How Do You Plan to Fill Your TV Time Until Battlestar Galactica Returns in April?
Battlestar Galactica is grounded for a little longer, and fans are not happy.
Last week saw more dark news for Battlestar Galactica fans as news leaked out that we will be forced to wait until April 2008 for the next season. Obviously this is much later than the January premiere date, and thus quite disappointing for many folks. It also increases the probability that we will be watching the final episode sometime in 2009. It would be frustrating, but after a summer of bad Battlestar Galactica news it just seems … typical.
While Razor is on the horizon and sure to tide folks over a little bit, that still leaves four more months till we get answers about deep questions involving the Cylon mythology and the nature of the revived Starbuck. So how do you intend to pass the time?
Will you participate in the mass rewatch party over at Galactica Watercooler, or will you fill your time with lighter scifi entertainment such as the ever improving Bionic Woman or the quip-filled Chuck?
There is a third option, significantly less fun and yet much more realistic. We could simply stew in anger over yet another delay that seems to dilute the power of an extremely powerful series. A few months ago, Stephanie over at ClosetSciFiGeek.com blogged about how the best shows seem to be the shorter shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer being the exception). Perhaps the best example of this is Joss Whedon’s Firefly, a show that lasted barely half a season but still has a legion of rabid fans. Stephanie’s point was that ending Battlestar Galactica now was a good move as it preserved the integrity of the series, keeping it from jumping the shark so to speak. But if the network seems determined to drag BSG out as long as possible without paying for more material, will Battlestar Galactica really benefit from that effort? Or will fans become so fatigued that the final episode will disappoint them, no matter what happens? They say that anticipation is part of the fun, but this is getting ridiculous.
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