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Battlestar's Trek
March 05, 2009 12:00 AM by Michael Logan and Ileane Rudolph
“The Cylons were created by man. They were created to make life easier on the 12 colonies. And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.”
So began the 2003 reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, a startling new kind of science fiction and a far cry from the kitschy, kid-appeal series of the same name that aired on ABC in the late ’70s. This new Battlestar was raw, dense and uncomfortably familiar to us in our post-9/11 world. It took the war on terror and sent it into deep space, drawing clear parallels between the humanoid Cylons and the sleeper agents of al Qaeda. In this paranoia-filled universe, nuclear bombs have killed all but about 40,000 humans, whose goal to get to a fabled land called Earth ended tragically last year when they arrived only to find that it, too, was in nuclear ruin. But then, that’s BSG shockingly unpredictable to the end. Despite critical hosannas, a Peabody Award and the obsessive devotion of fans, the series will conclude its four-season run on March 20 with a rabidly guarded two-hour finale. Here, exec producers Ron Moore and David Eick and the cast get their geek on one last time as they share their favorite memories of life aboard the beloved mothership.
A brief excerpt:
CASTING TALES
David Eick
"We quickly zeroed in on Mary McDonnell and Eddie Olmos because we loved Mary in "Donnie Darko," and the stoic, stern, scary character that Eddie played in "Blade Runner." But we couldn't find our Starbuck, which was the most controversial role. When I was home rewatching some audition videos, my wife walked by and saw Katee Sackhoff and said, "What's wrong with you, David? She's right there!" I rewound and she was right. Katee, although a lot younger and stockier than we imagined, was fantastic!"
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