BSG News, Articles, Reviews Misc. tidbits

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April 2 2008

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/...bsg_explainer/

Everything you were afraid to ask about "Battlestar Galactica"
A complete primer on the smartest sci-fi TV show ... maybe ever.
By Thomas Rogers

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The premise may sound like derivative schlock, but by virtue of its strong writing and naturalistic style, the series manages to be engaging and politically relevant. Its creator, Ronald Moore, uses "Battlestar's" universe as a funhouse mirror for American post-9/11 cultural anxieties. Since the miniseries' initial Cylon attack -- with its parallels to the events of Sept. 11 -- "Battlestar" has broached topical debates about torture, military occupation, abortion, genocide and war crimes. It has managed to do so while avoiding the trap of strained allegory and partisan politics, and has maintained the escapist thrill that makes science fiction, well, science fiction.

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promo pics

Six of One http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=282


ties that bind http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=283

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There'll probably be a plethora of articles on Friday....


WIRED

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/h...2008/04/helfer

4-3-08

Death and Fanboys: Q&A With Galactica's Sexy Cylon

LOS ANGELES -- Sex, death and mind games are just another day on the job for Tricia Helfer, the honey-haired actress who plays Battlestar Galactica's skin-job Cylon Six.

Her character's intensity -- and Six's propensity for dying horribly brutal deaths, only to be reincarnated, Cylon-style -- might intimidate fanboys who spot Helfer at sci-fi conventions. But she's really just an easy-going Canadian farm girl made good, far from the angry and erotic part she brings to life on the show.

At a recent party at Electronic Arts' Playa Vista headquarters, Helfer showed up in skin-tight blue jeans, a red silk tank top and 4-inch stiletto heels to promote the videogame Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (she plays Gen. Kilian Qatar in the game's videos). Settling into a lounge chair, she chatted with Wired.com about sci-fi fanboys, sex, Six and Battlestar Galactica, which begins its final season Friday on SciFi Channel.


REST OF Q&A at link above. Plus picture of Helfer for the fanboys


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http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainm...78276-sun.html

April 3, 2008
Close to the end: Battlestar Galactica
By STEVE TILLEY, SUN MEDIA

Like all good things -- life, love, that particularly good chorizo empanada you had for lunch -- even Battlestar Galactica must come to an end.

The Peabody Award-winning series, hailed as one of the decade's finest TV offerings, is spooling up the faster-than-light drive for its fourth and final season, premiering tomorrow night on sci-fi channel Space.
It's the beginning of a bittersweet last leg for the cast and crew, including stars Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park. On screen, there's been much friction between their characters; Sackhoff plays tough-but-vulnerable ace pilot Kara (Starbuck) Thrace, while Park's Sharon (Boomer) Valerii (please, we call her Athena now) is a Cylon, the race of androids who destroyed humanity's homeworlds

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Visit http://www.spacecast.com/hypaspace.aspx and if you’re lucky, you get the BSG banner on top

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...nt/Television/

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GLOBE & MAIL (Canada)

Grace on fire
With Battlestar Galactica about to enter its final season, Vancouver actress Grace Park says goodbye to life as a sexy Cylon, and proves there's life after sci-fi

ANDREW RYAN
April 3, 2008 at 3:28 AM EDT

Nobody warned Grace Park about leaping into the sci-fi universe.

Like William Shatner before her, Park went boldly if blindly into the TV remake of Battlestar Galactica, and with all best intentions. The show was filming in her hometown of Vancouver anyway, and it was a chance to expand her acting portfolio. It was a job.

Warp-drive forward four years and the ex-model and University of British Columbia graduate (she has a degree in psychology) is the screensaver poster girl for millions of sci-fi devotees and part of a broader pop-culture phenomenon peaking at the same time it is ending, as did the original Star Trek series. For someone who craved anonymity, Park entered the wrong TV genre.

"I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky," says the willowy, wiry actress, in Toronto recently to push the upcoming final season of Battlestar Galactica (beginning tomorrow on Space). "There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground."

