Battlestar Galactica - Season Three | 
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Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Region: 1
Discs: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 953 Minutes
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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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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 The Best TV on TV July 1, 2008
Scott A. Bates (Denver, CO)
What a great series - the acting is great, the writing is top-notch and the effects are wonderful, too. Season 3 is shaping up to be the best so far (I haven't started watching season 4 yet). Great character development - even Adm. Adama has his flaws exposed this season.
 Depressing July 1, 2008
Maxtone Witherball
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong--I loved the miniseries, the first two seasons, and Razor. But Season Three is a total disappointment. Well over 75% of the episodes focus strictly on the boring and hamfisted occult aspects of the show. Absent from this three-quarters of the season is any hint of the military and political drama that made previous seasons so compelling.
Avoid. So say we all.
Each season keeps getting better and better. June 30, 2008
David Powell
This is a great series with a lot of dimensions and evolution of characters. The special effects are outstanding and visually is quite captivating.
Fracking Awesome!! June 16, 2008
Daniel G. Beaty (Ft. Worth, Texas)
Forget that this takes place in Space. Forget the Campy 70's show where everyone slapped their best friend on the back and sang Kumbaya at the end of every episode. Forget all that. This show rocks from start to finish. It is truly "THE BEST DRAMA" I have ever seen. I loan out my copy of the miniseries trying to evangelize the show to those who can't get past the space/70's thing. It will be bitter/sweet to get this season's dvd's because the show will end after this. Frack!!
 3 1/2 stars. Parts are great, but much was fumbled. June 13, 2008
Eric J. Anderson (Ankeny, Iowa)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I consider this show to have had great potential. The special effects are great. Everything has the look and feel of a gritty ship, a collection of people on the run in spaceships. And the acting and dialog is very good, believable most of the time. This season suffers from several flaws that knock it down from fantastic to merely ordinary.
First and foremost, the lack of any heroes. I'm not sure there are any characters in the show I have much affection for. Starbuck was annoying from day one. When she was written out of the show (I assume she's probably back in season four, but I don't have cable, so that will have to wait), I was happy that I'd get a break from her for at least a few episodes. There is hardly any joy on Galactica, and little reason for any. They're going to all connive and bicker and backstab and frak and booze their way back to Earth, apparently. Just when I start liking any of the characters, they go off and do something half-cocked or mean or stupid or selfish, and I return to ambivalence or outright hatred for them.
In season three, there are too many (one would be too many) soap opera-ish episodes focusing on the sordid personal affairs and traumas of the sordid characters. As a result, finding the way to Earth and trying to understand what the Cylons are playing at -- the main plot arcs -- get cheated. In other words, they do a lot of treading water.
Visually, the frequent use of handheld cameras that bounce around -- the field of view veering off left, right, up, down, jerking, jiggling constantly -- is irritating. If one were watching this on a big screen it could induce motion sickness. I can't remember the first season's visuals, but I'm sure this criticism applies to season two as well. If you've made it this far into the series, you've gotten used to it. It still can be an annoyance.
But for all that, the show has its moments. Some of the courtroom scenes in the trial of The Great Weasel Baltar are particularly effective. The first few episodes telling of the escape from slavery to the Cylons on New Caprica are almost worthy of a motion picture. These successes make the weakness of the episodes in between all the more glaring.
I'm looking at season three as something I had to mostly wade through to get to what will hopefully be an impressive conclusion to the big mysteries they've developed in the series.
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