BSG Season 4 News (may contain slight spoilers)

[wraith1701]

The canadian sci-fi show Hypaspace Weekly is running a 5 part series of promos/interviews about the upcoming season of BSG.  Here are some of the first few installments -

Part 1

Part 2

[wraith1701]

More Hypaspace. 

Part 3

[Geekyfanboy]

Sackhoff Looks Beyond Battlestar

Katee Sackhoff, who plays Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that she's concerned about finding parts as challenging, formidable and powerful once the show ends after its upcoming fourth and final season.

"It's extremely difficult," Sackhoff said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York last week. "It's a definite worry. People ask me if I'm worried about being pigeonholed in science fiction, and definitely not. That's not a fear of mine at all."

Sackhoff has had a few other roles during breaks from Battlestar, notably as the murderous Sarah Corvus in NBC's Bionic Woman (created by Battlestar executive producer David Eick) and as a doomed woman in the 2007 straight-to-DVD sequel film White Noise 2: The Light.

"What I'm worried about is finding strong, fun, exciting, inspirational characters, because Kara is," Sackhoff said. "With all of her flaws and drama, she's still an extremely strong woman first and foremost. And I think that's what I'm most worried about, is if I'm ever going to find that again."

But Sackhoff doubted that she'll play Starbuck again. "I do not think that we'll be back" in a film or subsequent series, she said. "I think there's something to be said for just ending. But then again, I don't think anyone thought Sex and the City would do a movie, and we're kind of following suit with them in ending how they ended."

Battlestar Galactica will kick off its fourth season with the episode "He That Believeth in Me," which premieres April 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. --Ian Spelling

[wraith1701]

Just a quick heads-up:  The Sci-Fi channel is airing two BSG specials (I think this Friday) called Galactica: Revealed and The Galactica Phenomenon. 

You can watch both now online, as well as a humorous summary of the past 3 seasons called What The Frak Is Going On at the Sci-Fi website.

  :cylon Link- http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/index.php

[Geekyfanboy]

Battlestar's End Is In Sight

Ronald D. Moore, co-executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that knowing in advance that the show's upcoming fourth season would be its last greatly affected how the writing staff went about closing out the show.

"It informed everything," Moore said in an interview at the network's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York earlier this month. "We gathered with the writers before the season began and said, 'OK, this is the last year. We want to push to a resolution and let's talk about the end first.'"

In the fourth and final season, the crew of Galactica must contend with the sudden reappearance of Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and her revelation that she's been to Earth. Meanwhile, four people must deal with the sudden knowledge that they are Cylons.

"We talked about what the end of the series would be, and we've talked about the end of the series several times since," Moore said. "We keep refining it, changing some ideas about it, changing some of the parameters and just kind of continually finding it."

The recently ended writers' strike "stopped everything cold" after production had been completed on half of the final 20 episodes, Moore said. But it also provided an opportunity to assess the completed fourth-season episodes and take that into account as they prepared the final nine episodes, which will go into production in the coming weeks and air in 2009.

"It gave us a chance to step back and say, 'Well, some of those things that we were going to do, maybe that's not the best way to go. Let's go back and change it again. Let's re-break some of the story,'" Moore said. "It gave us all a chance to really step back, take a breath and say, 'OK, is this really the way we want to do the last 10 or not?' And we changed some of those things on the fly." Season four will premiere April 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with "He That Believeth In Me." --Ian Spelling

[wraith1701]

A friend on a BSG forum that I frequent posted a link to some serious spoilers for season 4.  I clicked on the link and started to read, but at the last minute managed to make myself close the browser.  I already know more about season 4 than I want to.   Anyway; I know that some people are spoiler junkies.  If you want to check it out, here is the link. 

WARNING!  SPOILERS!!!

http://io9.com/371076/welcome-back-starbuck-every-leak-hint-rumor-or-spoiler-there-is-to-know-about-battlestar-season-4

[Geekyfanboy]

Battlestar's Olmos OK If All Die

Edward James Olmos, who plays Adm. William Adama on SCI FI Channel's series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that it's not inconceivable that all of the characters could die by the end of the upcoming fourth and final season--and that would be OK with him.

Not that that is in any way a spoiler for the upcoming season. But Olmos said it would be fitting for a show that he called a "commentary on our times" and the "most worthwhile piece of television" he has ever done.

