I was late to join the party but now am here for the duration. Battlestar Galactica, the fourth and final season 4, starts Friday. If you’re also late to the party, the SciFi channel has a wry 8-minute video summary of the first three seasons, Salon has a great primer on the plot and characters to date and Adam Nash has a ton of great content on spoilers and theories on his blog.

Season 4 season premier: 9:00 p.m. PT 4 April 2008, SciFi channel.

I want!!!

In advance of the start of shooting next week, a few sources, including The Sun and Crave are reporting on the Wachowski brothers‘ Speed Racer movie, scheduled for release on 8 May 2008.

I can’t imagine a movie with Cristina Ricci as Trixie can be any good, but the gadgetry is sure to dazzle.

“Speed Racer” unequivocally is my all-time favorite childhood cartoon show.

Beware of the spoilers below!

Last night’s season finale episode, “The Job,” may have been the very best from all three seasons. Among the many great lines & moments, here were my favorites:

• “Hey, what’s different about you? You look worse.” — Kevin, on Jim’s haircut
• “You got a haircut. It’s sexy hot. . . . Turn around. . . . Do it!” — Meredith, also on Jim’s haircut
• “Pam is . . . kind of a bitch.” — Karen, after Karen’s apology to her
• “You know what? Don’t even worry about it. Everyone was so drunk I bet no one even remembers what you said.” — Meredith, on Pam’s outburst at the lake
• “I remember. I blogged the whole thing. W-W-W dot CreedThoughts dot gov dot W-W-W backslash CreedThoughts. Check it out.” — Creed
• “Last year, Creed asked me how to set up a blog. Wanting to protect the world from being exposed to Creed’s brain, I opened up a Word document on his computer and put an address at the top. I’ve read some of it. Even for the Internet, it’s . . . pretty shocking.” — Ryan, on Creed’s blog
• “I sold it on eBay. The buyer was very motivated, as was I. It went for 80% of what I paid. Sold it in record time.” — Michael, on selling his condo at a discount
• “No, Dwight, I don’t care if that’s how they consolidated power in ancient Rome.” — Angela, responding to Dwight’s question “How would you like to spend the night with the Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin, Scranton?”
• “Okay, just so I understand it, in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell, and you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.” — Jim, on Dwight’s wildest fantasy
• “So I will need a new number two. My ideal choice? Jack Bauer, but he is unavailable, fictional and overqualified.” — Dwight
• “She made me do a lot of things I didn’t want to do” – Michael, on how Jan might force him to get back together with her
• “I would never do that — waste of money. In my experience, guys are way more attracted to the back of you than in the front.” — Kate, on Jan’s boob job
• “I find it offensive. Au naturel, baby, that’s how I like ‘em. Swing low, sweet chariots.” — Creed, on Jan’s boob job
• “I’ll tell you this: It is not because of the boob job — excuse me, boob enhancement. That would be shallow, and this is the opposite of shallow. This is emotionally magnificent.” — Michael, justifying why he was getting back together with Jan
• “I guess we’re getting back together. Your advice was good, but Jan’s was bigger.” — Michael, justifying why he was getting back together with Jan
• “That is ‘Beardie.’ . . . That’s not his real name. That’s just what I call him.” — Michael, naming a Dunder Mifflin employee whose name he doesn’t know
• “Three months ago I was nowhere. I was just a Cornell grad in anger management. But look where I am now. Not bad.” Andy, while washing Dwight’s spit cup
• “Just say I want to squeeze them. It’s code. She’ll know what it means.” — Michael, asking Jan’s administrative assistant to take a message for her
• “Well, I guess you could come and stay at my condo. I think I could back out of the sale, probably get some negative feedback on my eBay profile.” — Michael
• “Live together . . . actually, wait a minute. This could be great. This could be perfect. You know, my full-time job could be our relationship. I could wear stretch pants and wait for you to come home at 5:15. It could work. This could work, really.” — Jan
• “Ryan, coffee. . . . No, it’s for me, bimbo.” — Michael, asking Ryan for coffee and responding to his response, “I don’t do that stuff anymore.”
• “Jim and I are just too similar. Maybe one day I’ll find my own Karen. But — that is — a — you know — not — a man, a man version.” — Pam
• Pam’s sweet smile when Jim asked her out to dinner
• “It’ll be nice to have another MBA around here.” — David, offering Ryan a job

It’ll be a long wait until the new season in the fall. I’m already shuddering at the thought of how the writers might resolve the love triangle among Jim, Pam & Karen. By the way, why doesn’t the biographical profile of the actress playing Karen appear on The Office Web site? Should we infer anything from the omission???