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Ronald D. Moore Talks Galactica Fourth Season, Finding Earth and Pegasus Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 10:16, 10 June 2007 / General Genre/SciFi

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TV with MeeVee posted an exclusive interview with Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore, in which he reveals some of his plans for the upcoming fourth (and last) season. Here are few excerpts.

You've already started shooting the fourth season. Is there a definitive ending yet?

We have mapped out in detail half the season. In general terms, we've talked about what the ending of the show is. We all kind of know what the shape of that's going to be. We have a general sense of these events will happen, and this where we're going to end up, but we haven't specifically lined up where say, each individual character is going. We just know the general parameters.


Have you thought about which Earth they're going to reach?


Oh yes, I'm pretty sure what Earth they're going to. I was just on the set yesterday, talking to a couple of writers and we had a new idea that it could be this other time too. That would change a lot of our assumptions about what we're doing, but we're still in a place where we're trying to be free and open to ideas.


Tell us about the new movie coming out midseason.


It's called "Razor." It's a storyline that delves into the Battlestar Pegasus quite a bit - back to the beginning, seeing the Cylon attack, what happens to Pegasus during the Cylon attack, and events that were talked about in backstories when those episodes were originally broadcast. It moves through time actually, sequentially. You get up to the point where Lee is in command of Pegasus and then you start dealing with his first mission as commander of the Pegasus. Eventually things that are said and done in "Razor" set up certain things that happen in the fourth season.

The full interview is here.

Plus, producer David Eick talks about the possibility of a Galactica feature film in a video interview at IESB.



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Finding Earth | Report this post to moderator
By: TheJedi (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:19:34 on Jun 16, 2007

If they encounter Earth and civilized humans in either the past or the future, I'd like to see the BSG crew speaking Greek with English speaking people going "huh, what's he saying"? Maybe do a split-screen 24-thing. Or maybe they stop in China first and go "Whoa, that didn't go so well, let's try this other continent."

I also think it'd be funny to see the BSG crew shocked to find out that on Earth, polytheism is considered totally primitive.

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What did I say?!? | Report this post to moderator
By: Cylykon (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:39:08 on Jun 11, 2007 | Edit History (1)

Last interview, he says he thinks he's waited too long to reveal things and fears that he's jerked the fans around...

and now he says that he's half-way through season four and still hasn't decided on how to reveal the ending!

He should just cut his losses and lean on the time-honored method of pussy writers who've written themselves into a corner.

What am I talking about? What other recent series seriously changed their direction after their second season? I refer to, of course, the Sopranos...

"With several Cylon basestars in hot pursuit, Adama and Tigh-lon prep what's left of the fleet's FTL engines for a jump... and....

Yeah. I'm so stoked... NOT!


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ONE BIG problem with BSG | Report this post to moderator
By: Glassman Cometh (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:15:02 on Jun 11, 2007 | Edit History (1)

There is one issue I have with this version of BSG. They seem to imply that the colony that came to Earth left a 1000 years ago, or so long ago that it is written down in some sort of Bible..

Well...if they did leave for Earth 1000 years ago, what technology did they use? From what I can tell, in modern BSG time, they can barely jump any where. And when they started jumping they were jumping to places that no one had ever been before.

If their technology, meaning modern BSG tech, is 1000 years advanced from where mankind was a 1000 years ago, meaning those who left for Earth, then shouldn't their technology be FAR more advanced than what it seems to be? I mean, they seem to be pretty much using the same 'jumping' technology they were using 1000 years ago...

OR....did the city of lights have something to do with this???

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Forget BSG... what happened to Moore? | Report this post to moderator
By: Groulx (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:00:37 on Jun 11, 2007


The clean cut guy from the TNG box set interviews has somehow transformed himself into "Bo" from Days of Our Lives.

He is Unfrozen Caveman Writer.

"I'm just a caveman... your strange world frightens my caveman mind. But if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's than in season 4...."


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My ending for Battlestar | Report this post to moderator
By: glimardi (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:11:00 on Jun 11, 2007

If i were in charge of BSG this is how I would end it, cause I think it makes a lot of sense.

