Galactica Gets Dark(er) in Season Three

Friday, August 25
Galactica Gets Dark(er) in Season Three

Source: Now Playing Magazine
Written by Cindy White

The first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica weren't exactly light-hearted affairs, but according to executive producer Ron Moore and star Edward James Olmos, the upcoming third year will be its darkest yet. In separate interviews, the two recently spoke to Now Playing about where the show is going and what's in store for both the human and Cylon factions (Hint: It's not going to be pretty for either side).

"The writing, the story, the character development is devastating," Olmos says. "I cannot tell you. I worked last week and I've never had a week like that in my life, because everything that's happening to the human species is into the final steps of its annihilation. So every single moment becomes the end of the existence of the human species, and it's deadly when you are working at that level constantly. The attention is overwhelming. Both Mary [McDonnell] and I are sitting there going, ?My God. This is too much.'"

Olmos revealed that the humans will use (spoiler to follow, highlight to reveal) a pandemic to try and annihilate "a race" (he didn't say which one, but it's not difficult to guess) by infecting them with a deadly virus. He also talked about returning to the director's chair for the 12th episode, which will be the first to air after the mid-season hiatus. The tone of the episode will be quite different from his previous effort, last season's "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down."

"This one will be more connected to the main body," he says. "The other one was a comedy. We decided to try one in the first season just to lighten things up. And it worked well. I thought it worked very, very well. It was very different, and it introduced some very strong characters. And in turn, those characters now are going to devastate you. What happens to them is brutal. It's very sad."

For executive producer Ron Moore, the turn to the dark side is something that was always part of the show's natural progression. "I think we deal with some dark material in the third season," Moore agrees. "I don't know that it's any darker than anything we've dealt with previously, but the show continues to sort of take risks and be provocative and do challenging stuff. I'm happy about that. But the show is not nihilistic. The show is not a bleak show about really depressing things. I think it's really just about how people react and how people are and how people behave in situations and that's what you're tuning in to see."

Moore adds that he's not worried about the series getting too serious. There's always a light at the end of the tunnel. "The show's always had a dark premise at its heart, [but] the show's also always been about hope and the human condition and the fact that these people struggle on in spite of everything that happens to them."

The season premiere of Galactica airs Friday, Oct. 6 on SCI FI Channel.

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Special BSG Recap to air

Viewers Prepare: The Return Of BSG

Source: Fouton Critic

One-Hour Recap Special Preps Viewers for the Season 3 Premiere Sweeping Distribution to Include Online, In-Store, And On-Air Across Every NBC Universal Property New York, NY August 9, 2006 After a long, hot summer, SCI FI Channel offers some sweet relief to 'Battlestar Galactica' devotees and new viewers alike a one-hour recap special to whet their appetites for the series' season 3 premiere in October. Incorporating footage from the original SCI FI miniseries and the show's previous two seasons of the Peabody Award-winning series, 'Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far' will serve as a refresher for current fans and as a primer for anyone new to the world of Galactica.

Told through the voice of Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), the Secretary of Education-turned President - turned resistance leader on now Cylon-occupied New Caprica, 'Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far' will chronicle humanity's costly struggle to survive against its deadliest enemy. In a broad synergistic move, 'Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far' will air across all NBC Universal platforms NBC, USA Network, Bravo, Sleuth, Universal HD, and online on SCIFI.COM's own broadband channel, 'Pulse.'

The special will be broadcast as follows:
Sunday, August 13 at 10PM NBC West Coast (following Football)
Monday, August 28 Free On Demand via SCI FI's cable affiliates
Friday, September 15 at 12AM USA Sunday, September 17 at 7PM Universal HD
Monday, September 18 at 9AM USA Friday, September 22 at 8PM Universal HD
Friday, September 22 at 6PM Sleuth Friday, September 29 at 7PM BRAVO
Saturday, September 30 at 11AM BRAVO
Saturday, September 30 at 4PM Universal HD September SCIFI.COM's Pulse Friday, October 6 at 7PM SCI FI
*Other SCI FI airings TBD in Sept/Oct*

SCI FI's comprehensive promotional outreach will extend far beyond just the broadcasts. Throughout September and leading up to the season 3 premiere, 'The Story So Far' will also be made available for download via iTunes and XBox Live the first longform program ever to be offered via XBox and will be distributed at Best Buy as a bonus dvd with the 'Battlestar Galactica' season 2.5 dvd set, as well as other genre titles, from Universal Home Video. The dvd will also be distributed to visitors to the Universal Studios theme parks, and snippets of the special will be available on YouTube, Google Video and other video portal sites.

