Battlestar Galactica-Final Season (4) 5/16/08--Guess What's Coming to Dinner

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Could we have a link to where you are getting this information?

I don't really any. 2 years ago, I was active on the Sci-Fi board from Battlestar Galactica, and Ron Moore also had his blog. (I think it's still online, but it's not really active any more). I would try to look there, but it's hard to track down the specific elements.

Then there are also the commentaries on the DVDs or the Podcasts still online. They always contained interesting tidbits, but are pretty "unlinkable".

Battlestar Galacticas storyline evolved very differently then the Babylon 5 storyline, for example. (And this was a concern for many critics*.)

*) by critics I usually mean "vocal posters", not the New York Times TV critic, if there is one.

 

[Mark]

Got it. I often miss that stuff. Thanks!

 

[Arnwyn]

The Boomer idea was a "last-minute" thing, as far as I understood.
The religious angle was a throw-away line by Six, that they decide to give more importance.
Helo's run on Caprica was also something that wasn't really considered during the mini-series, but they decided to pick it up for the actual series.
What "head-six" actually is, or that Caprica-Six would get a "head-baltar", was also decided very late (well, at least head-baltar was decided on. They could still not have a definition for the Head-Sixes & Baltars, but I think at this point, they might have.)

None of this surprises me. I just discovered that all the things I despise are all the things that (if true) were just made up as they went along/last second. (Though the Boomer thing was acceptable since it was done early enough - i.e. in the mini-series.)

Go figure.

 

[Mallus]

I love the stuff the writers essentially 'winged'. Then again, I'm particularly allergic to certain kinds of authorial overdetermination; 'we planned it all out in advance' isn't a selling point for me. That the writers had to discover what the show (and it's characters) were about as they wrote it goes a long way towards explaining why I find the show so... alive in ways I've never seen previously in televised SF.

 

[John Crichton]

I love the stuff the writers essentially 'winged'. Then again, I'm particularly allergic to certain kinds of authorial overdetermination; 'we planned it all out in advance' isn't a selling point for me. That the writers had to discover what the show (and it's characters) were about as they wrote it goes a long way towards explaining why I find the show so... alive in ways I've never seen previously in televised SF.

I'm of a similar mind.

Overall, who really cares how the stories and plots came about as long as it is entertaining? Not me.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Was it ever explained or am I not understanding what happened in the mini-series.

It was never explained. There was just a time jump and the next time we see him, everyone is not just dead, but gone. No bodies in the streets. That is, to my mind, one of a number of minor flaws that does not detract from the overall quality.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

It was never explained. There was just a time jump and the next time we see him, everyone is not just dead, but gone. No bodies in the streets. That is, to my mind, one of a number of minor flaws that does not detract from the overall quality.

When you consider that many of the places in "Caprica" were in rather busy parts of downtown Vancouver, I think it was simply easier to have an area clear of people or corpse props in front of the camera. One of the places that Helo and Sharon walked by in an early episode was the Greater Vancouver Public Library which is only a couple blocks away from the Orpheum "Kobol Opera House" Theatre.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

One of the places that Helo and Sharon walked by in an early episode was the Greater Vancouver Public Library which is only a couple blocks away from the Orpheum "Kobol Opera House" Theatre.

You should drop by there. If the final five are there, lift their hoods and let us know who the final cylon is, please.