The final season of Battlestar Galactica has begun, so this is our last chance to geek out with Katee Sackhoff over BSG. Oh, who are we kidding? We'll always bring up BSG no matter what other movies and TV show she's in. But then it'll all be Monday morning quarterbacking. Right now there's still time to find out about BSG.

CraveOnline: What surprised you the most about Starbuck's evolution throughout the last three seasons?

Katee Sackhoff: I think what’s surprised me the most is that people consistently depend on her. That shocks the crap out of me. That has always been very interesting to me is that people still ask her to go save the world, like that. It’s constantly interesting for me so, that I think for sure.

CraveOnline: In what ways can we expect her character to evolve this season?

Katee Sackhoff: Well, I think that she will hopefully have a resolution of some sort. I think that that’s something we can finally depend on in a sense or that’s something she might actually finally get. At the same time, I really have no idea. I would love for her to find peace. I think that if there’s any justice in the world that she will actually have that because she’s been through so much hell. I think it’s only fair that she get a little peace toward the end.

CraveOnline: Can you give us any teasers for the upcoming season?

Katee Sackhoff: Well, I think if Battlestar’s any indication at all, in the last four I think that everyone’s going to be very shocked for sure. I think that there is probably going to ruffle a few feathers very well and I don’t think that there’s any way to make everyone happy. I said to Ron Moore from the very beginning, "Please don’t wrap everyone up in a pretty little box, put a bow on it" and he would never do that because that’s not real. Battlestar has always been based on reality and so I think that he will give it an ending that is fitting of that, and make it not pretty, which is hopefully what will happen.

CraveOnline: How are you and the rest of the cast feeling now that the show is really ending?

Katee Sackhoff: Well, I can’t speak for the rest of the cast so I don’t know how they're feeling. As far as how I’m feeling, it’s interesting. There’s a side to me, the selfish side of you that wants to go on and play different roles so there’s an excitement that's I think brewing for everyone in a sense. We get to go off and play these new characters, hopefully, and that’s why you became an actor is to not play the same character for ten years. So it’s kind of nice. I think that it is sad just because the work environment on Battlestar Galactica is absolutely amazing and I don’t think it’s something that comes along a lot. I’ve done so many canceled television shows I can tell you that it's not normal to enjoy going to work and to enjoy the people you work with. So I know that chances are I’m never going to find that again so that’s sad as well. But as far as moving on with the show, I don’t think I’m really going to feel the pain of it until the very end.

CraveOnline: What should we make of the positioning in that terrific Last Supper picture of the BSG cast? Are there any hints there you can tell us about?

Katee Sackhoff: No. It’s interesting that everyone thinks that there’s something hidden in that Last Supper photo like if you look hard enough you can find there's hidden messages in it. To be honest, I think we would have had to have been in on it to create a hidden message and we were all just there having a photo shoot. So, I mean, it is interesting the way people are standing for sure. I mean, the plastic sheath with Anders is interesting so I don’t know. And the fact that they made Tricia the messiah is pretty interesting too. I wish I knew what they were thinking.

CraveOnline: How will you feel if Starbuck turns out to be a Cylon or an agent of the Cylons? Some of the actors who were revealed weren't so happy about it.

Katee Sackhoff: Well, I think the reason the four actors were upset about being Cylons is that I think you play for years making choices as a character and then to realize all those choices you made would have been different had you known. It’s interesting, it’s kind of like you get the wool pulled over your eyes for four years and then lo and behold, your character’s something completely different. But I would be completely indifferent. I have love for this character and I think we all do as far as everyone for their character on the show, but they were pretty angry. I still think Michael Hogan hasn’t come to terms with it. I don’t think he’s ready to accept it yet.

CraveOnline: How will this season handle the marriage between Starbuck and Anders?

Katee Sackhoff: If I knew, I would tell you. I have no idea. We are at episode 14 right now in our shooting schedule and I am no closer to being able to have any questions answered from last season than I am now.

CraveOnline: Is it not being addressed at all?

