I confess that I never finished Battlestar Galactica, although I really should. I got a little sketched out around the middle of the fourth season when the heavy-handed religious allegories started to come into play. Still, as I'm only around eight episodes away from the end (which I hear is Mass Effect 3-level disappointing), I should very likely clamber back onto Netflix at some point and hit the end of it.
All of that has very little to do with Battlestar Galactica: Blood And Chrome, the latest prequel series to hit the SyFy network. After the peremptory cancellation of Caprica, one would be forgiven for assuming that SyFy was done with Battlestar, but it looks like another prequel series, this time starring a young William Adama during the first Cylon war, is on its way. It'll be interesting to see how they play out the tension, seeing as how so much of the new series' conflict was derived from the chameleon-like infiltration of the fleet by the humanoid Cylons. We'll see! Excited?
About time they did something with this they made it like a year going on two now.
"Still, as I'm only around eight episodes away from the end (which I hear is Mass Effect 3-level disappointing),"
I really enjoyed the ending to BSG, thought it was kinda clever, though i can see loads of people getting up in arms over it
The big hurdle these BSG prequels face is building value for a brand-new cast of characters in a heavily character drama-driven universe, at which Caprica failed magnificently. I suspect this will go the same way...
What the frak was that?!? It has to be a fan-made trailer.
The footage looks pretty awesome, and the effects seem much better than the all too consistently horrible "syfy original movie" level, but that shit was a direct rip off of the awesome Girl With the Dragon Tattoo teaser trailer. Except worse, because the titles at the end seemed like they were made in MS Paint, and that song was remixed specifically for that movie! Weird.
Other than that, Rorie, FINISH THE SHOW! If for no reason other than I'll feel okay not yelling at you about it whenever you bring it up! ;)
And just for the record, I think the ending has one big flaw structurally, but other than that it's brilliant. Most of the nay-sayers were pissed because they really just didn't understand what the show was about in the first place.
I never really understood peoples massive hate for the BSG ending, I rank it among one of my favorite series endings. While season 4 did drag early on, I thought the tail end of the season was nothing short of spectacular. The military coup episodes were some of my favorites in the series.
And I have zero interest in these prequel movies myself. What I loved about BSG wasn't the universe or back story, it was the characters themselves and there interactions with one another. Lose the characters and you lose the appeal.
YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH THE ENDING ITS NOT BAD AT ALL.
And a lot of the allegories in that show are pretty heavy handed.
The whole humans as insurgents thing was kind of a lot (season 2?). But Colonel Tigh is bad-ass, so.. forgiven?
Yeah, if you're only 8 episodes out, you should just finish the show. I get why some people disliked the ending, but emotionally I found it very satisfying. If you've got 8 episodes to go, you've at least got two of the best episodes of the show left, in The Oath and Blood on the Scales.
Looking forward to this. Setting this in the first Cylon war seems more interesting to me than what Caprica did. And I just can't stand Eric Stoltz.
@ExiledVip3r said:
This is true, that being said.. I'm a sucker for a back story.
More like the Girl With the Red Cylon Spine, am I right?
@RockinKemosabe: you win
My fiance and I absolutely loved BSG, right up until the ending. Like any long-running series, there was obviously a fair share of "bad" episodes, along with certain aspects of the plot that we could have done without, but the ride was a great one, and the ending was fantastic.
That said, while this new show actually looks like it has potential, I'm always nervous about anything that comes out of SyFy.
I thought the BSG ending was fine as well. For a primarily character-driven show they had good emotional closure for every single character. Pretty sure I teared up at some of the scenes too. That being said it still has a lot of the problems people are bitching about ME3's ending, and I'm still convinced that an ending where they simply ran out of supplies and everybody died would've fit the tone of the series a hell of a lot better.
I thought the ending was superb. I totally called that it would happen, but I thought it was great!
You could put that music to anything and it would get me excited. It looks great. And Rorie, the BSG ending isn't so bad. I really liked it. It was primarily a character driven show and all of the characters arch's were finished in a satisfying way. It's just there's a bit of a twist at the end that people didn't really care for. Me? I liked it.
@MrMazz said:
yea I thought this was silently killed. glad it's still alive!
io9 has a copy of the trailer, as the above YouTube copy was taken down by NBC: http://io9.com/5895080/totally-badass-trailer-for-battlestar-galacticas-cylon-war-prequel-blood-and-chrome
The ending of BSG is a fucking letdown.
Honestly never been a fan of Battlestar Galactica anything and quit halfway through season two with the newer one. I couldn't like a single one of the characters and overall found it to be not even close to on par with the brilliant Stargate Universe which is often compared to BSG even though the two shows are completely different in every single way.
@AuthenticM said:
I think we should get a hold of the FTC and make things right!