Give or take a few months.
Battlestar Galactica - How It Ends
Great teaser, huh? I guess that's something you learn when you write television! Anyhow, there will be zero spoilers here, but since Aaron Douglas went public with his reaction to Ron Moore's script for the season four ender (which viewers probably won't see until sometimes in 2009), I figure it's okay to chime in and say...
It's simply... amazing. The sort of script where, when you finish, you just fall back in your chair in a daze, then call anyone in the loop and spend hours talking about how satisfying and powerful and (pick superlative of choice)... usually I would be a little mindful of raising expectations or succumbing to excessive hyperbole, but that's not going to be a problem here. Of course, I've seen what's coming up for the rest of season four, and I think it's all mighty powerful stuff (not to mention exciting, heart-breaking, "etc."), but to know it all culminates in something so remarkable... well, the bar for great television just got notched up another level. No kidding.
If that doesn't whet your appetite, nothing will... me, I'm on pins and needles waiting to see the first dailies!
-- Mark Verheiden, on Ron Moore's BATTLESTAR finale script
*dies*
11 comments:
gahhhh
Imagine Charlton Heston from the beach scene in the masterful original Planet of the Apes, but instead of a warped Statue of Liberty statue, its the Sci-Fi Channel logo:
"You maniacs, Sci-Fi Channel! You're delaying part II of Season 4 until 2009! You maniacs! You're torturing us!"
all i know is that when the finale comes around, i will be locking myself in the house ALONE.. taking the phone off the hook, and will probably cry like a little baby. gaaaahhhhh... so dying to see it and yet not wanting it to be over. :)
I can't wait for the hype to stop. Another year of fruitless hype... shudder!
man, i just hope Athena doesn't die.
@blank: "Fruitless"?
Really?
o_O
*throws 50 cent in*
I still wonder what they will do with the cylons once Earth is discovered. I mean, the cylons are on the fleet's tails and will find Earth too. And if they decide to nuke it, humanity will be really really gone. It's far into the last season, but surprisingly none of the characters has thought about it.
So probably, once Earth is discovered, the colonials will have to find a way to prevent the cylons from finding it. I can't say how exactly, but surely all the colonials will die. This way, one doesn't have to show Earth's stage of development at all and the hybrid's prophecy would fulfill itself.
Sounds like a culminating finale to me.
Aran, I have always thought it strange that they don't discuss WHY they are still heading to Earth when they know the Cylons are behind them, or why they think Earth will be safer than any other place. I figure that the original story kind of pushes the writers into that corner. However, maybe Earth won't be the climax of the story arc after all.
No one's ever said that it will be "our" Earth they find, for all we know their Earth will be a Utopia. but i do think the humans of this Earth will worship the One God.
as for the prophecy, the Hybrid told Starbuck that she would lead "them to their Doom" (I don't remember what the Hybrid from Razor said exactly but "them" doesn't necessarily mean the Colonial.
I wonder if the cast and crew now know who the twelfth Cylon is, or if that information has been kept hush-hush like the secret four and Starbuck's return were.
SPIRGINS, suit up!
We have another year of this madness.
Oy vey...
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