'Battlestar Galactica' is the gripping saga of humanity's last remnants and their struggle to find a new home while fleeing from their deadly Cylon enemies. Redefining the space opera with its gritty realism, 'Galactica's intensity, issues-driven topicality, and command performances have garnered it numerous awards, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award.
Executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, the series stars Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, Katee Sackhoff, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park.

'Battlestar Galactica' is from NBC Universal Television Studio.
SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic Web site (www.scifi.com) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 85 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.

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Adm Adama interview (Season 3)

CHUD Interviews EJO



Source: CHUD.com

(Warning: Minor Spoilers in text)

Battlestar Galactica is surely the biggest television surprise of the last decade - who imagined that a crappy Star Wars rip-off TV series from the 70s could be reimagined in the 21st century as the smartest, most relevant show on any network? It took me a long time to accept that this show could be worth anything, but when I gave in and watched it, I got hooked immediately. Every person I bring to the show is an uphill battle ... until they actually sit down and watch the thing.

Battlestar doesn't take place in the future; rather it's a show set in another galaxy where humans have colonized twelve planets and created a peaceful society. A generation ago the human's robot slaves, the Cylons, rebelled, and a bloody war was fought. Forty years of peace followed, with the Cylons disappearing. But they return one day and wipe out the twelve planets, leaving only a ragtag fleet of less than 50,000 human survivors lost in the galaxy, trying to find the mythical planet of Earth. Meanwhile, the Cylons have new models that are indistinguishable from humans, and they have infiltrated the human fleet. The show examines war and conflict in a very modern setting - a recent episode had a human partisan on a Cylon occupied human world acting as a terrorist, blowing up a caf頦ull of humanoid Cylons.

The cast of Battlestar was at Comic Con this year, but I was too busy to make it to their panel. Color me very bummed. I was able to get a few minutes with Edward James Olmos, though, as he was promoting his son's directorial debut, the gangster film Splinter. On Battlestar Olmos plays Admiral Adama, the man in charge of the ragtag fleet, and the man who has had to make some tough and controversial decisions to keep humanity alive.

Q: Talking to the cast of Splinter, one thing that keeps coming up is that while the film is a thriller and it needs to be exciting, the movie has reality to it. It seems to be the same thing with Battlestar - sure it's sci fi, but it's addressing political issues. How important is that to you in your work?

Olmos: It makes all the difference in the world when you have this passion for what you're doing. You've got to have a strong sense of understanding of that. It affects everything. Intent equals content - the intention with which you're doing something comes out in the content. Everytime. If your intention is to make money, you see it like that in the art. If your intention is to become rich and famous you can see the intention in the choices the person is making and where they're going. There's no hiding a commercial artist when you see one. I've never been able to do that - and I've made commercial pieces of work. They all had the sense of understanding humanity in a way that allowed you to go to the movie and come out understanding a little bit about yourself. That's what it's all about.

Q: Do you think the reality is important to the audience as well?

Olmos: Did you see American Me? That's an ugly movie; nobody should be exposed to that. What the hell do you want to go for two hours and watch that life? Better you should go to The Godfather - at least that's romantic and you come out humming the theme song.

Q: Life is ugly sometimes.

Olmos: It is. And that's exactly what [Splinter] is.

Q: The reality that you guys bring to Battlestar will be continuing in the third season - we're going to learn that Adama has a dark past.

