Good News for “Galactica”

The technical Emmys were handed out last evening and “Battlestar Galactica” won the award for Best Special Effects. The episode was “Exodus, Part 2” that featured the atmosphere drop by Galactica.

With this win, the Emmy voters are safe from the wrath of executive producer Ron Moore. In his podcast for “Exodus, Part 2” Moore talked about how he’d be upset if “Galactica”‘s effects wizards didn’t take home the Emmy for the episode. “Galactica” beat out stiff competition from other shows such as “Eureka” and “Heroes.”

Meanwhile, SyFy Portal is reporting that the proposed break in season four may not be as long as initially reported. In an interview on the site, writer David Weddle said the gap between episodes ten and eleven could be as long as the initially reported ten months or as short as one month.

“We were told that SCI FI was thinking about splitting the final season, but we do not know how long the gap in that split will be,” producer David Weddle told SyFy Portal’s Michael Hinman. “As far as I know, SCI FI has not decided yet. The SCI FI Channel executives are the only ones who will be able to answer that question, once they’ve arrived at a decision.”

Whether or not SCI FI decides to split the season, Weddle reported that the final episodes of “Galactica” have been mapped out and the writing staff is hard at work on them.

“The writing staff just spent three days in a cabin in Lake Tahoe mapping out the final episodes of the show,” Weddle said. “We now know how it will end and what each major character’s journey will be, though the specifics may go through many changes between now and the conclusion of shooting in March. It was both exhilarating and sad at the end of those three days in Tahoe.”

The writing staff also recorded a podcast of the retreat that will be released on-line in the future as well as included as an extra on the eventual season four set of DVDs.