What DX said. I can't tell if it's a snarky comment or a guarantee at least seven will air, or what.

ita, the initial order back in October was for 7 episodes and it is pretty rare for a show to get a commitment of any episodes without a script or a pilot so people are attached to that feat.

However, the show will go much longer than 7 episodes as long as it performs as expected. One of the Dollverse fan sites has some questions answered by Fain and Craft and they speak of the 8th ep.

I know there's at least 7 eps 'cos of something or other. If it's a ratings hit, it'll get more eps, otherwise Fox won't get their investment back.

Stumbled across this looking for Dexter stuff: [link] Who comes out in Gossip Girl on May 5th.

Wow. I just read over at tv guide that Allison Mack may not be coming back to Smallville.

Kristin gleans new info from a read of the Caprica script:

What What With the What Now? Long story short, in the two-hour Caprica pilot, set 51 years before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies, computer hacker genius Zoe digitizes her identity, dies and is resurrected by her computer-hacker genius father in a somewhat mangled online format. Joseph Adams (played by Esai Morales), who is the father of Admiral Bill and grandfather of Major Lee, finds himself entangled in this mess. He's connected both legally, by way of dirty work he does for some bad guys, and emotionally, because his wife and daughter were killed in the same suicide bombing that killed Zoe. Anyway, the digital version of Zoe becomes the brain of the first Cylon (oops!), and herein our epic begins.

Living Dead Girl: Poor Zoe replicants. Such creatures are always doomed. The only doll-made-real that ever came to any good was the Velveteen Rabbit, and even that story is depressing as all get out if you read between the lines. Tip to the toymakers: Souls, like batteries, should not be included with children's playthings—they corrode inside the product and ruin everything. (And don't bother bringing up Pinocchio. Pinocchio was a little creep.)

Perfect Casting: Eric Stotlz will be beyond perfect as billionaire industrialist Daniel Graystone. A substantial man in many ways, Daniel's gravitas is largely intellectual, and only minimally moral or psychological. If Joseph Adama is the actual ancestor of Bill and Lee Adama, Daniel is some kind of spiritual ancestor to Gaius Baltar. In a similar vein, as I was following chilly, self-destructive Amanda on her path through the script, I realized I couldn't imagine anyone but Paula Malcolmson in this scenery-chewing role.

Fuzzy-Wuzzy Was a Bear: That bear's name was definitely not Ronald D. Moore. The man has knows how to draw the darkest among us, the ones most broken, the ones who, in turn, break things irreparably for others, while the world, as is its way, carries on carelessly. I always wonder, are the shadows of Galactica and Caprica cast by our post-9/11 mindset, or are they simply the natural-born black-eyed boogeyman of RDM's brain?

But TV Is the Idiot Box! Hard to believe this script is the spinoff of a remake of a '70s schlockfest based on Mormon cultural mythology. As densely written and layered as any novel, this script feels original and, most important, deeply thoughtful. Plus, all your major Frontline feature-story topics get a nod: racism, terrorism, industrial espionage, black-ops government agencies, religious fundamentalists, the perpetual panic about teen sex and, last but not least, that pesky, troublesome Internet.

Gangsters in the Family: Imagine wholesome, upstanding, well-behaved Lee Adama. Now imagine his opposite number: vengeful, criminal, dangerous. There you have Joseph Adams' brother Sam. (Yes, Sam Adams. No wonder the family changed their name back to Adama.) Seriously, I have a crush on Sam already. He's the type who knows the difference between right and wrong, and does wrong anyway, which makes it all the more significant for him and his enemies. And cooler. It also makes it really cool.
Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It (Say I'm the Only Bee in Your Bonnet): A message, I suspect, can be found embedded in this statement by one Agent Duram, a fed who is investigating the suicide bombing: "It doesn't concern you that there's a proven link between worship of a single god and an absolutist view of the universe? A belief that right and wrong are determined solely by a single all-knowing, all-powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned? A god in whose name the most horrendous crimes can be sanctioned without appeal?"

(And that is totally jengod's analysis.)

Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It (Say I'm the Only Bee in Your Bonnet)

LOVE.

Zoe is Max Headroom?

So, some interesting information from Mo Ryan regarding who ISN'T the final cylon: BSG

the link is here:

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and it refers to speculation and a certain photo in EW a few months back.

[link] Casting sides for Dexter 3.01.