Today ’s Battlestar Galactica gore go out us with some lingering questions about the show , include how its ending railroad tie in with prequel series Caprica . as luck would have it , we had a hazard to sit down with producer David Eick and some of the stars of BSG and require a few questions . clack through for Gaius Baltar ’s leadership secrets , plus a picture gallery of nerveless novel BSG political posters from Laurent - LX .
BSG and Caprica :
I asked Eick whether BSG ’s ending would tie in with the prequel series . Did the development of Caprica spell any change for how BSG ends ? No , say Eick . The two shows have been totally separate since Caprica first went into development a couple of years ago . “ They were on two freestanding tracks , ” and BSG ’s ending has been design out “ in blanket strokes ” for a tenacious clip .
So does that mean we wo n’t see any Caprica characters in the backside end of BSG – such as Daniel Graystone or his girl Zoe ? Eick confirmed that nobody from Caprica would be turning up on BSG . “ It ’s a prequel , so we do n’t have to trade with that kind of cross - pollination , since it takes place 51 year before the BSG miniseries . ”
The BSG TV movie :
It ’s not a done deal yet , says Eick . If it happens , it ’ll be like Razor in that it ’ll “ involve a alone position on a story you thought you know . ” He wo n’t unveil when in the show ’s past it occupy space , but it delve into “ district that the fans would be intimate with , and offers new view . ”
Lee Adama worker Jamie Bamber say it ’s “ highly unlikely ” that he would be in the TV movie , now that he ’s starring in Law And Order : UK . “ I do n’t think the story is intended to be a Lee story anyway , from what i fuck . ” He would n’t listen going back and reprise the role of Lee , but he feel like the show has ended well and he wo n’t lose any sleep if he never plays Apollo again .
On demoralise expectations :
Eick say have the title Battlestar Galactica helped the show . “ I do n’t want to say it lowered expectation , but it created a climate of expectations that it was conk out to be a certain type of show that it did n’t turn out to be . ” masses expect something cockamamie , funny , wishful thinker or silly from a show with that title – and peradventure BSG would have been more popular if it had been more escapist – but that was n’t the show Eick and Ronald D. Moore were arrive at . And the show , as it was , ask citizenry by surprisal .
On being a private cylon :
I asked Michael Trucco ( Sam Anders ) how he adjudicate to convey Sam ’s unease within his own tegument after Sam ascertain out he was a Cylon . Trucco said that common sense of uneasiness was “ on the dot what i was hope would come across . ” He wanted Anders to have a sense of not just confusion about being a cylon , but “ actually loss of identity . ” Everything Anders felt was true was wrong . The sky is ruddy instead of blue , and it ’s always been flushed in malice of what you might retrieve . Everything Sam thought he stood for was upend , and he was a “ gentleman’s gentleman without a commonwealth , ” not make out what he was . And of course , Anders was paranoid about Starbuck finding out , after she allege she would put a bullet in his head if he was a Cylon .
Trucco ’s only rue about playing Anders was the show did n’t explore his feeling when he thought Starbuck was idle at the end of time of year three more .
The Gaius Baltar leadership method :
When I realized I was about to be sit next to James Callis – who comes across on the nose like Gaius Baltar in person , but much nicer – I had a question I was burning to ask . As Baltar , he ’s been a political leader and a spiritual leader . How are those two dissimilar way of manage major power different ?
His resolution was very Baltar - esque : “ Political superpower on some level is leading from the front , and it ’s a very ego - driven … Lots of smile and happy handing . And being the spiritual guru is about search for something internally . The third middle does n’t bet outwards , it looks inwards . ” ( When he said that last part , he got that Baltar mock - serious tone on his face . ) He also enounce he was very projected he would never have to be “ this guy cable ” any more .
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