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Cowperson · 10-06-2006, 01:57 PM

Last splurge before the season three debut . . . . some fun reading without huge spoilers.

Chicago Tribune . . . . . mild spoiler alert:

Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of "Battlestar Galactica," says his favorite scene in the powerful 2-hour season opener is between Gaius Baltar, the reviled Marshal Petain of New Caprica, and Laura Roslin, his political nemesis and resistance sympathizer.

"Going into that scene, I think there's an assumption of whose side you're on," Moore says. "But when he starts challenging her on the morality of suicide bombing ... it throws her off stride, and I think it throws the audience off stride too. I think, for a moment, you're really not sure where you're supposed to go emotionally in that scene and I think that's a great place to take an audience."

That's been "Battlestar Galactica's" strength from the beginning -- using believable characters to explore personal morality and political choices, while avoiding predictable polemics or easy resolutions. Though the first part of the season has echoes of the situation in Iraq, the debates among the humans and the Cylons are universal to any conflict -- what tactics are legitimate in a fight over core beliefs? Are any methods acceptable? In the end, what is worth fighting for?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...ck=1&cset=true

Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertain...n/15684265.htm

Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles...lestar_galaxy/

EDIT: Great, in-depth examination of Battlestar in the Atlanta Journal Constitution,

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/li...star0930a.html

Cowperson

10-06-2006, 01:57 PM	#152
Cowperson CP Pontiff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: A pasture out by Millarville Exp:	Last splurge before the season three debut . . . . some fun reading without huge spoilers. Chicago Tribune . . . . . mild spoiler alert: Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of "Battlestar Galactica," says his favorite scene in the powerful 2-hour season opener is between Gaius Baltar, the reviled Marshal Petain of New Caprica, and Laura Roslin, his political nemesis and resistance sympathizer. "Going into that scene, I think there's an assumption of whose side you're on," Moore says. "But when he starts challenging her on the morality of suicide bombing ... it throws her off stride, and I think it throws the audience off stride too. I think, for a moment, you're really not sure where you're supposed to go emotionally in that scene and I think that's a great place to take an audience." That's been "Battlestar Galactica's" strength from the beginning -- using believable characters to explore personal morality and political choices, while avoiding predictable polemics or easy resolutions. Though the first part of the season has echoes of the situation in Iraq, the debates among the humans and the Cylons are universal to any conflict -- what tactics are legitimate in a fight over core beliefs? Are any methods acceptable? In the end, what is worth fighting for? http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...ck=1&cset=true Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertain...n/15684265.htm Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles...lestar_galaxy/ EDIT: Great, in-depth examination of Battlestar in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, http://www.ajc.com/search/content/li...star0930a.html Cowperson __________________ Dear Lord, help me to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. - Anonymous