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The next season of “Battlestar Galactica,” which will air in early 2008, will officially be its last, according to exec producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore.

Just in the interest of the few people who are reading and/or helping write this site who may not have seen this this yet, I’ll go ahead and only talk about the finale after the jump. Follow at your own risk.

Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: “Crossroads, Pt. 2″ (season 3 finale)

Dick and Dirk

Today TV Week is reporting that SciFi Channel has extended the order for Battlestar Galactica’s fourth season to 22 episodes. I didn’t know until I read this writeup that the season order would include the planned movie which will be shot this summer and go straight to DVD.

The obvious worry for fans is that the extension gives SciFi the flexibility to get producers to wrap up the show with season 4. I don’t think this is confirmation that this will happen, but it is probably very likely that SciFi wanted that ace in its pocket if ratings continue to be low.

I’m still wondering how they will make good on their promise that one character will find Earth this season (this was promised in promos for the second half of the season which is on now). I definitely think Colonel Tigh’s phantom radio signal is being transmitted from Earth, and that they will figure this out and that’s how they’ll “find” earth. But who will be the Cylon?

A friend of a friend yesterday popped up on IM and with 3 words, spoiled an earth-shattering plot twist on this week’s “Battlestar Galactica.” It was Monday afternoon and I had not seen the show, which aired on Sunday at 10 p.m. It will probably go down as one of the the biggest sea changes in the show’s run, and now my head is poisoned with the foreknowledge of it.

I’m trying to put my rage to good use by opening this up to you, readers: What are your thoughts on TV spoiler ettiquette in this age of DVRs and torrents? My own rule is very generic, because I believe it depends on the TV watcher in question. Some people are a week behind on some shows, so I think in all cases it is imperative to check yourself before you wreck yourself. A simple “seen bsg?” on IM would have sufficed in this case.

What say you?

Leftover observation from last week’s Battlestar Galactica… An interesting wrinkle in the BSG world is that Tom Zarek, the leftist anti-government terrorist character played by Richard Hatch (no, not the naked Survivor one, the original Battlestar series’ Apollo one), was originally introduced as being a Sagitarron sympathizer. The nature of the Sagitarron colony’s struggle was thereafter fleshed out to make the Sagitarron colonists rabidly pro-life religious zealots in Season 2 (when a girl from that colony made her way to the Galactica to get Dr. Cottle to perform an abortion) and now last week that has been expanded to make them anti-modern medicine religious zealots.

It’s just another one of those art-mirrors-life-or-does-it? twists that the show pulls off–most heavy-handedly presented by placing the humans on New Caprica in the position of an occupied society–that makes this surely the greatest science fiction show in history.

For complete nerds: Tom Zarek represents “Chaotic Neutral.” Discuss.