"Battlestar Galactica's" 3-hour finale will air over 2 weeks

[Malcontent]

http://www.syfyportal.com/news426076.html

The final episode of "Battlestar Galactica" will indeed be three hours long, and SciFi Channel plans to air the end of what some hail as the most powerful science-fiction series of all time as a two-part special.

[Graymalkin]

They're engaging in semantics here. The two-hour "episode" on March 20 is the series finale. The March 13 episode is just the episode before the finale. This show is so heavily serialized that the entire season really should be considered a 10-part or 13-part mini-series.

IMO, anyway. Yours may differ.

[DevdogAZ]

Does this mean that the ten episodes for this last half-season will actually total 12 hours? By my count, they've already shown us five of the ten episodes, and if my calendar is correct, then the March 13 episode would be episode 9 and March 20 would be episode 10. So it looks like it's really only 11 hours for the final ten episodes.

Not a big deal, but the quoted article shouldn't say the final episode will be three hours long. It should say that the final two episodes will be three hours.

[BobB]

Originally Posted by DevdogAZ

Not a big deal, but the quoted article shouldn't say the final episode will be three hours long. It should say that the final two episodes will be three hours.

If they're allowed to declare that two consecutive episodes are actually parts 1 and 2 of one long episode (as this show and countless others have done), why can't they do the same thing here and declare the last episode to be a single three-hour entity, to be shown in two parts? I don't have a problem with that.

[DevdogAZ]

Originally Posted by BobB

If they're allowed to declare that two consecutive episodes are actually parts 1 and 2 of one long episode (as this show and countless others have done), why can't they do the same thing here and declare the last episode to be a single three-hour entity, to be shown in two parts? I don't have a problem with that.

They can call it whatever they want. My point was simply that they've already announced that there would be ten episodes in this final run. If they're counting the final three hours as one single episode, then there will only be nine episodes instead of ten in this final run. That's all I'm saying.

[ronsch]

And when it's shown in reruns it will be three one-hour episodes.

[hefe]

Originally Posted by DevdogAZ

Does this mean that the ten episodes for this last half-season will actually total 12 hours? By my count, they've already shown us five of the ten episodes, and if my calendar is correct, then the March 13 episode would be episode 9 and March 20 would be episode 10. So it looks like it's really only 11 hours for the final ten episodes.

Not a big deal, but the quoted article shouldn't say the final episode will be three hours long. It should say that the final two episodes will be three hours.

The final 3 hours all share an episode name, and are listed in the guides as parts 1, 2 and 3.

I view it as 3 episodes, myself. The final 2 could easily have been aired on different days, and the shows were structured to fit in the 1 hour TV time slots.

I'm guessing, based on what I've heard in past podcasts about editing and some things that happened with other episodes, that the intention was to have 10 one-hour episodes. But then while putting the finale together, they would have had to cut out a lot more material than they wanted. Every other season ended with 2-part stories over 2 weeks, this was probably supposed to also...but just grew to a 3 parter. Just my guess, anyway.

Anybody know if the previous seasons' 2-part finales were put on the DVDs as one or two tracks?

[BobB]

Originally Posted by hefe

Anybody know if the previous seasons' 2-part finales were put on the DVDs as one or two tracks?

Two, if I recall correctly.

[DevdogAZ]

Originally Posted by hefe

The final 3 hours all share an episode name, and are listed in the guides as parts 1, 2 and 3.

I view it as 3 episodes, myself. The final 2 could easily have been aired on different days, and the shows were structured to fit in the 1 hour TV time slots.

I'm guessing, based on what I've heard in past podcasts about editing and some things that happened with other episodes, that the intention was to have 10 one-hour episodes. But then while putting the finale together, they would have had to cut out a lot more material than they wanted. Every other season ended with 2-part stories over 2 weeks, this was probably supposed to also...but just grew to a 3 parter. Just my guess, anyway.

Anybody know if the previous seasons' 2-part finales were put on the DVDs as one or two tracks?

Like I said, I don't really care how many episodes they air or what they call them. I'm simply pointing out that if they treat all three as one (which the article implies), then they will only have nine eps since the break.

Whereas, if they treat them as two eps (1 hour and 2 hours, respectively), then that will be ten episodes since the break and if they treat all three hours as separate episodes, that will be eleven episode since the break.

[hefe]

Originally Posted by DevdogAZ

Like I said, I don't really care how many episodes they air or what they call them. I'm simply pointing out that if they treat all three as one (which the article implies), then they will only have nine eps since the break.

It's a bad article. Looks like it's just some blogger.

[smak]

If there are multiple credit sequences, than they are multiple episodes.

-smak-

[Rob Helmerichs]

Originally Posted by smak

If there are multiple credit sequences, than they are multiple episodes.

But not necessarily the reverse. Shows have in the past run multiple episodes on the same night with only one credits sequence.