Podcast:Frak Party Q and A

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Introduction

RDM: It's on.

OK, welcome to a very special podcast, this is not the official podcast, there'll be another one that'll narrate through the course of the episode. I'm doing this one in Berkeley, California with a group of friends at a frak party. Say hello, everybody.

Crowd: (cheers)

RDM: We're at the home of?

Madelyn: Madelyn and Scott

RDM: Madelyn and Scott, thank you very much for hosting this. And essentially we're gonna record Act 4 here, of the season finale, "Crossroads, Part II", and you'll hear their— the show, and the reactions live on this podcast, and immediately thereafter we'll just start talking about the episode.

Woman: It's the fans' voice.

RDM: It's the voice of the fans. So we'll pause right here...

Act 4 of "Crossroads, Part II"

RDM: OK, here we go.

Woman: (unintelligible) Did you hear that? That's OK, we know.

(Dresden Files commercial plays)

(Episode starts playing)

(The piece is which Gaius Baltar is taken by a group of protectors is heard)

Woman: He's been kidnapped by a (unintelligible), this is my kid's wet dream. (laughs)

(Episode plays for a while)

(Opera House music plays, we hear another of Caprica-Six's dreams.)

Woman: So are those the five who're being Cylons?

Man: The Final Five.

(Episode plays for a while)

(Saul Tigh says: "Said the Joker to the thief")

Man: Whoa.

Another man: What?!

Woman: It's a reference to the song called earlier in the episode again.

Man: (unintelligible)

Woman: It's a song from Dylan.

(Episode plays for a while)

(Tory Foster says: "I can't get no relief")

(One audience member screams, some others are laughing)

Woman: They did the whole song!

(Episode plays for a while)

(Galen Tyrol says: "So that's it. After all this time, the switch goes off, just like that.")

(Tigh enters. Whoooah.)

(Audience erupts in laughter.)

Someone: Oh my God.

(Episode plays for a while)

(Tyrol: "It's true. We're Cylons. And we have been from the start.")

Man: Bet you'd wish you'd stood up for Boomer now.

(Laughter)

(Episode plays for a while)

(Adama: "Good to see you, Colonel.")

(Tigh: "Good to be here, Admiral. You can count on me.")

(Cynic sounds from the audience)

(Episode plays for a while)

(Episode ends)

(Audience applauds)

Discussion

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RDM: And that's the show, boys and girls.

Woman: Awesome!

Man: I'm ready for the zombie season.

Man: To be honest with you, I liked that a lot better than the end of Season Two.

RDM: Really?

Man: Yeah, I do.

RDM: Why?

Man: Because it shows hope, it shows Kara's final— her— y'know, what her destiny is, so it's like the (unintelligible) book ends, and like now you're saying in the podcast about Act 3, now, per say, so that's why I should like this a lot better.

RDM: Why didn't you like the end of epis— the end of Season 2?

Man: No idea. I liked the end of Season 2, but I'm saying I should like this even just a lot better.

RDM: Really?

Man: Yeah, because also— I kinda— I mean I also liked what the guys did for all the graphics, they— 'cause it's the season finale, so I really appreciate all this— the flying part 'cause I'm a pilot myself, so I really like that part. I like how she just came in and just surprised them, and that kind of stuff, it was a really good job.

Other man: Well the first two seasons also had been more and more bad news, basically— y'know, increasingly dire situations, and it was something that we liked— was the fact that on New Caprica, basically, seeing as the very last things— everything was worse than you could possibly imagine. I mean you could've done that again this time around, but now we basically have no clue of what's going of, except that there's a lot going on, and even we have our first (unintelligible) of how Earth plays in in the series. So I think that's a reason to like it so much, and even better just because it's a completely different kind of cliffhanger—

RDM: Oh?

Man: —it's not just the usual tragedy.

Woman: I know that this wasn't entirely your choice, but at the end of Season 2, it felt as though we were kind of cheated, of that time, seeing them develop on New Caprica.

RDM: Yeah.

Woman: And this— there's nothing that we're cheated, we're just waiting for what's going to happen. We don't have to worry about what has already happened that we have to figure out.

RDM: OK.

Man: Last time you gambled with our perception of— you'll (unintelligible) a bit, you'll leave a big gap, but now, right now the biggest gap is how do you explain Tigh. He's been there for so long—

RDM: That's a good question, isn't it?

Man: —you're gambling with the plot.

RDM: I can only tell you that when we t— some of this won't be repeated on the other podcast, so forgive the listeners at home, but— the idea for turning four of them into Cylons was something that I came up with in the room. We were talking about the season finale, and the trial of Gaius Baltar and how it was going to end, and we had various things about the ending, that— y'know, the surprises in the trial and so on, and I had a sense of dissatisfaction, I remember saying to the writers: "I just wish— y'know, I've had this recurring thought of four of our characters walking into a room on Galactica