So you think you know everything about Galactica's Season 3? Think again as Ron Moore reveals the latest developments.
The Season 2 finale of Battlestar Galctica, entitled 'Lay Down Your Burdens- Part II,' was frakkin' fantastic. Spoilers follow; you have been warned...…
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26 - Rosie Powell
I thought that the Season 2 finale was at best . . . mediocre. Nor did I care for the second half of Season 2, which was very disappointing. It seems to me that Ron Moore is turning the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA franchise into a second-rate version of BABYLON 5. I hope that he will do better with Season 3.
27 - Paulypops
I can't help but agree with the people who have suggested that some continuity has been lost by jumping forward so far so quickly. I wish they had more of a build up to this change - rather than the previous few episodes being about unrelated story path.
I probably enjoyed the series when there was more talk of prophecy and there was a sense of the mystical about the whole thing. I hope the writers have a long term plan for where the story is heading.
Something really cool to see would be - BSG finds earth and attempts to enlist our help with their fight with the Cylons. Our own internal disagreements hinder such progress when the Cylons find earth too and attack... could be very interesting.
28 - jluglue
Comparing season 2 to season 1, i didn't like it as much. No, I didn't say I didn't like it. Just not as much. My problem wasn't the season finale, but more the fact that the crew/show lost focus - finding earth. Now this can be viewed both positively and negatively, as if you think about it, after searching for as long as they have, who wouldn't lose focus? It seems to show the truth of the matter in that regard. Maybe not the greatest material for a show, but I think it was necessary. Now with the season finale and 1 year time skip. I actually didn't find anything wrong with that. In fact I felt it was artfully done. The people below seemed to be operating like zombies, trying to scrape out a living. And if after 1 year, no major developments occurred, then that means they've been scraping and surviving for an entire year. That last half an hour artfully showed what's been happening for an entire year. Also, it shows the consequences of the crew losing focus. So maybe the loss of focus wasn't for nothing afterall. Season finale was well done in my mind. We'll see what happens in season 3. (all tingly inside with anticipation)
29 - miniv
I thought the saeson finale was good, but after a finale for a seris you like it makes you want to know whats happening after and so a lot of people just go on the internet to look for stuff they only thing that annoys me is that we have to wait so long for season 3
30 - killerapp
People. . .come on. . .
The sci-Fi genre generally produces over the top crap. This is the first si-fi mini-series I have seen that stands the smell test. Sci-fi at its best uses unusual situations to ask the simple question: "what it is to be human given this situation?" So far BSG has done a fantastic job of keeping the humanity. movies and shows of this type often use nice graphics and THX sound to make up for the fact that there is nothing of substance there (george lucas could learn a thing or two by watching BSG).
As to the end of season two, so what? They skipped a year. The show is about an escape on space craft is it not? I thought it was perfect. The characters I know and appreciate were stranded on a starship not a planet. . . If I wanted that I would watch Lost.
Its easy to be critical when you don't have to write the episodes. So far this show is the best one I've seen in this genre. Hands down.
31 - Scorpion
THE BETTER THE HORSE THE BIGGER THE CLOUD OF DUST BEHIND IT!!
Never say that BSG is cheating or that the people responsible for the making of the show are unimaginative or using shortcuts! It simply IS NOT true, and don t insult the makers of South Park, it just isn t fair to these people b ecouse all they want to do is make some money , stay at their jobs and entertain us!
Ask yourself two questions :
1. Can anything, exceptions ofcourse, move your behind from the TV while BSG is on ?
2. Would you trade a night with Catherine Zeta or Angelina, while not pregnant ofcourse, for an exclusive right to see the premier of BSG SEASON 3 tonight?
The following is just my opinion but I have been wrong on so many times I even stopped counting after the second one, that is the reason there are no three questions, :() lol
If any of your answers is no than you are not a person that should even be discusing BSG! No offense please, really please couse only a true fan can say or feel a relevant issue for the BSG. The BSG was made for these fans¨! The makers of the series will hear us and act acordingly couse they themselves are fans too. So don t be dissapointed for the "shortcut" couse it could be a secret weapon for Season 4 or a completely different show!!
