As we near the start of the “Countdown to Battlestar Galactica Season Four”, a four day countdown beginning on the first of April, I found this little article shedding light upon the dubious future of the best show on television.
When I got Season 3 on DVD I immediately watched the original cut of “Unfinished Business”, my favorite episode from the season. I can see why and where the cuts were made and it was interesting to see what was cut out and what those bits of information continued to work as mostly subtle character development. In fact, watching any of the deleted scenes from BSG, you are given the impression that the stuff that makes the cutting room floor are still little gems in their own right and it must be very hard (as confirmed by showrunner Ronald D. Moore) to have to pull interesting little character scenes so the episode will run in the time allotted by the network.
As Moore has mentioned several times, BSG is a character-driven show; it’s a show about people who are thrust into a situation where they must survive in whatever way possible, or perish. And these little scenes that are cut out from the episodes proper, that they gracefully let us see in deleted scenes and alternate versions of the episodes, only maintains that notion. BSG is probably best seen on DVD. Like Season 2.5 and the alternate version of the episode “Pegasus”, BSG Season 3 gives us a lot of relevant character information apart from what we’ve seen in the episodes as-aired. Check it out.
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