UPDATE: At Monday's screening of the "Battlestar Galactica" series finale in Manhattan, series mastermind Ronald D. Moore fielded spoiler-rich post-screening questions. You can find Discover Magazine's report on that session here.

You can find Chicago Tribune writer Maureen Ryan's spoiler-happy discussion of the finale with Moore here.

I am – Hercules!!


Erin Fox of TV Guide.com, who attended Monday’s screening of the "Battlestar Galactica" finale at the upfronts in New York, says this:

"The first hour-and-a-half of the finale is so intense, you'll find it difficult to breathe. So many questions will be answered — including some you probably thought wouldn't be addressed due to time constraints."

I have many questions. Like who just keeps spare Starbucks lying around?

Around the 34-minute mark of the podcast for “Island in a Stream of Stars,” Ron Moore says Cylon model seven, Daniel, is not Kara Thrace’s daddy – nor does Daniel have any role in the series beyond explaining why there didn’t seem to be a seventh model.

Was John Cavil, or one of his agents, driving the car that killed Laura Roslin’s father and sisters? Did Cavil need to drive Roslin to pursue a political career, to become the leader of all humanity?

For the final scene of the Young Husker Adama webisode series, we inexplicably leapt ahead 40 years to see the devious undercover Cylon Doral arrange for Lee Adama to be assigned to Galactica just prior to the genocidal launch of Cylon War II. Why?

Why were the faces of Cylon resurrection scientists Saul, Ellen, Sam, Tory and Galen in the algae planet’s Temple of Five? The final five Cylons were born 2,000 years ago. The temple was built by the 13th colony at least 1,000 years earlier.

The Sacred Scrolls say that the Temple of Five was dedicated to the five priests who worshiped "the one whose name cannot be spoken." Who’s that Voldemorty figure? A hot young computer genius named Zoe Greystone, we will learn in the coming series “Caprica,” turned the Caprican Cylons into monotheists back when Bill Adama was still a preteen.

Why does Hera draw “All Along the Watchtower”? Why has Kara been painting The Eye of Jupiter since she was a lass? Why did Galactica happen upon the algae planet just as its sun was going supernova?

Why can Baltar stick his consciousness in environments the way the Cylons can? Why does Laura Roslin share dreams with Six and Eight?

What do the Cylons want with Hera? Are they slapping on tailfins and swapping out her carburetor?

Whether or not the series finale of “Battlestar Galactica” is good, it will be big. Ron Moore has said in interviews that he plundered the NBC Universal treasury to make the finale.

SciFi says of tonight’s two-hour “Battlestar Galactica,” titled “Daybreak: Part 2”:

As conflicts reach a climax, Cylons and humans face a stark choice.

Remember that this is end, but it isn’t. Jane Espenson’s script for the Cylon-centric prequel “The Plan” was shot last summer and will likely air this autumn. The pilot for the “Caprica” prequel series hits DVD next month and the “Caprica” series proper begins shooting this summer.

Want to see somebody use the iPhone’s Cylon Detector app on the adorable Katee Sackhoff during her Q&A at KUFO-FM’s “Daybreak: Part 1” screening last Friday in Oregon? Beware spoilers and click here.

Note that tonight’s installment begins an hour early and runs two hours and 10 minutes.

9 p.m. Friday. SciFi.

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