Frakking story. Article contains mild spoilers.
Quoth the LA Times…
I was looking forward to discussing Razor here on the Dope, and gearing up for the next season as it starts in January, but this is a little crazy. April? What could the hold up possibly be?
Well, just thought I’d share. I’ll have nasty things to say later, I’m sure.
Are you going to see Razor in a movie theatre?
I am totally with you. While the series has slipped a bit in the last season (Adama and Roslyn?? Come on… ) I was looking forward to seeing the last season in a timely manner. However the Scifi execs with their Infinite Improbability Wisdom Generator ™ – the same IIWG that brought you Sci-Fi wrestling – decides not to air the highest rated sci fi series in the history of the channel AT ALL this year and 1/2 of next!
The same thing that happened to Firefly is going to happen to BG.
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I(Adama and Roslyn?? Come on… )
Oh, you could tell that was coming from the very beginning, when they were enemies. The chemistry is there and they’d be stupid not to use it. Personally, I like it. I think they’re hot together. Way more interesting than Starbuck/Apollo.
I’m excited about Razor, aggravated about waiting until April for the season. What’s this about possibly stringing out the season over 2008-2009? That would be… annoying as hell.
If ever I meet Moore again, I might have to hurt him.
A lot.
Ron Moore & co already decided that season 4 would be the last before they even started production. BSG has had a good run and it’s time for it to conclude. I think the quality will improve (or stop getting worse) now that they don’t need to keep making stand-alone episodes to attrack new viewers and can concentrate on their arc.
That would be exceptionally foolish of you.
Moore has nothing to do with BSG’s airing schedule. That’s all Sciffy’s work. In fact, Moore and quite a few of the cast have been bitterly complaining about Sciffy’s recent whacko schedule proposals – such as splitting season 4 into two half-seasons – to be aired one year apart.
From what I’ve seen, they’ve basically thrown up their hands in despair of Sciffy actually choosing an intelligent schedule that would benefit the show and fans… and have all moved on to focus on new projects.
But, please, by all means go hurt the Sci-Fi execs. A lot. They deserve it for any number of reasons, BSG not the least (by far not the least).
Personally, the too-long delay between seasons has combined with the lackluster season-3 to make me rather unexcited about BSG coming back. Yeah, I’ll watch it when it comes back on. But I haven’t been motivated one whit to watch their annoying Razor preview clips during their crappy Flash Gordon show, nor even to download them from YouTube. Now that Doctor Who isn’t airing, I don’t even watch Sci-Fi anymore – and I suspect that Sciffy’s crafty schedule plans to string along BSG fans is going to backfire for 'em with more than just me.
A crazy Fox executive is going to travel back in time, get a job at Sci-Fi and cancel BSG after 9 episodes? And he’d force them to air the miniseries last.
Come on, that makes no sense.
Makes no sense, or makes too much sense? 
Lightray, thank you for the new information.
If I ever meet anybody in a position of power at the SciFi Channel again, I will hurt them. A lot. (Unless it is the nice guy who was greenlighting Eureka. Him I’ll let go.)
It’s this kind of thinking that convinced Moore & co. to wrap it up in the fourth season. He didn’t want to be struggling to still be on the air for a fifth. Does the SciFi channel have NO budget at all?
Splitting the season makes less sense than greenlighting 2 13 episode seasons, which is waht the producers were looking for.
Actually…yes. The wife signed us up last night for a showing in NYC, so I’ll be able to catch Razor early, and then wait that much longer for season 4 to begin.
Also, just picked up my season 3 soudtrack, because it’s good. I’d do the same if the dvds were available…but they won’t be until April. Who’s fault is that?
No. The execs at sci fi are going down the same scheduling path that caused the cancellation of Firefly. Airing episodes out of order, scheduling episodes opposite programs they know to be more popular, pre-empting episodes, etc.
That alone lead to the cancellation of the series. Try not to be so snarky until you have the facts.
While, I’m sure those things have happened, BSG has a successful miniseries and three seasons under it’s belt, with a TV movie and a 4th season on the way.
On the other hand, Fox refused to show Firefly’s pilot and forced the creators to make a new one at the last minute. They also ran it on Friday nights, a very poor timeslot for a Fox show.
While BSG also originally ran on Fridays, that is a strong night for Sci-Fi’s original porgramming.
The two situations are not comparable.
Skiffy has a long frelling history of frakking around with their good shows, they did it with MST3K after they purchased that show from Comedy Central, they did it with Farscape, and now they’re doing it to Who and Battlestar
and what do they put on in it’s place, Flash Gordon, a show that’s so ineptly bad that it needs the MST3K/Rifftrax treatment to even elevate itself to “borderline watchable”, “ghost-hunting” reality shows, and frakkin’ wrestling, i mean yes, wrestling is clearly fiction, but where’s the science…
does skiffy even know or care what their fanbase is? do they even care that their frakking around with scheduling, putting on sub-B-grade “Sci-Fi original” movies (that are clearly begging to be MST’ed) and frelling wrestling is losing them viewers?
it’s the Bonnie Hammer thing all over again, once BSG is over, skiffy won’t have any shows worth watching
Me too.
And Flash Gordon is so incredibly bad, it’s painful even to watch it on super fast forward looking for the Razor flashback.
SciFi has yet to air a single first-run BSG episode out of order. Besides BSG is already ending it’s run. Most (if not all) episodes will be in the can by the time season 4 starts so there’s very little chance of it being cancelled mid-season (even SciFi isn’t that dumb).
I was pissed they cancelled Dresden Files, and pissed they seemingly replaced it with Painkiller Jane and gave it a whole season but then I got into PKJ, and now I’m pissed the canceled that too. And what do we get, Flash Gordon which makes Lexx seem high-brow.
I thought I saw an ad for BSG beginning in November. Is that some ruse to get me to watch Flash Gordon?
Actually, I thought I’d read that all of the episodes have been filmed, and there’s only production work – sfx and the like – to be completed.
But you do, indeed, have all the facts. So apparently you have the permission of dmatsch to be snarky. You must feel so honored.
[Reads article.] Oh yes, I’d forgotten about four of the Good Guys being Cylons. I may yet melt down all those DVDs I recorded and call for a landing party to crucify Moore upside down so we can pour the molten goop into his nose. Stay tuned. 