I think Moore is probably right, but they could have easily continued the Trek franchise with a series of TV movies featuring the Next Generation, Voyager and DS9 crews, and throw in a few "original" iterations as well.

Too late now, though, as everyone's old and fat.

(The actors, too, not just us fans!)

"According to Moore, the final season of BSG will tie up the majority of dangling plotlines from the show's previous three seasons"

Nice.
He doesn't even sound embarrassed that they aren't going to actually conclude the show.
-Kle.

@Klebert L. Hall: I don't understand. Why should he be embarrassed?

I mean, come on, it's simple. He's going to kill off the entire human race. How great would that be? That would certainly tie up most loose ends, wouldn't it?

Admit, it, sometimes, don't you wish you could kill off the entire human race? Or at least those members of it in front of you on your morning commute?

@All_Thumbs: That was the first thing I thought on reading this. There's only on way to prevent sequels: KILL EVERYONE IN THE SERIES OFF. And then, for good measure, kill everyone in the real world too, to prevent an 'Alien Resurrection'-type scenario.

Thankfully Moore is following basic dramatic guidelines (beginning, middle and end), rather than trying to milk this show dry. One of the many problems with the X-files was the ever-receding horizon for the Conspiracy plot.

Just a note, the Season 4 BSG premiere will be online 9 hours before it's television air time.

@All_Thumbs: I'll bet the last line of the last episode is:"This has all happened before, and will happen again."

@Gopherit: I bet you're right. I think it's going to end like the previous versions of the Matrix as explained by the Architect in Matrix Reloaded... civilization sorta reboots.

@extracrispy:

Because writing a story that has a beginning, a middle, and then just sort of trails off is a lame cop-out. It really isn't a story at all.

This is why endless book series are so terrible compared to a decent novel, and why a decent short story is even better. Obviously, it's also why so much TV is dreadful, too.
-Kle.

I'm glad Moore feels this way.

But I also don't understand the point of "Caprica" at all.

extracrispy, I agree with you. The serial is prone to the agony of forever. And so instead of ending it, the prequel is born. The BG universe is about as boring and unoriginal an sf setting as you can get. That said, I like the Cylons and hope they assimlate all the lame humans :)

@Klebert L. Hall: He hasn't written a story that "just sort of trails off." By all accounts, it's going to have a definitive ending.

But hey, it's great that you're able to judge him before you've actually, ya know, seen it.

So I guess this means my dreams of Starbuck-Apollo porn will never come true...

Also I'm of the mind that Caprica sounds more like a soap opera than a Sci-Fi worthy show. I guess I'd rather find out what happens to characters we already know and love and see the outcomes of their lives than watch Admiral Moustache grow up under the thumb of a domineering lawyer hada who is constantly at odds with their cylon builder neighbor or some equally lame shit.

The concept of Caprica doesn't appeal to me at all. To start with, there's the inherent iffiness of prequels. Also, I don't know what would be interesting about this time period. BSG is interesting and fun because it takes place in a very interesting time period (i.e. the near extermination of humanity, on the run from Cylons, searching for Earth). I'm not sure what's interesting about life back on Caprica.

This relates to why I think season 3 went off the rails. A show becomes great when it involves interesting characters within an interesting story. The first two seasons of BSG had that in spades. Season 3 kept the interesting characters, but forgot the interesting story. I could end up being surprised, but I don't see a potentially great story in Caprica.

Yeah... I sure hope Caprica isin't a snoozefest like everything else on SciFi. They got the formula right with BSG - best series in years - so, they're due to screw something up.

I'm mostly still rooting for the human race but I wouldn't mind a cylon victory. They are cool as hell. And hawt.

...And I just had a thought, about the "majority of plotlines" statement...what if they forever leave hidden the identity of the final cylon?

For the record, I'm hoping for Six on Apollo porn action myself...

@extracrispy:
Well, he says that it will only tie up "most of" the dangling plotlines. So those that aren't tied up, will sort of trail off, pretty much by definition.

"But hey, it's great that you're able to judge him before you've actually, ya know, seen it."

Being an arrogant, judgmental prick is my Superpower.
-Kle.

@All_Thumbs: Sounds like Ideon and Evangelion to me. Leave it to the Japanese to create epics that can only be resolved by total annihilation.

I find the lighting on Caprica to be too distracting. It's harsh and makes things look kinda sickly. Maybe we could wathch the President at her previous job, which had something to do with education. But seeing how she's a religious fanatic with Cylonocidal tendancies, I don't think she'd be too interesting. It would be like watching a show about the Republican party. YUK!

I'm pretty pleased about seeing Caprican culture. It's a whole other side of BSG that, by the narrative's nature, can only be revealed on the show via short flashbacks. Will we meet babyRomo or babyTighbot there I wonder?

Battlestar Galactica is by far the best sci-fi programme on tv these. I was hooked from the beginning. Being in the UK, we were lucky that Sky decided to show the miniseries and then season one on a weekly basis.
You get your fluffy scifi shows like Eureka, Stargate etc but BSG had the sense to make it more adult in tone and i thank the producers and writers for this. We scifi geeks deserve more. There aren't many thought provoking programmes on TV these days and BSG will be sorely SORELY missed. I just hope that Caprica can manage to take from BSG and bring us something fresh and new.

@apronk:
I could do with some Six on Appollo action. Granted I am positive ratings among female viewers would go up if they did an oil wrestling episode that involved getting Anders, Helo and Apollo all in the pit together. But I am sort of deranged for a girl, and really wish there was more Starbuck frakking/fighting Apollo, cos I just can't get enough of that.

BTW: Ron Moore has said that the final cylon will be revealved in the 4th season, and it is someone who's been around since day one. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Also he has said that getting to Earth will happen much sooner in the season than people think. Which leads me to believe it won't be as awesome as everyone jumping into orbit around Earth and the United States blowing the smithereens out of them without a second thought (cos you know that's how it would go down). This does open up my other thought that maybe they get to Earth and we've already destroyed ourselves, I mean, this has all happened before and will happen again right?

Isn't a BSG feature a moot point anyway since some of the producers of the old show still have the movie rights and haaaaaaaaaaaaate the new version? Isn't that why they had to do Razor the way they did, have it on DVD and then show it on TV?

Also, add me to those who don't find the idea of Caprica all that thrilling. I just don't feel the need.