Interview met Ron Moore

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Over de 1978 BSG:
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The show was about an apocalypse. The show opens with a genocide, an apocalyptic destruction of 12, count em, 12 planets. Billions of human lives are lost. The survivors heroically run away, fleeing an implacable enemy that is determined to destroy them no matter what, and they're looking for a mythical place called Earth.

And the first place they go is the casino planet. [...]

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Moore: One of the things I liked about the way we reconceived the show was just by saying that this wasn't one of the best ships in the fleet, that this was the— Enterprise is the best ship in the fleet. Even in the old Galactica series, the Galactica was a special ship. But if you tell stories about the elite or the best of the best, it always sort of throws you into this: They have to be really good, they have to be smarter than the average bear, they have to be paragons on some level to achieve this heroic status. By saying the ship was going into retirement, that they were all kind of castoffs and knuckleheads and people that other ships didn't want, and [that] Adamas going into retirement too and didn't make admiral and has a bad relationship with his son, [and that] He's divorced, [has] lost one son in an accident he still can't grapple with, and tolerates an alcoholic as his first officer, He's already a deeply flawed man.

Now, take the deeply flawed man and put him in the position where the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders and to me that's an interesting show.
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