Olmos: Man, it's brutal. I can honestly tell you the first two years cannot prepare you for what happens in the third. Not even close. I'll tell you this, you're going to have to deal with suicide bombers. You're going to have to deal with the spread of a pandemic for the annihilation of an entire race ... done by the good guys! The good guys are the ones doing it. It makes you stop and re-evaluate.

You're talking about the last vestiges of the human species. When we enter the third season - we were 49,000 people when we left our planets at the very beginning, at the first episode of this journey to find another planet to breed humankind again. We're now less than 38,000. We lost 11,000 people, man.

Q: Are you surprised that the show can be that dark and that brutal and yet be so popular?

Olmos: Yeah! Yeah! I'm totally blown away. We won the Peabody, man! Give me a ****ing break. How in the world does that add up? Where does that line cross? How does that happen? I get chills. I've been doing this for 41 years, man, and Battlestar Galactica wins the Peabody? I'm the ****ing guy that did Stand and Deliver! I'm the guy that did The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. I have used the television medium to the best of my abilities and done stuff that will be lasting forever in the annals of the artform - and Battlestar Galactica gets the Peabody.

Q: How long do you see the show going on for?

Olmos: We've been talking about it. It's hard to write this. These guys are always on the verge of a nervous breakdown because they can't go in for the flash and the simple, basic sci fi mode. If they do that, they'll crush everyone.

Q: Everybody expects more.

Olmos: Oh man, they do. And they're waiting, and they're anxious. And you know what? I'll give you my attention, and you are the best show. Now what are you going to do this time? People are dying to turn on the television and see this piece of work. It's unbelievable. I don't know what to say about it. I'm blown away.

Q: Adama has to make tough decisions, has to do things that cross the line or could be considered troubling - how important is it that you agree with him, or understand where he's coming from?

Olmos: As a human being? Me, as an actor? I never get into that kind of psychology. When you're inside that world, everything is the end of all humankind. Every single day, every single time. We did last week - it was the darkest week I have ever spent in film, ever, in which I am literally going to annihilate, push all the nuclear weapons I have on the ship to annihilate everything. The Cylons, us, everything. It's all over guys! I have my finger on the button, man! And it's so brutal. It's just so brutal what happens, man.

Q: How do you decompress from that?

Olmos: It's hard. You come home from work worn out. The whole day you spent in this vicious, vicious world that's self-destructive. I'm in constant conflict with everybody - my son, Tigh, the relationship between me and everybody. It's tremendously difficult. You just feel for everybody.

Q: That's part of the joy of the show.

Olmos: It is. Everybody loves it. They love that tension, they love to go, 'What's he going to do now?' It's amazing. I am so lucky - I am a true believer in the program. I believe this is one of the greatest programs I have ever been involved with in my life and that I have ever seen on television.


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New BSG Season 3 titles revealed!

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON THREE 2006-2007

OCCUPATION 301
The Colonials survive on New Caprica under Cylon rule, with some collaborating and others fighting back. D'Anna discovers that the hybrid child has survived.

PRECIPICE 302

EXODUS, PART 1 303

EXODUS, PART 2 304

COLLABORATORS 305

TORN 306

HERO

THE PASSAGE 309

EYE OF JUPITER 310

RAPTURE 311

TAKING A BREAK ... 312

The crew considers the very real possibility that its new prisoner is a Cylon -- and he's no longer sure they are wrong.

The OC (Fall 2006)

The O.C. Spoilers (in Invis-text, highlight to reveal)
Updated on August 2, 2006

The O.C. airs on FOX on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST. The series was renewed for a 4th season of 16 episodes and will remain in its timeslot.



