Is it just me- or does Galactica's third season BLOW?

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PARTICIPANT

Monday, March 31, 2008 6:10 PM

The Moist boys are on it

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10. Actors are not happy

"Michael Hogan is still in denial [about Tigh]. He will not admit he's a Cylon. And as he's an actor, he's really pissed off." – Katee Mancow – 7/29/07, San Diego Comic Con eonline

9. Actors are still not happy

The actors playing Tigh, Chief Tylenol and the other newly revealed Cylons were pissed off, because they had spent so much time building up those characters, Mancow says. "You play for years making choices as a character and then feel those choices would have been different if you'd known." Tigh actor Michael Hogan still hasn't come to terms with the revelation, she said. 3/28/08 io9

8. The ending is "messy"

Some of the show's revelations late in the season will "ruffle some feathers." The show won't have a neat and happy ending, tied up with a bow. Instead, the show, and Starbuck, will have a messy ending, says Mancow. 3/28/08 io9

7. Everyone dies?

"Everybody's dying in season four, and I wouldn't be surprised if the ship was blown apart." - Edward James Olmos 3/24/08 io9

6. Another "shocking twist" looms

"Basically, if it’s true to form, no one makes it….I think that people would be shocked, and they'd be hurt, and they would be totally, totally frustrated," Edward James Olmos 3/28/08 scifiwire

5. Moore didn't have a plan

[Jamie] Bamber mentions in the above clip that even Ron Moore and the other writers had no clue what was going on with Starbuck coming back from the dead, until they started working on season four. – 3/24/08 io9

4. Moore still doesn't have a plan

Mancow says she's "no closer to having any questions answered from last season than I was." She's read the script for episode 15, and there's no resolution to how Starbuck came back from the dead, and what her trip to Earth meant. 3/28/08 io9

3. Moore is changing the non-plan

"[The writers' strike] gave us a chance to step back and say, 'Well, some of those things that we were going to do, maybe that's not the best way to go. Let's go back and change it again. Let's re-break some of the story. It gave us all a chance to really step back, take a breath and say, 'OK, is this really the way we want to do the last 10 or not?' And we changed some of those things on the fly." – Ron Moore 3/27/08 scifiwire

2. Moore's record of scorning fans

“All I know is that everything better track when all is finally revealed, because there’s nothing like a sci-fi fan scorned!” – Aaron Douglas 3/24/08, TV Guide (page 33)

And the Number 1 Reason Season 4 Is Going To Suck

Season 3
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MAL4PREZ

Monday, March 31, 2008 6:41 PM

You might want to put spoiler tags on your post participant. Lots of folks haven't watched Season 3 yet!

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Monday, March 31, 2008 6:45 PM

WARNING: SPOILERS (though the quoted post didn't bother, so if you read this, it's likely too late.

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Originally posted by participant:
The Moist boys are on it

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10. Actors are not happy

"Michael Hogan is still in denial [about Tigh]. He will not admit he's a Cylon. And as he's an actor, he's really pissed off." – Katee Mancow – 7/29/07, San Diego Comic Con eonline

9. Actors are still not happy

The actors playing Tigh, Chief Tylenol and the other newly revealed Cylons were pissed off, because they had spent so much time building up those characters, Mancow says. "You play for years making choices as a character and then feel those choices would have been different if you'd known." Tigh actor Michael Hogan still hasn't come to terms with the revelation, she said. 3/28/08 io9

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Given that the characters didn't know, it seems like a silly complaint. Letting the actors shape the characters in such a way would be counter to the point.

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8. The ending is "messy"

Some of the show's revelations late in the season will "ruffle some feathers." The show won't have a neat and happy ending, tied up with a bow. Instead, the show, and Starbuck, will have a messy ending, says Mancow. 3/28/08 io9

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Good. I don't want everything tied in a neat little bow. It's been a dark, uncompromising story about genocide. Why should it wrap up with smiles?

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7. Everyone dies?

"Everybody's dying in season four, and I wouldn't be surprised if the ship was blown apart." - Edward James Olmos 3/24/08 io9

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They're ending the story. Makes total sense to me that they'd end up with high casualties, including the ship.

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6. Another "shocking twist" looms

"Basically, if it’s true to form, no one makes it….I think that people would be shocked, and they'd be hurt, and they would be totally, totally frustrated," Edward James Olmos 3/28/08 scifiwire

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Twists are good. Also note that he's just making a guess.

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5. Moore didn't have a plan

[Jamie] Bamber mentions in the above clip that even Ron Moore and the other writers had no clue what was going on with Starbuck coming back from the dead, until they started working on season four. – 3/24/08 io9

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Hmm, not according to Moore. I'll take his word over Bamber's.

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4. Moore still doesn't have a plan

Mancow says she's "no closer to having any questions answered from last season than I was." She's read the script for episode 15, and there's no resolution to how Starbuck came back from the dead, and what her trip to Earth meant. 3/28/08 io9

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Just because she doesn't know the plan, doesn't mean there isn't one. And since episode 15 isn't the end of the show, there's still time to address that story point.

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3. Moore is changing the non-plan

"[The writers' strike] gave us a chance to step back and say, 'Well, some of those things that we were going to do, maybe that's not the best way to go. Let's go back and change it again. Let's re-break some of the story. It gave us all a chance to really step back, take a breath and say, 'OK, is this really the way we want to do the last 10 or not?' And we changed some of those things on the fly." – Ron Moore 3/27/08 scifiwire

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Stories evolve. Every long-running show, even those with a tight plan, changed mid-stream. He had more time to think things over, and apparently came up with new ideas he liked. Should he ignore those ideas, so to comfort nay-sayers, at the cost of a better story?

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2. Moore's record of scorning fans

“All I know is that everything better track when all is finally revealed, because there’s nothing like a sci-fi fan scorned!” – Aaron Douglas 3/24/08, TV Guide (page 33)

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Uh, Moore has a track record of reaching out to, and communicating with fans, more than almost any other showrunner. A TV guide reporter warning against a fan backlash is not a "track record for scorn"...

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And the Number 1 Reason Season 4 Is Going To Suck

Season 3

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