OT: Battlestar Galactica Final Season

[mac5732]

they needed more space warfare. The old series had continuous fighting against the cylons. This one sort of turned into a soap opera. Space battles make the show. Not who dunnit, who is it and so on. IMHO,, they could have had more space battles that would have helped the ratings.. oh well, who ever said the producers were fan smart...

[Randallw]

mac5732 said:
The old series had continuous fighting against the cylons.

More like the same fight, I imagine. I haven't seen the Original series for decades, but I remember there was a bit of overuse of the old stock footage. They only had so many ways of having a raider fly onto screen and shoot, by which I mean one. Always seemed to be the same PD battery too.

I'll admit I mostly like battlescenes and am not that interested in Drama. I like DS9 for the war and it was quite annoying when the final battle was mostly just old footage edited together. I expected they'd at least make an effort to get some new space fighting.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Apparently, space battles are very costly. Even movie ones.

[Randallw]

I've heard that. Some programs that do well apparently get shut down because the beancounters believe the ratings aren't worth the cost of an epsiode. Wasn't that the problem with Firefly? Despite Joss Whedon being my cousin, sort of (didn't you ever wonder what the W stood for ),I only looked at one epsiode, which I liked because it had a giant Alliance battleship in it.

[mac5732]

Firefly was a great series while it lasted, It seems that the powers that be just can't stand it when a good Sci Fi show becomes popular.. They always ax it..there are a few exceptions to that rule.. but it appears they just don't like good sci fi series. If you do a space sci fi series, common sense tells you it has to have space battles or some type of action just like good old fashion shoot em up westerns. With computer Tech today, it should be a lot easier then it was many years ago.. it also seems that as a sci fi series becomes popular, they go and change writers, producers, directors or whatever and that usually is the downfall... oh well....

[Azselendor]

It started on Fox, I can only surmise the reason why it was canceled was because it wasn't raunchy enough

As for the technology in production, from everything I've seen, production costs have gone up because of computers. Yes, it means faster turn around meaning shorter shooting schedules (always good), but you're paying a company to produce CGI artwork at top dollar.

This is why most CGI shops in holly fold right after their show/movie they worked on is killed. They over charge. Foundation imagining, for example, died with the cancellation of Enterprise. Square Pictures folded after their disastrous Final Fantasy: The spirits within movie (they spent 200million on the film, and then made the studio only a tenth of that back leading to the near bankruptcy of Squaresoft).

on the flip side, ILM is almost all cgi work these days, but they are good at what they do so they stay in business.

[R.Daneel]

I'm very near to hate any sci-fi channel...
one by one every sci-fi serie are cut-off and close

I hope at last that the 4° season is very well made...

[Azselendor]

To quote ron moore about the final season "...I don't care, I have my 4th season pickup!"

I think I'll watch something else and get the DVD.

[Randallw]

AICN has a Razor mini-episode.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34577

Not that I mean to ruin it for anyone but it includes the Centurion between the original series and the new one. I took some screencaps I meant to upload to the BSG wiki but it seems you have to sign up to edit and I can't be bothered.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...razorcent1.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...razorcent2.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...razorcent3.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...Razorcent4.jpg

The pictures themselves tell a bit of the story so they're the best I can get that aren't fuzzy, or in the end smashed up.