MTV Splash Page reports that Sackhoff was recently seen in LA comic shop Golden Apple, buying up appearances of Marvel villain Typhoid Mary as research; according to store workers, the actress "proclaimed that she's hoping to land a role in a Marvel movie."

While we're happy to watch Sackhoff in almost anything, we're hoping that she's not going to be playing Mary in anything anytime soon. Not only because Typhoid Mary is primarily known as a Daredevil villain, and we're not exactly in favor of the planned reboot of the Daredevil franchise, but because Typhoid Mary, with her fractured past, self-loathing and psychosis feels just a little bit too similar to a superpowered evil Starbuck to us, and we're not sure we're up to that just yet. If Sackhoff really wants a role in a Marvel movie, we'd much rather see her as Ms. Marvel in the Avengers movie, anyway.

Katee Sackhoff Researching Typhoid Mary - But For What Film? [MTV Splash Page]

Untitled Drama Series
For an SF series about spirituality, humanity's true nature and the hotness of the cylon women, Galactica has always had a curiously blue-collar feel to it (especially in episodes like "Dirty Hands," where Tyrol stands up for the rights of the refinery workers). So why not celebrate that with a drama all about the unnamed schlubs who aren't part of the military, nor have destinies to fulfill and prophecies to meet... but are just trying to make an honest day's living in the middle of the destruction of the human race? Keep the cylons out of it as anything more than occasionally-mentioned bogeymen and allow Galactica's social commentary to come to the fore and stay there for once. Let The Wire's David Simon run the writers' room and see what happens.

Friday Night Frak-Up
Who wouldn't want to see thirty minutes of various members of the Colonial Fleet beating the shit out've each other? Yes, "Unfinished Business" was only the beginning, and Friday Night Frak-Up could be exactly what an audience who found themselves all hot and bothered at the sight of Apollo and Starbuck boxing is looking for: Half an hour of Katee Sackhoff and Jamie Bamber sweating and grunting a lot, with added violence. It's a ratings winner, admit it.

Cottle MD
The high concept speaks for itself; it's House in space. Galactica's chain-smoking, ornery doctor has been an oddly calming presence throughout the show's history, never failing in his ability to speak bluntly and make even the worst situation just a little bit bleaker. This is what I'm suggesting - An hour-long drama about Cottle moving to a new hospital ship where the boss hates him but also has a crush on him, he has three flawed geniuses as assistants, and John Hodgman's brain surgeon is his long-suffering best friend. Sneak it onto NBC as a replacement for er and Emmies await, I'm telling you.

'Til Death And Subsequent Resurrection Do Us Part
Married bliss is impossible for most sitcom couples... but what happens when the blushing bride is a human-killing machine? That's the question behind what could be the most groundbreaking situation comedy ever seen on the Sci Fi Channel. One human male, one cylon female and a whole household full of "hilarious misunderstandings" await as the union between humanity and the cylon race reaches the domestic frontier, where they'll be glad that - in space - no-one can hear you scream "I want a divorce!"

Top Colonial Chef
This one's a winner. Fifteen chefs fight for the title of Top Chef... but one of them is a cylon sleeper agent who keeps sabotaging everyone else's dish. And, as if that wasn't enough to worry about, the ever-dwindling food supply keeps all the contestants on their toes - which is a good thing, considering that there's no knowing which of the contestants will find their homes under attack from cylons, military coups or even just plain everyday thuggery. The tagline sells itself: "It's reality... but out of this world!" No? Well, maybe I could interest you in "Gaius Baltar's Spiritual Awakening Hour" or "My Own Worst Enemy (Is A Sexy Blonde Woman In My Head Who May Be A Cylon Or Possibly A Personification Of My Own Self-Loathing)"...? Sadly, I got too many of 'em...

Don't hold your breath for any answers to the questions raised at the end of season three. The show is shooting its fourteenth episode of the season, which may not air until 2009, and Sackhoff says she's "no closer to having any questions answered from last season than I was." She's read the script for episode 15, and there's no resolution to how Starbuck came back from the dead, and what her trip to Earth meant.

