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Originally Posted by Lyrical FYI, they are showing the most recent season of Battlestar Galactica today (Thursday on Sci-Fi).
Is anyone else pumped that the new season of SG-1, Atlantis and Galactica starts this Friday night? Beside football, this is the only tv I watch all week. If you all will remember how the season ended:
Galactica; My favorite show, as I watched the original when I was 7 or 8. In this last season, just like in the original series, the Battlestar Galactica and Battlestar Pegasus meet up. In the original series, Adama and Cain clashed for several episodes. I really doubt that the Adama/Cain story arc will be over in one episode. In the original, Adama was Cain's superior, but in the re-write, Cain is Adama's superior. So will Adama blindly send Galactica into battle with the Pegasus, since he is lower in the chain of command? He already has followed her orders by allowing her to split up his command staff. Even Starbuck and Apollo are being moved to the Pegasus.
The show ends with Cain saying that two of Galactica's men will be put to death. She has the two of them brought to her ship. In a tense moment, Adama says that they should be tried by a jury of her peers. She refuses, and he sends the fleet to get them back. Cain scrambles her fighters, and all of the sudden we have a Mexican standoff.
The show has been interesting, but I wonder where they will take the story now that the remake has gone longer than the original did. The original only went 22 episodes. It was cancelled not due to ratings (it was in the top 20 of all shows on tv at the time), but the price of each show. Before computer graphics, the special effects were costly, and the network said the show was not as profitable as its peers because of this.
When they ended the show, they tried to make a Battlestar Galactica: Earth version. This show was a total flop, as the fans didn't really care what happened once they got to Earth. Most of the books written after the show ended (alot of them written by the original Apollo) ignore the fact that they went to Earth. As I understand it, some of them depict that the fleet is still searching for Earth, decades later.
Will the shows writers continue to have them roam the stars for years and years, knowing that it is probably certain death for them to actually reach Earth? When will they start bringing in charachters like Lucifer? And how will they develop the point that the cylons are more interested in having sex with the humans than thay are in killing them? And will Sharon (the cylon) turn on the fleet eventually (as her programming kickc in)? When will we get to see what a cylon/human baby looks like?
These are my favorite shows on tv. It is too bad that they only time they have great programming is on Friday nights, and the other nights of the week we have to be subjected to cheesy b movies like "Chupacabra." Maybe one day they will start producing other regular shows for other nights. |
