Ronald D. Moore, “Battlestar Galactica” Executive Producer, said that the end of the Peadbody Award winning show has always been in the crosshairs of he and fellow producer David Eick’s sites, and by the middle of Season Three knew the end was near.
“We thought, if we don’t start paying this off and really revealing those secrets, we’ll be moving in the wrong direction and get to a place where it felt like we were jerking off the audience,” Moore said at a news conference on Friday.
“This is a decision that took some time to arrive at,” Eick said. “There was a number of questions internally and a creative agenda we wanted to serve, and we all had to collectively decide when to be definitive about it, and that time is now.”
No real details were given by Moore and Eick concerning the series’ final episode, which will be aired in 2008. But, Moore did say that they are negotiating with Lucy Lawless to have her return as D’Anna Biers and fans of the show will “get to see Earth” in that last episode. He also indicated that, although most of the loose ends will be tied up before series end, they have intentionally let some issues remain unresolved in order to “leave some things open to the imagination.” Do we smell movie deal? Moore won’t speculate except to say “Never say never.”
And, just as we have already reported on one of our shows, Moore and Eick added they haven’t received word from the SCI FI Channel yet on any pickup for “Caprica,” the anticipated prequel of “Battlestar Galactica” which was first announced in early 2006.
Better to go out with a bang than a whimper (or more likely for Scifi these days, cancellation). My one hope was that they would reach Earth (ok, so they say ‘see’ in the story), so bring it on…