Wickedly hot Tricia Helfer, who plays wickedly evil Six on Battlestar Galactica, reviled a few spoilers and dropped several hints while at Dragon*Con this week.
“We kind of got Six into a box somehow and we’ve been trying to figure out how to get out of it inside the limitations of an ensemble show,” she said. “When your character is in some one else’s head all you find yourself doing is reacting to what goes on in their head. You don’t really have an arc, or a story of your own.”
The planned fix is coming in the form of Geena, a “new version of Six with a different look and a different agenda.” Although Helfer didn’t say what this different version was up to, she mentioned several shows upcoming will feature both her characters heavily.
Helfer said she doesn’t really know why running about in Gaius Balter’s head.
“During the first season I thought I had put a chip in his head,” she said. “The during the second season I thought he was going crazy. Now I just don’t know. She’s been right a few too many times to just be his conscious or something.”
Six makes references to God’s plan, but Tricia admitted to having no idea what God’s plan actually is.
“I’ve asked Ron (More, executive producer and co-creator) a number of times what is the plan is, because it’s very hard to get the tone right if you don’t know where the whole thing is going,” she said. “He hasn’t told me… so I just have to have faith in Ron that it will all work out in the end.
She also hinted about the Cylons that still could be hiding among the fleet.
“I know who one is, and I don’t think you’ve seen them on screen yet,” she said. (Note: I don’t know if meant the designation or the quantity.) “But yes, everyone you’ve seen on screen so far could be a Cylon.”
Sadly, Helfer also confirmed the rumored plans for the show.
“The Sci-Fi Channel has ordered 20 episodes, and we’re on number 12 now,” she said when asked about a possible season three. “I think the plan is to air 10 this summer and then 10 more starting in January, and that would be a third season.”
So what that means is despite being Sci-Fi’s highest rated show ever Galactica still can’t get a full season ordered. In fact the second and third seasons would be 10 episodes each, shorter the first season’s 13 episodes.
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