Q&A: Ron Moore on 'Battlestar' series finale

The Live Feed ^ | 03/13/09

[KevinDavis]

THR: Universal is developing a “Battlestar” movie with original series creator Glen Larson. How do you feel about that?

Moore: More power to them. I don’t know anything about it; they didn’t talk to me about it. I’ve always said if somebody wanted to do a continuation of the original, that’s fine by me. It doesn’t have anything to do with what we’ve done.

[KevinDavis]

A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!

[exist]

I resisted BSG for a long time but season 3 sucked me in. I then downloaded the rest of the seasons since I can’t stand commercials. Can’t wait for the finale.

[KevinDavis]

Same here.... I like Ron’s attitude.

[ChocChipCookie]

Years ago Ron was a producer on Deep Space 9. He had his own bulletin board on AOL and would answer questions once or twice a week. I always liked him for being so available to ST fans.

[exist]

Ron Moore's remake or re-imagining of BSG is very dramatic and very unAmerican: fatalistic, paranoid, full of liberal invective. It is a series most admired by that counter culture rag~ Rolling Stone

That's what I thought too til I watched it.

[Tanniker Smith]

Funny thing: I was just reminded that I won't be home for the finale. I'll be at a Sci-fi convention in Rye, New York. (Lunacon 2009).

In a great piece of planning, I viewed the tentative schedule and their having a "The End of BSG" panel just a few minutes after the show airs on the East Coast. Unfortunately, I don't go to these cons to sit in my room and watch TV, so I'll be avoiding all talk of BSG for an entire weekend in a hotel filled with fanboys (and fangals).

[Future Snake Eater]

That is my observation after watching it.

Are you sure you watched it? Sounds like you caught bits and pieces, had some preconceived notions and let yourself hate it. Good job.

Anyway, kudos to Eick and Moore for a terrific show. I can't wait to see how it ends, far too soon though it may be.

[teacherbarbie]

The reason so many TV shows and films are made in Canada is because Canada has film money producers can get. All they have to do is put a Canadian on board.

[Bratch]

Also non-union, IIRC.

[denydenydeny]

Beyond that, in the first and second seasons it offered a sterile universe~ no aliens!

In the third and fourth seasons too. This is hardly unusual--the much-loved series Firefly/Serenity had a similar background. The belief that there are no aliens has a lot of validity and IMO makes human life all the more important, and makes the series all the more dramatic and poignant.

But it does offer several worlds that look just like the boreal forests of Vancouver Canada.

I saw very little of this in BSG, quite a bit of it in the Stargate series.

A cosmos of humanoid beings that all speak the same language!

Now I KNOW you are confusing BSG with Stargate. If there is only one intelligent species in the universe that colonized several worlds, as there is in BSG, then it's entirely posssible that they would speak the same language.

Me, I've had enough of "aliens" with prosthetics glued onto their foreheads. The stark and unforgiving universe of BSG was a refreshing change.

[BenLurkin]

"It doesn’t have anything to do with what we’ve done."

A good thing, IMHO.

[rsquare]

“I’ll be avoiding all talk of BSG for an entire weekend in a hotel filled with fanboys (and fangals). “

uhhh...good luck with that...

[KevinDavis]

That is why I like Ron Moore..

[KevinDavis]

Ditto.... That is why I enjoyed those two shows.