Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Church of the Third Revelation

In an article that links to various final Cylon theories, Marueen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune talked to Ron Moore and confirmed the following information:

Moore confirmed to me that the final Cylon is not any of the people in the Last Supper photo.


From the Arclight Dome, Sci-Fi Pulse has new video of the arrivals of Mary McDonnel, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer, Ron Moore, and Universal cable exec Bonnie Hammer.

Future-Past.com in partnership with Galactica.tv was granted the opportunity to interview Ken Hawryliw who is Property Master for the hit Scifi series Battlestar Galactica. Ken shares insight into the processes involved with developing props for the show and the behind-the-scenes magic he performs to make them so believable.

Several Canadian outlets, CTV, Canadian Press, and 24 Hours Vancouver talked to UBC professor C.W. Marshall, who teaches Greek and Latin poetry and fellow UBC professor, Tiffany Potter, who have edited a book of papers called Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica.
Marshall says the book falls into three major sections, the first looks at how post 9-11 life is reflected in the series.

"The series is really trying to reflect in a fictional world the real things that are happening after 9-11," he says. "The second section has a series of papers that deal with what constitutes being human. In the television series the surviving humans are fleeing the robotic Cylons. But the question of whether the Cylons are human, can be treated as humans, under what circumstances they can be seen as human - really these are philosophical questions that again map onto a post-9-11 world, when we can feel comfortable bombing another country because they're not like us.

"And the third section is really looking at the series in terms of television today. How this series is at the forefront of a wave of new television that's really quite exciting and thought provoking."

Tiffany Potter, who co-edited "Cylons in America" with Marshall, says because "Battlestar Galactica" is science fiction and rooted in fantasy, it can explore topics in ways that would be difficult for a series set in the contemporary United States.

"The problem with talking about that on CNN or Fox News is you immediately risk alienating a substantial part of your audience," says Potter.

"As soon as you translate that to outer space, it's not real. You're able to make it about a space president and a space election. When you remove that threat to people's own self-construction, then they can ask the hard questions."


The Hollywood Reporter has news on the Fox pilot Virtuality written by Ron Moore and Michael Taylor, which has cast the lead role of Frank Pike with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau who previously stared in the Fox series New Amsterdam.

And at The Atlantic Monthly Asymmetrical Information blog by Megan McArdle, attempts to answer a reader's question on how to get his wife into SF and Battlestar Galactica in particular.

6 comments:

Aaron said...

Not to be picky, but you might mark that first bit as a spoiler :\

Anonymous said...

"Moore confirmed to me that the final Cylon is not any of the people in the Last Supper photo."

Umm...cmon guys, you gonna believe the Ron Moore is going to spoil us like this, and rule out like 10 cast members?

RDM is a lying frakker :P He's just toying with us. I will bet you anything Baltar is the Final Cylon, and Moore and the Cast are just trying to throw us of and confuse us.

And if for some Gods forsaken reason this statement is true...well it's going to make many BSG Fans very disappointed.

~Adalla

Logan Gawain said...

Aaron and Adalla... yeah, I suppose it could be a spoiler to say who it isn't... but that's debatable.

But, it clearly would be a spoiler to say who it is. Even if I knew who it is, I'd never report it. We really intend to be a spoiler free site here.

And yes, I think a lot of people will just assume Ron is lying or tossing out red herrings to throw people off.

Anything is possible.

Anonymous said...

Believe it or not, there are some of us BSG fans who DON'T REALLY CARE who the final cylon is. OMG!

It seemed worth pointing that out here.

(I'm more interested in who the Head characters are...and what happened to Starbuck...)

Anonymous said...

If it is a minor character, how do they ramp up their importance by the show's finale? How does a Doc Cottle suddenly become central to the story? Or Dualla? Or one-leg Gaeta? One would think the final Cylon is going to be the most important one, so why would they wait so long to reveal him/her? And if they don't know they're a Cylon, why would they be the last to know? Maybe it's a character we haven't met yet - the Wizard from behind the screen?

Anonymous said...

anon #1 at anon #2: well Cottle, Dee and Gaeta are supporting but certainly "important" IMHO... anyhow, I'm not that concerned. Call me crazy.