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So, I happened to catch Battlestar Galactica: The Last Frakkin’ Special. You gotta love the name. Shows self-awareness — a sense of doing good work, but also a healthy sense of self-deprecation.

It’s one of those behind-the-scenes shows. This is good homework for the actor in me, but here are a few notes:

• It’s good to hear them talk about the influence on the show of 9/11 — not that you need to hear them say it — and grey hats versus black and white hats. (Will that reference to old westerns ever stop making sense, I can’t help but wonder.)
• Note to writers everywhere: They sold the show with making the president and also Starbuck women.
• Kudos to the SFX peeps. Those long decks … turns out they’re fake.
• Music: Bear McCreary is named Bear. That’s all you really need to know. There’s the long hair and the goatee. And all the synths. Note: Orchestral elements were forbidden initially.
• “That Saul Tigh would be one of the final five, I did not see coming. That was a total surprise,” says Michael Hogan, portrayer of Saul Tigh. “This is not a wise decision.”
• Nice to hear their cluelessness about the Fifth Cylon, how it morphed into what it became.
• “All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.” This is a line from Disney’s Peter Pan. Ha!
• Lucy Lawless doesn’t get BSG. She gets herself, however.
• Jamie Bamber should consider speaking in an American accent all the time. Really.

Oh. Yeah. I understand the finale has aired. I’ll get to that soon … including a summary of how wrong my predictions were.