I miss you Battlestar Galactica, with every fraking fiber in my being. I miss your wars, you tears, every last compelling moment of you. Only three months or so till my love returns.
I miss it, too :(.
I’m looking forward to the final episodes. Lots of story threads to resolve. When does it return? Late January? February?
Yeah, and the sad thing is that there will soon be almost no new space-based sci-fi on television. Stargate Atlantis is ending (not such a big loss in itself) and when BSG finally comes back and wraps things up, what will we have left? Doctor Who is the only thing I can think of.
I really tried to get into BSG, but couldn’t quite make it. The characters just weren’t that compelling to me - although I only made it maybe halfway through the first season, plus a few later episodes that sparked my interest in the first place.
Does it get better? Is the first season a pretty good indicator for the rest of the show? The space combat is incredible… the endless building-the-character’s-humanity, not so much.
I dont think thats a bad thing per se, the industry needs time to recharge and come up with some new novel concepts. I loved what they did with BSG, but they redid an existing franchise rather than come up with something new, same with Stargate atlantis was an extension of stargate.
Maybe JMS can come up with a new Babylon 5 franchise, its got enough story line to do a dedicated show on quite a few things.
The new startrek should generate some interest in the industry, even if it turns out to be dreck.
Declan
B5 is in a sort of pre-production limbo right now with the new Lost Tales series of DVD movies that JMS is working on. First DVD came out last spring, a sort of double-feature with one story revolving around Captain Lochley on B5 and another with President Sheridan and Galen aboard the President’s starship. JMS wants to make more movies revolving around other characters, WB wants to make more movies revolving around other characters, but everything is on hold because WB won’t give JMS the budget he wants to make the movies without doing them on the cheap.
Still, if you haven’t seen it, go get a copy of the first Lost Tales DVD and check it out. I liked it. 
When is it ever easy with JMS, lol
As for the lost tales , I will definitely check that out , thanks.
Declan
I miss BSG too, but now that Virgin Media and Sky have stopped bickering I can actually watch the new episodes at home when they come out next year - woo hoo! I really REALLY can’t wait to see what comes after the end of the mid-season finale.
JMS changed his mind on all that a while back - no more Lost Tales or further low-budget movies or series like Legend of the Rangers (except maybe a feature film if it was ever offered to him). He seems to feel that those projects, due mainly to their limited budgets, detracted from the story of Babylon 5 rather than adding to it. Can’t say as I disagree.
We live for the link, we die for the link.
And I miss Battlestar Galactica too. Season 4 was brilliant.
I heard that after the series ends, there’s going to be a miniseries about the Final Five, filling in the blanks from the time before the series started. So we will get a bit more after the show ends. I’m pretty excited about that.
Some do and some don’t. The characters of Laura Roslyn and Gaius Baltar are absolutely worth watching the show, especially Roslyn. I’m confident in saying she’s the best, most realistic and most complex character in the history of dramatic television.
And watching Edward James Olmos act is always a pleasure.
I loved the first couple of seasons, but I got increasingly frustrated as the show progressed. I don’t like mysticism mixed in with my science fiction. I’ll watch the upcoming episodes only because the show is ending.
Er, I thought it ended.
[spoiler]They found Earth. It was a dump. The End.
I never did get into the specifics of the story. I’m not into drama. I don’t like the mysticism. Feel free to spoil what I’m missing for me. I was really dissappointed with what I thought the ending was. I really wanted that Pesident to be a cylon. She was a royal bitch. Hopefully, the conclusion can bring me something more than the philisophical “It’s Earth! OMG We destroyed ourselves!” All they needed was the Statue of Liberty sticking out of the ocean and Hestons Zombie, to really cheese it up.[/spoiler]
What with the writers’ strike, the final episode that was broadcast was designed so that it could serve as series finale if things were not resolved in time to restart production. Happily, that was not necessary, and we are getting treated to what would have been the second half of Season 4 sometime in the new year.
Yeah, I can’t believe that
they 'Planet Of The Ape’d us. .
:rolleyes: Though I understand plotwise why they had to do that. Otherwise it would digress too much from the story they’ve spent the past 4 years telling, and IMO it will be all they can do to tie all that up.
I miss the show but I don’t really see where it can go from here even to tie up a few loose ends. I cannot even remotely see how any ending could satisfy me at this point.
I spoiled that for myself already, but I thought the series was already over and tied up at that stage.
As for watching from season 2 onwards, box sets ahoy, I’ll have no cable or satellite for a while. Heh, the poor sods who have to rely on bog standard broadcast TV in the UK for SF. Apart from Doctor Who, what else to they actually get?
3 months? Wikipedia says it’s just 6 weeks (January 16th).
I don’t know, as far as I’m concerned the show hit its peak with the New Caprica storyline. The writers’ strike led to a string of about six weak one-off episodes, and now they seem to have written themselves into a mystical, magical corner.
And I don’t think the series left them moping about on Earth, either. It may be Earth, but the last time we saw Earth we were presented with a familiar view of the western hemisphere so as to remove all doubt. Not so this time. I think Mr. Moore is playing tricks with our brains.
Mary McDonnell said she “wept” when she read the series finale (which, for the record, is rumored to clock in at three hours, to be aired over two nights). I think we’ve got some good BSG ahead of us still.
And here’s one way to ameliorate the missingness of new BSG: show it to people who haven’t seen it yet. I’m re-watching the first half of season four with two different groups of friends; seeing them twitch and squeal is almost as good as experiencing it again myself.
Also, I’ve deliberately delayed showing it to them so we can ramp directly up into the premiere of the second half. (But don’t tell them that. They’ve been champing at the bit for weeks, while I put them off. Heh.)