Battlestar Galactica - Season Three |  | Actors: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 953 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.8
MPN: 025195010726
UPC: 025195010726
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ASIN: B00129W6LE
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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While a group of colonists on New Caprica leads the resistance against their Cylon occupiers, Admiral Adama must decide if he should mount a rescue at
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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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 Don't Know What to Buy? Here Are Some Suggestions August 2, 2010
Gilgamesh (New Jersey)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought all of the seasons separately as they first came out, and I highly recommend watching the entire television series through to the end. While looking for the last piece of the series (see the end of the review), I came across some great deals (in terms of price), but was dismayed to see just how confusing things have become on Amazon. This review below is meant to help you wade through the mess in the marketplace, purchase the series, and enjoy it. I originally posted it for the combined Seasons 4.0 and 4.5 set, but someone kindly suggested I post it elsewhere as well. I hope you find it helpful.
DVD CONFUSION
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The show is incredible. However, the whole DVD thing has been a disaster. They released it in the worst way possible (see below), Amazon compounded the problem by lumping together reviews for DIFFERENT PRODUCTS, and the DVD manufacturers seem to be changing the contents of some products. I cannot imagine how someone who is not deeply familiar with it is supposed to purchase this wonderful show. Certainly, they would hesitate to give it as a gift! Let's hope this solves your problem.
In one sentence, I can say that here is what you want to get: Seasons 1, 2.0, 2.5, 3, 4.0, 4.5, and The Plan. I have links to them below. If you get these, then you will be sure to have it all.
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-Season One was released as (Battlestar Galactica - Season One) altogether with the pilot in one box.
-Season Two was released as Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10) and Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 (Episodes 11-20) in two boxes. You can now purchase them together as Battlestar Galactica (2004): Seasons 2.0 & 2.5
-Season Three was released together in one box as Battlestar Galactica - Season Three.
-Season Four was released as Battlestar Galactica - Season 4.0 and Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 with the Razor episode. Those are now available together as Battlestar Galactica (2004): Season 4.0 & 4.5. Occasionally I come across things like "Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 - Limited Edition Gift Set (2009)." It seems like a lot of money for one part of the full season, but you get some dog tags with it, so if you are into collecting memorabilia, you might want to consider it.
-The Plan was released on its own as Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
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OPTIONS FOR PURCHASING THEM ALL TOGETHER: BAD TO GOOD
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-Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with COLLECTIBLE CYLON). Not recommended. I do not own this, but according to the reviews, it is packaged poorly WITHOUT AN EPISODE LIST. That seems like a horrible idea for four seasons of a tv show. Apparently, it contains the same DVDs as the ones sold separately (explained above).
-Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (the one in the GRAY BOX). *Recommended*. I do not own this. Good reviews of it so far. Packaging problems were fixed. According to a comment from customer Leif Sheppard, it does include The Plan.
-Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with COLLECTIBLE CYLON) [BLU-RAY] or the gray box [BLU-RAY] set. *Recommended*. I do not own this. Seems to include some extras, but not significant. It also has an episode list, according to the reviews. It might be worth buying if you wanted to get everything together.
BOTTOM LINE:
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As far as I can tell from the reviews, I think there are two choices:
(1) Buy either one of the Blu-Ray sets or the Gray DVD set.
(2) Purchase everything separately (make sure to get all of the stuff mentioned above).
NOTE:
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-The "Face of the Enemy" webisodes (episodes shown only online) have not been made available for purchase in any of the sets as far as I can tell. What a shame!
-Also, if anyone sees any mistakes in this review, please tell me and I will edit it. Frustratingly, the manufacturers seem to be changing the contents of some sets, so it is possible that my information has become outdated.
 Not Up to the Standard of other BSG Seasons. Sadly. July 28, 2010
Your Role Model (from parts unknown)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would definitely concur with Joshua Feldman's fine review that Season Three was the weakest of all the BSG seasons overall.
Yes, sure, the 'escape from New Caprica' episode was killer, as was the Eye of Jupiter mini-arc in the middle of the season. But there were plenty and plenty of 'throwaway' episodes throughout ('The Woman King' stands out as especially bad), and perhaps worse, a lot of characters seemed poorly-written in this season.
