Friday, April 4, 2008

Battlestar Galactica - Total SciFi: Cast Interviews

From Total SciFi:

http://www.dwscifi.com/interviews/1791-battlestar-galactica-we-are-at-the-top-of-our-game

(Please follow the link for the complete interview.)

Posted on Friday 04 April 2008

Battlestar Galactica: “We are at the top of our game…”



With the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica finally upon us, executive producers Ron Moore and David Eick, along with cast members Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer and Lucy Lawless chat to Tara Bennett about the fallout from the Cylon revelations, the return of a nasty character and the heartbreak of eventually saying goodbye.


A brief excerpt:

**snippage**

Q: Did you agree with the selection of the four secret Cylons?

Katee Sackhoff "Every single Cylon was aligned with a person in power or in a strategic position to be able to bring down the fleet.

You had Anders aligned with Kara and the pilots. Tory [Foster] was aligned with the President. Aaron Douglas’s character [Tyrol] was in charge of the Vipers and Tigh was directly connected with Adama. Each one of those Cylons is right next to a person that can take down the fleet which I thought was a very smart thing to do and something people didn’t expect."

**snippage**

Are there any stories that you’ve held back that could turn into something else later on?

Ron Moore I don’t think so. I think the show will end and we’ll sit around and talk about stories we could have told or things we didn’t get around to, but the decision is to end the show when we are at the top of our game.

We want to end it strong, on our terms, to a natural conclusion, and that choice precludes other choices. I think if the show was going on for two more seasons, there would be other stories and we would come up with all kinds of other things, but the stories would start to attenuate and wouldn’t be quite as strong as they are now. You
always go off stage with them wanting more, and that is the same for us as well.

**snippage**

Battlestar Galactica’s fourth season begins on US SCI FI on 4 April 2008.

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