About time! BSG has been THE best show of the last 6 years, and deserves far more recognition than it received. Nevertheless, glad to see they've gotten this one.

The best wimpy soap opera pretending to be SF for the best generation of wimpy emo-Syssy Fi channel fans...

I find it amazing that the regular whiners and complainers can criticize anything and apparently everything. Congrats to the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica.

I find it even more amazing that those regular whiners really just come to this site to do that. Obviously they've come to check out what's on Scifi wire. So....what does that say about said whiners?

I"ll tell you, it means they are dbs

One wonders if Emmy voters actually watch TV.

BSG (and Joss Whedon) pretty much ruined me on most other network programming. Everything about BSG screams quality. The writing, filming, directing, acting, editing are excellent. Glad to see it getting credit.

Nice to get at least SOME recognition. You know what would have helped this series get a 5th season through higher ratings? If all these celebrities who supposedly love the show and regularly promote their products -- like actor Robin Williams who told Aaron Douglas it was his favorite show and director Quentin Tarantino who kept telling Grace Park how much he loved it -- to actually tell their fanbases about it! Hey, Robin and Quentin, instead of just telling the actors, how about telling the mainstream when you're on Leno and Letterman for the 10th time! Idiots! It was nice of Seth Meyer to tell Jimmy Fallon on "Late Night" that the last time he cried was during "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" and for Patton Oswald to endorse the show on Leno. At least Kevin Smith went on Ebert and Roeper to tell people to pick up Season 2.5, but was laughed at by Roeper; hey, movie critics, while you're busy lauding commercial crap like J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, there's some intelligent sci fi you might want to pay attention to.

There's a ton of crap out there that gets so much unjustified recognition, and BSG gets nearly nothing. At least this is something, so thanks, TV critics, even though most of you never mentioned the show when you were discussing TV on Charlie Rose or Tim Russert or many other TV venues.

you tell'em OGRE 3000. BSG is for sissies. Who needs plot and characters and storylines and intelligence. Jus' give splosions i say. Jus' give me gunfights and fast cars and sexy babes. You and me are two of a kind. I think I love you. But in a non sissy kinda way, you know like tough guys love each other.

Muldfeld,

It's possible celebrities do tell their fanbases. Joss Whedon raves over BSG to his fanbase. I heard it was great, and after he said so I gave it a try and he was right! He's remarked on BSG publicly many times.

I don't think he's the only one out there. BSG gets many props, just not many national headlines. 'Cause major headlines are dumbed down, but that's a whole different topic...

Hell Frakin' Yeah!

BSG had some of the most enveloping and thought-provoking storylines on television ever, period. Can anyone seriously watch Lost, 24, the CSI's or L&O's and say that the acting wasn't at least as good and in many critical opinions better?

Come on Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell--and for crying out loud Michael Hogan running around for over a year with an eye-patch conveyed more emotion and intensity than any of the past supporting actors in all of prime-time Emmy catagories--and I have to send a shout out to James Calis they won't give him a drama nod. at least let him teach the comedy folks how it's done- he's just fun to watch.

Rest knowing she went out with all her glory,
So Say We All...

I'd have to check to see if BSG got this same award in any of its other seasons, because earlier on is when it truly deserved it. The mini up through the beginning of Season 3 were excellent, but the remainder was just pretty good, not brilliant as before, and the finale left me unsatisfied.

Yeah, I don't think BSG was at all an "underrated" series. Sure it didn't get Emmy's but those sorts of awards are inside industry popularity contests. I mean, really, the show had magnitudes more attention in its run in the mainstream press than true "cult" quality programming.

So say we all, Muldfeld!!!

laura, I know Whedon has remarked on BSG (and I'm grateful), but he's not as widely known as the people I was referring to, and won't show up on talk shows. In fact, he's a prime example of someone who has created shows that many people have heard of (especially Buffy), but couldn't or barely survived because of their lack of popularity.

I'm talking about the kinds of people CNN and Access Hollywood take notice of. Tarantino and Williams had the kind of clout that could have given enough of the mainstream enough of a push to check it out and that's all BSG really needed. I'm sure even Spielberg has seen the show, but he'd rather make escapist garbage like Indiana Jones 4 or fund Michael Bay's perversion of our culture with Transformers and help in the zombification of our generation with mindless stuff. Perhaps, it's jealousy; I don't know. They failed the show in not doing this minor thing and they failed as fans, in that respect.

I've done everything I could when rumors started flying about the show's possible early end in March of 2007, emailing people in the media (political shows, talk shows, newspaper columnists, TV and movie reviewers) left and right, constantly starting threads on message boards for U2 and Radiohead and Interpol fan sites and getting hated for it, though I got enough attention to get several fans to check out the show; I tried to send messages to musicians I love, but only got the lead of the band Mogwai to buy the DVDs, since he'd already heard about the show. I even recorded episodes off TV to mail to people but no one would give me their mailing address. I did everything I could. I'm no one. These guys have power to bring millions to see their crap (and often it's nothing special) in the cinema. They could have had an impact. They didn't care enough to even just mention the show in interviews. I'm mad at them.

BSG didn't get a 5th season not because of the ratings but because they wanted to go out on a high, it wouldn't really have worked if they kept going anyway

start1010, if you look back at interviews with Ron Moore in October 2006, when most of Season 3 had finished filming (Season 3 finished in November 2006), he said the show could go on another 2 years and that, if he were asked in another year, he might say it could go another 2 years beyond that point!