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http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....ica/index.html

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Date: April 02, 2008

'Battlestar Galactica's' fourth season, the strike, and directing in space: The scoop from Ron Moore

Below is the edited text of my mid-March conversation with “Battlestar Galactica” executive producer Ronald D. Moore. In a day or so, I’ll post a review/feature on Season 4, which begins 9 p.m. Friday on Sci Fi. But I thought I’d post the text of this interview first.

By the way, I posted a few highlights from this interview here two weeks ago; that post includes Moore's thought on the new "Star Trek" film, the set of which he visited recently.

There are five sections:

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Yup, a whole ton of articles. Snatched from www.google.com/news. ANybody can search for the show or actors names there, as this is not all the articles....

http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/pixel_visi..._seasonop.html

'Battlestar Galactica''s season-opening salvo whirls by like a black-out trip to Earth

First: what an amazingly over-the-top press kit housing season four's opening episode. The disk came tucked in the rear pocket of a framed, numbered print of Battlestar Galactica in Last Supper mode. Quite a souvenir for the trophy room.
The season opener, "He That Believeth in Me" unfolds as pals/lovers Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace trade glances from their respective ships as they fly alongside each other. Starbuck assures him that she's been to Earth and he's "gonna love it." Vipers and Raiders battle, splattering organic toaster guts on Starbuck's windshield: the opening boasts nuanced, exquisitely realized special effects - the powers-that-be are clearly not holding anything back for the last season. The cinematography and effects here are lush, showy, and cinematic in their detail.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...attlestar.html

Cylons are golden on 'Battlestar'

"Battlestar Galactica" starts its final round tonight - okay, okay, so we've heard that one before - and things look tense and bleak.
Just how "BSG" fans like 'em.
Fans also like things to be somewhat complex, and "BSG" fulfills that wish as well. While it calls itself a character-driven drama, accessible to anyone who likes a good story, the truth is that at this point, the complex subplots and nuances of all the backstories make it more satisfying for longtime fans than for recent drop-ins.

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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/apr...wants-a-perfo/

FRAK WHAT? "Battlestar Galactica" begins its final season tonight on the Sci-Fi Channel. The loyal fan base will be parked in front of the TV set, many of them wearing their "frakking" T-shirts.
"Frak" is the four-letter "Battlestar" slang word for all the frustrating things in the universe.
"Battlestar" ends its run as a well-respected work of science fiction, which is more than can be said of the original 1980 series that starred Lorne Greene.
Edward James Olmos as Admiral Adama and Katee Sackoff as the ace fighter pilot Starbuck made us forget all about that clunky low-budget version. Also, the story lines have been strongly influenced by our post-9/11 terrorism fears and the war in Iraq.
In this incarnation, a race of homeless humans is on the run from the heartless, robotic Cylons. The humans are trying to find an inhabitable planet called Earth. Wait a minute. Adama headed to Earth? Get it? It's the past, not the future. This is a different twist on that intelligent design theory.

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.d...0333/1025/LIFE

Battlestar Galactica season-opener, 10 p.m., Sci Fi Channel. In one crowded hour, "Galactica" takes two detours. It wraps up Baltar's trial and whisks him to a part of the ship we didn't know existed. And it brings back Starbuck. Yes, the same Starbuck who seemingly died in a fierce fireball. Colleagues are skeptical - especially about the claim she makes. "Galactica" is a smart, well-crafted show; also, this first hour throws in lots of booming action.

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http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...f-d00e0b9faf5e

The fourth and final season of the shot-in-Vancouver series Battlestar Galactica will begin airing on the Space sci-fi cable channel this evening at 7 p.m.
The mini-series, which premiered in 2003, has attracted a loyal cult following.
Battlestar Galactica follows the story of the murderous Cylons, sophisticated robots who rebelled against their human creators. After the Cylons destroyed the 12 colonies, a few survivors took refuge on a fleet headed by the Galactica.
Led by Comdr. William Adama (Edward James Olmos) and President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), they are seeking the lost colony, Earth, while battling attacks from Cylons without and the possibility of Cylons within.

