I can’t wait for this. I watched the special earlier this week and have been seeing the previews and it looks like things are going to get really interesting over the next few weeks.
Oh, and coming down the line in a couple of episodes:
Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro) as Admiral Cain of the Battlestar Pegasus
My prediction is that Starbuck, who is apparently the only competent pilot/officer on the fleet, will continue her role of jack-of-all-trades, including successfully operating on Adama, delivering all of Boomer’s various babies, discovering Earth, and successfully fighting off the entire Cylon fleet by squeezing on the spleen of her captured Cylon fighter. But she still won’t get to first base with Lee Adama.
Yep, I’m so ready. Let’s please all remember to respect our cousins across the pond by conscientiously using spoiler boxes, shall we? They did it for us in Season 1, after all.
The preview clips on the NBC reruns didn’t show anything significant, btw - unless you count: [spoiler]Adama didn’t necessarily die, even though Six tells Baltar he will. Dunno if Olmos has a new contract or not.
The blurb in today’s Daily Local Fishwrap says Roslin gets even more mystical and visionary this season, so apparently she *doesn’t * die, at least not right away. It also says Six *might * be knocked up by Baltar. Or maybe not.
The pressure of being both fleet commander and acting President gets to Tigh, and he starts drinking heavily again.[/spoiler]
Well frak me! Judging by the spoiler info about the Pegasus story, Ron Moore not only reads the sci-fi message boards, but he’s more than willing to take our ideas, because that story sounds like it was lifted almost exactly from our speculations. Speculations that I was in on.
Way back when BSG was just kicking off, and Ron Moore didn’t know whether the show would even be renewed, a lot of us (on the Scifi.com) message boards were discussing whether Ron Moore could do a Pegasus story, and if so, how it would work. Based on the info in the spoiler articles linked to by tanstaafl, it sounds like he decided to go with it, and use the ideas we posted. Could be coincidence, but I doubt it. He, or his staff, monitors those boards and responds to questions, so it’s not a surprise his staff would also be reading the Pegasus threads.