Re: TV Reboot Still MIA, Finale Discourse Back Again, and a New Game Actually Has a Date

On 2026-02-27 18:08:41 +0000, MummyChunk said:

> If anyone's still checking in every few months to see whether the Sam 
> Esmail Battlestar project ever escaped development purgatory, there's 
> still nothing resembling a real green light. The last meaningful 
> movement was that Peacock dropped it and it was supposedly going to be 
> shopped elsewhere, but since then it's basically been radio silence in 
> terms of a network actually picking it up and putting it on a schedule. 
> At this point it feels less like "when" and more like "if," which is a 
> shame because the franchise is one of the few that could come back 
> without feeling like nostalgia cosplay if the writing is there.
> 
> Meanwhile, the old arguments about the ending are having another little 
> flare up, because people are circulating George R R Martin's comments 
> about the finale again. It's funny how that never really goes away. For 
> a lot of viewers, the show is still an all time great that just didn't 
> stick the landing in a way that matched the earlier seasons. For 
> others, the ending is thematically consistent and the problem is more 
> about pacing and execution than the idea itself. Personally, the reason 
> it stays a debate is because the show set an insanely high bar for 
> grounded, messy, political sci fi and then asked people to accept a 
> very different kind of resolution at the end. Whether that works 
> probably depends on what you wanted the story to be about in the first 
> place.
> 
> The one actually concrete Battlestar thing on the horizon right now is 
> the new game Battlestar Galactica Scattered Hopes. It's got a planned 
> release window of Q2 2026, and what they've shown so far looks like 
> it's trying to blend fleet survival management with more direct combat 
> than the usual strategy layer games. That could be great or it could 
> end up feeling like it can't decide whether it wants to be tense and 
> desperate or just a laser show, but at least it's something new in the 
> universe that isn't trapped in rights and meetings.
> 
> So that's where things stand today. No real TV revival news, the finale 
> discourse is immortal, and the game is the only thing with a calendar 
> attached. If a new series did happen, would people here even want it in 
> the same continuity as the 2004 show, or is the only way forward a hard 
> reset with a new tone.

The only *true* "Battlestar Galactica" is the original created by Glen 
A. Larson version. Moore-Ron's awful in-name-only "reboot" is 
irrelevant garbage as will be any follow-on or another idiotic "reboot" 
version.