DVD Talk Forum - Battlestar Galactica

Lots of info on AICN from "Hercules" who has seen the episode:

Spoiler:

Anything interesting emerge in the Q&A with Ron Moore, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackoff and Tricia Helfer?
* Helfer’s “a bit agnostic” and not as tall as you’d think.

* While cast members admit they routinely use “frak” even when away from the cameras, Sackoff prefers “fuck” in her everyday life. “Nothing works like a good f-bomb,” she insisted.

* 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.”

* Asked if she would consider a run for U.S. president, McDonnell replied, “Only if I can have Hillary as my V.P.”

* Moore acknowledged that he was behind on his episode podcasts but intended to catch up. Two of them, in fact, will be recorded June 12 (that’s today!) and another two soon after.

* Moore said he did not have the series finale in his head as he wrote the original miniseries, but figured it out midway through the first regular season. Moore seemed to hint that Leoben’s line about “All this happened before and will happen again” is significant.

* As Moore wrestled with the series’ conclusion this year, he had the epiphany that the show’s not really about the plot – it’s about the characters. He then scrawled “It’s the characters, stupid!” atop his whiteboard and says that’s when the series finale really clicked.

* Moore said the monotheist/polytheist business emerged out a single line in his rough draft, when Six told Baltar that “God is love.” “I didn’t really know what it meant,” said Moore, but SciFi exec Michael Jackson suggested Moore play up the religious angles. The colonists’ polytheism was holdover from the many references to the Greek and Roman gods in the 1970s series.

* Mary McDonnell volunteered that everyone was “quite happy” with Ron Moore’s directorial debut.

* How does the Cylons’ Bob Dylan tune and Baltar’s Shakespeare quotation fit in to the bigger picture? “All will be revealed,” replied Moore cryptically.

* 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:

Herc’s rating for “Battlestar Galactica” 4.10?

*****

10 p.m. Friday. SciFi.