4.10 mid-season finale!

[Pearl@32]

TVGuide is reporting that BSG won't be back until after the first of the year, at the earliest.

There comes a point where anticipation stretches out so long that it becomes apathy.

[Eric]

The next 1/2 season spoilers have fallen off the internet:

[spoiler]Now that they've discovered a destroyed New York City, the fleet finds more-habitable areas.  Here's a preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbweBDnViyA

Who nuked NYC?  The NeoCons?

BTW, I can't think of a better Neville Chamberlain than Lee Adama. 
[/spoiler]

[Pearl@32]

Hercules Is Gobsmacked By Friday's Mind-Roastingly Intense Five-Star BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Mid-Season Finale!!
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37054

"I deem this the biggest episode of "Battlestar Galactica" yet produced.

*YAWN* I really don't care for him.

* The script for the series finale made Edward James Olmos and Aaron Douglas cry, according to Helfer. Helfer describes her own reaction to the finale script: "Like somebody punched me in the stomach." Helfer said the ending will compel fans to revisit the series' beginning.

Cool. Make Season 3 a distant memory.

* "The Final Five do not have numb3rs," said Moore.

(Church Lady voice) How conveeeeenient.

* Moore confirmed again that the fleet will get to Earth by the series finale and that he originally had a number of ideas for what the fleet would find there. "We X'ed off a few immediately."

Like maybe, global warming?

Psyched for Caprica.

[Consigliere5]

'Battlestar's' final season expands; TV movie looking good
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/06/battlestars-fin.html

As "Battlestar Galactica" gets ready to air its mid-season finale on Friday, there are two bits of good news to share regarding the show.

According to well-informed sources, it's almost certain that at least one "Battlestar Galactica" TV movie will be made this year.

Here's even better news: Up to two hours may be added to "Battlestar's" final run of episodes.

You heard that right: The last leg of the show's final season could expand to 12 hours, instead of the originally planned 10 hours.

As he discussed here, the show's executive producer, Ronald D. Moore, wrote "Battlestar's" final episode, which could be up to three hours long (a wild guess here: Sci Fi probably wouldn't air the whole thing in one night). Mary McDonnell described her reaction to the script this way: It filled her with "an incredible feeling of adrenaline," she told Ain't It Cool News. "It made me understand the entire saga, and made me excited for all of you."

UPDATE: Here's a statement from from a Sci Fi spokesman: "As written by Ron, the phenomenal finale script extends beyond the time alotted for the episode.  We're exploring how to shoot the extra footage as Ron has envisioned and written it."

As for when the final part of Season 4 will air, Moore has told TV Guide that it's probably going to be in 2009. (Update: EOnline.com reports that the president of Sci Fi has said the last episodes will begin airing in the "first quarter" of 2009.)


Regarding the "Battlestar" TV movie, as "Razor" did, it will probably air on Sci Fi first then be released on DVD within days (the preceding sentence was updated with new information from a Sci Fi rep). There's no word on who will be in the movie, what it will be about and when it will air. All of that is still to be determined.

In a previous story, I'd reported that up to three films were being considered. Whether the other two "Battlestar" TV movies will get made is an open question at this point, but it is possible, according to my sources and according to Galactica Sitrep (which also has wall-to-wall coverage of Wednesday's screening of the mid-season finale at Los Angeles' Cinerama Dome).   

Stay tuned for more "Battlestar" thoughts: I'll have a blog post up on Friday's mid-season finale, "Revelations," this weekend. (The photo above is of Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in "Revelations.")

[AdmiralDigby]

Good ep , .[spoiler]I *knew* Earth was going to be frakked up [/spoiler]

This having to wait 6+ months is for the birds .

[AdmiralDigby]

[SerenityValley]

Good ep , .[spoiler]I *knew* Earth was going to be frakked up [/spoiler]

Yep, me too.  C'mon, guys, let's at least TRY to be original. 

[spoiler]Here's my question, why would they get to earth (which is SUPPOSED to be the end of the show) before they reveal the fifth?  Stupid.  And, if there is one person who did NOT expect earth to be barren when they arrived, I'd like to know it.  I could have done a better job than that.  I'm REALLY disapointed with BSG right now.[/spoiler]

So, Tink, you said at one point better to end it as a great show than to have more seasons of mediocre (or something to that effect). Now I get it.  I think the "mid-season finale" (stupidest term I've ever heard) sucked big thyme.

Okay, rant over.

ETA:  I did think EJO did a great job w/the whole bawling like a baby, just lost my best friend thing!

[TinkTanker]

BSG peaked with the getting the hell off of New Caprica.

[AdmiralDigby]

Probably an unpopular opinion here , but I am really enjoying this season .
( "twist" notwithstanding )

What twists my tits is this haphazard scheduling that threatens to suck any interest we might have for the show . Sci Fi appears to have the their thumbs up their own arses in search of a pulse .

[TinkTanker]

I really enjoyed the Hub episode. Baltar 'witnessing' to the Centurion was a hoot. Rosyln almost letting him bleed to death was very good.

The extended 'we found Earth, let's party and kiss and hug' had mindfark written all over it. Saw that coming the second Bill Adama said they didn't have time to send a recon, they were running out of episode, they had to go, all of them, right now.

The whole episode was rushed. 3 1/2 years of trying to get to Earth and they have to get there in 10 minutes.

Maybe they just got to Earth That Was.