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Battlestar Galactica - Season Three (2008)

Edward James Olmos , Mary McDonnell  |  Unrated |  DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (337 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Tricia Helfer, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber
  • Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 6
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008
  • Run Time: 955 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (337 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00129W6LE
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,562 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Battlestar Galactica - Season Three" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Deleted Scenes
  • Ronald Moore's Podcast Commentaries
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance Webisodes
  • David Eick's Video Blogs
  • Hero Commentary with Executive Producer David Eick
  • Extende episode: Unfinished Business
  • Extended Cut Commentary with Executive Producer Ronald Moore

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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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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).

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Season 3 looks and sounds great, just like seasons 1 and 2. W. Anderson  |  43 reviewers made a similar statement
Just let's say you will be utterly surprised. Sahra Badou  |  23 reviewers made a similar statement
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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful
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Amazon seems to have combined all the BSG download reviews and spotlighted my previously separate ones of both Season 3 Unbox and Story So Far, so I'm going to update this review to comment on the free downloads and focus on the ones you have to pay for in the other review.

BSG: The Story So Far is an interesting splicing of the highlights of the first two seasons. While now two seasons behind, it's good as both a quick catchup on older material as well as containing the added bonus of getting to listen to Mary McDonnell narrate the highlights of the journey through New Caprica through Roslin's eyes, which is interesting in itself. Like some of the best Unbox downloads, it also has better-than-DVD video quality, which is about as good as the series will look if you haven't gotten to watch it in HD. Recommended.

BSG: Phenomenon is a neat 30 minute tribute to the show by various celebrities, including Joss Whedon of Buffy fame, S. Epatha Merkerson and Jesse Martin of Law and Order, and numerous others. It's certainly a promo, but what's fun here is that the various stars don't seem to have been hauled in by the ear to talk up the show by the network; they come across as genuine fans who were just pretty excited to get to talk about how they started watching and what they love about the show (and beg for a walk-on cameo before it's over so they can see the sets and meet the cast.) Good stuff.

BSG: What the Frak is a hilarious 8 minute run through of the first three seasons with a rapid-fire tongue-in-cheek narration. Won't ruin some of the great lines here, but one example as Tricia Helfer struts: "There are 12 humanoid Cylon models. Some actually look like models.
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I love BSG. So much so that I took a risk and put Unbox on my computer... however, there is NO OPTION to turn closed captioning or any sort of subtitle on. I'm deaf and I can't watch anything without closed captioning. Amazon, please make this fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and provide closed captioning. There's no reason not to.
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Battlestar Galactica's new incarnation is superb entertainment. The first two seasons were the best show on television, SciFi or otherwise. Huge themes, such as an apocalyptic vision of the end of the world born of the robot servant's revolt (the Cylons); or a theory of human genesis that posits sister worlds, is interwoven with minute intimate personal detail of fascinating charaters. Characters are explored - their pasts delved into to reveal their evolving natures. These individual threads are picked up and engage the main threads and build towards exciting conclusion after exciting conclusion. The central plot - humanity's struggle against the robot Cylons is nuanced as well. There are moments of savagery on the part of the humans, and moments of odd tenderness, vulnerability, and spirituality on the part of the Cylons. Like life, there is little black or white. Hated characters become humanized, then loved. Characters evolve and change. They are scarred by their experiences (physically and psychically) - and are never again the same. This all increases the sense of reality and our (the viewer's) sense of involvement. Many of the plots echo current events - New Caprica looks like Iraq, for example. The writing, on the whole, is exemplary.

Battlestar's staging succeeds as well. The special effects advance the state of the art for television. As others have noted, technology does not dominate. In fact, many key technologies are familiar - or even retro: they use telephone handsets with intermittent audio problems; guns shoot bullets; space fighters look like 1960s jet fighters; "Dradus" looks like contemporary radar; books are on paper (albeit with a trapezoid shape); their computers are not networked by design.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The dark side of the moon March 29, 2008
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Consistently the best thing about the ongoing BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series has been in its intellectual ambitions. While its predecessor and namesake, the Glen Larson series from the late 1970s, was largely a space opera, this series is actually a study in war, and attempts to cover such difficult ethical problems as loyalty, violence, torture, religion and class in a war-torn society (except this happens to be a society in outer space). But you often find yourself applauding the series more for its intentions than for its execution, particularly in this, its third season.

Season 2 ended extremely thrillingly with a leap forward in time of a year in the final episode when the fugitive fleet, after settling on an Earth-like planet, found themselves invaded and conquered by their Cylon nemeses. This season begins four months after that during the ongoing Cylon occupation; although the show's creators remark repeatedly on their pride concerning these first four episodes (which involve the humans having to escape the Cylons yet again) in their somewhat gaseous podcast commentaries provided as extras on their DVDs, these actually some of the least enjoyable and least original episodes of the series so far. The creators of the show seem to have tried too hard to push for contemporary analogies to Iraq and Afghanistan. The cinematography replicates the gritty stock and overexposed lighting of recent international problem films (such as RENDITION and BABEL), and the tone goes from the darkness of the previous seasons a bit too far into out-and-out bleakness. There are too many fancy torture scenes here (and in other episodes during the season), and it's a big relief when the fleet gets back into space.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing acting and turning and twisting plots
The season 3 is one of my favorite. There are so many things happening that is never boring. I will watch this CD again and again.
Published 16 hours ago by Skihasi
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Shipped quick and the show is awesome. No complaints from me. I would have gotten the rest of the seasons from them but we ended up using Netflix. Read more
Published 23 hours ago by Shanna DeWitt
4.0 out of 5 stars Too much talking and politics
Knowing who are the cylons in the fleet, this season seems to focus on politics. Glad to see Season 4 is going in the right direction again.
Published 4 days ago by Jerry Ting Kwan Luk
4.0 out of 5 stars Very exciting
With very few exceptions, enjoyed each and every episode, with the characters and the stories continuously evolving. You know the end will hold a lot of surprises and excitement.
Published 6 days ago by A. Lam
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Science Fiction
Sure, there's plot holes you could drive a truck through, but there's action, and spaceships, and murder, and deception, and narcissism to the max, and, and ... Read more
Published 6 days ago by M. R. Thompson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series!!!
Great Series, watching for the 3erd time!!!! Would love a BSG uniform one day. I think James Edward Olmos is a great actor.
Published 7 days ago by Victor Macias
4.0 out of 5 stars We like this series!
Both my husband and I like futuristic movies/programs/, we're almost done with Season 3. Then onto Season 4! Yeah!! It's a great series.
Published 10 days ago by Irene D. Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best shows in modern TV
This show, like many great works, doesn't follow a single, linear path. It goes where the story naturally takes it and doesn'tshy away when tthat is uncomfortable or difficult. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Mike W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series!
Season 3 plus the all the seasons of BSG rate five stars. Terrific character and plot development. Special effects are ahead of their time - especially for a TV "mini' series... Read more
Published 11 days ago by R. Keim
5.0 out of 5 stars Love BSG!!
Looked forever for this in the stores and had no luck - I was happy to find it here ! It took longer than I'd hoped for shipping but the price was right & it was brand new in... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Beth R
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Officially Razor is counted as episodes 4.1 and 4.2. In the Razor commentary they were referring to the fact that the first episode of season 4 is actually number 4.3 due to this. Therefore I'd expect that Razor, if bundled with anything, will one day be part of S4 rather than S3.
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BSG 3 is not available any more? Now what?
No....
Season 2.0 is the first 10 episodes of Season 2
Season 2.5 is the last 10 episodes of Season 2

Season 3 is just what it sounds like.
The split on season 2 is just another form of gouging
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