Michael Hogan was almost as displeased to find out his character, Col. Saul Tigh, was a Cylon as Tigh was, says SyFyPortal.

At the SciFi Channel’s digital press tour this week, several BSG actors talked to the bloggers about the show. Hogan had this to say:

I’m not happy about being a Cylon at all. I’m not imagining that anyone who were picked to be Cylons are. The scripts that we have so far are great, but the only way that I can deal with it is as a human being, and so far that’s [what my character] has had to do.

Aaron Douglas, who plays Chief Galen Tyrol, told digital media folk that he also had a hard time accepting it at first, but after a long conversation with Ron Moore, he grew to accept it. I think Douglas let something slip, though, as he refers to the Final Five as “Cylon gods.” That has been kindasortamaybe implied, but not really spelled out. It’s an interesting concept.

I hate to be one of those people who says, “I totally thought that was going to happen!” after the fact about a pretty neat twist.

But, I have to admit, it did cross my mind more than once that Kyle’s new friend, Cassidy, was all in Kyle’s head. It occurred to me at the end of last week’s episode, when Kyle couldn’t find Cassidy at the art school she purported to belong to.

When she wouldn’t go inside the house she took him to, that’s when I first really thought I was onto something. It didn’t make any sense that she wouldn’t go in.

I know this season is supposed to delve deeper into the mythology of the 4400s; I’m not so sure I love the idea of Jordan truly being a messiah. I do love the idea of a cult of Jordan Collier (which already exists, to a certain degree) growing up around Jordan, Shawn (the healer) and Kyle (the shaman).

That was the main question posed last night on The 4400.

Thousands upon thousands of people across the globe are taking promicin, the substance that gave the 4400s their X-Men-type abilities. Thousands are dying, but more people with superhero powers are cropping up every day.

Last night focused on a loner high school student, Graham Holt, whose becomes able to make anyone around him worship him as a god.

For all of us wondering what Jordan Collier’s ability might be (besides rising from the dead), it became clear last night. He takes his responsibility in distributing promicin very seriously — when someone abuses his or her new power, he can take away all the promicin in their body, leaving them ordinary once again.

It makes sense. But I think Kevin was onto something, too, when he asked Jordan if he had “messiah envy.”

One question, though — If Graham took promicin again, would he be able to develop any ability? Would he develop the same ability? Would he develop a different ability? Though I doubt the answers to those questions will be answered, I’d be curious to know.

Anyhow, here’s other questions I have:
• Will Tom give up on trying to find Alana now the he sees her in a painting that is more than 100 years old?
• Did they take Alana from Tom because he didn’t kill Isabelle? They’re the ones who gave him the hypodermic filled with the substance that didn’t kill her. Would it have killed her if he’d injected her instead of her father?
• How did Isabelle know that Alana was sent into the past? She had amazing powers, but she has no more promicin in her system and seemingly no tangible connection to the future anymore. What is Isabelle’s connection to the future besides the fact that she was conceived there? Does she have “memories” of things she’s never seen?
• How did Meghan know Isabelle would know anything?
• Why does Meghan think posters of “La Dolce Vita” will intimidate people? Does she think they’re all stupid hicks?
• Will Ben come back to Seattle to be with Diana? When will Maia return?
• What’s April’s promicin-powered ability? (She shows up in the fourth episode, so I know she’s not dead.)
• Who was that chick who gave Kyle the idea to inject Shawn with promicin? A figment of his imagination? A member of the new promicin underground? Someone from the future? A bad person? A good person?
• Will Tess survive? If anyone can find her, it’s Kevin. Their connection is so strong, so urgent, that if she can be found, it will be by him. The question is, how damaged will she be and how much damage will she have caused, by the time he does find her?
• And last, but not least, where is Richard? He wasn’t in the opening credits at all. Did he leave the show?

Meanwhile, we found out what some of Maia’s visions meant:
• the number 6,000 is what the promicin death toll is expected to reach by year’s end
• Tom saw Alana in a painting in the museum

We have yet to find out who is getting sick and not getting the help she needs. I wonder if it’s Isabelle, based on next week’s preview showing her calling for help through the jail bars.

So, what do y’all think? A good start?

Joel Gretsch, in an interview with the Associated Press, explains how he almost didn’t take his role on “The 4400.” Read it here.

Our favorite abductees return Sunday night (smart to wait until “The Sopranos” went off the air!) with “The Wrath of Graham.”

Here’s what the show’s official website has to say about the premiere:

NTAC faces off against a high school student named Graham Holt who took Promicin and developed the ability to make people worship him like a god. Meanwhile, Jordan Collier wrestles with his conscience as the death toll from Promicin continues to rise.

Way back when, on March 1, I blogged about Jenni Baird joining the cast of The 4400 as a “new authority figure who has a relationship with NTAC agent Tom Baldwin.”

As soon as I blogged about it, the item disappeared off the SciFiWire.

I swore I didn’t make it up (I’d never even heard of Jenni Baird before, honest!), and now SciFiWire has made it up to me, with this story.

The show’s exec producer, Ira Steven Behr, says he is hell-bent on making “a romantic pairing on this show work if I have to go in there and do it myself.” Um, hate to break it to you Behr, but you could have made it work at any time. Aren’t you the exec prod?

Great show, cast. But I’d like to see them bring back Alanna, Tom’s true love.
Behr also tells SciFiWire that the season is basically in three story arcs:

• The first focuses on the folks who risked death (instead of being taken against their will) to take the promicin to gain 4400 powers.
• The second arc focuses on the show’s “mythology” — i.e., why people were taken to the future and given X-Men-like powers — and also on Richard Tyler, Isabelle’s conflicted father.
• The final three episodes “will kick things into ‘space madness,’” according to Behr and SciFiWire. Whatever that means.

