Friday, January 9, 2009

Just read a really cool BSG interview. It again commented on the number of questions answered in the final episodes while revealing no spoilers, and giving us more information.

Apparently the finale of BSG will be 3 hours long. I had heard this before, but I thought that this included episode 9 of 4.5, "Daybreak, Part 1", only that doesn't appear to be the case. This means that we have 10 episodes left, but 12 hours of BSG to watch. Plus "The Plan". Plus "Caprica". Nice.

This is especially good news for me, because I'm a sucker for bookends. Battelstar Galactica started with a mini-series that aired over 2 nights. If you split each segment up into episode size sections with commercials and all, it's 4 separate episodes. And now the series is ending with what is essentially a 4 part episode. I've obviously not seen the ending, but I already enjoy the symmetry of it. Take Caprica into account (not to mention the unused minisodes from "Razor") and the 4 hour miniseries has an introduction and prologue, with "The Plan" serving as an epilogue. I just like the idea of it all. Hopefully it ends well. It's been tool long since we had a science fiction triumph like this. The only 2 that come to mind for me are DS9 & Firefly.

I'm also liking that while "The Plan" serves as an epilogue the first time you watch the complete series, that when you rewatch the series (and BSG is a series that BEGS to be rewatched) you can view "The Plan" at a certain point within the series and it should make sense (probably near the end of Season 2). And all kinds of things you thought you understood about the characters the first time around are turned on their heads during the 2nd viewing. It's awesome. Brilliant really. The 2nd time around viewers will know who all the Cylons are and what they were up to. They'll also know about Gaeta & Hoshi; Gina & Helena Cain; & what Gaius whispered in Gaeta's ear. And they'll know how things begin and how they end; who lives and who dies. It's just cool that something enjoyed so much the first time around can be enjoyed for different reasons the 2nd time around.

But only if it ends well. Yet I can't imagine it not ending well. We'll see.

These are the episodes we have left, which will air 1 a week for 10 weeks, starting 1 week from tonight:

Season 4.5:
01 Sometimes a Great Notion
02 A Disquiet Follows My Soul
03 The Oath
04 Blood on the Scales
05 No Exit
06 Deadlock
07 Someone to Watch Over Me
08 Islanded In a Stream of Stars
09 Daybreak, Part I
10 Daybreak, Part II (3hr Series Finale)

In another interview I read, which I can't find now, Ron Moore mentioned that there's a good chance that the dvd release of these episodes would likely include an extended cut of both "A Disquiet Follows My Soul" & "Daybreak, Part II". Nice. The set will also undoutedly include the webisode series "The Face of the Enemy". It remains to be seen if the set will also include "The Plan" in the same way that Season 1 included the mini-series, and Season 4.0 included "Razor", but it would be nice.

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