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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2004) – SEASON 3, Movie Trailer
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Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in DVD
- Brand: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2004) – SEASON 3 (DVD Movie)
- Released on: 2008-03-18
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
- Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, Spanish
- Number of discs: 6
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Running time: 953 minutes
Customer Reviews
The dark side of the moon
Consistently the best thing about the ongoing BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series has been in its intellectual ambitions. While its predecssor and namesake, the Glen Larson series from the late 1970s, was largely a space opera, this series is actually a study in war, and attempts to cover such difficult ethical problems as loyalty, violence, torture, religion and class in a war-torn society (except this happens to be a society in outer space). But you often find yourself applauding the series more for its intentions than for its execution, particularly in this, its third season.
Season 2 ended extremely thrillingly with a leap forward in time of a year in the final episode when the fugitive fleet, after settling on an Earth-like planet, found themselves invaded and conquered by their Cylon nemeses. This season begins four months after that during the ongoing Cylon occupation; although the show’s creators remark repeatedly on their pride concerning these first four episodes (which involve the humans having to escape the Cylons yet again) in their somewhat gaseous podcast commentaries provided as extras on their DVDs, these actually some of the least enjoyable and least original episodes of the series so far. The creators of the show seem to have tried to hard to push for contemporary analogies to Iraq and Afghanistan. The cinematography replicates the gritty stock and overexposed lighting of recent international problem films (such as RENDITION and BABEL), and the tone goes from the darkness of the previous seasons a bit too far into out-and-out bleakness. There are too many fancy torture scenes here (and in other episodes during the season), and it’s a big relief when the fleet gets back into space. The succeeding episode, “Collaborators,” is one of the best of the series, and some of the other stand-alone episodes are quite intelligently done. But by the end of the season, when the show has bizarrely become an endless courtroom drama (with Apollo a defending attorney!) you feel like the writers have become a bit bored by the premise and don’t know where to go next. It may be the best thing for the series that it ends next season.
The acting on this series can be absolutely first-rate, and Grace Park, Alessandro Juliani and Katee Sackhoff continue to turn in terrific performances episode after episode. Some of the other actors seem a bit hampered by the fact their characters seem caught in a creative revolving door: yet again we have to see Colonel Tigh descend into alcoholic sprees and depressive bitterness, Laura Roslin struggle with cancer, and Apollo and Starbuck have a fling all over again. The special effects are sometimes heartstoppingly beautiful, as with a flight through a bullseye -colored planetary storm system and a battlestar falling through clouds towards the ground of a planet below; at other times, such as in the scenes set on the Cylon basestars, the sets seem cheaply furnished courtesy of a Seventies mall giftshop. The whole season is worth seeing despite its wild unevenness: you always feel at the very least the creative team is trying at something, even when they don’t quite succeed.
BSG-Season 3 was very good
Having read some of the reviews here, I’m left wondering whether or not I watched the same show that they did. I will admit that there were a few episodes here and there that really did nothing to move the major story-line plot along. However, I can’t, or won’t say that I didn’t find those particular episodes lacking in entertainment value; because they didn’t. But, frankly, this series has been great and any series that presents the season finale that season 3 did for this show is just simply excellent. 1. A fleet dead in the water w/Cylons bearing down. 2. The revelation of most of the unknown Cylon models, (and who they were). 3. The reappearance of a main character thought dead, with the revelation that she’d been to Earth and knows the way. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve been chomping at the bit waiting for season 4 to get started.
Breath Officially Taken Away…
This series has been consistantly great from the start. In season 3 we are treated to the most spectacular episodes in the entire series. I will not give away any details for those that have not seen it, but the first few episodes could have been a feature film, they are just that good. I know many people complain about some of the later episodes but I have found with my recent re-watch, that they stand up fine and are actually better than I first thought when they originally aired. If you are a BSG fan, this is a can’t miss addition to your collection.