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http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpo...a-1c8af1fd6b79
Self-examination theme on 'Battlestar'
Alex Strachan, The Leader-Post
Published: Friday, April 04, 2008
Do you know who you really are? That's the intriguing quandary at the heart of the dark, ferocious, hard-edged sci-fi cult series Battlestar Galactica, which returns tonight for its fourth and last season with an episode called, appropriately, He That Believeth in Me.
Battlestar Galactica fans need not be reminded of past events. If you know who Kara Thrace is, or that her call-sign is Starbuck, or that she's played with an outward toughness and inner vulnerability by Katee Sackhoff, then you know that she died last season, only to be resurrected in a white-knuckle season-ending cliffhanger

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http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...article/410053

As the cult hit launches its final season tonight, Canadian star says Galactica more than just sci-fi
Apr 04, 2008 04:30 AM
ROB SALEM
TV COLUMNIST

Even without the eye patch and the scowl, Michael Hogan has never exactly been shy and retiring.
Which makes one wonder why, even on the eve of tonight's avidly anticipated return of Battlestar Galactica (Space at 10 p.m.), he has studiously, stubbornly avoided the press.
That is, until now.
It isn't a privacy issue, the actor insisted in an exclusive interview earlier this week. He just doesn't think it's necessary.
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http://www.star-telegram.com/televis...ry/561755.html

Show's last voyage gets rocket boost from pilot's return
By CARY DARLING
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

When missing/presumed-dead fighter pilot Starbuck popped up alive at the end of Battlestar Galactica's season-three closer last year proclaiming she'd found Earth, it's a wonder the Internet didn't explode faster than a Mentos-and-Coke cocktail. Blogs were buzzing. Fans were gobsmacked. Dreams of season four danced in their bespectacled heads.
But wait, there's more. Not only had Starbuck supposedly found the mythical planet that the ragtag remnants of the human race had been on a death-march across the universe to find, but -- unknown to anyone -- four of her colleagues turned out to be the genetic equivalent of a peanut-butter cup: heroic human on the outside, shady alien cylon on the inside. (This revelation was accompanied by what had to rank as one of the oddest uses of a version of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, ever.)

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http://www.star-telegram.com/enterta...ry/561739.html

Battlestar Galactica: It's a feast for Galactica fans today: Not only does the fourth-season premiere air tonight, but Sci-Fi will run 10 season three episodes, beginning at 7 a.m.; then re-air last season's two-part finale beginning at 7 p.m. Then comes the premiere, which Star-Telegram pop culture critic and Galactica addict Cary Darling reviews on the Your Life cover. I'll just say that the season premiere doesn't mess around, that it's good to have Katee Sackhoff's Starbuck back, and that I was a little more impressed with it than Cary was. Premiere: 9 p.m., SCIFI

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http://hub.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...40309/1104/HUB

TV tonight: 'Battlestar Galactica'
Mike Hughes | Lansing State Journal
In one crowded hour, "Galactica" takes two detours.

It whisks Baltar to a part of the ship we didn't know existed. And, as hinted in the season finale, it brings back Starbuck.

Yes, that's the same Starbuck who seemingly died in a fierce fireball. Colleagues are understandably skeptical - especially about the claim she makes.

We're skeptical, too, but we'll stick with it. "Galactica" is a smart, well-crafted show; also, this hour throws in lots of booming action.


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http://www.zap2it.com/tv/zap-review-...,3604827.story

The fourth and final season of "Battlestar Galactica" picks up where the last left off, with most of our major characters questioning the notion of identity.

Foremost are, of course, the four new Cylons revealed last season -- Col. Tigh, Sam T. Anders, Chief Tyrol and the president's assistant Tori (notice a pattern?). Starbuck, suddenly alive, wrestles with the possibility that she's also a Cylon, or perhaps a clone. Baltar, found not guilty of war crimes, tries to find his place among a new group of followers. And Apollo, having sprung Baltar from execution, adjusts to life as a civilian.


