Who is the final cylon?

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Brian’s Final Cylon Musings
by brian on April 17th, 2008
from SF Universe

You taunt me, Final Cylon. I don’t know who you are, yet you haunt my every waking moment. What are your plans? Do you know you’re a Cylon? Will you have a revelation scene as cool as the “All Along The Watchtower” ending from Season 3?

Starbuck? Just too obvious, since no one in the fleet really trusts her after her “death.” Or is it? It’d be just like Battlestar Galactica to make us think there’s no way it could be her and then Blammo! But I think she has a much higher purpose amidst all this.

Bill Adama? Again, it would be too obvious a ploy I think. Although getting Starbuck off the ship with a clunker and a tiny crew could be an integral part of some master plan.

Lee Adama? This would be funny, since it would mean the love of Kara’s life and her husband are both skinjobs. BSG can throw out the comedy at times, like Brother Cavil’s “There’s no way I’m a frakkin’ Cylon – Oh” revelation.

Anastasia Dualla? What kind of poetic justice would it be if both Kara and Lee kicked each other to the curb and found love (or a reasonable facsimile) in the arms of Cylons? And is the whole Anastasia thing a clue? The most famous Anastasia is, of course, the fabled Russian princess who didn’t know her own identity.

President Roslin? She’d be in the best position to frak things up. But would a Cylon miss a prime chance to blow away humanity’s apparent savior in Kara? Perhaps, if the Cylons want to find Earth as badly as we do and think Kara does know the way.

Gaius Baltar? I don’t think it’s him because he wants it so badly. Although it would make his twisted relationship with Six more enjoyable since he’s been teaching her to be “human” in her visions.

Some character presumed dead? Ellen Tigh or Billy Keikeya? I really hope not. I’ve even heard Zac Adama as a rumored possibility. This would be the cheapest move they could make I think. The writers have sort of alluded to it with Lee asking his dad if they would love Zac any less “if he was a Cylon, if he had always been.”

I honestly am unsure, although I lean toward Roslin since she’s so adamant Starbuck is wrong. If Starbuck’s going the right way, it could be advantageous to the Cylons to leave her isolated and try to follow her there.

What are your theories, BSG fans?

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Lost Spoilers

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from Scifi Wire

Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, executive producers of ABC’s Lost, offered reporters major spoilers for the remainder of the fourth season, which resumes with new episodes on April 24.

Speaking in a conference call with reporters on April 17, they revealed that the conflict between Jack (Matthew Fox) and Locke (Terry O’Quinn) will reach a head in the season finale; that viewers will learn more about the fate of Claire (Emilie de Ravin); and that viewers will learn more about what happened to Rousseau (Mira Furlan) and Karl (Blake Bashoff), who were shot by an unknown assailant and left for dead in the last original episode to air, “Meet Kevin Johnson.”

Also, Cuse promised that viewers will see the smoke monster again in the first new episode back. In upcoming episodes there will be more of the mysterious Jacob, and viewers will also finally learn more about the four-toed statue.

As for the two-part fourth-season finale, “There’s No Place Like Home,” the producers said there was no way they could squeeze in all the story they wanted to tell without expanding the final episode to two hours.

“We had an eight-hour story plan that got condensed down to five initially because of the strike,” Lindelof said. “And in trying to cram all that story around the finale, the rubber hit the road. And we realized that it all felt very rushed and we were short-changing our emotional moments. You know, our character moments. So we read the 80-page first draft of hour two and looked at each other and said, ‘There’s no way we’re going to be able to cut this down to a 55-page script. Why don’t we expand it to 100 pages?’”

The final three hours will deal with the romantic triangle of Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Jack and Sawyer (Josh Holloway). “All we can say is Sawyer is not one of the Oceanic Six, and Jack and Kate are,” Lindelof said. “Obviously there will be a huge focus in these final three hours of the show that comprise the finale in terms of how that series of events transpires and what ultimately happens to Sawyer, and it’s all on the axis of the love triangle. We think that both fans of Sawyer and Kate–otherwise known as the ‘Skaters,’ from what I am told–and Jack and Kate–the ‘Jaters’–will have a bounty of interesting romantic scenes.”

As for that standoff between Jack and Locke? “I think Locke and Jack, to us right from the beginning, represented the two significant philosophical poles of the show,” Cuse said. “Jack was the ultimate empiricist, and Locke was the person who believed his fate and destiny were all tied up in the magic and mystery of this island. And the conflict between those two guys is really the central conflict on our show. So that’s a theme we continue to explore. And there’s a big culmination of that that takes place in this season’s finale.”

Beyond that, the series will be “revisiting the emotional idea” behind the kiss that Jack and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) had early in the season, possibly in the May 1 episode, Lindelof said.

“There are definitely some very large and seismic events that will happen to our castaways between now and the end of the season,” Cuse said. “And by the end of the season some people’s fates will be clear, and others will not be so clear.”

