Preview for Friday's new episode - just two more for the year (sniff).
Discussion after the jump, with many spoilers unless you are up to date.
It's always great when a familiar face returns... in this case, our high priestess herself, who played a major role in getting Laura to believe/accept that she was the dying leader in the scriptures. Which is, of course, why she's back.
The fabulous recapper for Television Without Pity, Jacob, once pleaded with the show to cure Laura Roslin by any means necessary. I believe he actually said that he would be okay with the show inventing a gun that shot Laura but only actually shot the cancer. (It also might have been Strega, but I'm betting Jacob)
Point is, that as important as it was to the show to cure Laura in the second season, it's now time that she has to die. I'd enjoy it if they delayed that death until the very last episode... even better if they waited until she finally had sex with Admiral Adama (Although I have my suspicions about New Caprica. They totes got stoned and did it). But death must come.
It's getting good, my fellow Battlestar Geeks.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Battlestar Galactica Preview - The Hub
Monday, June 2, 2008
Creator of Battlestar Talks To Wired
Wired Magazine has a great interview with Ronald D. Moore, the Showrunner and Executive Producer of Battlestar Galatica. Moore is one of the most open people in show business about the process of making a show - in addition to multiple interviews he has a blog and a podcast that really get into the detail of what it's like to produce a sci-fi drama.
He discusses his personal story, the difficulties in writing religion without turning into Touched By An Angel, and how easy it is for a writer to write themselves into a corner. One of the most interesting exchanges, however, is about the many message boards online for Galactica fans... an excerpt when you ask the monkey for more.
Moore: I do, I enjoy it. I like it. I have enough of the fan in me to appreciate what it is to be a fan... The danger is that you start reading those boards too closely.. . No one in the writers room really says, well, I was reading on the boards, and they don't like x, y, and z, so we shouldn't do that. That's happened once or twice and it's usually like stampeded to death, like, oh really, they don't like it when we do that? Well that's what were doing. We kind of go the other way. Oh, that'll piss them off? Well let's really piss them off. This'll really piss them off, that'll drive them insane. They'll say, oh, there's this guy who really hates the show, and all he talks about is how much he hates Starbuck. Oh, yeah? OK. Let's do a Starbuck episode.
Grab the rest here:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-06/ff_moore_transcript?currentPage=1