Supposedly, though, we finally do find out why the 4400 really were taken and what all this was for.

Cool.

So here’s a few tidbits from the first five episodes of my favorite summer show, “The 4400,” courtesy of SpoilerFix.com.

The Wrath of Graham: Airs June 17. A student named Graham is surprised when his classmates agree to play any sports he wants. Kyle gets a new job: helping out the 4400 as legal aid. Shawn is a patient at the hospital and has terrible convulsions.

Fear Itself: Airs June 24 (your humble writer’s birthday, which she shares with former Gov. George Pataki). People start seeing what they fear most, but no one else can see it. Tom’s investigation leads him to a bank as a few of the victims used the bank’s ATM before the attacks. Isabelle may get a better living situation if she agrees to be injected promicin.

Audrey Parker’s Come & Gone: Airs July 1? 70-year-old Audrey Parker, via voice over, explains her past and why she decided to take promicin at such a late age. She develops the power of astral projection, but can only project herself at 25 years old.

The Truth & Nothing But The Truth: Airs July 8? April Soukris (Diana’s sister), having been on the run for four months after taking promicin, comes back and uses her new power to help Tom and Diana on a case.

Try the Pie: Airs July 15? Shannon Reese has the ability to remove stress in people’s lives by listening to their problems, and teaches Tom about her neighbors, who all took promicin, courtesy of their town, Evanston, Ill. (home of my alma mater, Northwestern University)

In just 48 days, the second season of Kyle XY takes to the airwaves on ABC Family. This is the first — and only — ABC Family show I’ve ever watched, and it’s a pretty decent little slice of sci-fi, with its season 2 premiere at 8 p.m. June 11.

Last season’s finale had an XX (as in the chromosones) version of Kyle being created, so we should expect to see a female Kyle (Kyla?) showing up. The Tragers are regulars again, so it appears they either will have learned more about Kyle’s true background or have been fed some story as to why he’s back with them.

This summer is shaping up to be pretty decent, sci-fi-wise — Dr. Who, Kyle XY and The 4400. My DVR will be busy.

Come June 17, we find out what happened to all those folks who took the free promicin offered at the end of Season 3 of The 4400 — including Diana’s sister. Remember, those taking it have a 50-50 chance of developing 4400 powers or of dying.

Here’s the really cool part: You get to join an online community and create a character who did or didn’t take promicin, and more. Exact details are very sketchy, but you can sign up here.

According to SciFi Wire, The 4400 takes a totally new turn next season (which starts in June).

Because Jordan took the astounding tack of distributing promicin to anyone who wanted it at the end of last season, the “catastrophe” of the future appears to be averted. So this season will focus on the folks who took the promicin (remember, it has a 50-50 chance of giving people who take it a “4400” ability or of killing them).

With Shawn extremely ill in the hospital, Kyle Baldwin, largely missing last season, comes back and takes a job at the 4400 Institute as Jordan Collier’s right-hand man, much as Shawn was (though without the healing powers). Promises to further widen the chasm between father and son that has been growing since Kyle came out of his coma in Season 1.

According to Spoilerfix.com, we get introduced to a new 4400, a student named Graham, who’s “surprised when his classmates agree to play any sports he wants” in gym. Plus, Tom may finally get a lead on Alana’s whereabouts and it looks like Diana, Maia and Co. may return from Europe.

Ah, this will all come in time as I’m recuperating from the end of BSG for the season and should tide me over through the summer, at least. Then there’s all those sci-fi pilots for the fall (read more here, here, here and here, some of which should actually be good. Here’s hoping.

Thanks to Sci-Fi Wire for the following tidbits:

• “Area 52” — Paul Reubens has joined the NBC sitcom about a group of g-men who babysit an alien at a secret government installation, a la Area 51. And according to The Hollywood Reporter, Kelin Yu has joined the series, too, though I’ll be damned if I can find out anything else he’s been in.

• “Pushing Daisies” — TV veteran Swoosie Kurtz will join the cast as the main character’s aunt. The lead, a man who can bring the dead back to life by touching them, is played by Lee Pace. Pace goes way back with series creator Bryan Fuller, who brought us “Dead Like Me” and “Wonderfalls.”

• “Jericho” — Alicia Coppola, the oh-so-pleasant visiting IRS auditor Mimi Clark has been bumped up from recurring cast to regular cast. So I’m thinking she’s not going to die anytime soon.

• “The 4400” — Jenni Baird has joined the cast as a “new authority figure who has a relationship with NTAC agent Tom Baldwin.”

ADDED 3/2:
• “Babylon Fields” — Amber Tamblyn the former “Joan of Arcadia” will star in the pilot. In the zombie-ish show Tamblyn plays a girl abused by her father, whom she and mommy killed. Natch, he comes back from the dead.

Spoilers are expected soon (next month, which starts tomorrow!) for the upcoming season of The 4400.

Season 4 starts airing this summer, with 13 one-hour eps. Fans will be pleased to hear that Billy Campbell, aka Jordan Collier, will for the first time be a regular, so he should be sticking around for a while.

Speaking of sticking around, despite their move to Spain, Diana, Ben and Maia will be back. Maia’s last diary entry makes it clear the series starts again in June (under “Things I see”) and seems to indicate there will be many more 4400s.

That would reflect on the season-ending effort to give doses of promicin out to anyone for the asking having paid off. Though some of them might die and others won’t be affected, most probably will begin exhibiting 4400 powers.

Lookin’ forward to it.