‘Battlestar Galactica’ Books Its Final Trip
The Sci-Fi network announced the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica will begin on Friday, April 4th at 10 PM Eastern and Pacific, preceded, as usual, by a couple of half hour specials to remind viewers of what’s been going on.
Oddly enough, these specials will feature the likes of Robot Chicken‘s Seth Green and The Soup’s Joel McHale.
This new incarnation of Galactica, which rose phoenix-like out of the cold and deservedly piss-on ashes of the Lorne Greene series affectionately known to Baby Boomers as Battlestar Ponderosa, has won all kinds of awards, including an Emmy and a Peabody. Earlier this winter, Razor, an all-new direct-to-DVD Battlestar movie, hit the shelves. It was a rare thing: a continuity implant that actually worked.
No word on if the Galacticans actually discover Earth and, if so, if they’ll be treated as illegal immigrants.
I take offence. I love the new BSG, and STILL love the original as well. There's lots to criticize in the original, but the concepts, characters and overall themes stand the test of time. And if you take out the hasty filler episodes that were written to make it a series (rather than series of tele-films as it was to have been) this show is still great today. WHy can't we love both? I hate that there is little media tolerance for those of us who refuse to chose between them. They are not the same. Apples and oranges. And apart from a few names and lingo, they should be judged more apart than side by side.
Hey, it could be worse. I just received Battlestar 1980 on DVD! Can't wait to tear in to that!
There are a couple decnet BSG 1980 episodes – "The Night the Cylons Landed" (featuring WOlfman Jack as Henry VIII) is fun.
There's still supposed to be that "Caprica" prequel series in development.