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   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.   
      
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