Lost returns with “The Shape of Things to Come,” the first of five new episodes, on April 24 in a new timeslot, Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Part one of “There’s No Place Like Home” will air on May 15. The two-hour second part will air on May 29 at 9 p.m.

(Because of the writers’ strike, the fourth season was shortened by two hours, which will be bumped into the show’s fifth or sixth season.) –Kathie Huddleston

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Picardo: Woolsey reinvents himself

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by David Read
from GateWorld

Many fans, some who were just beginning to adjust to the absence of Elizabeth Weir , are now mourning the departure of Samantha Carter from Stargate Atlantis. In four seasons the base has already had two leaders. Now, Season Five, it will take on a third, most unlikely candidate: Richard Woolsey.

“The [International Oversight Advisory] decides to replace the military commander because it was always going to be a science expedition,” Robert Picardo told GateWorld. “In the interim I become the commander while they’re basically head-hunting. I’m doing a sufficient-enough job that I get to stay on.”

GateWorld spoke with Picardo during filming of Season Five’s “Ghost in the Machine.” At this point in the season the actor says Woolsey’s reason for taking the job has yet to be established.

“He clearly wanted [the position],” Bob reveals, but not for the reasons some might jump to suspect. “I can tell by how they’re writing the character. This is something that he wants very-much to prove himself in. And from an actor’s perspective it’s fun to play characters that are trying to reinvent themselves.

“I’ve never enjoyed the challenge of playing someone who is one way happy with the way he is and not about to try to change or to grow … I think that that’s an appealing thing for an audience to see a character that wants to reinvent himself, who realizes what his character flaws are, what his weaknesses are, and wants to try to overcome them. So that’s the part that I’m most enjoying.”

Woolsey’s story arc should prove to be a naquadah mine of potential for growth in Season Five. Amanda Tapping is already scheduled for more appearances beyond the season opener, “Search and Rescue,” and Picardo hopes for a scene which will force the two characters to confront.

“I hope that we’ll get to actually have some sort of confrontation about why I took her job, so to speak,” he says, “or why I recommended that she be replaced, perhaps [pitching] myself as a temporary replacement.”

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Stargate Atlantis Spoilers

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‘The Shrine’ is a character study
by Darren Sumner
from GateWorld

Beware of SPOILERS for Stargate Atlantis Season Five’s ‘The Shrine’ in the report below.

Cameras are rolling this week on “The Shrine,” the sixth episode of Stargate Atlantis’s fifth season (formerly titled “The Shrine of Talus”). Written by series co-creator Brad Wright, the episode promises to be a dramatic episode that is heavy with emotion and character moments.

In new interviews with GateWorld, Wright and Atlantis co-star David Hewlett (“Rodney McKay”) revealed details about the story and the impact it is sure to have.

“My favorite script of all time is ‘The Shrine of Talus,’ [which] Brad Wright has just written,” Hewlett said. “It’s good to have Brad. It is the one that is going to blow everyone away. It’s unbelievable. It’s a wicked acting piece. Kate [Hewlett, David's sister] is coming back — we’ve got Jeannie back. It’s just brutal. It’s a total tear-jerker.”

In the episode, Rodney McKay suffers from an mental affliction that rapidly robs him of his memories and his identity.

“It is the inverse of ‘Flowers For Algernon,’” Wright revealed to GateWorld. (In the award-winning novel by Daniel Keyes, a man with an IQ of 68 has experimental surgery to increase his intelligence — but the effects gradually begin to wear off.) “McKay ends up suffering from the effects of something that is very common among the very old in the Pegasus Galaxy that is equivalent to fast on-set Alzheimer’s, that is called ‘Second Childhood’ in the Pegasus Galaxy. And he very quickly not just loses his memory, but becomes quite childlike.

“Interestingly, the first symptom is that he’s a wonderful person,” Wright said. “Nobody notices that there is something wrong at first, because they all like it — until it is too late to operate.

“Ronon comes up with an idea, and the story takes off from there.”

The episode clearly gives Hewlett a large range to play, as the most brilliant person in the Pegasus Galaxy loses everything that he feels makes him who he is, and as McKay interacts with his friends and his sister.

“For McKay it’s fantastic, because there is this whole deterioration thing happening,” Hewlett added. “It is the one that I am, without a doubt, the most looking forward to right now.”

“It’s a character study for practically everyone in the cast, and David gets to play as an actor in a very big way,” Wright said. “I’ve heard it from a few folks reading the script that it has choked them up. Hopefully it has the same effect on the audience when they see the scenes. It’s moving.

“And everything is OK … I don’t kill anyone!”

The new season of Stargate Atlantis is expected to begin in July on SCI FI Channel in the United States, meaning “The Shrine” should air sometime in mid-August.

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