Battlestar Galactica - Season Three | 
 enlarge | Studio: Sci-Fi Channel, The
Category: DVD
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Rating:  171 reviews
Sales Rank: 203
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 953
Discs: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.8
MPN: 61101285
UPC: 025195010726
EAN: 0025195010726
ASIN: B00129W6LE
Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 2005
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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Product Description
The adventure of one of television's finest dramas continues with the complete third season of the Peabody Award-winning Battlestar Galactica. The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance friends become enemies enemies become unexpected allies and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives. Relive all 20 episodes of the season that challenges everything you thought you knew about the Battlestar Galactica universe. Presented in Dolby 5.1 surround sound the 6-disc set features over 15 hours of extensive special features including the DVD exclusive version of the episode "Unfinished Business" containing 25 additional minutes of never-before-seen footage. You won't want to miss a minute of the series considered "one of the best dramas on TV" (Time Magazine).System Requirements:Running Time: 953 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 025195010726 Manufacturer No: 61101285
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The third season of Battlestar Galactica got off to a rip-roaring start on New Caprica, where the settlers had found themselves under Cylon occupation at the end of the previous season. Dr. Baltar (James Callis) had been elected President based on his intention to stop looking for Earth and settle on New Caprica, but is now a puppet of the Cylons, forced to sign execution orders for numerous humans, including former President Roslin (Mary McDonnell). A resistance movement is building, however, led by Col. Tigh (Michael Hogan), and assisted by Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) and Samuel Anders (Michael Trucco). Tigh's desperate tactics--including suicide bombers--raise interesting parallels to the U.S. war in Iraq, and he finds he has to make an even tougher choice. Thanks to Admiral Adama's (Edwards James Olmos) return and the unexpected help of Boomer (Grace Park), the colonists escape, then begin a series of trials in order to convict all of the Cylon collaborators, culminating in the explosive trial of Baltar himself. In a boxing-metaphor episode, Apollo (Jamie Bamber) and Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) resume their mutual attraction with a surprising outcome. After the exciting beginning, Battlestar Galactica sagged a little in the middle of the third season (as it did in the second season) with its ship-bound episodes, but caught speed again at the end. The quest to find Earth, the unexpected loss of a major character, and the revealing of four of the final five Cylons kept viewers coming back to a series that blends action, drama, and universal questions of loyalty, faith, and justice in a way that transcends the science-fiction setting. With Dean Stockwell, Lucy Lawless, and Tricia Helfer as Cylons 1, 3, and 6, Mark Sheppard as defense attorney Romo Lampkin, Alessandro Juliani as Lt. Gaeta, Kandyse McClure as Petty Officer "Dee" Dualla, Nicki Clyne as Crewman Specialist Cally, Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh, and Rekha Sharma as presidential aide Tory Foster. Every episode on the DVD set has executive producer Ronald Moore's podcast commentaries (occasionally joined by others) and almost every episode has deleted scenes, including a different (and less effective) version of the season's final surprise. Also included are bonus commentaries, the Resistance webisodes (10 episodes, 26 minutes total) that provide more of life on occupied New Caprica, executive producer David Eicks' "video blog" featurettes, and an extended version of "Unfinished Business" (mostly adding non-Starbuck-Apollo material). --David Horiuchi
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 Waiting for 2009...... July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Season three has great extras. I enjoy keeping up to date on everything BSG, while waiting on 2009 and the final season. Now I can watch all the available seasons over and over until I figure out who the Final Cylon is!
Simply awesome!!! July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great series; excellent character development & acting. One of the best Sci Fi series of all time.
 Great start and finish July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The New Caprica episodes are some of the best of this or any sci-fi series. A weak, somewhat confusing middle that weighs down the series a bit. And then, a great last few episodes leading up to the slam bang monster finale. Wow, the revelations at the end of this are bone jarring!
Battlestar Galactica - Season Three July 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great series. Better than the original series but is very dark, like the Batman movies. You must pay attention to what's going on or sometimes you'll miss the point.
 Uh-Oh... July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a BSG fan. I like the series a lot, minus a few 'clunker' episodes, but every series has those. Even Sopranos had those stupid 'Tony's dreaming' episodes.
One thing I always liked about this series was the characters, which are interesting because they are damaged, flawed human beings, unlike the cardboard comic-book archetypes we saw in the original BSG. Well, as the series goes on, some characters continue to develop and stay interesting, like Starbuck, Gaida (sp?), and Tigh. Others that seemed good in season one are starting to get stale and are revealed as only one- or two-note characatures, like Helo, Lee Adama, and Chief T. I don't mind too much, it's to be expected in a series of any length that some characters will run their short course and peter out early. My only hope is that they get killed off or turn out to be cylons or something.
So far, that would make this a four-star season: good, but the cracks are starting to show.
However, late in the season, the series takes a huge left turn into mysticism. It suddenly abandons science fiction and veers sharply into fantasy. Sure, the religious themes have been there all along, but always in a scifi context. It's not 'hard' scifi, to be sure, but it always tried to be based on future science. Why would they change the whole series so completely and so suddenly?
I'm disappointed, but not completely, not yet. I can only hope the elements which appear to be pure fantasy end up, later, to have a scientific explanation. And that's why three stars, instead of only one. I'm giving the writers the benefit of the doubt here, as they have done a (mostly) great job until now. If the explanation for the supernatural elements in this season ends up being within the scifi genre, I'll come back, retract this review, and give it four stars, maybe even five.
However, if, as I'm fearing, the writers simply got lazy and chose mysticism as a cheap device with which to sloppily spackle over gaping holes in the plot, I'll come back, erase this review, and give this season the one star it will have deserved.
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