It's obvious that the show needed at least a 5th season. Look at all the rushed plotting, the lack of character texture and especially political elements. Lee Adama is barely in Season 4.5. Starbuck takes center stage and characters like Tory are fully ignored in 4.5. Zarek was treated like a stereotypical fall guy after "A Disquiet Follows My Soul". Gaeta's motivations could only be further explained in some lousy webisodes. So many characters didn't get their due and that's due to time. Even if you listen to the podcast commentaries, Ron Moore talks about how they wanted to flesh out this and that (for example, the cult that wants Baltar dead), but they didn't have time. So many story elements are unexplored.

The plotting could have remained the same, but the show could have used far more character moments and texture like Season 1.

At the very least Syfy should have granted 2 seasons of 13 episodes each. It should have continued and it would have actually been much better than a season that was so self-consciously about the end and had to rush through plot points.

Ron Moore was understandably trying to make the best of a difficult situation because the network wouldn't guarantee a 5th season without a ratings boost.

Oh well, 3 million top viewers vs. 20 million during the real show's run, I let numbers do the talking emos. And I'm sorry, I never saw much but whining, snivelling and a bunch of creeps forced to finally defeat their selfish, introverted self-important selves after a serious reality check. Thank the real Lords of Kobol this sad POS is finally over, maybe we can get back to the real story and you bunch of p-ussies can go back and watch Clapricka in your mommie's basement. ARE WE EMOS?! SO SAY WE ALL!!!

ogre3000, thou shall never speak our name.Numbers are just numbers.they just dont show thee who got the wits!!!we guess thou would not get it though.
so said we all

OGRE3000, I don't know about you, but when I look around me in the real world, all I see are the characteristics you say belong to BSG. In fact, BSG's characters are vastly more heroic compared to the greedy, selfish rich scum in my building, who cut the salaries and health benefits of the staff at the front desk.

Seriously, humanity is complicated, as are our supposed enemies, and BSG reflected that.

OGRE3000 - you crack me up. You so hate a show - a wussy show you say - that you are driven to read articles about it and spend your time commenting on it. I bet you also watched every episode of that wussy show. And what probably makes you most upset is that you found yourself wiping tears from your eyes on a number of occasions because that wussy show revealed your internal wussiness. Poor Ogre - didn't you know BSG was for real men?

As for numbers, seems to me BSG was the highest rated cable show in its time slot and the most watched series on Syfy. Probably why Syfy begged RDM to create Caprica (a show even more inclined to wussiness as it will have less space battle scenes).

So I look forward to reading your Caprica comments because we all know you will be watching! Just don't forget to have some kleenex handy!

BSG was one of the best shows on TV ever! Awards or viewership do not necessarily translate into quality. But like any truly good piece of television it will stand the test of time and that will be testament to its greatness.

Well I for one love BSG. I thought it was an awesome show. I would have like to see a season 5, but I’m happy with what was done.

I remember when I first heard of Enterprise, and thinking how cool the premise sounded. Then watching it and being totally let down from the start. Still I stuck with it. Then came Battlestar and blew Enterprise out of the water.

"The best wimpy soap opera pretending to be SF for the best generation of wimpy emo-Syssy Fi channel fans..."

perhaps you should say that to all the u.s. soldiers who watched. something tells me you do not have the stones to do that.

I know Ogre from another message board, and we've had an ongoing disagreement about the new BSG and the original show. I know I will never convince him that the reimagined show is better, and he will never get me to admit the original wasn't cheesy. The main reason it had higher numbers is that in 1978 very few people had cable, and there were only three major networks. Same reason I watched a lot of stuff when I was a kid that I would be ashamed to admit today, we didn't have many choices.

I have never finished watching the one season of the original Galactica, and the number of times I have tried started with the original broadcasts. I might have got five or six episodes into it then, and I don't think I've ever made it much farther in any of my other attempts.

McTex, BSG was popular among a sufficiently large demographic, but the problem was that too many fans with Nielsen's ratings boxes were not watching the thing live, so it hurt ratings. The ratings had dropped severely in Season 3, despite it still being great. The only reason the ratings picked up was because it was the end of the show. Many people I turned onto the show online would download the thing. A few would buy the DVD sets but only Season 1 because it was cheap.

Also, BSG was Syfy's most expensive show and half of the production costs were raised from foreign channels that aired the show. Nevertheless, I think that shouldn't have mattered and the show should have been guaranteed a 5th season, but the ratings were dropping. Heck, the super cheap The 4400 had higher ratings and it was still cancelled. There's a theory that networks also want to change things up to keep a level of buzz that exists with new shows.

That's why we all have to make sure to watch Caprica live and to bring in new fans because Syfy could threaten to not renew this show. We've all got to do our part to support the show because, otherwise, the show isn't the only loser; we lose because we get stuck with the most commercial crap on TV.

And if we want more BSG movies, we've got to buy "The Plan" on DVD!

"The best wimpy soap opera pretending to be SF for the best generation of wimpy emo-Syssy Fi channel fans..."

perhaps you should say that to all the u.s. soldiers who watched. something tells me you do not have the stones to do that.

The strangest post I've ever seen. "You don't like Show X? But I know there are people out there who like it a lot. Bet you don't have the guts to tell THEM."

A perfect blend of stupidity and what the hell. Thanks, Internet.

OGRE3000 has a nice way of saying it. I tend to agree with him: Ron's BSG isn't good SF at all. It's a tangled mess of open plot endings. Technology wise it also doesn't make sense. Yes, there's drama alright.
U.S. soldiers like it... Well, many are rednecks. They'll believe the emperor wears clothes. Not the brightest lot on this planet, are they?