By episode 14, the characters are dealing with "more important issues" than what the back-from-the-dead Starbuck is. And we won't see much resolution on the status of her marriage to Sam Anders, who's suddenly an inhuman Cylon. Sackhoff questions whether marriage to a Cylon would even be considered legal.

On the perfect man for Starbuck: Lee and Kara will never be happy together, Sackhoff claims.

I think they're meant to be best friends, to push each other, to have those arguments. I think that's the purpose they serve in each other's lives... If anyone is fitting to her, and anyone she would actually be happy with, it's Leoben... Anders is too weak for her, Lee is too much of a boy scout.. He makes her feel guilty just by being who she is, if there's any person she would ever let her guard down with and be happy with, it would be Leoben.

At the start of season four, Starbuck is "extremely fragile, extremely lost," says Sackhoff.

We've never seen Starbuck so alone and so lost... Not only because of the way that people are treating her, but because of the questions that her coming back has raised in her own mind.

Loving the Cylons: Says Sackhoff:

Starbuck is starting to feel compassion for the thing she hates the most, because she and everyone else on the show is starting to realize...These are the questions of humanity, and what the show has always asked: If you found out tomorrow that your best friend or your mother or something was a Cylon, would it make your experiences you had with that person or thing less important to you? No, it's the same person, the same experiences, the same emotions, it's just different. It doesn't mean it's less. That's something they're starting to remember.

Female empowerment: Sackhoff also feels great that she's won over so many of the nay-sayers who said Starbuck wouldn't work as a woman.

What made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was such an interesting character. Once people let their guard down and their prejudices of what the show was supposed to be, they stopped thinking of the old show.

Realistic science fiction: BSG's biggest influence on the genre, according to Sackhoff, is that it treats science fiction like reality:

We never relied on the science fiction in the show to drive the show, we relied on the drama and the human condition ... That's what we depended on for the show and to move it along. Most science fiction shows rely way too much on the bells and whistles. It's kind of opened doors in science fiction (generally). Science fiction is a setting, it's not a show. It's where something takes place. It should never have been what the show is.

The newly revealed Cylons: The actors playing Tigh, Tyrol and the other newly revealed Cylons were pissed off, because they had spent so much time building up those characters, Sackhoff says. "You play for years making choices as a character and then feel those choices would have been different if you'd known." Tigh actor Michael Hogan still hasn't come to terms with the revelation, she said.

Her chosen souvenir: When the show ends, Sackhoff wants to take her flight suit, including her gunbelt and helmet, home and bronze them. Then she'll put them in her bathtub, so anyone who takes a shower at her house will have to look at Starbuck's flight suit.

How Starbuck has evolved:

I think she's finally someone you can depend on, and I don't think she was before. What keeps her going is her desire to love and her desire to have people love her. Her relationships with [Admiral] Adama and Lee have probably kept her alive.

As for Starbuck's turn towards a more spiritual side, Sackhoff says it doesn't affect how she plays the character. "She 's always been religious. It's not that she's changed it's that she's opened up her eyes and allowed something else to come into her life.... It's just another aspect of who she is."

How BSG will end: Some of the show's revelations late in the season will "ruffle some feathers." The show won't have a neat and happy ending, tied up with a bow. Instead, the show, and Starbuck, will have a messy ending, says Sackhoff.

She would be interested in appearing in BSG/Bionic Woman producer David Eick's television version of Children of Men, both because of the cool premise and because she loves working with Eick. What went wrong on Bionic Woman, where she played the psychotic original bionic woman, was that there were "too many cooks" and "too many hands in the pot. You can't agree on what you're trying to make, [so] you get a stew that's full of shit." (At least that's what that last part sounded like to me.)

It's a case of she-said/she-said, but a quick visit to Roadrunner's blog shows that other attendees heard her dissing Bionic Woman, while others missed it altogether. Unraveling this mystery might be harder than finding out who the 12th Cylon is.

