This week's "Battlestar Galactica" post is going up a bit later than normal. Look for my Q&A with "Battlestar" co-executive producer Jane Espenson, who wrote "Deadlock," Friday's episode of the Sci Fi show, early Saturday morning. (To find Q&As with the show's writers regarding the show's last four episodes and other coverage, look here.)
For now, I'll leave you with some thoughts from Tahmoh Penikett, who plays Karl "Helo" Agathon on "Battlestar." Among other things, we talked about what the mood was like on the set as the show shot its final episodes last year. What's below is not spoiler-y.
However Penikett did talk in general terms about his reservations regarding how things were supposed to end for Helo. He said that after extensive discussions with the writers, the character's ending was changed.
In this piece I posted earlier this week, Penikett talked about his role on the new Fox series "Dollhouse."
In other "Battlestar" news, Galactica Sitrep posted a "tip" from a reader that "Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series" is coming to Blu-Ray DVD in July.
I asked a Universal Home Entertainment representative about that. Cathy Scott answered that the pilot of the "Battlestar" prequel series "Caprica" "will be on DVD on April 21. That is the only title I can confirm -- will keep you posted!"
I definitely want to buy the entire series when it comes out in Blu-Ray, but I'm going to wait for a collection that includes "The Plan," a "Battlestar" movie that will come out after the show's March 20 finale (no date has been set for "The Plan" yet). When every single episode and extra is collected in one big shiny box (ideally in the shape of a Centurion), sign me up.
Back to the interview. Below, questions are in bold type, answers are in regular type.
I read a quote from Katee [Sackhoff, who plays Kara "Starbuck" Thrace] where she said that she wasn't happy with where her character ended up. She said there wasn't really closure for Starbuck, but then again that's appropriate for her character.
Yeah, wouldn't you think so? 

Yeah, I think so. There's always something unsettled about her.
I think that's going to be the case with a lot of the story lines, though. There are going to be a lot of conclusions. There are going to be a lot of surprises.
What I hoped for and what I was asked a lot before we got to finale was, "How do you want the show to end?" Like any good story -- it's up to interpretation, to the individual. Lot of things are concluded but there are a lot of questions. That's exactly what the ending is like.
I couldn't imagine a more just and fitting ending to the series. It's an epic masterpiece and it's going to blow people away. As always -- we're known for our finales and for our season premieres. This will be the finale of finales.
Well, I have already been knocked sideways a few times this season.
I love it. It's great. I had four interviews this morning for radio. Some of the people had never seen "Battlestar." Two guys were huge "Battlestar" fans. What were we talking about the whole time? "Battlestar." [laughs] One guy caught himself and was like, "Oh, we should talk about 'Dollhouse,' talk about the new show!"
Well, it is Tahmoh night on Friday night.
It is, for a little while. I'm a pretty lucky guy.
What was this show like for you, for your education as an actor?
Huge. It was everything. I compare it to an athlete getting bumped up to the big leagues. You get an opportunity to play with the best -- you either rise to the task or you fail miserably.
Did you ever have doubts about whether you could do it? I remember talking to some of the younger actors on the set of "Friday Night Lights" in the first season, and they talked about sometimes being afraid they might not be able to step up.
Yeah of course. You always have those doubts. I definitely doubted myself in the beginning. In the first season, I was just so excited to be there. I was just a kid at Christmas. But we've got Academy Award nominees in the cast. My first scene with Eddie [Edward James Olmos, who plays William Adama], I was just blown away, I forgot I was in the scene. I was just watching him.
Eddie only taught me a few lessons, but they were important ones. Advice he gave me just made huge, huge sense.
It sounds like as the show was ending, it was sentimental but also everyone was just really tired. Do you have special memories from that last episode?
There were some hugely emotional scenes. A lot of us had this romantic idea that we were going to be able to end the show on a big, epic scene. Funny enough, it wasn't scheduled that way for Grace [Park, who plays Helo's wife Athena and other characters on the show] and I, but we did [end with a big scene].
Our last scene was a massive scene. It was one of those scenes where a whole bunch of the crew was around and watching and [executive producer] Ron Moore was watching and it was hugely emotional for all of us.
Grace and I made a little pact. That last week and a half, it was just a grind, they kept adding days [to the schedule] and it was 16-hour days. We'd be in there, 3 a.m., falling asleep on our feet. But we enjoyed it. We were like, "This is the last time we're going to work together on this series. Enjoy every single minute of it." As tired as we were, we were just loving it, joking around with each other and having a good time. We had to. There was so much joking around, [even though] people were tired.
The way things ended for Helo -- did you walk away feeling like it was right for him?
I did. There are two directions we could have gone with my character. There was the predictable direction, which I disagreed with, and I voiced it. And I was asked [what I thought], which is great, to get to a point in a series where my opinion was valued. I was asked what I thought. We talked about it at length, and after some discussion, we decided to go in the other direction.
Usually the show is defying what's predictable and doing what I don't expect. I thought you were going to say, "There were two directions for the character and they took the less predictable one."
That's my point, if you think about it. It depends on whose perspective you're talking about. For some people, the direction it goes might be predictable, for others it might not.
But your sense was, it would feel more resonant, feel more right, if it went in a different direction?
Exactly.
Well, how cool is it that you were asked what you thought?
It touches my heart. I was a young green kid [when the show started]. The whole "Battlestar" experience was unusual. "We're a happy family" -- you hear actors on shows say that all the time. Every single director who came on the set told us, they've never seen anyone as close as us. We were the exception, I guarantee that.
Photos: Penikett, Penikett and Park.
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