Crissing the Crossroads...

Now ... spoilers ...


thru the finale of 3.0

(Holy Shit! ) Bear McCreary is from Fort Lauderdale.
(Props to the hometown.)

"All Along The Watchtower" came out in 1967.

Here he talks about reworking and working in the song.

While the song is among the best Bob Dylan ever wrote, Jimi Hendrix's 1968 version is so famous and iconic that many people simply assume he wrote it. In fact, All Along the Watchtower is among the most frequently covered pop songs in history. So, you can imagine my surprise when I learned that not only would it be included in the season finale, but it was incorporated directly into the script.

From E!:

And just because there will be debate, can you confirm that they are Cylons?

Yes, they're Cylons.

Will we meet the fifth Cylon eventually, and when?

Yes, I think we will eventually reveal the fifth Cylon. "When" is a tougher question to answer, because we haven't really decided ourselves.

And you won't tell us this if you know what's good for you, but have we met that Cylon before?

Oh, I can't answer that.

I have questions that were emailed from readers. The first one is from Alesia: "In one of the podcasts, you said 'Maelstrom' [where Starbuck dies] was the beginning of the third act of the series. What would you say was the break between the first and second acts?"

Oh, that's an interesting question. I would say it was the year's leap forward that was the end of the first act. The story of New Caprica—that, to me, was the second act of the show.

Now, Starbuck seems to be back, but is Katee Sackhoff contracted to do season four? Is there more Starbuck story to tell?

Yes, Katee will be back with us for season four. We couldn't let her go.

And gods bless Saul Tigh.

...he still hesitated not at all to perform his duties.

(Zap2it)

"My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be."

Ron Moore in Salon:

I like the show best when you get to a place where you're not sure who you're rooting for anymore, you're not sure whose side you're on. And you're confused and you might even be angry about what we're doing but at least it's forced you to a place of trying to define your own point of view on something.

He says this of the reality of the characters on the ship:

It wasn't going to be the best ship in the fleet crewed by an elite crew. It was going to be an old ship getting ready to go into retirement, and there were going to be a lot of misfits on that ship. What happens when the fate of humanity rests on their shoulders? That's a far more interesting question to me.

Shit. The finale even got a shout-out on frick'n - I mean frackin - Daily Kos.

Today's a day for huge history and navel-gazing cultural deviances alike: other March 26ths have seen the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Accords (1979), Jonas Salk announcing the development of a vaccine for polio (1959), and an raging online debate over whether Battlestar Galactica achieved new brilliance or totally jumped the shark with last night's episode (2007).

Back to spoiling. This writer makes a very important observation:

It can't be a coincidence that these were four of the five leaders of the New Caprica insurgency (the fifth being Laura Roslin, and isn't that damned interesting?)