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If you have not seen the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 finale that aired on Sunday, do not read any further, as this post contains spoilers from that episode. If, however, you have seen that episode and you want some answers, hit the jump.

While I found Sunday’s Battlestar Galactica finale to be fantastic, it just left me wanting more. Not just because after witnessing something so thrilling you would obviously want more of the same, but because it left me with so many questions and not enough answers. Luckily for all the fans, including me, executive producer Ron Moore talked to the Post Gazette and cleared up some of the confusion.

While the four characters claimed to be Cylons, I was still unsure if they really were. So they heard some Bob Dylan tune playing in the ship, and needed a way to rationalize it. Is that rock hard evidence of their being Cylons? It wasn’t enough for me, and it was the most pressing question I had once the episode finished. However, there was an explanation for what the song meant, and I now hove no doubt that they are indeed Cylons. “It’s more that they arrived at a certain point in space and they were made aware of who they are. The music manifests a dawning awareness. These are four of the final five, which puts them in a separate category from everybody else. There are reasons for that I can’t really get into. We’ll be playing out those plot lines for quite a while,” Moore said, adding that “they are fundamentally different Cylons.” That means the Chief’s baby is in fact a half-cylon, and although he doesn’t say much about that, he at least confirms they will be dealing with it.

Another big question I had was what was going on with the return of Starbuck. Was she a Cylon, and this was just another copy? Or was she in Lees head, like Six was in Baltar’s? Was she really there? Unfortunately, Moore doesn’t shed any light on this - when asked if Lee was hallucinating, he says that “It’s exactly the kind of thing I want people to chew over the next few months.”

So what can we look forward to? There’s the upcoming movie, which he said is really more like episodes of Season 4 that air early. The whole cast will be in it, and it’s “an opportunity to set up something for the fourth season that had not been told to the audience and that the characters themselves hadn’t realized, and then go into the fourth season” So what’s in store for Season 4? “It’s about new alliances and broken alliances among the panoply of our characters within the rag tag fleet and without. Different allegiances in terms of loyalties, relationships broken and some new ones formed. All the pieces line up in different ways than they have heretofore” Moore reveals. We’ll also be learning the specifics of how the four Cylons came to be where they are now. There have been rumors that Season 4 would be the last, and while he doesn’t confirm that, he does touch on how Battlestar will eventually end. It will have a resolution, and will not end in a cliffhanger. “We want to go out on our own terms and decide when our story ends. We wouldn’t want to be in a situation where the story is not completed in the way we want to” Moore said.

I’ve covered the most important stuff here, but check out the full interview for everything else Ron Moore has to say.