David Eick, Executive Producer.
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David Eick: The initial challenge was, in a zone where there seems to be so many well-represented, well-done, well-executed science fiction, is there room for another one, and is it worth trying? Then getting Ron Moore involved and beginning to see some of the things that he was coming up with, and what he was writing certainly reinforced that hope that there would be a new way to do science fiction on TV, and that there would be an approach to a title like "Battlestar Galactica" that would be incredibly unexpected. We chose to go with a re-imagining, and not a continuation, because it seemed that a continuation was so beholden to a show that was, uh, on the air quite some time ago; that the only way to really broaden the audience beyond just the fans of the original was to basically take the fundamental underpinnings of what had been created before and use those seeds to start over.
Ronald D. Moore, Writer and Executive Producer.
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Ronald D. Moore: The series is, uh... it's sort of hard to describe, because each episode is very different than the other. There's, uh, several layers of storytelling that we do. Each episode sort of has a beginning, middle, and end. There's always a story that you, as a new viewer, could hook into.
Moore: There's a lot of continuing story, a lot of serialized elements within; a lot of the character relationships continue from story to story; and there's also sort of a larger, overall arc that's going on at the same time, as these people try to find Earth and try to get to the heart of who they are, and the Cylons are chasing them.
Moore: And then, actually, this season, we're also cutting back to a world called Caprica, which is one of the home planets where all of mankind was wiped out; and we follow a story on Caprica with two of the survivors that... one of them is a human being, and then it turns out one of the others is a Cylon, and he doesn't know that.
Scene from "Battlestar Galactica"
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Helo: Can I ask you something, Sharon? Why'd you come back for me?
Sharon: I just couldn't leave you behind. Let's leave it at that.
Ronald D. Moore: We will continue to fight the Cylons throughout, but we don't do it every week. The show is not really a shoot-'em-up every week. It's really a drama. You know, there are plenty of problems for this fleet that don't involve the Cylons. I mean, there are Cylon sleeper-agents within them, they're running out of food, they're running out of supplies, they have accidents, things happen to them out in the reaches of space.
Moore: And that's great, because that means you don't have to, like, defeat the Cylons every week. Because if you do, you start going, "Well, how tough can they be? I mean, these guys beat them up every week." So, it's a good format, and it gives us a nice balance on the show.
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