"Basically, if it's true to form, no one makes it," Olmos said in an interview at SCI FI's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York earlier this month.

Producers have been tight-lipped about their plans for the show's climax and denouement, though it's believed that the fourth season will take up the sudden reappearance of Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and her revelation that she's been to Earth. Meanwhile, four people must deal with the sudden knowledge that they are Cylons.

If everyone were to die? "I think that people would be shocked, and they'd be hurt, and they would be totally, totally frustrated," Olmos said. "But I've got to tell you, that's a truth that people have to realize. We may do it to ourselves [in real life]. It all depends on us now and what choices we make." Battlestar Galactica will kick off its fourth season on April 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with the episode "He That Believeth in Me." --Ian Spelling

[Darth Gaos]

I am sorry but if EVERYONE dies I will be P-I-S-T MAD.  I am not saying there needs to be a flowery "happy" ending or that I don't think some of the main characters ' luck may run out in Season 4, but EVERYONE?!?!  C'mon.  If that is the way it ends I wouldn't buy the series on DVD (I don't have any yet), I couldn't...not knowing that everybody will die, it would seem utterly pointless to me.  And while they may not care about one fans opinion, I can't imagine I would be the only who felt the same way.

To me there is a difference between "dark, gritty & realistic" and just plain dumb.  And killing everyone would be dumb.

[X]

And killing everyone would be dumb.

Or gritty and realistic. Not everyone lives and people often die for stupid reasons. It doesn't make the story any less enjoyable. In fact I think that there are many stories that would be dumb if the people survived.

Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth


I think that we get the happy ending way too often. If they all die, that will be a valid break from the norm that I would enjoy. I personally get tired of watching things knowing that certain people will be in that protective bubble of fate and that nothing will happen to them because they are the stars of a program.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Just X has a point.  I would probably be upset, but it would be a unique way to end a season.  Not everything ends like:

Happily Ever After. 

But I can see your point Darth Gaos.  It might be pointless as well.

my :2cents

King

[Darth Gaos]

Again I am not looking for a happy ending, I don't mind if characters die in the unfolding of the story but killing everyone just seems to be ......well....overkill (no pun intended).  An ending like that would seem to be for nothing more than shock value no matter how well it may be written.  To me it would be Moore and company saying "you think the first three seasons were dark...watch this." and that, again to me, would just seem trite.  There has to be many, many different ways the series could end without wiping all the characters out.  If they kill everyone I would not be able to revisit the series in the future.  Yes it was a fantastic mini-series, and one of the best shows that has been on TV in a while but why rewatch it......What's the point...they all die.

Granted this is simply hypothetical at this point and I am still gonna watch don't get me wrong but that particualr ending would rank as one of the most disappointing ever.

[Geekyfanboy]

 Battlestar Galactica Specials To Air All Week
Posted by Sam on Saturday, 29 Mar 2008
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battlestar_galactica.jpgIn case you were like most folks (even those of us in the industry) that missed the "Battlestar Galactica" special programs last night on the SCI FI Channel, we have good news for you.

The highly under-promoted two-part feature will be re-aired all this week from three different cable channel sources — The SCI FI Channel, The USA Network and Chiller Channel.

The BSG specials are titled "Revealed" and "Phenomenon" and accurately describe the contents of each. The first, "Revealed," is a look back over the last three seasons of this outstanding Peabody Award winning show with a recap of all the highlights, its important plot twists and a look at each of the individual characters and actors that make up this landmark series. The second, called "Phenomenon" interviews a variety of entertainment people from Joss Whedon, the creators of Robot Chicken including Seth Green, cast members of L.A. Law and many more, including Ronald Moore and David Eick, as they relate how much this show has not only affected them personally, but also literally changed the landscape of serial television.

So, get those DVR's ready to record, unless you plan on channel surfing until each special shows up to watch LIVE...

[Geekyfanboy]

 Cast of "Battlestar Galatica" Offers Final Season Hints
Posted by Sam on Sunday, 30 Mar 2008
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Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Assistant Editor)

With the end of a long wait for new episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" in sight and new episodes hitting the airwaves Friday, the stars of the show are out and about, promoting the series' fourth season and giving a few (key word: few) hints of what to expect from the final season.

Saturday's Los Angeles Times featured writer Geoff Boucher on the set of the series as it films one of the final episodes. Boucher said that some areas of the sets were off-limits to him in order to keep certain secrets under wraps and avoid the dreaded SPOILERS leaking out.