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http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/En...89441-sun.html

Battlestar Galactica, 9 p.m., Space: The fourth and final season of the award-winning sci-fi drama (where "frak" is a common exclamation) premieres this evening. Suspicions arise around Starbuck's mysterious return, and four members of the fleet are still digesting the revelation they'recylons.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tvguid...52_tvgif4.html

Cylon-apalooza: Battlestar Galactica Returns for Its Final Season
By MICHAEL LOGAN
TV GUIDE
Battlestar Galactica (Fridays at 10 pm/ET, Sci Fi) is back, and the new Cylons are getting in touch with their inner robots.
Prepare for the big Cylon freakout. In last spring’s season finale of Sci Fi’s Battlestar Galactica, four of the human colonists came to the rocking, shocking realization that they’re members of the cybernetic Cylon race. In other words, they are their own worst enemies! So when BSG returns for its fourth and final season, viewers will find this quartet of undercover “Toasters” — Col. Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan), “Chief” Tyrol (Aaron Douglas), Ensign Sam Anders (Michael Trucco) and presidential aide Tory Foster (Rekha Sharma) — struggling to make sense of their new identities while staying deep in the closet.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tvguid...50_tvgif4.html

Inside Battlestar Producer Jane Espenson's Frakkin' Amazing Job
By ERIN FOX
TV GUIDE
Jane Espenson is one of the busiest and seemingly happiest writers around Hollywood these days. Not only does her résumé include incredible shows like Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Jake in Progress and Andy Barker, P.I., but she's now working as co-executive producer on Sci Fi Channel's Peabody Award-winning hit show, Battlestar Galactica. TVGuide.com sat down with Espenson at her Universal Studios writing office to talk about working on one of the best shows on television, which TV character she'd like to have lunch with, and the new Caprica series.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertai...6743696.column

Today on TV
April 4, 2008
The end is near. Yes, Battlestar Galactica - the dark and rollicking outer-space series that some have called the best science fiction ever made for television - launches its fourth and final season. We have lots of questions: How will the four members of the fleet deal with the shocking revelation that they are Cylons (robots who want to wipe out humans)? What's their story? Where do they go from here? What do we make of Starbuck's mysterious return from the "dead" - and her claims that she has been to Earth and can lead people back there? (9 p.m.-10 p.m., SciFi).

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../DDHTVVA2P.DTL

Battlestar Galactica: Drama. 10 p.m. Fridays on the Sci-Fi Channel.
It seems hard to imagine as it enters its fourth - and final - season tonight, but "Battlestar Galactica" remains the best drama nobody seems to be watching. Well, the loyalists are watching - and they are crazy for the sci-fi series that was "reimagined" from the cheesy late 1970s series into a minimalist, dark, ambitious wonder.
"Battlestar Galactica" is a sci-fi series perfectly suited for people who normally don't like science fiction. That's because it has never been a big-budget production and it forced the show's creators, writers and actors to improvise the ways they told stories. In short, they got creative and found a way to be better than they likely would have been with more money. Instead of pyrotechnic effects, the emphasis is on the writing; the acting, which is raw but nuanced; and the direction, which must be nimble as most scenes are shot inside a cramped spaceship.
Though "Battlestar Galactica" also satisfies the sci-fi aficionado with an intricate backstory about a postapocalyptic battle between man and machines in deep space, it has never had any of the antiseptic distance that most sci-fi shows give off. Instead, "Battlestar Galactica" has been intimate - at times in the viewer's face with nervy, emotional landscapes as opposed to computer-generated effects that don't stimulate anyone's brain, much less heart.

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...NT03/804040318

Seems Starbuck beat death on new 'Battlestar Galactica'

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "Battlestar Galactica" season-opener, 10 p.m., Sci Fi Channel. In one crowded hour, "Galactica" takes two detours. It wraps up Baltar's trial and whisks him to a part of the ship we didn't know existed. And it brings back Starbuck.

Yes, that's the same Starbuck who seemingly died in a fierce fireball. Colleagues are understandably skeptical -- especially about the claim she makes.
We're skeptical, too, but we'll stick with it. "Galactica" is a smart, well-crafted show; also, this first hour throws in lots of booming action.

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http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et...,3193876.story

It's not too late to climb onboard the good ship 'Galactica'
A quick primer will get you up to light speed on one the best shows on television.
By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

The premiere of the fourth and final season of Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica" is tonight, and if you think I am going to write anything like a review of it, you are crazy.

