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Say what you want about the Fox network’s less than stellar record when it comes to renewing shows, but it could be worse. They could be like the Sci-Fi Channel and go over an entire year without new episodes, and even then only give you a half season at a time. Anyway, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles made it’s triumphant return last night.
I was one of the many people who doubted that they could make the Terminator franchise translate into a weekly series, but once I saw it I was hooked from the start.
The cliff-hanger at the end of the first season wasn’t quite on the same level as the Jericho first season finale, or the Rag Tag Fleet finding Earth in the most recent half-season finale for BSG, but it was still good enough that I was really looking forward to new episodes, and last night didn’t disappoint.
If you didn’t see it last night, it’s posted on Hulu.
(Warning… spoilers ahead)
At Dragon*Con over the weekend Aaron Douglas dropped the bombshell that the last ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica, which are currently scheduled to air in January, might be delayed until April. Naturally that resulted in a pretty negative response from all of the geeks gathered here in Atlanta.
Today SciFi Channel stated that those rumors are in fact just rumors:
SCI FI Channel is calling “inaccurate” rumors that the second half of Battlestar Galactica’s fourth and final season will be delayed and confirmed again that the original series will return with new episodes in January 2009.
Several Web sites, including io9 and Galactica Sitrep, have posted the rumors, reportedly based on comments made by Battlestar cast member Aaron Douglas at Dragon*Con.
The reports are erroneous, the channel confirmed to SCI FI Wire. “It is still slated to return January 2009,” a spokesman for the channel said.
I don’t know what they have planned for the ending, but at Dragon*Con Edward James Olmos said that “not many of us survive” and apparently everyone who read the script for the finale was reduced to tears.
Don’t get too excited it’s essentially the same idea as Razor, but there is a Battlestar Galactica movie on the horizon:
The Cylons had a plan, but they blew it when they failed to completely exterminate the human race with their sneak attack.
That’s the gist of a just-announced two-hour Battlestar Galactica “special event,” which will air in 2009 after the series’ hotly anticipated final episodes.
The story will be set prior to the Cylon nuke attack that kicked off the re-imagined series, and will focus on Cylon Number One (aka the supercreepy Cavil, played by Dean Stockwell), resistance leader Sam Anders (Michael Trucco) and Chief Galen Tyrol (Aaron Douglas).
Those cast members have been confirmed, with more announcements due soon, according to the Sci Fi Channel press release.
Series star Edward James Olmos (who plays Adm. William Adama, pictured center) will direct the two-hour Galactica special, which will focus on the struggles of sleeper Cylons and human survivors on the Galactica and the rest of the ragtag fleet after the devastating Cylon blitz.
Galactica co-executive producer Jane Espenson will pen the script for the special, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Vancouver, British Columbia, at summer’s end. Like 2007’s Razor extended episode, the as-yet-unnamed movie-length special will be released quickly on DVD after it is aired. The final 10 Galactica episodes (some of them supersized) will air in 2009.
Well it’s about time they explained what this supposed “plan” was…
Tricia Helfer talked to Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune about Battlestar Galactica and her other projects. I was most interested in this paragraph, talking about her reaction when she first read the script for the series finale:
All our reactions to reading script [among the cast], we talked about it – some people broke down in tears, I felt like I was punched in the stomach. More so out of a mixture of feelings like, wow, that’s why this happened, but also [sadness about the end of an era] – I was sitting on a plane, and it was like, “This is the last ‘Battlestar’ script I’ll read.” So there was that mixed into it.
That’s right, she was reading the script on an airplane… do you think the person sitting next to her to advantage of the situation and somewhere someone know what happens in the finale?
