would make a long run inappropriate.

[McHorde-Trooper]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Okay i cant take you seriously when you compare Lost to BSG.....

Well if you think about it . . especially in the early seasons . . they keep dropping these hints that just don't seem to make any sense. And between the confusion there are some pretty good character stuff, but the actual plot is unclear in a bad way. [Okay Lost does add another layer of confusion with all the flashback stuff, but I think over all the analogy still works.]

Yes refuges try to find Earth and Cylons go after them, it's a simple plot, but they try to twist it with stuff like Cylons believing in God and this goofy survivors on Caprica / Arrow of Athena subplot. I'm all for plot twits, but I like them to be understandable.

Galactica to Babylon 5. B5 had loads of plot twists, but they made sense. You could follow a thread from episode to episode. The twists weren't quite so weird that you can't understand them either. Add to that that B5 actually had an over all episode story that dominated the episode. But in Galactica the twists seem to be half (or all) of any given episode. I loved 1.05: You Can't Go Home Again, but close to half the episode was mindless crud about the Cylon in Baltar's head and Caprica.

Now maybe it will come to an end, but I wonder if all the confusing stuff will make sense in the end.

[zebedeemunroe]

As a hard core Sci Fi fan I have to disagree, I am only just watching Battlestar and I am really enjoying it, the twists the well thought out chracters, its ace.
President Rosalyn and the Admiral are just intriguing to watch.
As a Trek mourner I am engrossed and wont have a word said aginst it!
Roll on series 4 after RAZR

[dustinzgirl]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Okay i cant take you seriously when you compare Lost to BSG.....

LOL I agree!

The human side of the story was the point from the get go. Season 1 had more hard science to set the stage, to define the scenery. By Season 2 a lot had been explained, but the writers and producers wanted people to experience what humans would do most likely in such a situation. It's always been fairly soapoperaish, but this is about the human story, not the hard science. As was stated by writers and producers many times since the first season, if you watch the specials on the series.