Because "Battlestar" is one of Those Shows, the kind that have conventions and multiple pages in Wikipedia, the kind that viewers watch and rewatch, parsing character and discussing themes as if it were "Finnegans Wake" or "Absalom, Absalom!" It is to the Sci Fi Channel what "The Sopranos" is to HBO, a show that defied all expectations and became that rarest of beasts: a big, fat hit with a cult following. A cult following that has waited more than a year for this, the final season, to begin, with only the two-hour prequel movie "Razor" to sustain them. The term "highly anticipated" doesn't begin to do it justice

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http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695266920,00.html

'Battlestar Galactica' begins final chapter

Tonight marks the beginning of the end for "Battlestar Galactica" — the fourth and final season gets under way.
And it's a bittersweet moment for fans.
There's excitement because we're finally going to start getting answers to the cliffhanging questions we were left with when Season 3 ended more than a year ago.
(However, don't expect a whole lot of answers in the Season 4 premiere, which airs tonight at 8 and 10 p.m. on the Sci Fi Channel.)

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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...804040401/1031

Get prepped for last 'Galactica' season

Oh, frak!
My brain simply refuses to accept the fact that the fourth and final season of "Battlestar Galactica" begins at 10 tonight on the Sci Fi channel.
At least we'll find out who the fifth Cylon is now.
Refusing to be the boor who ruins everybody's good time, I will not say much about this evening's awesome opener. What I will say is that a dramatic battle in space kicks off the show and a heated battle between two characters ends it.

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http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=164972

'Battlestar Galactica' begins its final season
Auchtung, Trekkies, "Star Wars"-heads, nebbishes, geeks and all other forms of obsessive-compulsive sci-fi nerds, human and otherwise: "Battlestar Galactica" is coming home.
The outer-space allegory begins its fourth and final season at 9 p.m. today on the Sci Fi Channel with the copycat Cylons multiplying, Adm. Adama grimacing, President Roslin pontificating, Dr. Baltar fornicating and a reborn Starbuck, eager as ever, claiming she can lead them all home to Earth -- although perhaps she's really the last of a dozen humanoid Cylons and preparing to betray them to her/its masters.
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http://www.twincities.com/ci_8800517

'Battlestar Galactica' Season 4 of this stellar series blasts off
Julio Ojeda-Zapata
[email protected]
Article Last Updated: 04/03/2008 07:00:22 PM CDT

"Battlestar Galactica" has consistently been the finest science-fiction show on television (some call it the best series in any genre in recent memory), so tonight is a big night: Season 4 is finally upon us.
When we left the ragtag human fleet last year, it was still on the run from the evil robotic Cylons and in a desperate search for the mythical Earth.
Weird stuff was happening. Four humans discovered they were really Cylons (the identity of a fifth Cylon is yet to be revealed) and presumed-dead fighter pilot Starbuck emerged from a space cloud to announce she had actually visited Earth.
Now things get complicated. Can Starbuck be trusted? Can the four Cylons trust themselves? And what's with the disgraced former president Gaius Baltar and all those sexy women who worship him, body and soul?

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http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/...2/-1/ENTERTAIN

'Galactica' keeps on keeping it unreal
April 04, 2008 6:00 AM
"Lost" and "Battlestar Galactica" (10 p.m., Sci Fi, TV-14, season-4 premiere) offer proof that the best TV dramas leave viewers with more questions than answers. And that's what keeps us coming back for more.
The folks at Sci Fi have promised to unleash Cylon warriors (and not the shapely kind) on me if I reveal too much about tonight's episode, so suffice it to say that none of the players seems to have a clue as to what's real anymore. I'm reminded of the old Firesign Theatre gag "What is reality"?