One thing is for sure: Katee has learned a valuable lesson. Do not fuck with LiveJournal fans.

According to http://roadrunnerdm.livejournal.com/84288.html">Roadrunner's LiveJournal:

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• Starbuck will be locked up in the brig for "some time." Not exactly the sort of reception you'd expect for returning from the dead.
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• Leoben will be back in Starbuck's life, and they'll be spending some quality time together on a beach... on Earth. At least they won't have to jockey for a good spot on the sand.
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• Starbuck will have a lot more scenes with Laura Roslin, and with the Cylon ladies as well. One thing Starbuck has never really done is have a girl's night out.
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• Starbuck believes that she is a Cylon, although Katee herself doesn't buy it. One thing is for sure, if Starbuck turns out to be a Cylon, half the audience will have expected it, and the other half will be searching for Ron Moore's house with torches.
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• Kate Vernon will be reprising her role as Ellen Tigh, although she's not the 12th Cylon. Since Saul has always been torn up about having to kill her, this will most likely be some sort of guilty flashbacks coming from the bottom of a bottle.
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• Lee Adama is still a civilian in season four, although it's unclear if that means for the whole season or not. After the way he resigned last season, it's hard to see him putting a uniform back on. Of course, that doesn't stop him from hopping into a Viper whenever he feels like it and taking off.
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• She also made it fairly definitive that she won't be coming back to Bionic Woman at all, strike or not. Apparently there is no love lost between her and series star Michelle Ryan.

• News dump from Burbank conventions [Roadrunner]

The SASA list is a mish-mash of semi-reputable sources, cast interviews, and wild rumors. But it sounds as though many people will (naturally) suspect Starbuck of being a Cylon when she returns miraculously. To which Starbuck (or Katee Sackhoff?) says, "I'm not a cylon, bitch!" Starbuck will wind up in a cell and may hold President Roslin at gunpoint to try and get out. There are also suggestions that our heroes will find Earth early in the season — but it won't be our Earth. Oh, and supposedly the name of the thirteenth colony in the scriptures? Is Cylon.

S4 Spoiler and Spec Thread! [SASA]

Rudan's a ruthless dictator who's killed thousands of his own people, but if he is killed during his U.S. visit, the power vacuum left in his wake will be filled by anti-American jihadists. "So, we protect the bad guy," says naïve Miss Jaime. Meanwhile, Antonio seems to have an itchy trigger finger, not to mention a pipeline to secret information. Is he working with or against the assassin? In a lovely if melodramatic moment, Antonio quotes Orwell, who Jaime confuses with Churchill. Maybe she should have stayed undercover at college just a little bit longer.

Anyway, it's another week without Sarah Corvus, a loss we apparently must get used to as Katee Sackhoff 's Battlestar Galactica commitment won't allow her a permanent spot on the Bionic Woman. In her place, we get a load of Tom and Becca trying to domesticate career girl Jaime, who runs out on their "family" dinner. "She does that sometimes," says Becca. "I know," commiserates Tom (who of course later has her followed by two fellow CIA agents ... Jaime really knows how to pick 'em).

In short, the Bionic Woman still can't decide if it's a sci-fi action show or a soap opera, a split best demonstrated this episode by Antonio, who after his literary moment early on, has a death scene that amounts to him ripping off his oxygen mask, telling Jaime yes, yes, the assassin was my girlfriend! and croaking.

And by the way, as anyone from my wizened generation will tell you, it's pronounced "Mis-ter-eee Date" not "Mistree Date." Sheesh.

Speaking as someone who spent her summers at Ross Drake Stables, how cool is it that in addition to knowing her own self worth, Sarah loves horses? Will Coco turn out to be Sarah's Rosebud? I don't mean that in a dirty way. Honestly. And while Ruth may not do "warm and cuddly," Sarah certainly does, as Mr. Snowboarder is about to find out. Let's hope for his sake she now has that bionic hand under control.

Meanwhile, the imminent Writer's Guild strike might make it all a moot point.