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.