Interview with Ron Moore
Battlestargalactica.com has an interview posted with Ron Moore. I held off reading it because people were calling it spoilerish, but I took a quick glance through it and it wasn't as spoilerish as I thought it was going to be. Click at your own risk, but I thought it was pretty tame.
If you really want to dodge anything spoilerish, then skip the answers to questions #1 and #7.
Q: We're now approaching the second anniversary of the airing of the miniseries. Do you think you've succeeded in what you set out to achieve with Battlestar Galactica?
A: To be honest, we've achieved more than I could have hoped for two years ago. I always believed in what we were doing, always believed it was going to work, but if you'd told me in 2003 that in 2005 Time would name the show the number one television show on the air, I wouldn't have believed a word of it.
Source: The Great Link
You know... by saying this, I completely admit to being a tremendous ass.... but that was possibly the single most retarded interview I've ever read. I could almost hear the "comic guy's" nasally voice as I read each question. It just astounded me, because the interviewer was just asking all of these completely dorkey, irrelevant questions. The possibility of too many Vipers on screen. They were only in view for about 5 seconds!!!!
The one reason I love the new BSG, is because it feels like it was not designed for geeks who discuss star trek lexicon in their spare, and compare lightsaber designs. I sometimes wonder if Ron Moore produced this show as something of a middle finger to the bsg fans of old. And when they are borderline criticizing Moore for not writing the whole story out in advance like Babylon… ech. I know if I were more, I’d sneer at these people.
Posted by: Aragorn | January 03, 2006 at 07:35 PM
Aragorn - The only thing I can say (as someone who runs a BSG fan site) is that there are many different levels of fandom. You are the kind of person that reads a fan site... I am the kind of person that runs one... there are still others that buy all the merchandise... still others that do computer mods and write their own RPG games and still others who author fan fiction and publish technical manuals of fictional universes...
The point is, science fiction drives us to varying degrees of involvement... One mans honest interview question is another man's annoyance.
All that being said, I agree with you on many levels that some people are still out there hoping that Ron Moore will fall flat on his face and that this whole "new Galactica" will just fade away. I think it is clear by now that it is the new that is here to stay. Ron's universe has beaten the old universe both in number of episodes (third season on the way) and in the mindshare of a pop culture audience. Was the old series recognized by Time Magazine as the best show of the year?
If anything, we can know that it is the new Galactica that is succeeding and no amount of annoying interview questions are going to prevent that.
Posted by: Trapper Markelz | January 03, 2006 at 07:52 PM
Trapper - Yeah, I know. Believe me, the phrase "Is it lonely up their on your pedestal" very much applies to me :)
You’re right, sci-fi certainly can be enjoyed on many levels, even to those who feel like being anal retentive about the littlest things, and it’s unfair of me to judge others… especially when I have a history of obsessing over plenty of franchises myself.
But it’s also true that the new Galactica has outshined it’s predecessors in pretty much every aspect. Plus we all have to appreciate the fact that BSG is potentially one of the few science fictions who isn’t overly reliant on Deus Ex Machina.
Still… I was half expecting them to ask “why is Starbuck such a slut?” :p
Posted by: Aragorn | January 03, 2006 at 08:32 PM