Ron Moore talks BSG Mysteries
Then scenes from “BSG” start playing—suddenly we’re watching the awesome trailer to the latest and final, final “BSG” television movie, “Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.” It’s jam-packed with favorite characters from the original series, and it looks like it’s going to retell the entire series from the perspective of the Cylons. Good stuff—stay tuned for the trailer to appear online in coming weeks!
Here are some highlights from the Q&A following the “Caprica” screening:
—David Eick described the sci-fi genre as an allegory for our times, adding that “BSG” and “Caprica” are a rare coincidence of producers and the studio wanting the same thing at the same time. “Caprica” will premiere in 2010 at a time when the Sci Fi Channel will be trying to establish its new branding as Syfy, a more cerebral, intelligent network aiming to draw more female and mainstream television viewers and fewer space-battle, sci-fi fanboys.
—Ron Moore described his love of history and the rise and fall of civilizations, explaining that the finale of “BSG” was intended to bring the show’s theological and philosophical debates back to “where we are now.” In response to moderator Seth Green’s continued interrogation, Moore went on the record as “aggressively agnostic” and said he hopes his work helps people to articulate their grasping for meaning.
—Moore had originally planned for the character of President Laura Roslin to die right before the crew reaches Earth, he said, but in the end he trusted his instinct that fans of the show had a built-up need to see her character reach her destination.
—On the Angels, Six and Baltar: Moore admitted that in the first season, Six was merely intended to represent a manifestation of Baltar’s guilty subconscious at being instrumental in the destruction of humanity. However, as the show progressed, and with the addition of the hybrid character, Moore started to feel the hybrid was looking into a level of existence greater than our own, so it became part of the world of “BSG” that “there was something else out there.” In the “BSG” finale, Moore said, he felt it was important to not explain away everything, or to label Six and Baltar as Angels, because by “keeping it vague, it was all about the mystery.”
—Asked why Lt. Felix Gaeta’s role became so complex, Moore explained, “We had an exceptional writers staff and there was always something for him to do. As the drafts started to develop, Gaeta became more and more complex.” Moore added, “Writers are inspired by what actors provide them”—because actor Alessandro Juliani had such rich delivery of lines filled with nonsense sci-fi jargon, the writers assigned him a lot more of the secondary background action.
- from TVWeek
