BSG S4 *Spoilers*

[petemc]

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She always was and especially around Tigh. Last week she was so different. I guess jealousy and stuff really isn't good for her. Poor baby though. I think its clear, especially with the themes in this episode, where things are going. Humans & Cylons need each other to survive. Galactica needs Cylon tech. Cylons need to fall in love with humans to procreate. That then leads us to the end. Cavil wants the final 5 to build resurection. He has superior forces too. That'll make him try and take them by force. Its not clear how many ships he has though. Oh and now Baltar's religious group is armed. Hard to see where that's going. Maybe some fight between them and the "Sons of Ares" after all he's the god of war. Its clear that theres a big showdown coming though. One to decide the fate of everything.

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[petemc]

I've heard...

last episode has been extended to 3 parts
part 1 on the thursday, then part 1 repeated again on the Friday along with parts 2 and 3
Whoo!

[leowyatt]

so instead of it being 22 episodes long the season is in fact 24?

[petemc]

I really have no idea. The production numbers throw me completely. Todays was ep 16. But last weeks podcast was about ep 17 which was actually 15. I thought it was going to be 20 episodes. Ok wiki to the rescue.

The Sci-Fi Channel confirmed on March 22, 2007 that Battlestar Galactica had been renewed for a fourth season of 22 episodes, which producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore later announced to be the series' last.

The first 2 slots of season four's 22 episode order were taken up by the two-hour TV movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Episodes 3 to 12

The rest of the fourth season was split into two parts, partly due to the writers' strike.

Episodes 13 to 22

The second half of season 4 (referred to as Season 4.5), consisting of 10 episodes, began airing on January 16, 2009.[17][18] Moore has stated that some of these episodes will run longer than the traditional episode with the March 20 [19] series finale possibly running for up to three hours.[20]

So its a normal 20 episode season. There are 4 episodes left. But I don't know whether that means 1 next week then 3 the week after or 3 more "1 hour" episodes and then one big "3 hour" event. Ah wait

until March 21 for the 2 hour finale.

2 hour, 3 hour. I dunno The last 2 episodes are a 2 parter I know that much from the episode titles of part 1 and part 2.

[leowyatt]

my brain hurts

[petemc]

Part 1 could be 1 hour and part 2 2 hours. I dunno. I wish they'd clarify it. Anyways, last 4 episodes essentially. Seems like an insane amount to "tigh" up

[leowyatt]

rofles yes they have alot to sort out over the next few weeks

[petemc]

I reckon Dirk Benedict turns up as Kara's father and the one true god. Ronald D Moore actually said that they considered having Dirk appear at the end of S1 during the opera house stuff. I think he felt it would have been too cheesey. Ah ha. Ok so at least one thing seems clear. RDM has at one point felt that "god" is real and we get to meet him/her. Who knows if we still do.

In the first draft of "Kobol's Last Gleaming", he went into the temple and Six took him towards some subterranean passage, and it was very dark, and she said, "This is as far as I go." And he says, "What?" And she makes him go further and he's just finds himself walking in a void, a black void, and doesn't know where it's leading. And at the end of that he comes into a room and he hears music and it's a recognizable Earth-tune, to the audience and to him. It was Jimi Hendrix was playing, actually, and he goes, "God, I recognize that." And then somebody- or somebody s- a voice says, "You recognize that?" And he says, "Yes." And he turns and it's Dirk Benedict. (Laughs.) And Dirk Benedict said, "Hi. I'm God." And you just cut. We just cut out on that.

Just to continue that thought about Kobol and it was Dirk Benedict, and he said, "Hi. I'm God." And they shake hands and that was- we were gonna cut, and that was gonna be the end of that whole storyline and at the episode. I liked it. I thought it was wacky. I didn't quite know what it meant. I thought- I was looking for a surprise. Something interesting that fed into the mythos of the show and also to the audience and something that would really be unexpected and different and, frankly I didn't know what the hell I meant. I didn't know, was he lying? Is it true? It threw a lot of puzzle pieces up in the air in an unexpected way which, to me, was a reason to try to do it and see if it worked. And by and large the reaction ran the gamut from, "Huh?" to "That's really wild and cool!" And ultimately in a discussion with the network, I think it was Mark Stern, who's our production executive at the network, just said, "You know what? You don't need this. You really don't need to go this far. It seems like you're pushing- it's pushing too far. It's winking at the audience for the first time and you haven't done that." And I said, "You know what? You're right." He was right. It was a misstep.

[petemc]

Wham! Something just hit me.

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Daniel can't be Kara's Dad. The actor who plays the pianist in the recent episode isn't the actor that plays Daniel in the new Caprica show. RDM has said that Daniel isn't a key figure in BSG but is in Capirca. This begs the question of just who the frack Kara's Dad is. Theres a clear Cylon final 5 connection there. Maybe, what if, there are other survivors from Earth? Another colony?

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[petemc]

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Aw poor Galactica. I knew she wouldn't make it. I knew there would be something else to the Cylon goop. I'm guessing a skeleton crew might stay on board. They'll go after Hera in it as Anders, if he ever becomes lucid, could probably pilot the ship. Have to wonder if Starbuck will survive. She seems to have accepted her own death. If she died once maybe she'll come back. Maybe she doesn't need to come back.

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2 weeks left. 2 official episodes. 19 and 20. Well, production wise 21 and 22. The schedule on Scifi for that evening is 8pm 4x21. 9pm till 11pm is 4x22. Thats the 3hr finale. We get one hour next week and then 2 the week after. As Michael Jackson this week said, this is it. 3 hours left to answer it all. They did say that the finale really wraps it all up.