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

The Live Feed ^ | 03/13/09

[marajade]

Well RDM has pretty much stated as such in commentaries.

[marajade]

You are the only one in this thread saying what you are seeing vs everyone else. Don’t you see a problem with that?

[pabianice]

What a stupid disappointment.

They finally get to Earth at approx. 200,000 BC, around the time earliest Homo is appearing. And what do they do? They abandon all their technology and books and arts and everything that they are and go -- wait for it -- Back to Nature, so they can die of the common cold or an infected finger if they don't burn or freeze to death first while being eaten by a lion. What crap! They should have called it Battlegreen Galactica. Then the characters spend the next several days wandering around instead of trying to kill some food animal with a sharp stick, which is all they've decided to allow themselves. Then, Thrace evaporates! WTF?

A finale written by the coke-addled. Just say no!

[Borges]

Are you joking? Dystopias have been around for centuries. Blade Runner was based on a novel from the 1960s and was about the importance and sanctity of life. Brazil was about a big goverment police state.

[Borges]

Science Fiction in general hasn't been around that long. BR failed the Box Office because it wasn't really something that would appeal to a mass audience. Brazil didn't do well either. BR, especially in the so called ‘Final Cut’ from 2007, is a masterpiece and is very much about the sanctity of life. And Brazil was clearly about the perils of a socialist police state and the importance of the primacy of the individual imagination.

[Borges]

Blade Runner was unAmerican because it offered a bleak vision of the future.

That's hilarious. Only Feel Good Slush and Happy Endings!

[Borges]

Brazil was about a statist government run amuck. And rampant materialism is a legitimate target of satire. Wall*E and so forth.

[Borges]

Gilliam had nothing to do with any film of Nickelby. Was Dickens anti-British btw?

[Brett66]

American and British sci-fi always project a dystopian future, it is a rather tiring theme.

The old series Star Trek was the only major sci-fi show I can think of that didn’t have a dystopian view of what the future held.

The Next Generation changed that and went post-apocalyptic, the Vulcans basically pulled us out of our self-made dystopia.

It’s really a failure of imagination from the writers.

[Brett66]

Oh, and the ending to BSG sucked!

[razorboy]

Actually Star Trek always had rebuilding after an apocalypse in their canon. The Eugenics War (which spawned Khan and with it the second movie) was mentioned in season 1.

Dark futures tend to be in SF because Utopian futures lack conflict. It’s hard to get an exciting plot going when there’s nothing to fight over.

[Borges]

Which of these is it...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/