GALACTICA Will End After Fourth Season

so Edward James Elmos was right when he said this about a month ago.

Thank gawd!!! The show has been a serious decline since the middle of the second season. Too bad they didn't listen to those inner voices back when they started pumping out nothing but filler or ludacris plot variations just give the show a sense of direction.

critics...there should be a law...give it abreak...if u can write better for the show..then step up u greasy excuse of a man..this show is great......

Sounds good to me. Looking forward to this last season and seeing the conclusion.

"decline since the middle of the second season?" Dude, go back to watching your American Idols and Bachelor! BSG is still one of the best shows out. It had a few weak episodes, but for the most part has kicked serious ass, especially the first few, and later half of the season. I`ll be sad to see it go, but am happy that they are ending it on their own terms instead of having Sci-fi pull the plug mid season. I hope they end it, the way it began, with a 2 hour episode.

More hype from Ron Moore!!! Watch what happens...as soon as the fourth season is up, they'll be claiming they're going to do a fifth season, and so on, and so forth.

This is all about getting the fans talking, creating a press buzz...and causing the fans to rally like the folks kicking-up a fuss over Jericho. Who's the press agent for this show...anyway, Harry "Hype Man" Knowles???

Ultimately, however, whether this is just more hype, or the truth, in terms of the show's ratings crash, the New Galactica's troubles started from day one, with the producers, cast, network and studio's shared disrespect for the original show, its creator, cast and fans. By making a point out of dissing the original program, as frequently, and as often as they possibly could, they chased away the fans of the Old Galactica and any of their spouses, children, friends and peers, etc., who these fans most certainly would have invited to watch the new show alongside of them!!! But nope, it was just too easy...to not do the right thing. No, instead, all Ron Moore and co-producer David Eik (spelling?) wanted to do, was attract new fans to their re-fit of Galactica...instead of making the smart move, and reaching out to old and new fans.

The show should have started out on New Caprica when the Cylons show-up again...and the humans are forced to flee in search of Earth, once again. Perhaps those who settled on New Caprica may have been from Galactica...and named a new battle carrier after the old Galactica. The point is, this take of the show could have actually followed the same route as Ron Moore's version, but with a small tweak in the origin plot to allow the continuity of the original Galactica to stay in place and unaffected. Thus, this would have allowed the old cast and new cast to co-exist...opening up all kinds of story possibilities and cross-overs: No doubt, it would have led to huge ratings--but no...Ron Moore just had to give the finger to the old show, its creator, and it fans, just for the hell of it...after all, he had nothing better to do!!!

The folks behind the New Galactica were not too bright in that regard...and it hit them like Pearl Harbor in the ratings. It was ego and arrogance that caused Ron Moore and his co-creators to steal ideas from the aborted Tom DeSanto and Brian Singer version of the New Galactica...as well as stealing ideas from Joss Whedon's Firefly--all of which, has led to a series of "Bad Karma" incidents for the New Galactica, which has crippled the whole program...and the entire Galactica concept!!!

You had to figure as soon as they announced the show would end the old BSG crowd would start claiming it was because Moore dissed the fans of the original series.

Of course, they were claiming the new series would flop since before the miniseries aired. Then they predicted there wouldn't be a first season. Or a second. Or a third. But BSG has been, from SciFi's standpoint, an unqualified success. Drive, Firefly--those are flops. Four seasons worth of shows? Hardly a flop.

Oh, and metalwater--before you start claiming the new Battlestar would have been a bigger hit if it had stayed faithful to the old, I'm just going to point out the new series will have lasted three seasons longer than the original by the time it's done. Seems to me it was the original series that was a flop--thus proving Moore was right to revamp the show.

The old series was cancelled due to its high budget, not its ratings. The budget of the original Galactica exceeded 1 million dollars plus, per episode, unheard of for its time, and rivaling, and or, besting the new Galactica's budget today. And, if adjusted for inflation, the budget per episode, would be at, or near, 10 million dollars, plus or minus several million dollars.

In terms of the ratings for the original series, it had tens of millions of viewers, as compared to the new Galactica's meager, and ever dwindling audience, that...at its best, had only 3.6 million viewers...then fell to 2.5 million...and is now at between 1.3 and 1.5 million in viewers. Now, that's a damn joke!!!

Sponge Bob Square Pants gets higher ratings, and half the shows on Nickelodeon (a damn kids' network), The Disney Channel has better ratings, as does WWE Wrestling...and even Entertainment Tonight!!! YouTube Clips get a higher audience than that!!! Talk about a joke!!!

The only thing that has kept the new Galactica on tv for this long is the few dimes the studio has managed to squeeze out from its ever crumbling DVD Sales of the series!!! Oh, and Firefly is killing the new Galactica in DVD sales...left, right, up, down, forward, back, and all around.

Sleeper, go back to sleep, cause you're still dreaming!!!

Considering the original was on one of the big 3 networks at a time when there were only 3 networks, comparing ratings between the two couldn't be more apples and oranges.

Besides, TV ratings are hardly an indicator of a TV show's quality. .

I never compared quality...I was talking about the producers and others associated with the new Galactica, willfully chasing away old fans, with a series of insults...and unappreciative disrespect across the board. For instance: When someone comes along and re-records another person's song, bare minimum, you at least want to pretend to have respect for the original track and its fans...even if you don't. If they, the folks behind the new Galactica had all come in to this with a positive attitude, rather than a confrontational one, they may have won over the old fans...and would be easily enjoying higher ratings and higher DVD Sales as we speak.

Look, I am just giving the facts...while others are coming-up with excuses.

The new Galactica even bombed when it was placed on NBC's main network, which should have boosted its ratings by at least 7 to 10 million viewers, or more!!! But no...they only matched, and or, got less ratings than when shown on the Sci-Fi Channel. Firefly even did better than that for the short time it was on the air at Fox!!!