This morning, I read this article detailing how there is a possibility of three new Battlestar Galactica TV movies going into production soon. BSG is easily one of my all time favorite TV shows so this is great news right? I mean, with the final season of the show currently airing, more BSG is a good thing right? Well yes it is, until you read this little snippet:
"By the way, at this point, it’s not known when those last 10 episodes of "Battlestar" will air. Informed sources say that a decision on that won’t get made until mid-summer, so my guess is that Sci Fi won’t air the final 10 episodes until 2009."
2009.
TWO THOUSAND NINE.
Being a fan of Battlestar Galactica is not easy. Patience is something we all must have to make it from each season to the next. But this is really too much for me to process. You see, BSG is not created like a standard network show. First off, their season is 20 episodes long. Pretty standard actually. Most shows have a yearly production schedule of 20 - 25 hours per year. But what BSG does is air ten weekly episodes consecutively and have a break of a few weeks or (more likely) months between episodes 10 & 11. That is where the pain of being a fan comes...the excruciating wait.
Season Three ended on March 25, 2007. Season Four BEGAN on April 4, 2008. That is over ONE YEAR to wait for new episodes. One freaking year. As I write this, episode seven of the fourth season has aired. So we are now three weeks from another break. A break that could last seven months until 2009. So in a span of possibly 19 months, nearly 2 full years, we will have only gotten 10 new episodes. WTF is Sci-Fi Channel doing to us?
Does this show really take that long to produce? It takes seven months to create ten 43-minute episodes? Many other shows end up with 25 episodes in nine months. They've already announced that season 4 is the FINAL season. All the stories are coming to a close. For MONTHS, they have been hyping up this final season of BSG only to have it air over 2 months with a 7 month wait for the real payoff?! What is the hold up? Why drag this on for so long? I think The Sci-Fi Channel is milking this show and its small but loyal audience for all they can. So they can sell half-season on DVD for full price before the second half airs.
As a fan, I feel like I'm being dragged through the mud. What's the point of watching the next three episodes? Should I even bother? I'm just going to get a huge cliffhanger with a long break before any answers. Maybe I should just cut the cord now and catch up in 2009.
Just finish up the new episodes and air them already. We've waited long enough. Ugh...this makes me sick. Please Sci-Fi, put BSG Season 4.5 on the FALL schedule. I beg you.
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