Episode 4.01: The Avengers
Airdate: November 2, 2006

07/22 - Seth works at a comic book store in Newport. Kirsten drops by the store to ask Seth if he has something to send Ryan in a "care package" she is preparing. Later, Seth tries to talk Ryan in coming to dinner at the Cohens' but the latter isn't easily persuaded, saying he works nights, etc. At her dorm, Summer and a friend named Che try to rally students for a protest. Summer gets a phone call from Taylor who seems to be in Paris. Leon from Season 2 is in the episode. Source: SpoilerFix.com
07/14 - 16-year-old twins Brad and Eric Ward (Luke's brothers) will make their first appearances as recurring characters in the season premiere. In the season premiere, the twins and Kaitlin go to Newport Plaza to study and smoke a joint. Kaitlin is surprised to see Dr. Roberts and the Step-Monster (aka Summer's step mom) together at the mall. Later, Kaitlin and the twins go to a party on the beach where she leaves them stranded in a car on the beach. Source: SpoilerFix.com [Note: It is unknown if this means Luke will be on the show and if so, if he will be guest starring in a few episodes or be a recurring or regular. Also, it seems we will not clearly see who the step-monster is.]


Episode 4.02: Title Unknown
Airdate: November 9, 2006

08/02 - When talking with Taylor, Amber, Summer's roommate, is surprised to know Summer has a boyfriend. Amber asks Taylor if Che is said boyfriend... Source: SpoilerFix BuddyTV Spoilers Chat
07/30 - Ryan goes to Vegas in order to find Trey. Seth is also in Vegas and seems to be living life on the edge, which includes getting a tatoo and drinking too much. Taylor is at Summer's dorm where she meets Amber, Summer's roommate, who is totally unlike them. Amber is suprised when Taylor mentions Summer has a boyfriend... Julie and Kaitlin take part in a clothing drive at Harbor School. Source: SpoilerFix.com [Note: Some reports say that Ryan and Seth will be in Mexico and not in Vegas.]


General Season 4 Spoilers:

06/07 - Yes, it's true. The show doesn't come back until early November and, with the scheduling for this fall and next winter/spring, Fox only needed 16 at this point. I'm told that number can easily (and quickly) be increased. Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
05/24 - Josh Schwartz reveals: [Season 4] won't pick up directly. We're not coming back until November, and I think we'll use some of that time to put a couple of months between us and the tragedy. But it certainly will not be forgotten. Volchok will be around, and you'll have an opportunity to see how [killing Marissa] landed on him and affected him, and I think that will be interesting. The show was originally about Ryan and the Cohens, and that's what it's going to go back to next year. It's really going to be about the Cohen family surrounding Ryan after this and the battle for his soul. Some people have gone to college when the show starts, some people haven't been able to go, and some people are waiting to go. We'll break the mold next year. [Part of the show will be set in Rhode Island.] Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
05/19 - When the series returns for season four, high school seems like a distant memory to the young graduates, who have been thrust into adulthood after the life-changing events of graduation night. Who heads to college to try to put the past behind them? Who stays in town because they can’t let the past go? Will the person responsible for the tragedy go free? Or will someone decide that the way to heal is through revenge? It’s a battle for Ryan’s soul as the Cohens struggle to keep him focused on the future, fighting the forces that threaten to pull him back into his old life. Sandy returns to the Public Defender’s office, and he and Kirsten find themselves reaching out to another troubled teen, but this one is not a stranger. It’s Kaitlin Cooper, the number-one troublemaker at The Harbor School, and too much to handle for her mother Julie, who’s off making some trouble of her own. The person most excited about leaving high school finds himself back there – as a teacher. And new cast member Taylor Townsend finds herself with some unlikely new roommates – and family members. As much as the arrival of Ryan has changed the lives of this community, so too has the departure of Marissa. The season hits the ground running with just the right mix of heart, humor, action and romance as our characters embrace their futures together. It’s a new day on THE O.C. … Source: FOX
04/19 - Josh Schwartz told my colleague Ileane Rudolph that he's planning a major "reinvention" of the show next season. For starters, Kaitlin (Willa Holland) will move back to town full-time, sparking a "repopulation of the high-school universe," Schwartz says. "You will see a whole new generation through Kaitlin's eyes." The "older" set, meanwhile, will segue into a "twentysomething world beyond just the bait shop. There's a whole young-adult world in Newport for our kids to get in trouble in." Schwartz won't guarantee that the core four — Seth, Summer, Ryan and Marissa — will all be back, but he did share this most welcome scoopbit: Autumn Reeser (Taylor) will be made a series regular. "You can anticipate a more fully evolved, romantically evolved version of Taylor in Season 4." Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide

New Spoilers for Fall 2006 Smallville

Smallville Spoilers (Inviso-text, highlight to reveal) from Spoilerfix

Smallville Spoilers
Updated on August 1, 2006

Smallville airs on The WB on Thursdays at 8 p.m. The CW has renewed the series for a 6th season and will leave the show in its current timeslot.



