contains a spoiler, beware

http://www.cinemablend.com/televisio...ons-10800.html

something to carry you over until Friday night

Looks awesome. I sure hope the whole episode delivers in a way that leaves me begging for more like "Pegasus" did.

I'd say we should consider this the official episode thread for Friday, but I don't want to rile the day-of zealots.

Well I vote that this thread serve as the SPOILER zone. Last week's episode thread had a full page worth of theories and spoilers spoilerized. If this thread can be marked as the "spoiler" zone then theories can be explored elsewhere...

Looks like we are going to have to wait until 2009 for a new episode after tomorrow night....

From TVguide.com

Battlestar Galactica fans are well-advised to sit back and savor this Friday's midseason finale, because the balance of Season 4 — the series' last, lest we forget — won't be hitting the tube until after "the first of the year," says executive producer Ronald D. Moore. And that's a best-case scenario.

At a Wednesday-night screening of this week's episode, Moore explained to TVGuide.com that even though they are currently filming the series' final scenes, the "practical realities" of post-production — coupled with the formidable end-of-year competition presented by new fall series, baseball and football — places the onset of the final episodes at the start of 2009, at the earliest. "Realistically, there's no way to get back on the air faster," he apologetically added.

hasn't this always been the case with BSG? a long mid-season break?

Correct.

Which means I won't be able to look on my shelf and see a complete set of Galactica DVDs until somewhere in the middle of 2010, right?

Hopefully over the next year or so they'll reissue the first three seasons (including 'Razor') on Blu-Ray to keep us busy and broke.

Any news on whether they'll issue a stopgap 'Season 4.0' set like they did with season two?

^ Most likely. If so, look for it towards the end of the year.

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






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?


Herc’s rating for “Battlestar Galactica” 4.10?

*****

10 p.m. Friday. SciFi.

^

Frak.

I'm kinda glad. Proves they didn't let the WGA strike really get in the way of the story.

i bet it's a never ending cycle of man creates machines that become organic, turn into a new human race, create machines, etc

What are the odds that upon reaching Earth, the now-mortal Cylons are in shock that there are many copies of Baltars, Roslins, Lee and Bill Adamas, Starbucks, Helos, Gaetas, Callys, Cottles, Duallas, Cains, and Billys to welcome them.

Anything will be better than Flying Motorcycles and the Cylons desroying LA.

PSA: available today from scifi.com stream, every hour 9am-4pm EST.

full episode as well, no more 10 minute crap that is 5 minutes of credits and ads

and it's very good

T-15 minutes until the 1pm EST broadcast. Anyone wanna watch with me?

Shit, I think they just did a little bait & switch on us...

Wow...

Sorry for the quadruple posts. But wow...

Has anyone seen these? pretty frakkin' cool, man.

Finally a good episode! Oh BSG, how I've missed you.

wow.

GREAT episode - i have no freakin' idea where they'll go from here...

They should cheer up. It seems as though they just landed in New Jersey.

Yeah, must still be some nice spots to live somewhere.