Posted at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, July 2

“Battlestar Galactica” star Tricia Helfer says fans will be blown away when the series returns for its final season in early 2009.

“Oh, absolutely, ... I think there will be a lot of ‘Oh my God, really?!,’ like that kind of reaction,” Helfer, who plays the Cylon Number Six, told me Wednesday during a phone chat.

Helfer and the “Battlestar” cast currently are filming in Vancouver and will finish the final episodes of the groundbreaking Sci Fi Channel series on July 10.

Helfer, who wasn’t spilling any secrets, said that something major will be revealed in each of the final episodes leading up to the 3-hour series finale. (Read Mo Ryan’s report on the final episodes at The Watcher.)

“You know, it’s just to have answers to things you’ve been kind of questioning for four years or five years,” she said. “It’s like ‘Oh my gosh, OK, wow.’”

The script for the finale caused quite a stir amongst the cast, Helfer said.

“Everybody reacted differently ... Some people cried; I felt like I was punched in the stomach; Mary [McDonnell] said she felt exhilarated,” Helfer said, leading me to wonder if that means A) my theory that McDonnell’s President Laura Roslin is the final Cylon is true, and B) none of Helfer’s versions of Number Six—who were dropping like flies in the first half of the season—survives.

“Well,” Helfer said, laughing, “seeing that I’m still shooting, yeah. I think in some incarnation [Six survives]. Who knows, maybe it’s flashbacks or flash forwards; I don’t know what. I’m not giving you any details. But yes, I still am filming so there will be some version of me in the finale.”

Helfer said she is looking forward to what's ahead—including her new job on USA Network's "Burn Notice." She said "BSG" has been a great experience.

“I think [the series ending] is a positive thing, but at the same time it’s still going to be sad to say bye to all the people you’ve worked with for five years,” she said. “The crew is so great on this show—and the cast. You spent five years with these people. It will be hard.”

But, she said, she’d rather the show end on a creative high then several years after it peaked.

“I like it when shows kind of keep it shorter and stronger then trying to keep going on and on and on. I’d rather keep a show strong than feel like, ‘Oh, let’s get another three seasons out of it,’ and maybe lose a bit of integrity of the show,” she said, confirming that she expects most fans to enjoy how the series ends.

“You’re never going to please everybody,” she said of the finale. “Certainly there will be fans going, ‘Oh, really?’ And then there will be fans going, ‘That was frakking awesome!’

“I think it’s great and I think the fans are going to be happy.”

Read the rest of my interview with Helfer.

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