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Season 4 (2008-09)

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Summary

TBA

Story

Notes

  • Moore indicates that this season begins the "third act in the three-act structure where we're all moving towards the finale and the climax of all these different plot lines. In my head there's two chapters to go in the story and those can be of varying lengths."[2]
  • On Friday, June 1st 2007 the SciFi Channel issued a statement saying that Season 4 is going to be the final season. Ending the series with the upcoming 22-episode fourth season was a creative decision made by the show's executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. SciFi executive VP of original programming Mark Stern said the channel's brass "respect the producers' decision to end the series."[3]
  • The extended episode is currently being referred to as "Razor" by both the Sci Fi Channel and the executive producers.[3]

Cast

Stars

Co-stars

Production Crew

Producers

Directors & Writing Staff

To view the list of all the directors and staff, go to the Battlestar Galactica Crew Guide page.

Episodes

To view the list of episodes, go to the Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide page.

Official Statements

It will be a serialized show to an extent. I think what we talked about with the network — because their concern is the drop-off in viewers and giving too many hurdles for new viewers to overcome to watch the show — we're always going to try to provide at least an episodic quality to each show. Even though there are plotlines that are ongoing over the course of the whole season, we'll try to give you something in each episode that you can hold on to that starts and stops within that episode.[4]
  • Moore discusses the Final Five:
Well, you can see from the end of the third season that they all sort of are still the same people. They're still the same characters. They didn't switch over and become robots suddenly. So essentially you're going to see an extension of that initial moment where they try to figure out what does this mean to them. If they're Cylons, when did that begin? What are their true backstories and what are they meant to do? What are they supposed to do? Are they dangerous to each other? Are they dangerous to the ship? Do they trust any of the people around them? Should they keep the secret only among themselves? That's essentially where their storylines are going to pick up.[5]
  • Moore discusses ending the series:
Yeah, I mean, the burden [in breaking 20 episodes for this season] then became okay, now we have a great deal to wrap up and bring resolution to and we wanted to pay off a lot of things and we wanted to tie up a lot of loose threads. It felt like we had more than enough to get to where we were going to, whereas usually when you're facing the 20 episode order, it's like, "Okay, whew, we need 20 of these? Where are we going to get 20 of these?" You have to start breaking it down into smaller, bite sized chunks and move yourself along. This time, it was almost like, "Okay, let's make sure we've got enough time to get everywhere we need to go."[5]

References

  1. Hibberd, James (26 March 2007). Q&A with "Battlestar" Showrunner Ron Moore: On the Return of Starbuck, Falling Ratings and 'Caprica' Prequel (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 08 April 2007.
  2. Jacks, Brian (6 April 2007). MTV Movie News: 'Battlestar Galactica' Producer Talks Movie(s?), Possible Conclusion (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 8 April 2007.
  3. 3.0 3.1 SciFi Wire: Battlestar Ending Next Season (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 1 June 2007.
  4. Four-ward, Cylons: RONALD D MOORE (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 31 May 2007.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Topel, Fred (13 June 2007). Battlestar Galactica: Ronald Moore talks about Earth (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 15 June 2007.

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