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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/ar...ref=television

Space Opera Returns: One Last Step for Mankind

Earth, not space, is the final frontier of “Battlestar Galactica.”
The galaxy-wandering survivors of an apocalyptic attack begin the fourth and last season of this Sci Fi Channel wunderseries where they left off: with the faint but improbable hope that one of them has found the lost, mythical home planet.
Whether anyone should believe Kara Thrace, a k a Starbuck, the swashbuckling fighter pilot who was thought to be dead for two months and cannot account for her lost time or prove her claim, is only one of many mysteries confounding the crew of the Galactica. Another is her latest sleeping arrangements: Kara (played by Katee Sackhoff) has a husband and a lover (two, if one counts the amorous Cylon who held her captive on the robot-occupied settlement New Caprica).

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ent...D?OpenDocument

The cult of Katee Sackhoff extends beyond "Battlestar Galactica," possibly past the boundaries of the universe. Fans around the world celebrate her fierce performance as fighter pilot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in the Sci Fi Channel favorite.

Many even followed her last fall to NBC's "Bionic Woman," where she stole the show as the original bionic woman.

Last season, Sackhoff appeared to make a premature exit from "Battlestar Galactica" as Starbuck's ship exploded in flight. Then, after months, Starbuck mysteriously reappeared, telling her lover, Lee "Apollo" Adama (Jamie Bamber), "I've been to Earth. I know where it is. And I'm going to take us there."

That's where the fourth and final season, beginning tonight, finds "Galactica." Starbuck's nearest and dearest want to celebrate her return, but they are doubtful, even Adm. William Adama (Edward James Olmos

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Batch 4, and there's still a lot left at Google....




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http://www.wired.com/entertainment/h...04/bsg_preview

Cylon Mania Blazes Back in Battlestar Galactica

And then there was one. After Battlestar Galactica revealed the identities of four of the show's "final five" human-looking Cylons at the end of Season 3, theories about the last "skin job" burned in fans' brains.
Season 4 of SciFi Channel's re-imagined Galactica begins with even more questions and "what the frak?" moments, and few actual answers about where the show is headed in its final season.
The Cylon revelations in the psychedelic Season 3 finale reinforced the big ideas about religion, war and what it means to be human that have made Battlestar Galactica the smartest science-fiction series on television. The Season 4 opener explores the same brainy terrain.

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http://scifi.about.com/od/battlestar.../BATT_4x01.htm

When last we were aboard the Galactica -- over a year ago! (Crossroads, Part 2 was broadcast March 25, 2007) -- three astonishing developments had just arisen, of which the least shocking was a massive ambush that the Cylons, somehow knowing the route the human fleet was following, had just sprung at the mandela-shaped nebula that seemed a signpost to Earth.
Even more upsetting was the revelation that four of the series regulars -- Chief Tyrol, Col. Tigh, Sam Anders, and Tory Foster (the president's aide) -- had discovered that they were Cylons, and always had been. Most startling of all -- especially to Lee, who had seen her ship explode -- was the sudden reappearance of Kara in a pristine Viper, right in the middle of the firefight, claiming that she had found Earth and would guide them back.

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...ar-final_N.htm

Though some of its characters may return from the dead, don't expect Battlestar Galactica to be resurrected after a fourth season.
"The way we are ending the show is such that there's not going to be an ellipses at the end of the sentence," says executive producer David Eick.
The series' final season, which kicks off tonight (Sci Fi Channel, 10 ET/PT), addresses last year's shocking finale, in which four human Cylon models were revealed and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (played by Katee Sackhoff), presumed dead, returned to say she had spotted the crew's ultimate destination: Earth.
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http://media.www.hofstrachronicle.co...-3302760.shtml

'Battlestar Galactica': an underated gem

Hey there, sci-fi fans,A new season of "Battlestar Galactica" is just around the corner. This will be the fourth season in creator Ron Moore's version of the cult-classic 1978's series, which starred Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. On April 4, 2008, many fans will be glued to their television sets, anxiously finding out how the citizens of the 12 colonies will get to Earth. Now, many are probably saying, "Hey, why should I watch this "Battlestar Galactica? Doesn't Dwight from 'The Office' watch that?" Well, yes, he does, and with good reason.

