Posted on 03/14/2009 2:18:28 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Ron Moore is on the verge of joining a rarefied group of showrunners who have successfully pulled off the most ambitious of TV formats: the heavily serialized drama. Part 1 of the series finale of his Peabody Award-winning reimagination of "Battlestar Galactica" on Sci Fi Channel airs tonight.
As with “The Sopranos” and “The Shield,” fans are eagerly anticipating the finale and fretting whether it can live up to their expectations.
Below, Moore talks about the last episode, networks shying away from serials, J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" remake and the one genre he'd like to tackle next.
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Well RDM has pretty much stated as such in commentaries.
You are the only one in this thread saying what you are seeing vs everyone else. Don’t you see a problem with that?
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!
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.
Gilliam had nothing to do with any film of Nickelby. Was Dickens anti-British btw?
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.
Oh, and the ending to BSG sucked!
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.
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