Episode 6.01: Zod
Airdate: September 28, 2006

07/13 - Aaron Ashmore — aka Veronica Mars' former beau, Troy Vandegraff — has been cast as Jimmy Olsen on Smallville! My Super mole confirms that Jimmy is being groomed as a love interest for Chloe! Source: The Ausiello Report
07/01 - Casting notices for the role of "Jimmy Olsen" have gone out for the season premiere! "Secretagentman" has revealed that Smallville's Jimmy Olsen is in his twenties. He is described as "adorable" and pesters Chloe for a dinner date until she finally gives in. Apparently they'd interacted in the past and each thought the other wasn't interested. The casting breakdowns imply that the character will recur throughout the season. It also says that Jimmy nicknames Clark "C.K.," which is a trait originated with Michael Landes' Jimmy Olsen in Lois & Clark. Nam-Ek and Aethyr (from "Arrival") WILL be seen again, but the roles ARE being recast. The role of the President is also being cast for the episode. Casting notices have also gone out for the role of a character named "Raya," whom "Secretagentman" reveals was an assistant of Jor-El's who helps Clark get out of the Phantom Zone. It sounds as though Raya will give Clark a crystal that will help him to stop Lex/Zod. Source: KryptonSite


Episode 6.02: Sneeze
Airdate: Fall 2006

07/14 - "Secretagentman" strikes again with some spoilage: One of the characters being cast for the episode is "Orlando Block," an unbalanced commando who kidnaps Lex. Initially it seems he is torturing Lex to learn all his secrets, but actually he is the employee of a mysterious mastermind. Source: KryptonSite
07/08 - Title is from KryptonSite.


Episode 6.03: Wither
Airdate: Fall 2006

08/01 - Just heard that there’ll be a big episode in which Lex throws a charity fundraiser at the mansion and gets The All American Rejects to play. The band is filming on Wednesday and singing their hit song, “It Ends Tonight,” which will appear on the show. The party is a costume party and we’ll get to know the show’s new addition, The Green Arrow (Justin Hartley), a little better and see which lucky lady he’s asked to escort him to the ball. Source: Kristin on E!Online
07/29 - Gough told The Continuum that Oliver won't be wearing his costume from the comics. "Although there will be a nod to it in episode three during a costume party," he said. Source: Comics Continuum
07/29 - The latest from "Secretagentman": There's a character named Gloria who is a "naturally beautiful" park ranger investigating some weird happenings inthe woods. A young couple is "frolicking" in the woods, and they are dragged away and left barely alive. Lois Lane barges into Oliver Queen's office. Lex hosts a costume party. Clark tries to dance with Gloria and a lumberjack "growls" at him. Source: KryptonSite
07/08 - Title is from KryptonSite.


Episode 6.04: Arrow
Airdate: Fall 2006

07/21 - [The] TV Guide's July 24 edition [reveals that] DC Comics character of Oliver Queen, better known to fans as Green Arrow, will be making an appearance in Smallville for a story arc that will go for "at least seven episodes." "He will start to form the nascent Justice League," Smallville executive producer Alfred Gough tells TV Guide in this week's issue. "He's trying to find like-minded people with special powers and put a more formal structure in place." The article goes on to say that Clark will initially be wary of Green Arrow, much like he was when future characters such as the Flash or Aquaman showed up in previous seasons. "Ultimately Clark will see the value of what he is trying to do," Gough says. "But as he's gotten older, Clark has become more cautious. He will always be there to help out, but he doesn't want to be part of a formalized organization." Just as big as the announcement of the character is the casting - Justin Hartley, who played the role of AC/Aquaman in Millar & Gough's Aquaman pilot will be playing the role of Ollie. TV Guide also reveals that Lois Lane will take a romantic interest in the emerald archer. Source: KryptonSite
07/21 - Title is from KryptonSite.


