With any other show but BSG, I would've been comfortable in thinking that Tigh was gonna be just fine. But this is BSG, a show that started off with the mass murder of billions of people. And since it IS the last season, I was seriously afraid that they were gonna kill Tigh. That whole sequence with Kara running and Lee about to push the button was frakkin' tense as hell.
During the advanced screening and Q&A session for BSG that was held in Hollywood on Wednesday, Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin) said that the final episode (they have all read the script) ties back to the beginning of the series and that she found herself revisiting early episodes to see how all of the early clues fell into place. She said her excitement for us stemmed from knowing that we would all be doing the same thing after seeing that final episode.
Tricia Helfer said that when she read the final script, she felt “like somebody punched me in the stomach.” Helfer also said that the ending will compel fans to revisit the series’ beginning.
This all makes me believe that the ending to the show will somehow be a huge twist that follows along the "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" theme of the show. I'm thinking something like... the 13th colony (earth) was itself destroyed by a Cylon v. Human war. Or something crazy like that, that leads back to the earlier episodes. Or maybe Cylons were actually the ones living on Earth and it was the humans who destroyed them and their planet. Who knows!
Rekha Sharma (Tori) said about the final script:
"I just read the ending, and it's so F***ing beautiful ... at one point my heart was racing for about 10 pages, then for 10 pages I was crying. I was on the plane, and the person next to me probably thought I was insane. It's intense. It's a kind of resolution to all the storylines, but at the same time it's like life, life does go on."
Life goes on? Meaning what, that the Cylons/Humans finally manage to live together, but eventually end up going to war again? So the cycle continues. Arrghghg. So many possibilities!