BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Finale To Air In 2009?

[Shadowman99]

From Ain't it cool news:

WARNING:: Spoilers follow. I think they're mild spoilers, but you may disagree:

UPDATED!! What The Frak?? BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Finale To Air In 2009??!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.


If “Jedi X” heard right, we’re still more than a year and a half away from learning what happens when the colonial fleet reaches Earth.

And we’re to brace ourselves for another physical transformation of Lee Adama:

Hi Herc,
Not sure if anyone has checked in from Atlanta yet, but I attended the Battlestar Galactica Q&A session this morning at DragonCon. Jamie Bamber (Apollo), Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol) and Richard Hatch (original Apollo, Tom Zarek) asnwered questions for an hour. They were very funny and we did learn a few things...

The writers sequestered themselves in Utah to finish the series and even the three actors do not know how it ends.

Douglas was originally upset to learn his character was a cylon, but a 90-minute phone conversation with Ron Moore changed his mind.

Kara Thrace is definitely alive and back on the show.

[We also hear Bill Adama throws her hinder in stir, believing her to be a Cylon.]

Lee will be doing more "civilian" things, confirmed by Bamber's longer hair and beard.

Chief opens the season dealing (badly) with the news that he is a cylon. Douglas said that his hair (which is quite short) actually is growing back from early shooting of episodes for next season.

And some bad news: There are 20 episodes in the final season and the plan now from Sci-Fi is to show 10 of them in Feb. of 2008 and then wait until Feb. of 2009 to show the final 10! Needless to say, the large crowd at the panel was not pleased considering the 18-month gap we are already enduring.

[Actually, the last episode of season three arrived on SciFi March 25 of this year.]

The actors actually ripped sci-fi, with Bamber saying that the channel is not used to producing high quality material and now that it has a hit, it doesn't know what to do with it.

Douglas also mentioned that once BSG is done, he plans to move on and not do many appearances, so DragonCon could be one of his final con visits.

Thanks, Herc. If you use this, please call me Jedi X...

UPDATE!! "Jedi X" wrote in Sunday morning with this:

Hey Herc,

"Jedi X" checking back in about the BSG panel from DragonCon.

I know some of the message boards are saying that the actors were joking about the final season being split between 08 and 09, but here is why some people might think that...

Douglas, Bamber and Hatch were talking about the current gap in the show and one of them said that the plan was to split the final season between 2008 and 2009, a lot of people laughed and thought it was a joke and that they were ripping sci-fi. But then Bamber said "no, really. That's the plan right now." and then the audience groaned. So he may have been adding to the "joke" but that was not the impression I got. He even went on to say that that is how Sci-Fi essentially gets two final seasons for the cost of one.

[mcmiller]

By the time the finale airs, they're essentially going to lose most of their established audience in a misguided attempt to stretch out the program's ratings. Ugh

[hal]

Same thing happened with the last season of The Sopranos.

[al3d]

why is this suprising?..that show is run my morons

[Dr-Timelord]

Splitting the season up and putting 12months between them, could be one of the worst descions yet.

I think Sci-Fi is just a little sore, that this fourth series of BSG is the final season and don't quite want to let go of it just yet

[gonk droid]

you'd think they were building Rome. just get the damned things on the air and get it over with.

[JeffrySG]

boy I really hope this is not the case... how much more can they frack this thing up... this 18mo. wait is way too long as it is... they'll be no more fans left to watch the last 10 ep. if this is really true...

[JeffrySG]

Originally Posted by al3d

why is this suprising?..that show is run my morons

I didn't want to... but I'm really beginning to believe you!

[Shadowman99]

My opinions

1) I hope the poster "Jedi X" is wrong

2) I hope Sci-Fi Channel clears all of this up this week in the face of a fan outcry.

3) If it turns out to be true it will be a case of deja-vu to anyone who loved Farscape. Sci-Fi did everything they could to hide new episodes that show from it's viewers. They couldn't have high ratings for the last episodes undermine the credibility of the decision to cancel.

[JDR]

There's a big danger now, of course, that if the first block of 10 episodes is a ratings failure, they'll cancel the second block and we'll be left with a show with no concrete ending.