OT: Battlestar Galactica Final Season

[Will]

They never meant for it to be a long drawn out series, but for one with a definite beginning, middle, and end planned out. Granted, seasons two and three had a lot of mediocre exposition in it, and the series probably would have been better if it was a three-part series plus the intro miniseries. I don't think there was anything that could have been done to extend the story any farther, though. Unless you want even more mediocre crap filling in between the character development and main plot points.

Besides, after revealing four of the final five this past season, there ain't much they can do to top that. If that ain't jumping the shark, I don't know what is.

[Azselendor]

I think it's good they are ending BSg now, because in all reality, the show's story was rushed in many aspects. Season one didn't finish wrapping up until just before Pegasus and Pegasus should've had her own story arc with galactica for season 2 and part of 3. But they rushed it and eventually destroyed pegasus in the name of the cylon set. New Caprica's rise and fall and exodus could've been handled differently and better than a meaningless iraq/vichy france allegory. And the mess that was season 3.. Let's say a lot of work was needed.

I know it wasn't meant to be a drawn out show, but I think they could've spent more time of a longer arc for different themes of the show.

However, it ending now is better for the series, because it will be revisited again and again.


As for other shows, I personally enjoy Heroes. It's got a wide variety of characters and stories. I also like Kring's plan for the series which is basically that every season will showcase a different cast of characters with a different plot. Naturally, the fan favorites will show up. Characters like sylar, hiro, and such but the show will be different each season. unlike 24 which has played the same song for 6 seasons.

Space Above and Beyond. Yawn. Why do we need to fight space Nazis again and again and again. I thought WW2 was over.

Firefly was a great show. It and a few others brought scifi TV into it's current incarnation and while few will give it that credit, I think history will smile upon it in 10 years and give it a great restart.

I could never get into Lost. plus the show lost all credibility when they started introducing people on the island who were there the whole time. The show went Gillian after that point for me.

Now 4400, Lost, Surface, Threshold, Invasion, etc. I couldn't stand any of them for too long. Threshold I refused to watch simply because that pervert Brannon Braga created it (as far as I'm concerned - he killed trek). The rest came off as trying to pull the x-files effect.

Doctor Who, I grew up watching it in reruns and thought it was the most retarded thing I ever saw, but it was a fun romp. The new series with chris eccelson (misspelled) was a lot of fun and the doctor after him is okay, but the series is still fun. I look forward to their spinoff Torchwood.

[Tim_Ward]

I can catagorically state that Torchwood is awful.

[Ragnarok-X]

You guys really should consider Lost. In my opinion its pretty much the best series i have seen, apart from Babylon 5. The "Others" being there the entire time makes sense, if you watch further that is.

[AngleWyrm]

When Lost first came on, I watched it for maybe a season and a half. I lost interest for the same reason that my desire to watch Battlestar Galactica waned: Lack of melody.

Each episode introduced a new sine wave to the overall hum of the plot, a new instrument playing, a new ball tossed into the air. But these many braids did not weave together a beautiful and coherent tapestry; what should have become a grand orchestra became a cacephony of introductions, each coming on stage, and then fading into the din of possibilities for later.

So I listened to the flute one minute, then the violin, then the electric guitar, but as each took the stage the rest stopped playing. And the hope that they would present together a beautiful melody was lost to the ravages of time.

[Yimboli]

Smells like flowers.

[Atrocities]

I like LOST. I find it interesting in a MYTH kind of way.

[Mudshark]

i found space and beyond to be very interesting the first half of the season. "They" wiped out a colony. Well who are they? what do They know? Who even are they? How do we match up? I thought that was half way realistic if we ever meet others in space, reminds me of the 1st time I played SEIV

[Atrocities]

The thing that hurt EOaB was their budget. They had the acting skills, the stories were weak but again that was do to budge constraints.

The series that I would have liked to have seen a full five years of was Crusaders.