First off, I see they've expanded one episode to a two-parter. Now, I seem to remember thinking that several eps last season sometimes felt a bit padded; one obvious example was "Resurrection Ship II" (?) which featured about 15 minutes of Jamie Bamber wallowing around in a pond. We'll see what happens when "Exodus I" and "Exodus II" (ep title sounds like a spoiler, but I thought the New Caprica arc was due to last about a half-dozen-odd eps, not just 3 or 4?) air.
Next, there's this question, and his answer:
quote:". . . Is there significance to the props used, like the hummer and thompson automatic on the wall of the pegasus ready room? Is there an implication that these items evolved in a similar way to the way they have on Earth or is there something deeper to look forwards to?"
The props are all deliberate choices that imply more than just a passing connection between our world and the world of Galactica and there are deeper connections yet to come.
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BSG happens in the future: They had a Henry Starling-type industrialist who, instead of using knowledge from the future, was simply watching our TV transmissions.
He's gonna shit when he sees BSG.
Yes, I'm kidding.
I don't see any real way to make the connection RDM is suggesting. Overall the technology level of the Colonies seems well beyond Hummers and Thompsons, and while both were undoubtedly old even in the BSG timeline I didn't have the impression that they were hundreds of years old. I'm sure cultural and technological evolution would be skewed by colonization and the evac from Kobol and all, but still.
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The season opener is going to be 2 hours long? After having that 1 & 1/2 hour finale?! God help them if they ever have to do a feature film. It'd be like Peter Jackson's King Kong all over again...only with more robots and not quite so crap.
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Moore's comments about the props that come from the "real" world caught my eye too. Of course part of the issue � especially with the Hummer � is obviously an issue of expediency for the shooting, to avoid creating unrealistic Trek-like props. But still, I've often thought that BSG could quite easily happen in our future.
For example, what if there were some kind of Firefly-like exodus from Earth, and everyone who left eventually settled on Kobol? But unlike Firefly, it's possible that some people were left behind on Earth. Over time, especially after the departure from Kobol to the Twelve Colonies, the idea of Earth got twisted into a thirteenth colony instead.
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