Just believe that they are going where no Cylon or Hunam has gone before and asking a lot of tricky questions along the way ! hehe.
But will they provide answers ?
32 - 24Karat
Man, the finale episode of season two was absolutelly sensaaaational I think anyone who says that they liked the "first half" of season two or that it's turning into something else like Babylon 5 (4 Frak's sake) is not really much pf a BSG fan and I'd like to see them write & produce a better Sci Fi show. Kongratulationz to everyone who had anything to do with the production of BSG. Keep up the outstanding work & thanx.
33 - 24Karat
Just want to add that if they didn't leap a year further down the track in finale episode then imagine all the bullshit you'd have to have seen on "New Caprica" setting up, hunting and gathering, a relationship between Callie & Chief Tyrell (sounds like Star Trek). NO THANX!!!!!! That would be an entire season in itself. Why are people so hung up on things like that? Sounds to me like these sort of so called BSG fanz should be watching "Days Of Lives" or "Neighbours".
34 - jake-bsg-super-fan
love this show, really love it.
jake
35 - Taishanglao
The 1 year jump was Balthar's dream you guyz...don't you realise thats why the story was so lame...it was trying to be unbelieveable, different to what we know and expect...coz it wasn't a real part of the story. The dream started when Balthar rested his head on the office desk...he is dreaming about the consequences of his decisions...
Here's the clincher...in para 4 in the above article: "The humans will return to the Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus very quickly and resume their journey"
Pegasus was not blown up by the nuke...
36 - dean
10 episodes slots were better. Writers get writers block. It is hard to keep it fresh and original. THe series / ratings will drop unless they can bring aboard more writers or get new characters
37 - John
I hope they stay away from that god/religious mumbo jumbo ceylon god etc stories. It is total rubbish and just plain lazy and a filler by the writers who can't come up with any better stories. I dread watching that rubbish. Also the TV audience ratings plummet every time they screen those stories. Stick with Shakespearean stuff like crimes of passion stories like murder, greed , corruption, power, love / hate jealously human weakness like money etc emotional human stuff like losing loved ones etc. The presidential stories / humble school teacher who lusts for power and doesn't want to give it up and continuess to stay in office even if it means rigging the electoral voting system was good. The writers have got lazxy when there is plenty e to work with and they have lots of characters to work off. They can develop some of the chracters even without the ceylons involved. Even killing off an occassional lead actor would be good. I would like to see some good old scandal where the ceylons blackmail one of the lead characters. Or compromise them that could jeopadise their career. Getting someone killed in a training accident or shooting a civilian ship thinking it was a ceylon. Drinking on the job or taking drugs etc.
38 - me
I dont understand people searching for things to read about BSG and then taking the time to bag on it. This is the best show i have ever whatched. Not the best scifi, the best period. If you could do better you would. So shut up and watch , or dont. But leave us in peace.
39 - PubliusClodius
Great review, and very informative as well!
PC
40 - CC Coleman
I was overseas doing other things this last season and I want to know when it is coming out on DVD so I can catch up - I'll be gone again by the time the next season slowly rolls up and I'll be searching again for the next season when I return.
Being in the Merchant Marine and a Navy Vet you know - I can't dislike BSG. I can relete to this more than other Space Ship SCIF-EE shows. Oh, but I am a SCIF-EE fan and always have been.
Floating out on the ships like I do is boring with Drama made up as we go along. Our shoreside command is bureaucratic/moronic and once we go out to sail all that crap goes out the window.
Anyway - I have some long waits ahead and I hope the series keeps going along like the mini and first season. The second season seemed like bridge season to where ever they are going. Hope it is a good place or goes B7 at the end - that would be life for sure.