Episode 6.05: Subterranean
Airdate: Fall 2006

07/21 - Title is from KryptonSite.


General Season 6 Spoilers:

05/17 - Al Gough reveals: The theme [of Season 6] is the rise of Lex Luthor. You're definitely going to see the more ruthless Lex Luthor you know from the comic books really start to emerge. The season will also be about the corruption of good — not only Lana, but Martha. Will she get involved with Lionel? And when Clark does come back from the Phantom Zone, what will it have done to him? We never really explored what happens to somebody inside the Phantom Zone, which is really the ultimate incarceration. [...] The idea was that on Krypton — and we'd like to explore some of this in Season 6 — Zod was the ultimate terrorist. He and Jor-El were once friends and became enemies. As a result, there was a breakaway. It has more to do with political intrigue rather than that the planet started spinning too close to the sun, which has always sort of been the traditional story. Source: TV Guide Online
05/16 - The two Kryptonian baddies last seen in "Arrival" may return in Season 6. It is rumored that James Marsters may appear in Smallville's Season 6 premiere. It sounds like all of Smallville's seven lead characters will survive into the next season. Will Lex keep his powers? Guess we'll have to wait and see... Source: KryptonSite

MORE BSG Season 3 Spoiler (BIGGIE)

For Grace Park Fans ...

Wednesday, August 2

SFX interview-Grace Park


Source: SFX Contains Spoilers (in Inviso-text ... highlight to reveal)

"Before we begin frantically searching the Battlestar set for a glass of ice water, Park describes what's in store for Valerii in season three - which begins four months after the Cylon invasion of New Caprica "she's flying again. So you witness her being reinstated. I found out that I was married, too."

Reinstated? Married? Does this mean Adama has finally come to trust Valerii? "I think Adama trusts her. The President is still quite wary. Obviously Helo trusts her and they are a few of her long time friends that are perhaps happy she's back, but not necessarily openly sharing how they feel about that. Because there's almost dissent in the ranks now, which you'll start seeing a little bit later, that starts creating chaos...She's never completely trustworthy. I think like anyone, she tries her best but she's been tested so hard that sometimes she snaps and she's liable to do something that's probably not rational.

"I think season two definitely saw a lot of trauma and catastrophe around Sharon. Every episode there was a new disaster and it didn't seem like it was gonna let up. At the same time the storyline also changed. But just when you think you can trust her they (the writers) throw in something. I think they like to keep playing with the audience. And that's fun. I think that's part of the intrigue of her character.

Though Park praises Battlestar's entire cast - calling them "a damn good troupe" - she gives special credit to the man who play's Valerii's new husband Helo -actor Tahmoh Penikett. "It's really rewarding working with Tahmoh, because he's always growing and changing as an artist. And if I'm stuck he definitely puts his two cents in and either laughs at me or gives me some good advice...

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More BSG Season 3 Spoiler from Gateworld

Battlestar Galactica
Season 3 Spoilers: in of course Inviso-Text, (highlight to reveal)

The following information is gathered from various sites including:
— Official SciFi Channel Battlestar Galactica Website & Forum
— Galactica Actual (offline)
— Gateworld: Battlestar Galactica
— Hangar Deck 5
— Various publicity articles and cast/crew interviews.

Despite efforts to filter out unreliable content, this information can be considered RUMOR and subject to change or otherwise inaccurate. In a effort to track spoilers a bit, Season 3 spoilers will actually be dated.

All spoilers that are posted will stay posted (though they will be edited for clarification when additional information warrants) in an effort to have a track record (good and bad), rather than revisionist history. That said, seemingly innocuous details like which supporting characters are still around will continue to be included and not be edited out as an episode moves closer to air. There are fans of various supporting characters and are interested when they appear. An example is the spoiler that Helo appears in the third season's first episode, which was first reported about half way through the airing of Season 2.5.

