I’d like to begin by noting: This is yet another case of a show long overdue for an EW TV Watch. Agreed? Please check a box below.
[ ] Yes!
[ ] Cylon
Those are your choices: Yes and Cylon. Don’t be a Cylon, people.
And now, on to the scoop. Battlestar producer David Eick gives up a few choice tidbits in this interview. He walks a fine line and walks it well, giving away nothing in the way of true spoilerage and getting fans even more excited about the upcoming season (if such a thing is possible).
Highlights:
1. There’ll be no redactica on this Galactica: The shocking "one year later" coda in the finale was not Baltar’s dream/nightmare, as some have speculated. It’s the real deal: Humanity is trapped on New Caprica under "benevolent" Cylon occupation. Sounds like current events will continue to rule the writer’s roost over at Club Moore ‘n’ Eick. At any rate, it seems clear the producers are setting up a situation where humanity play the role of "the insurgents" and the Cylons will be the Coalition Provisional Authority. Last season, they were the terrorists, we were the establishment. Now, in typically devilish BSG fashion, the tables are turned.
2. Apollo’s gonna pork up. Rather, he was already porked up at the end of the finale, and now that fighting’s recommenced, he’s gonna have to carry that weight. So, on the American allegory index, we can cross off the following issues deftly handled by this "space-show": war, terror, abortion, racism and now… obesity.
3. A major character’s going to bite it pretty much off the bat. This being BSG, we shouldn’t be shocked. But I’m sure we will be anyway. Death (with the exception of Billy, whose end played like a weird, tangential burn-off) feels very real on this show.
4. We’ll go inside a BaseStar and get the Cylon perspective — very not-human, yet, I’m guessing, weirdly sympathetic at the same time.
5. Invaders from the lost colony "Cheney" will advise a hard line and rampant face-shooting, while a particularly troublesome Cylon named I-ran becomes popular by denying both the human holocaust and the right of New Caprica to exist. (Okay, the writers haven’t gotten that literal yet, thank the Lords of Kobol.)
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yes please a tv watch can’t believe we have to wait til october..
YES! Yes, yes and more yes!
Was Apollo really plumping up like a Ball Park Frank? I don’t remember that. I do remember Starbuck and Anderson resembling poor white trash. Oh those writers!
Dear Lord yes!!! A ‘Battlestar’ TV Watch would be the mad notes! And while you’re at it, where are my TV Watches for ‘The Shield’ and ‘Rescue Me?’ FX needs some love, too, since it is quickly overtaking HBO as the channel with the most consistently amazing original programming.
So Apollo’s pot belly, Adama’s mustache, Starbuck’s husband and Baltar’s presidency are here to stay? Only a great show like BSG could pull off so many changes and still leave you counting the days until it returns.
So yes, I vote YES for a TV watch! Because I am not a Cylon! …or am I?
I vote yes for a TVWatch!
I went to a BSG panel at the Museum of Television and Radio tonight. It was pretty interesting. They screened this past season’s finale, and showed a teaser trailer for the upcoming season. It looked pretty awesome.
Absolutely, yes!! BG is the best show on television. I’m counting the days until October! Does anyone know if there are plans to release the second half of season two on DVD before season three begins?
I worry about it getting a TV Watch- don’t get me wrong I love TV Watch and I love BSG but… When Desperate Housewives got a TVWatch it started to suck and lets admit it Grey’s hasn’t been as stellar this season thanks to Meredith and it recently got a TV Watch. So lets hold off on that thought.
At the season’s end some couldn’t resist trying to make themselves look cool by using the “jumped the shark” phrase. [A phrase that has long jumped the shark itself]
What other show are they going to watch that matches BSG? Lol. They are going to watch again, I am sure.. and complain some more as if they were a real fan who was “just now turned off” of some new BSG development.
Those of us who LOVE this show will continue to do so.
BG Season 3 Secrets Revealed
Link: ‘Battlestar Galactica’: Secrets of season 3! | Popwatch | Blog: Entertainment Weekly I haven’t enjoyed Battlestar Galactica, other than for good solid humor. Yes, I am out of touch, don’t get it or whatever, but I just haven’t liked
Please make the writers change their minds Make is Baltar’s dream.
