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Battlestar Won't Self-Destruct

Both the Cylons' plans and those of the Battlestar Galactica producers will finish as planned, despite the production hiatus caused by the writers' strike. Executives at the Sci Fi Channel are going against rumor and expectation and not shortening the fourth and final season of the show. The first half of the season airs starting April 4, and the second half will probably appear in 2009. But there could be more strike trouble ahead.

According to Chud, all of the news coming from the show's Vancouver offices is positive:

[The entire writing staff] gathered this week to rewatch the completed season four episodes to get back up to speed, and now that the strike is completely and officially over, they'll be revisiting the outlines of future episodes and break those stories. There are still some details that will need to be ironed out - actor's deals may need to be renegotiated to get them secured past when their season four contracts end, for example - but the sets in Vancouver were never struck and the behind the camera types are raring to go and finish their epic story. I've heard that the show is firing on all cylinders in the season four episodes filmed to date, and I hope that three months away has given everybody new energy and perspectives to match the first half of the season.

Now all we need to do is hope that the show gets finished extra quick, or that rumors of an actors' strike midway through the year turn out to be false. Battlestar Galactica Will Find Earth [Chud.com]

8:00 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Seth L at 08:30 AM on 02/15/08
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Wooooooo!
Plague at 08:42 AM on 02/15/08
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I heard that they were going to split the season in half- so that the end run won't occur until 2009
IHateWhatYouHaveOn at 08:45 AM on 02/15/08
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Does this mean there is a God or that there are many gods?
bluesunburn at 08:59 AM on 02/15/08
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Thank frakkin' goodness!
slmcdee at 09:06 AM on 02/15/08
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Currently in the middle of my season 3 marathon.
Epaminondas at 09:16 AM on 02/15/08
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Good News!
Seth L at 09:19 AM on 02/15/08
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@Epaminondas:

A new delivery?

Sorry, I thought it was Futurama tie shout-out.
Seth L at 09:19 AM on 02/15/08
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Random words! Just Phrases!

I need an edit button.
jaxontyler97 at 09:30 AM on 02/15/08
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I really wish they wouldn't stop at 4 seasons. To me, it just seems like the purest sci-fi series out there right now. Breaks my heart
Charlie Jane Anders at 09:34 AM on 02/15/08
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@Plague: Yes, that's right. We've reported that a bunch of times before... But the question was whether it would end at all.
Log1c at 09:35 AM on 02/15/08
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Fuck yeah!
Chris Wren at 09:41 AM on 02/15/08
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Ive heard the same things too from some local folks in production: the final season is going to be awesome. I was so worried when I saw the preview that had drunken starbuck flailing around on the floor blubbering something about going to wrong way. I was so worried it was going to be season 3 all over again. But thank the Gods Starbuck sounds like she's much more of a peripheral character this season.
Gina Trapani at 09:59 AM on 02/15/08
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Thank the gods.
Front_Towards_Enemy at 10:24 AM on 02/15/08
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Yay!!!

Hey wait ?!?!?/ 2009 ??!?!? Boooooooooo!!!
Qwyn at 11:22 AM on 02/15/08
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So say we all.
Marcus at 11:56 AM on 02/15/08
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Do they always salute with their left hands or is that just a flipped image?
deckard97 at 12:56 PM on 02/15/08
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I think the hand is superimposed.
Jeff-Minor at 01:55 PM on 02/15/08
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I hope it's done well. I've never found the writing reliable. The direction is consistent, and the look is, but not the story line. I hope there is more to this than some lame "We are a failed attempt to become human" Cylon story. The thought of a cybernetic being degrading itself by working in anything less than a perfectly controllable smart-matter body is insulting. Insulting to a lot of great sf writers than would like to see the science of the Cylons make some real social statements regarding transhuman rights issues.
burnte at 02:11 PM on 02/15/08
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@ JAXONTYLER97: Ron Moore and David Eick couldn't get SciFi to guarantee 2 more seasons, so rather than run the risk of being Farscaped (planning 5 seasons and getting axed at the end of 4), they made 4 the end so the story would be finished.

Now. Call it blind faith, but I knew S4 would be finished per contract. I kinda suspected the back half would eb pushed back to 2009 because SciFi has been suspected of that all along, and the strike gives them a great excuse to do just that, to stretch out the show.

As for a strike by the SAG, I highly doubt it. After the DGA deal and the WGA strike, Hollywood will avoid a SAG strike, because unlike when the writer's struck, they can't keep filming without actors, and there's little point to keep writing when you don't know when you'll be able to film...
Gospel X at 03:14 PM on 02/15/08
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@jaxontyler97: I think the greatest stories are those that have a finite beginning, middle, and end. To me, the fact that BSG is ending soon makes the story much more poignant. Better to end now before it has the chance to jump the shark.
oldandintheway at 02:11 PM on 02/16/08
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So , what happened to the "theatrical" movie that was planned to premiere before the "last" season of BSG
started...???
WookieCookie at 04:05 AM on 02/22/08
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I don't know of any theatrical movie. The tv movie "Razor" appeared last November on Sci Fi though.