Episode 1: Occupation; October 2006

2/06: Helo appears.
4/11/06: Episode title added.
4/11/06: Ellen is cheating on Tigh with someone who works at the "Cylon Planning Ministry." A new Oracle is shown. D'Anna Biers visits the Oracle. Apparently, the Cylons have not given away the fact that she's another Cylon model. The Oracle tells D'Anna that she know that her dream brought her to see her. The Oracle tells D'Anna that Sharon's child still lives. Tyrol and Anders work on bombings and other sabotage, while Laura and Tory gather the names of the 200 or so odd collaborator police force working for the Cylons. Tigh, who has lost one eye, has recently been captured and is "debriefed" by a Cavil.
4/12/06: Filming began on April 10th.
4/12/06: The episode picks up four months after the arrival of the Cylons and Baltar's surrender.
4/12/06: The fleet is only a background (B) story in this episode.

Episode 2: Precipice; 2006

4/12/06: Episode title added.
4/12/06: Tigh is tortured by the Cylons, while it's revealed that Ellen is carrying on with a Cavil.
Episode 3: Exodus; 2006

7/13/06: Episode title added.

Episode 4: Collaborators; 2006

7/13/06: Episode title added.
4/12/06: Ellen dies. [She finally gets her just reward, especially in light of her latest affair.]

Episode 5: Torn; 2006

7/13/06: Episode title added.

Episode 7: Hero; 2006

7/13/06: Episode title added.

Episode 9: The Passage; 2006

7/13/06: Episode title added.

General Spoilers:

7/13/06: Season 2.5 DVD is available for order NOW.
6/20/06: Season 2.5 DVD is to be released September 19th.
4/12/06: As was the case in Vichy France in WWII, there will be a lot of collaborators and those who play both sides.
4/12/06: Lee will be "fat" for the first 5 episodes.
4/12/06: The fleet will be more of a factor in the storyline in episode 4 and return fully for episode 5.
4/12/06: The occupation will be dealt with by episode 4.
4/12/06: In addition to the death in Episode 4, there are to be other "significant" deaths over the first part of the season, so some recurring characters are likely to bite the dust.
3/31/06: Ronald D. Moore last week confirmed that Zarek is Baltar's Vice-President, but their relationship soured quickly. Zarek stopped cooperating altogether beginning with the Cylon occupation [Thanks to Eric for passing this one along.]
3/10/06: There will be an ongoing story arc dealing with the Cylons, which will center on the Cylon homeworld. The use of a parallel storyline sounds similar to the Helo/Sharon Caprica storyline from the first season and early second (2.0) season episodes. The first seeds of this story arc were probably planted in Episode 2.18 (Downloaded) and furthered by the Caprica Cavil in Episode 2.20 (LDYB, Pt 2).
3/10/06: The plot point about Leoben looking for Kara will take three episodes to be tied up.
3/10/06: The Cylon occupation will be dealt with in either the first four or first six episodes of the season.
3/10/06: Kara, Tigh and Roslin will put together a resistance that echos Vichy France of WWII.
3/10/06: Episodes will begin airing on on SciFi in October, not July.
2/21/06: Episodes will begin airing on on SciFi in July.
2/21/06: Season 3 picks up the storyline [immediately] from the end of Season 2. [Update: Apparently not. It will pick up 4 months after Season 2.]
2/21/06: According to Aaron Douglas, six teleplays have already been completed.
2/21/06: According to Aaron Douglas, filming begins on April 10th.
Filming starts April 3rd (?)
The Cylons will have some internal turmoil of their own and perhaps find that they are more like humanity than they had believed.

A D'Anna Biers model [Webmaster's note: the one killed by Reborn Caprica/Baltar Six?] will claim to be the Cylon God [Webmaster's note: 'leader' might be a better term], which leads to some factions developing in the Cylon culture.

Lucy Lawless has signed to appear in ten episodes in Season 3.
Kara's "missing ovaries" will be a major plot point in Season 3.