Lower Decks

Just when you thought you were done with those Cylons and their plan, the Los Angeles Times goes and posts this exclusive trailer for SCI FI Channel’s last chance to milk its franchise made-for-TV movie called Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, set to premiere in November:

According to this SCI FI Wire article, the television version will run 88 minutes (likely in a two-hour block with commercials) while the DVD version will run 126 minutes. So there’s really no reason to watch it on television. Par for the course with Battlestar Galactica. You have to buy the DVDs to see the “real” story.

An excerpt from the article:

“I gotta tell you, not to give anything away, it is exactly what you think it is,” Olmos said in a panel discussion Thursday night in Hollywood as part of the Los Angeles Times series The Envelope. “You see the complete opposite of the first 281 days of what we went through, … seen through the eyes of the Cylons, and it is breathtaking. It’s fantastic. It’s not fun, but I will say that you will sit there [gasping].”

Perhaps The Plan will also drive sales of BSG complete-season DVDs. “Basically, you will go back to see the series again,” Olmos said. “I couldn’t have imagined this kind of a situation happening at the end of a show, where you would actually start at the beginning. That’s a masterful piece of understanding, Ron [Moore]. Genius. Because after you see The Plan, you’ll want to go back and view the whole series again.”

So the “plan” was to find a way to sell even more DVDs. Devious, SCI FI Channel, but not unexpected.