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Originally Posted by willravel
We can blame the writers strike, I suspect. It set them, as well as many other shows, back considerably. How long has it been since we've seen 24?
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True, I'm sure the strike screwed things up. But here's what we've experienced:
End of Season Three: March 25, 2007
Razor: November 24, 2007
Beginning of Season Four: April 4, 2008
End of First Half of Season Four: June 13, 2008
Expected Start of Second Half of Season Four: 2009
Assuming (best case scenario) that the back 10 episodes of Season Four begin in early January, the series finale will air somewhere in the last couple weeks of March 2009. That's two full years (late March, 2007 to late March, 2009) over which the last 20 episodes of BSG are distributed. That's just ridiculous.
If that article posted by kirk is accurate, and they are already in production for those last ten episodes - and the series finale will be shot in June - why should we be forced to wait five or more months after filming wraps to see them?
Personally, I feel like one of the greatest benefits of television, the weekly anticipation of new content, the ongoing narrative momentum, is completely lost when this much time expires between episodes and seasons.