41 - Guiness
The Directing is the best part about the show. And James Olmos, of course. The last episode was a tad awkward, as many of you mentioned, because we have lost touch with our beloved characters, even after spending the last 10 episodes focussed more on character development and less on story. The appeal of the show is that the characters eveolve with the story. The last 10 episodes we good, but seemed to be a little too "space soap opera" and i actually found myself getting sick of some of the characters. I still consider James Olmos to be the "COMMANDER" and not the admiral or whatever rank they decide to give him in season 3. The title suited him better. We've only had a few episodes to get used to all the changes in rank, job descriptions and hairdoos. I have an open mind, since the creative geniuses are still behind the wheel. Its still the best show on tv and the plot is far from getting old and tired. No matter how much you whine and complain, I am certain you will be watching season 3... Chief Tyrol's season 3 beard is Frakn awesome.
42 - tery
i personaly like the jump ahead a year and loved the ending i was getting realy bored with all the fighting between the humans. witch we all know would realy happen. but at some piont u know they can not make it to were every one is just happy and say hay lets go to earth. The final ep of season 2 left every thing open to the writers they can go anywere from this piont and did not bore us all with all the fighting between humans.
43 - RP1
John- ceylon ? Eh ? Don't you mean Sri Lankan!?
44 - Pat
Like the new show ,watched the old show growing up .Jumping ahead one year ,so what because of the good writting and time spent on the stroy of each person you can imangen how and what happend to them thats good story when you can see the story on fold in your mind .And did anyone notice how long year is for them 137 days
45 - mel1tkos
I haven't seen BSG since my teens and I thought the new BSG was and hopefully still be brilliantly awsome, it was great to see the characters develope and mature as if in real time, it showed an in depth personal style of all the characters that was created. And I am certain you wouldn't shirk from season 3....
46 - Jes
Just finished watching Series 2/BSG DVD. Gripping!. Just one suggestion to Olmos: one-year jumps I can live with but lose the 'tash!
47 - cakresvari
Ok~ people who don't like the leap forward, would you really like to watch a year full of them moving down to the planet, setting up the town and no drama with no cyclons? I think it is a risk that the writers took - obviously from all the neg. comments about it - but isn't that one of the hallmarks of the show and why we like it? The risks and unconventional story telling?
48 - kim
At first I didn't know what to make of it...it took me a long while to figure out how to feel about the time jump. But then the more I thought about it, the more I enjoyed being rattled by something unusual from the writers. Plus, when you consider that they're still a long way from Earth, we may have to endure a time jump or two to get there within the next few years, depending on how long the series will last. BSG is a such a vast improvement on the usual crap that pours out of the boob tube. JMHO.
49 - tom
hate the show u r all noobs with a capital N
50 - tom
i rrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy do
51 - Daniel
Just finished watching series 2 and it was absolutely stunning,love the story so far and i am not in any way dissapointed with any part of it,all is good and i look forward to the 3rd.I must enquire however to its connection to the original series where my favourite episode was when the fleet came across 2 planets very close to each other on its path to Earth.Each planet inhabited by people and warring with each other.One finaly launches a salvo of destructive missiles at the other and the Galactica intervenes,saving the day.Will we see such a story in the new Galactica??????
52 - Viginti tres
Holy Tvgasm. That was probably the best bit of tv i have watched, Probably ever.
I can understand where people are coming from as i didn't really like the time jumps that occured between episodes but this was truely inventive television.
I just can't wait until season three comes out on Dvd because i have no way to get the sci-fi channel.
53 - space monkey
What i like about the show is what every one else likes, the fresh plot lines, the unconventional story telling and i totally dig the space combat, and what i don't like is the fact that the writers and director only have so much. Don't forget people, Buffy had to end, Friends had to end and when it gets to the point where Starbucks newest mission is a trip to the shops for a pint of milk, BSG will end too. Enjoy it while it lasts. Or don't enjoy it, and change the channel! Oh, and Tom, why are we noobs? and noobs at what? Thanks for voicing your opinion on BSG by the way, really well thought out. Let's start a fight - BSG Vs Firefly! C'mon, there has to be some money to get it back in the game, BSG has proven Sci-Fi can be a rating s winner.