4.10 mid-season finale!

[Consigliere5]

Hercules Is Gobsmacked By Friday's Mind-Roastingly Intense Five-Star BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Mid-Season Finale!!
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"I deem this the biggest episode of "Battlestar Galactica" yet produced.

Why is it the biggest?

Series mastermind Ron Moore implored the audience to keep the big secrets. We must abide Mr. Moore's wishes.

[...]

Are you sure this is the biggest "Galactica" ever?
Yes.

Bigger than the episode that ended with Boomer putting two bullets in Bill Adama's chest?
Yes.

Bigger than the episode that leapt ahead a year?
Yes.

Bigger than the episode that revealed the Watchtower Four?
Yes.

[...]

What's great?
An insane amount of tension among the Watchtower Four now that D'Anna can identify them; handprints will be permanently squeezed into sofa arms across America Friday night as a deadly showdown between Lee and D'Anna escalates. Then the final act kicks the episode, the season and the series into the stratosphere. "Revelations" is one aptly titled installment. You will revel in the reveals the episode bestows and curse those you're denied.

What's not so great?
On the way out I asked writer-producer Jane Espenson if she knew if SciFi would announce Friday when the show would return; she said she's long assumed it won't be back until 2009.

[...]

* The series finale is filming right now in Vancouver and will likely wrap just before the June 30 Screen Actors Guild deadline.

* The script for the series finale made Edward James Olmos and Aaron Douglas cry, according to Helfer. Helfer describes her own reaction to the finale script: "Like somebody punched me in the stomach." Helfer said the ending will compel fans to revisit the series' beginning.

* McDonnell said the series finale script filled her with "an incredible feeling of adrenaline." "It made me understand the entire saga, and made me excited for all of you," she told the audience. She added she was "blown away" by it.

* "The Final Five do not have numbers," said Moore. Which I guess means there isn't a Seven???

* Moore confirmed again that the fleet will get to Earth by the series finale and that he originally had a number of ideas for what the fleet would find there. "We X'ed off a few immediately."

[...]

McDonnell says she's already snuck a peek at the now-filming "Caprica" prequel pilot's dailies and found what she saw "absolutely thrilling." "They all treat us like their parents," she says of the "Caprica" cast.

* Making Starbuck female was one of the very first ideas Moore had for the series the weekend David Eick suggested Moore shepherd the series. It was a pivotal idea that helped Moore free himself from some parameters of the original series.

* More said the idea of another "Razor"-like prequel TV-movie set in the "Galactica" universe was still in the early talking stages. He downplayed reports that three TV-movies might get produced, suggesting one movie was more likely.

How does it end, spoiler-boy?

[spoiler]With the survivors, stunned into silence.[/spoiler]

[TinkTanker]

TVGuide is reporting that BSG won't be back until after the first of the year, at the earliest.

There comes a point where anticipation stretches out so long that it becomes apathy.

[Spooky]

That got my attention!

[Eric]

I thought D'anna only saw one of the five? 

At this point, there are no differences that I can tell between the Cylons and humans.  I can't find a single redeeming quality in either race to make me want to care for either.  Part of the great thing of being human is that we can so often find brightness where there's darkness -- We joke;  we laugh;  we love.   If any of this is there, it's overshadowed by extreme soap-operatic storylines.

Any population which can support approximately one journalist for every two-three thousand people can surely find some levity.  Heck, it would have even further endered us to them -- even if a person already loves the show.

[TinkTanker]

I thought D'anna only saw one of the five? 

Nope, she saw all five and apologized profusely to the final one.

At this point, there are no differences that I can tell between the Cylons and humans.  I can't find a single redeeming quality in either race to make me want to care for either.  Part of the great thing of being human is that we can so often find brightness where there's darkness -- We joke;  we laugh;  we love.   If any of this is there, it's overshadowed by extreme soap-operatic storylines.

Cylons are becoming more human. They fight, they kill each other, they love, they want more from life, they believe in God. At least some of them do. Just like humans. Some just are marking time, going through the motions.

I don't see humanity in the same light you in the show though. Laura and Bill's love for each other was one of the high points of not only the season but the entire run as well.

I loved the bit about how Baltar said that he was a force of God, wiping out most of humanity so it could start anew. Pretty deep stuff, IMHO.

[Eric]

* The script for the series finale made Edward James Olmos and Aaron Douglas cry, according to Helfer. Helfer describes her own reaction to the finale script: "Like somebody punched me in the stomach."

Two guys cried and a gal didn't?  Somebody's dog better had died ...

[Eric]

Nope, she saw all five and apologized profusely to the final one.

Are you sure?  I thought she only lifted the hood from one of the five-- the rest had theirs covered?

I don't see humanity in the same light you in the show though. Laura and Bill's love for each other was one of the high points of not only the season but the entire run as well.

Theirs is a subtle, more mature relationship for-sure.  I'm sure that my own apathy for the humans affects how I view some of them. 

I loved the bit about how Baltar said that he was a force of God, wiping out most of humanity so it could start anew. Pretty deep stuff, IMHO.

I dunno, but it's going to take some serious writing skills to get him out of being a cylon.

[Consigliere5]

4 hours and 20 minutes!

[Eric]

Do we have a running "Final Cylon" pool yet?

There's no way that Baltar cannot be a Cylon.   Of course, that doesn't mean they'll do it.

[AdmiralDigby]

OK , so I'm watching this and just realised I didn't see last week's ep .



( we went to see Jimmy Flynn )