At one point, Boucher interviewed Edward James Olmos, who stars as Admiral William Adama. Olmos entered the session covered in fake blood and said he couldn't say how it had happened to his character or even whose blood it was.

What Olmos could say is that he and the cast and crew are confident of the final 20 episodes of the series.

"It is difficult to move on, but it is the correct time, the natural pace of the story — there's the beginning, the middle, and now it's time for the end," Olmos said. "We have hit so many notes, and now it's time to tie everything up."

"The show is a dark mirror," Olmos continued. "So, so dark. I was talking to one of the executives on the show recently and this person told me that they would never do something like this again, this kind of material. I have been doing this a long time, working in television, film, the theater, and this is the best material I've ever worked on in my life."

Star Jamie Bamber, who plays Apollo, said that the feeling on the set is a driving one, indicating the end is in sight for the show.

"In previous years, there had been sequences where you could kind of sense that we were in an eddy at the side of the stream and we were just exploring an angle of the fleet that we just had not considered yet," he said. "There's no available time for anything like that now."

The two stars went on to wonder if "Battlestar," which while winning critical praise and a legion of devoted fan has never been a huge mainstream success, came along too soon with its dark, bleak portrait.

"People who watch it say they love it," said Bamber. "People who don't watch it say they've heard great things and they should watch it. The show is a success, but not as big a hit as people think, not in the commercial sense."

"I think good science fiction is not optimistic," Bamber said. "You think of George Orwell or Aldous Huxley and H.G. Wells, and they are pretty bleak. . . . The show is also not simple. We don't have heroes because we examine everyone too closely."

" 'Blade Runner' was the mothership for all of this, several generations of science fiction films, but nothing has jumped on that world as much as this show," Olmos said.

Olmos went on to say that the cast and crew may not realize they're a part of something special.

"The people involved don't know how special it is," he said. "In 20 years, I think they will look back and realize what it was."

Meanwhile, actress Katie Sackoff, who plays Kara "Starbuck" Thrace participated in a conference call with the media Friday and discussed the show. Among the tidbits gleaned from Sackoff is that fans may have put too much stock in the publicity portrait "The Last Supper" featuring the cast. (This despite hints from Ron Moore than the pictures does have hints of things to come and revelations from season four).

Sackoff also said this season will shock fans and ruffle some feathers, though she wouldn't get into specifics. She did say the cast know the identity of the final Cylon and that it would be revealed before episode 14. Sackoff said she couldn't detail the exact episode the revelation would come though.

And she said that up through episode 14, things are still unresolved as to Starbucks' relationship with Anders. Fans will recall that Anders was revealed to be a Cylon last season.

But the good news is fans won't have to wait long for the answers. The new season begins April 4th, returning to its original Friday night slot at 10 p.m. EST on SCI FI.

[Geekyfanboy]

BSG — The Final Revelation

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)

Last night I watched an early press preview copy of episode one of season four of "Battlestar Galactica."

Because all members of the press who were fortunate enough to witness an early screening of this fabulous episode had to sign over our first born to SCI FI and Ron Moore, I'm not allowed to tell you anything about it until everyone can see it for themselves this Friday, April 4 on the SCI FI Channel. And, I wholeheartedly agree with that decision by the network because, like them, I believe everyone should be afforded the opportunity and pure joy of seeing this phenomenal episode un-spoiled for themselves. This is truly television, hell, entertainment of any kind, at its utmost best. You will never find anything before it as well written, directed and performed as this episode is.

So, with that in mind let me just say three words What the frak? Yeah, that about sums it up.

What I can actually tell you, without infringing on the good trust and faith that NBC Universal has placed in me in this:

As season four opens, the last remnant of humanity continues their search for a new home and the thin line that separates them from the rapidly evolving Cylons is being redrawn. Galactica's crew, rocked by Starbuck's sudden and mysterious return from the dead (as witnessed by that shocking season three finale) - and her claims that she's been to Earth and can lead them there - attempts to make sense of the inexplicable. Meanwhile, the four members of the fleet are still reeling from the revelation that they are Cylons, and they have been all along.

"Battlestar Galactica: "He Believeth In Me" begins this Friday, April 4 at 10/9 C.

H-O-L-Y F-R-A-K ! You will be blown away.

[billybob476]

Damn you and your insider connections Kenny!

Excitement level increased.