It's unfortunate, but true, that "Battlestar Galactica" (BSG) only gets about 1 million viewers a week on average. Compare that to the near 15 million viewers that "Moment of Truth" gets-well, it's easy to see that the TV-watchers of America are none too interested in romantic drama, brilliant political commentary and very attractive people wearing tight uniforms or no clothing at all.


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APril 4th

http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/ENT_b...3/photo_0.html

10 reasons why 'BSG' is awesome

PHOTOS WITH captions; fans should take a look

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http://www.multichannel.com/blog/130...120024412.html

Battlestar's Final Season: Will They Commit Frak-ricide?
April 3, 2008

Battlestar Galactica is such a compelling, wrenching series, I feel a little guilty even discussing the show in less than stellar terms – especially when there is so much junk on air, outer space tales or otherwise.

Warning: minor spoilers ahead.

The series is still highly recommended but there are rough spots. Battlestar can be occasionally trite. The writers sermonize. It’s relentlessly humorless.

And watching the premiere of the fourth and final season, I couldn’t help but wonder if the Battlestar crew members will eventually kill each other off over the Cylons-R-Us conundrum, a kind of…patricide, fratricide, or…

as my husband quipped, “No, it’s FRAK-ricide.”

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[BruTak]

Wouldn't it be fun if the imaginary Six in Baltar's head, and the imaginary Baltar in Caprica Six's head could interact with each other?

Probably be a production nightmare, but it'd be fun nonetheless.

[Trek_Girl42]

APril 4th

http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/ENT_b...3/photo_0.html

10 reasons why 'BSG' is awesome

PHOTOS WITH captions; fans should take a look

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That is great.

Wouldn't it be fun if the imaginary Six in Baltar's head, and the imaginary Baltar in Caprica Six's head could interact with each other?

Probably be a production nightmare, but it'd be fun nonetheless.

That would a mind-frak. Literally. *ducks out of thread*

[BruTak]

That would a mind-frak. Literally. *ducks out of thread*

I can just picture it.

Baltar/ Caprica Six: "Who are you talking to?"

Imaginary Six/ Imaginary Baltar: "No one..."

[Pharaoh Atem]

review of the premire http://www.scifistream.com/story.php...elieveth_In_Me

[Pharaoh Atem]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=51211

Battlestar's Olmos OK If All Die

Edward James Olmos, who plays Adm. William Adama on SCI FI Channel's series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that it's not inconceivable that all of the characters will die by the end of the upcoming fourth and final season--and that would be OK with him.

Not that that is in any way a spoiler for the upcoming season. But Olmos said it would be fitting for a show that he called a "commentary on our times" and the "most worthwhile piece of television" he has ever done.

"Basically, if it?s true to form, no one makes it," Olmos said in an interview at SCI FI's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York earlier this month.

[Pharaoh Atem]

also

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...ory=0&id=50832

Ron moore visits the set of the new movie

Moore Has Trek Deja Vu

Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ronald D. Moore, who also worked on several Star Trek projects, told SCI FI Wire that he had a sense of deja vu when he visited the set of J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie, which is currently in production.

Moore was invited to visit the set recently by Abrams. (Moore worked on The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager and the films Generations and First Contact.)

"Oh, that was amazing," Moore said about his visit in an interview. "It was really great for me. They were shooting on one of our old [Paramount] soundstages on the day that I was there. So to walk on one of our old stages and see a Federation starship again was a treat. There was a positive vibe in the cast and the crew. I really appreciated the visual look of it, and I was excited to see the uniforms and all that kind of really hardcore, Trekkie geek stuff came flying back to me."

follow link for full article

[prion]

APRIL 4th

http://www.dose.ca/tv/story.html?id=...f17a13&k=90337

Not Just a Star, He's Also a Fan

excerpt:

Like many fans out there, Battlestar Galactica actor Tamoh Pennikett isn't entirely ready to say goodbye to the critically acclaimed Sci-Fi network show, but he understands why this season has to be the last.

"It's about integrity and never losing it," he says, taking a break from filming an episode of the fourth season's second half. "[Show creator] Ron (Moore) and the writers have always said that Battlestar has a beginning, a middle and an end -- and if they say this is where the story should end, then I completely trust them."

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