The BSG finds Earth but it is Earth of the past, the time of the Greek civilization and essentially when the BSG guys show up they are worshipped as Gods. Of course there's a a battle with the cyclons yadda yadda yadda, various subplots but basically BSG creates our own Greek Mythology. After all where did we get out gods names from? Apollo, Athena, Zeus etc. BSG/cylons are the "aliens" that are described in our history that we believe visited Earth. They are the drawings on our cave walls. They turn out to be us. In fact some stay with us to guide humanity which is why we made tremedous progress in only a few thousand years....cool huh.


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Conquest of the Earth | Report this post to moderator
By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 19:56:40 on Jun 10, 2007

Anyone here ever saw the Galactica 1980 movie Conquest of the Earth (it was available on VHS in the US and UK)? It was released on the big screeen in Europe and South America back in the 1980s and it is just camp fun.

Universal had had some success in international markets with two films cut from re-edited episodes of the first series – Battlestar Galactica (1978), the re-edited pilot, and Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979) taken from the two-parter The Living Legend . Glen A. Larson then recut the initial three-part Galactica 1980 episode Galactica Discovers Earth and one episode of the subsequent series, the two-parter – The Night the Cylons Landed – for cinematic release outside of America as Conquest of the Earth .

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"We Found Earth!" | Report this post to moderator
By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:46:38 on Jun 10, 2007

"We're picking up radio transmissions."

"What type of calendar do they use?"

"Most english speakers use the Gregorian calendar."

"What year is it?"

"1980!!"



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    By: GreatCzarsGhost (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:00:23 on Jun 10, 2007

    First off I've read some comments Moore has made about the Glactica reaching earth in the final episode. A 1980 Earth would be of no use to Glactica in dealing with the Cylons who were hot on the trail at the end of season 3.

    Besides, the cornerstone to this show is the relationship between humans and Cylons. This show will have to end with some kind of resolution or understanding about this relationship. If this is not dealt with all that has come before the final episode will be for naught. A 1980's Earth opens up new doors and does nothing to complete the story or answer the question about the Cylon/human relationship.

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      By: SciFiPulse (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:35:47 on Jun 11, 2007

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      First off I've read some comments Moore has made about the Glactica reaching earth in the final episode. A 1980 Earth would be of no use to Glactica in dealing with the Cylons who were hot on the trail at the end of season 3.

      Besides, the cornerstone to this show is the relationship between humans and Cylons. This show will have to end with some kind of resolution or understanding about this relationship. If this is not dealt with all that has come before the final episode will be for naught. A 1980's Earth opens up new doors and does nothing to complete the story or answer the question about the Cylon/human relationship.


      Basically its going to end and here is how I can see it playing out.

      The Galactica sets a course and lands on the White House Lawn. G.W. Bush is playing golf and sees this huge space ship armed to the teeth with guns. He calls his millitary adviser and orders them on stand by.

      Scene changes to G.W. and the Sentate waiting for the hatch of Galactica to open. (Similar to the scene in Close Encounters at the end of that movie where you have a crowd.)

      Admiral Adama who is flanked by Laura Roslin now using a zimmer frame start to approach the president.

      Bush flips open his cell phone and orders his millitary chief to hit the red button subsequently killing off every one in his immediate vacinity including the Battlestar Galactica.

      Or we could have the episode where they go to a parrallel earth and land on an earth inhabited by Apes. Then the Cylona arrive and form an alliance with the apes and wipe the Galactica and the rest of the colonys out.

      Either way.

      The End...


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    • Actually I Was Joking | Report this post to moderator
      By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:33:02 on Jun 11, 2007

      I'm thinking a smart thing would be to have the show take place a couple thousand years in the past.

      I did some two minute research and found the zodiac was credited to the Babylonians. They introduced astrology to the Greeks around 4 B.C.

      If the fleet could finish off the Cylons themselves (or find a way to co-exist with them?) and settle on Earth, it would be cool for them to become those early Babylonians and become entwined in our mythology.

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      These are the trips of the Star Trek Enterprise. Its five year plan calls for us to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly fly where no man has gone in space. Live long, and be happy."


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