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 Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:10 pm |
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I have never listened to the Galactica "podcast" by creator and writer
Ron Moore
I am in the process of watching all episodes with the commentary on.
The first
thing that jumps out is that Moore is apparently a big movie fan; his
image- and
sometimes montage-driven scenes are informed by _The Wild Bunch_, _The
Longest Day_, of course _Blade Runner_, _Barry Landon_, _Saving
Private
Ryan_, etc ... Not all that
much reference to non-U.S. films though. The other thiing is that
Moore was
an ROTC and son of veterans who has a thing for military history. One
of the
more memorable battle scenes has Apollo watching the distance exchange
of salvos while floating in space, having ejected from his stealth
viper; that scene
was informed by real life accounts of downed American pilots at Midway
who
was shot down near the Japanese battlegroup and had a ringside view of
the
subsequent destruction of the four IJN flattops. Discussions of
history (military
and otherwise) and government/religion goes from present day Iraq all
the way
back to the Greeks and Romans abound, especially when in connection
with
the first few episodes of season 3 where the human population is held
captive
by the Cylons and resort to suicide bomber attacks.
Moore tends to belabor points again and again, and his
commentary certainly doesn't have the smoothness of Annette Insdorf on
the
_Shoot the Piano Player_ disk. Not to mention that it has lots of
interruptions
by cellphones, his wife, garbage trucks, his cat, and f-words (and I
don't mean
the Galacticized "frak" either). But it is an extremely interesting
experience
all the same. Looking forward to the series finale come early next
year. |
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