Katee Sackhoff: Without giving too much away here, I think that there are more important issues being dealt with right now on the show for these characters than what Starbuck is and how her marriage is. There’s a lot of really heavy things happening right now and I think that her marriage to Anders is the least of her concerns. But at the same time it would be interesting to ask those questions, because we don’t identify this thing as a person. Is her marriage even legal? I don’t know. You’re asked all those questions that everyone would probably want answered and probably would never get an answer unless I did one of the webcasts. As far as me handling it, if it ever gets broached, I think Starbuck is starting to feel compassion for the things she hates the most, because she, as everyone on the show, is starting to realize and these are the major questions of humanity. What the show has always kind of asked is that if you found out tomorrow that your best friend or your mother or something was a Cylon, would it make your experiences that you had with that person or thing less important to you? No, it’s the same emotion, the same feelings, the same thing that you had experiences with. They're just different than you always thought they were. It doesn’t mean that it is less, it’s just different. I think that that’s something that they’re starting to remember.

CraveOnline: What about her relationship with Lee?

Katee Sackhoff: You know, I don’t think that Lee and Kara will ever be happy together. I don’t think they’re meant to be together. I think that they’re meant to be best friends, they’re meant to push each other, they’re meant to have those arguments that drive you. That’s the purpose that I feel that they serve in each other's lives. I don’t think that they were ever meant to love each other. So, with that being said, I don’t think they’ll ever end up together. I never did really, you know. If anyone is fitting for her and if there’s anyone that she would actually allow herself to be happy with and be with, it’d probably be Leoben. Anders is too weak for her emotionally. Lee is too much of a boy scout. He makes her feel guilty for her anger and who she is, her faults. He makes her feel guilty just by being who he is. So if there was any person that she could let her guard down with and be happy with, probably Leoben.

CraveOnline: Ron Moore is directing his first episode this year, so how was working for your boss?

Katee Sackhoff: I’ve got to say he’s the first director I’ve ever worked with that after every take he says thank you. I noticed that because I think what the crew does, what an actor does, at times can be overlooked because it’s what we're supposed to do and to have someone thank you after every take is very interesting. I found that after a take I stood a little taller, I was a little happier and I was like wow, that must have been really good. Even though I didn’t ask him because God forbid he said, "No, I was just saying thank you, but that was sh*t, Katee. You’re going to have to go again." So he was a great director. Granted I only had one scene with him but one thing that I noticed that I’ve never had happen before and speaks to his character as a person. He’s a fantastic man.

CraveOnline: What is Starbuck's mental state going into season four and what finding Earth really means to her?

Katee Sackhoff: She’s very fragile. She’s extremely lost. We’ve never seen Starbuck so alone and so lost. She's a little distressed, 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. And as far as finding earth, I think it’s her revolution. I think it's her end. I think that she’s putting so much weight and so much weight on this one thing, this one task that she believes that is her destiny that I think she wouldn’t let anything stand in her way, anything, which I think when that is the case, you’ve got a very scary person on your hands when they’re completely willing to sacrifice everything to accomplish something. That’s scary. So I think that we’re going to see a lot from her this season that is kind of like a shell of her former self, at the same time a lot of her doing things that you don’t necessarily don’t agree with.

CraveOnline: Have the producers told you what exactly happened to Starbuck during her supposedly dead time?

Katee Sackhoff: No, we’re on episode 14 and I've read 15 and nope. I don’t think we'll figure that out until the last second.

CraveOnline: How does the Admiral's ambiguity towards Starbuck affect her?

Katee Sackhoff: I think that’s the worst thing that could ever happen, you know. Here’s the person that she gets her validation and she gets everything from him. He kind of sets the mood and the tone for how she feels about herself and to have that person doubt you is I think the worst thing that could happen to her, because as far as she’s concerned, regardless of what she is, she’s the same person she was when she left. I think the worst thing is she wants his trust.

CraveOnline: What was your reaction to the scene in Razor where the Silent Hybrid makes the prophecy that Starbuck is a harbinger of doom?

Katee Sackhoff: I think that when I read that very end I went, "Of course she is." Like what else could happen to Starbuck? I’m like come on, lay it all on me. The worst possible thing and there you have it, fantastic, she’s going to kill everybody, great. I think that that is something that has been carried through the entire season so far. As far as whether or not anyone knows, you’re going to have to wait and find out on what it really means. It could mean so many different things.

CraveOnline: How cool and gratifying has it been that you won over those fans who were first skeptical and negative about a female Starbuck?