ACK! I missed the second season due to being out of the country…but I was absolutely GLUED to the series for the first season…I am very glad to see that it is only getting better and gaining more of an audience. If the people that turn their noses up at just the name “Battlestar Galactica” would open their minds, they would see that it is easily on par with any drama currently on TV…KEEP UP THE KILLER WORK BSG!
Take away Glen A Larson, and you got nothing but sci-fi rubbish that just uses the same name. The old series was one of my favorite shows. The new series has none of the feel or look of the original show.
Thank God!
BSG is great TV, It’s a must see show, and if you want to compare it to the original, your wasting time. This series is deep, intellectual, and unpredictable. The season final was intense, better tivo it to appreciate it more.
Best SciFi since Babylon 5. Glad to see some people in Hollywood can write intelligently. Maybe talk to J. Michael Strazynski for guidance to keep it fresh, also maybe a Chat with multi Hugo award for novels winner Vernor Vinge. He has some very interesting ideas as to maybe how a devestated civilization would act.
Season 1 was some of the best TV available; almost deserving of the “must see TV” adage.
Season 2 was the equivalent of a so-so sequel. It’s hard to blame the actors but there’s no doubt the writing has gone downhill . . . FAST!
Love me some Jamie Bamber!!!
This show absolutely deserves, no…demands! a TV watch column!
What an abomination! Starbuck as a chick was enough for me to never take this joke of a show seriously. Good writing??? Please…looks like we have the Buffy Crowd here.
Typical hokey Sci Fi channel junk. They couldn’t possibly have ruined it more.
“The new series has none of the feel or look of the original show.”
THANK GODS.
If you want the old Battlestar, get the friggin’ series on DVD. Only grown-ups need apply to this far more intelligent and vastly superior vision.
We NEED a TV Watch for BSG!
SO SAY WE ALL.
BSG: TOS fans need to get OVER IT already. This incarnation has lasted longer than that “hokey” crap with the same name that many TOS fans claim is so great, and is a better show to boot.
Anyway, yes, BSG should get a TV Watch column. I think it’s great that a Sci-Fi show has more relevance than most shows on network tv. I can’t wait for the webisodes to begin in July so that we can have a little taste of what’s to come this October.
Yes. Yes. Yes. BSG is way more deserving of its own TV watch than say, Desperate Housewives.
Frak, yeah! I, too, vote for a BSG talkback!
Best … show … ever … Can’t wait for the TV Watch!
I hope Season 3 is all kick azz like 2.0 and not all half azzed like season 2.5. There was a signifant drop in the quality of storytelling (how many flashback eps in season 2.5? Three of them?). This is still my favorite show, but I’m fiending the magic of the earlier stories. And I am with Popwatch on the death of my namesake KeyKaya. Not only was his death poorly done, but having his girlfriend dump him for Apollo after no reason for their involvement (oh yeah, the ONE wrestling scene they had together), it was in poor taste. My money’s on Whiney Apollo getting the axe early on, as HELO is now clearly in the role of “Starbuck’s best friend”. Any takers?
The only problem I have with BSG is that it’s on Friday and I don’t have a recorder/tivo so it means staying in on Friday or rushing home for the 1am show.
BUT! Always worth it and I would love a TV Watch!
What’s with all the death on TV nowadays? Can’t watch shows like Lost or DH without some character kicking the bucket every couple of episodes. What used to be shocking now just feels like lazy writing. I’m afraid BSG is jumping on the who-dies-next bandwagon just to show it belongs with the big boys, but for now I’ll keep my faith in the excellent writing team. Can’t wait for season 3.
Its hard to say that BSG is going down the road of killing off major characters. I mean, it is a survival story and a war story, so casualties are just a fact of life for our favorite fleet.
Personally, I haven’t been this excited for a season premiere in a long time. Having picked up the show off DVD more than a month ago and getting the rest of the eps off iTunes, this BSG is about as far from typical drama shows as can be. As such, I’m really hopeful that it will get some recognition from the ATAS for best Drama (fingers crossed!)
It’s been awhile since a quality Sci-Fi series reared it’s head. although Sci-Fi shows like “LEXX” and the “Earth2″ series starved itself out while trying to survive, BSG writers seem to have the stamina to write a solid storyline that keeps us rivited to our couch eating ourselves to a freny without blinking.
Although I really wonder how in the frak the crew is going to get out of this mess, and off this planet, I have faith that the writers will pull an ace out of their sleeve and make an Intense, bold episode that will send this merry crew back on their journey to earth.