You're forgetting Richard Hatch. Which is like the ultimate in self-referential saddo-ness.

And anyways, what's wrong with that approach to saddoes? Chekhov's turn as head of psy corps in Babylon 5 was excellent.

Nothing wrong with it. I'm just saying...

Richard Hatch's presence is a whole other level of geek pandering, so I didn't mention that.

I don't know why they gave him a role. Apparently, he tried to prevent the show from happening.

Apparently, the guy who played the original Starbuck (and was on the A-Team, Dirk Benedict) thinks having Starbuck be a woman is PC-gone-mad or somesuch. I'm not sure, but it created a bit of kerfuffle.

Of course, he's wrong. The show wouldn't be nearly as interesting if Starbuck - not to mention the president, Cally and a few others - weren't female, as I've explained before.

So Murdoch can now add to his list of crimes having BSG advertised all over the place as being on tv at 9pm on tuesday only for it to be replaced by... the 'Lost' season finale.

Which I'd already seen.

Which meant I had to go back to my marking.

What a cunt.

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I almost pissed myself laughing when Deanna made her Roslin-is-a-Cylon gag. Does rather scupper my own Roslin-is-a-Cylon theory though. The whole wounded-Baltar-gives-Roslin-her-humanity thing was a bit heavy handed, I thought. They normally handle those topics a bit more subtly.

I was ok with that heavy-handed scene. I felt the situation merited it given how much those two hate each other.

At the point where Baltar was about to die, he looked like the dead Che on the Bolivian table top.
Deliberate I'm sure, given his 'Prison Notebooks' last season and Jesus robes recently-they have so much fun with that character don't they?

He must be great to play, as well. Callis must be having the time of his life.

The random collection of BSG obsessives I work with are about to launch a 'Final Cylon' sweepstakes-everyone puts a fiver in, names their choice in a sealed envelope, and the winner(s) scoop the lot.

Just seen the final episode of the series...£rack me. the best cliffhange EVER...EVER.

Shit.

I'm unclear. When's the next episode?

Was episode 10 the last ever episode?

Just seen it.

No, there will be a further ten episodes. They've not been scheduled as yet. They'll probably air in 2009. Until then, there will apparently be another series of "Webisodes" to tie fans over.

My word, that finale was a kick in the balls. Have my own theories on how it's going to pan out but I have to applaud them for making such a bold narrative move.

I'm an episode behind, but I thought "The Hub" was a terrific episode. Glad to see Baltar getting some humor scenese again.

We just started watching from the first season again, and fuck is "33" good. For the first regular episode, they really got it right from the start.

They did indeed. Ronald D. Moore won a Hugo Award for that episode, if I remember correctly.

DS,

I agree, the ending of the last episode was fantastic (actually, the whole episode was great). I'm a little irritated that, despite all of the episodes being shot, SciFi decided to split the series in two and is waiting until 2009 to air the second half. I don't have that kind of patience for something that is so good.

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Did anyone else think the last scene was going to cut to the statue of liberty?

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