Katee Sackhoff: It is completely gratifying in a sense. I think the full reason that it's nice to have people identify with the character that you’re playing and appreciate the work you’re doing. I don’t think I went into this trying to win over the old fans because I think that you can’t ever please everyone and I didn’t want to focus on people that were already in a sense spewing negative energy at me. So I just kind of did what I did and it’s nice to know that some of them have been converted. I guess it is a little gratifying to know that for all the people who said that it wouldn’t work with a woman, it’s kind of nice to know that it did work for sure.

CraveOnline: Was there a point where you first started to feel audiences accepting that?

Katee Sackhoff: I think honestly what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such a interesting character. I think once people put their guard down as far as the preconceived notions of what the show was supposed to be and just allowed it to be really good science fiction, I think that’s also probably the same time when people accepted Starbuck for being a woman was when they stopped thinking of the old show. It’d be hard to figure out when that probably happened but probably after the first season. That cliffhanger at the very end that probably got all the fans hooked.

CraveOnline: How do you feel about the way Starbuck's temporary death was handled in the press? Did it ruin the surprise?

Katee Sackhoff: I don’t know. I mean, I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long. I know that as soon as I showed back up at work, it was going to be on the internet and also, I do think they should have left me out until the very end. I think bringing Starbuck back in episode 16, what the hell was that? Why not wait until 20? But I guess in Ron’s mind he had a bigger cliffhanger and I guess to have a bigger cliffhanger than Starbuck coming back from the dead, only Battlestar Galactica could pull that off. I would definitely have told the main cast from the very beginning. Having to deal with all of that with the crew and the cast is not something that I’d like to do again. That’s for sure.

CraveOnline: Did you always know from the beginning that Starbuck would be such a popular and iconic character?

Katee Sackhoff: I didn’t even know the show would become as iconic as it is. It’s taken on a life of its own and become something completely different than what I ever thought it would. I thought it was just going to be a paycheck. So no, I didn’t know Starbucks would ever become what she’s become. I think that so many things had to come together to make that a reality. I think that the writing was perfect and the way that they wrote Starbuck was perfect and so all the planets had to align to get this to be perfect.

CraveOnline: How did you juggle BSG and Bionic Woman at the same time, and what draws you to these action/sci-fi roles?

Katee Sackhoff: I always had to remind myself of who I was, because I think that the two characters were so different but could have been played so similar. I always had to make sure that I knew where I was and let go of the other story line, even if I was working on both shows in the same day. So for that, Starbuck comes so easily to me now that even the lines and the dialogue, I don’t even memorize the dialogue anymore. I show up to work, but now they know my way of speaking so well that Starbucks dialogue is just so easy to memorize, and that’s the writing. But Bionic Woman, I always had to talk myself into it and make sure I was where I was supposed to be. And as far as the strong characters are concerned, I have this deep affinity for these characters. I think that I’ve reluctantly turned into the go-to tough girl in this business and I’m ready to do a job that requires no blood and guts and ghosts or anything. So, a nice little romantic comedy with James McAvoy would be fantastic.

CraveOnline: Ron Moore says he's not interested in doing a BSG movie. Could you change his mind?

Katee Sackhoff: No, I wouldn’t want to change his mind. I think he’s right. He said it best. What he said was that what would end up happening is that you would have to focus on one or two characters and what’s so brilliant is that it's been a four year movie and the time to tell these stories about each person individually and really have you become invested in those characters. To do a two hour movie or a one and a half hour movie I think takes away from that what we’ve been able to do for so long. How do you pick which two characters and when you pick those two characters are you going to flip off the other 17 main characters on the show? I think he’s right, plus at the same time, as a performer, when I even actually am done with the show, I’m done with the show. As much as I love the job or don’t love the job the last thing I want to do is come back and do it again when I’ve already done it. Granted, talk to me in five years if I haven’t worked. We'll see. But, as of right now I have no desire to do it, to do a movie.

CraveOnline: What are you doing next?

Katee Sackhoff: Oh God, I don’t know what’s next. That’s the joy of it. Do I want to play a character just like Sarah Corvus or Starbuck? No. I’ve already done it. I’m looking for things that are complete opposite from those two characters. Whether or not people give me the opportunity to do that, I don’t know but what’s interesting is five years ago I couldn’t get anyone to think I was tough and now I can’t get anyone to think of me as the way they did five years ago.