Starbuck comes especially to mind... she's absolutely wonderful and badass in other seasons, but in much of S3 she becomes a whiney, self-centered brat, for lack of a better term. And the continuing romantic drama/quadrangle between her and Apollo and their significant others was strangely annoying, not poignant or heartbreaking. Another S2 ball fumbled.
Heck, even the whole New Caprica arc early on seems one lost opportunity after another, the fantastic 'escape' episode aside... basically Ron D. Moore and friends tried too hard to make it into an Iraq allegory, rather than letting that message grow organically out of the situation. Too heavy-handed, and too obvious.
(and strangely low-tech... the Cylons didn't appear to have any better way to keep tabs on the imprisoned colonials than we do nowadays... doesn't seem realistic, honestly)
The big show trial at the end of S3 also falls very flat, if you bother to be discerning at all about it... while I liked the character of Romo Lampkin, it seemed incredibly ridiculous that Apollo was suddenly going to became this first-rate lawyer and lynchpin of Baltar's legal team.
To be fair to Season Three, though, this is not the first time BSG has engaged in this kind of silliness... Starbuck doubled as a SWAT team sniper in S1, for example. Apparently, one of the 'Big Three' characters (Apollo, Starbuck, Adama) MUST be involved in any major action, no matter what. One can envisage Adama Sr elbowing Doc Codell away from a patient during a major surgery scene, having suddenly developed brain surgery skills, lol.
I'll draw flack from the less discerning fans for saying this, I know, but really, you can skip most of S3 safely... you're really not missing much.
S4 is better, though not as much better as you might like.
The indispensable new BSG remains the Mini-series, S1, and the majority of S2, up until those late S2 clinker episodes started showing up ('Sacrifice', 'Black Market'). This is what happens when you go from a 13-episode season to a 20-episode season... quality inevitably suffers. "Just not enough time to make every episode special"... this is a quote from RDM himself regarding this issue. And... he's very much right.
That said, the new BSG remains one of my favorite shows, its low lights not withstanding. I just wish the good times could've lasted longer than they did.
 Subtitling for Season 3? July 25, 2010
L. Townsend (Belfast)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I already own the Season 3 Region 2 boxset and enjoyed it very much. I think in some ways it's my favourite season, and the courtroom scenes in 'Crossroads' held me absolutely riveted to my screen. But.... as we all know, the R2 sets are rather lacking - no special features at all, except the 'Story So Far' recap. As this is true across the board I'd ordered American versions of Seasons 1, 2.5 and 4.5 and was delighted with 1 and 4.5. 2.5 was a disappointment because none of the special features apart from the extended version of 'Pegasus' was subtitled. Before I buy Season 3, could someone tell me what the subtitling status is there? I know podcasts and commentaries won't be subtitled, and I don't expect them to be, but I *would* like subtitling for deleted scenes, featurettes, blogs and so on. Help?
Finally a series worth watching July 19, 2010
Kenneth Kidd
Even in the advance times of knowledge, there are problems with human nature, ego, pride, and prejudice. Series is worth watching if for no other reason that it makes you think and wonder if the answer truly can only be found within our selves....
Soap Opera Galactica June 14, 2010
Gregory Tetrault
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Battlestar Galactica started out as a military science fiction show (though its science is nonsense). In its second season it became a political drama. In its third season it became a soap opera with cheating spouses, a ménage à trois, emoting Cylons, sex scenes and many shots of nearly nude hunks, dream sequences, imaginary lovers, etc. I assume that the producers and writers decided to abandon the original fans (mostly males who liked action stories) and appeal to soap opera-loving females.
Of note is that the genre changes of Battlestar Galactica failed. Viewership declined throughout the second season and declined more rapidly during the third season. The show's Nielson ratings averaged 2.3 in season 1, 1.9 in season 2, and 1.4 in season 3.
If you were a fan of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica, I recommend that you rent DVD 1 of season three to see if it appeals to you.
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