::Head Desk::
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lls_mutantBSG article, may contain spoilers for Daybreak
Wondering what Ronald D. Moore was doing reading National Geographic
in the final episode of Battlestar Galactica? And was the lesson of
the series that love will save the day? A new interview answers both.
National Geographic spoke to Moore and co-producer David Eick about
the magazine's appearance in the final episode. Moore explained why it
happened:
We wanted the last voiceover to be in the form of a journalistic
article. It was about an archaeological find. It was in Africa, and we
wanted it to have a beautiful map on it. It felt like National
Geographic was the obvious choice... It's just more visual [for it to
be a magazine]. It's more interesting. And we wanted it to be outside
and on the street. It was either that or they're reading it off their
iPhone and that didn't quite seem as interesting.
And the point of the article? To show us how soppy that Moore and Eick
really are, according to Eick:
It's... sort of [an] uncharacteristically positive and optimistic
message because we had labored in the early part of the season to
establish this mythology that the reason why the Cylons couldn't
procreate is because love was necessary. They had all the biological
equipment but didn't have the emotional connection. It's like the
Beatles' song writ large: All you need is love. Love is all you need.
And so the idea that we are all partly Cylon sort of reinforces the
notion that only through love could human and Cylon procreate, so on
some base level [love] kind of what makes us who we are.
Admit it; you knew they were soppy all along, right?
http://io9.com/5187380/love-really-is-all-...ms-bsg-producer
:: HEAD. DESK. ::
I HATE THIS CONCEPT. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.
Look, I get the Cylons are fictional, okay? But love=babies? YUCK. I've watched friends desperately in love want babies. I've watched them struggle with infertility. I've watched them miscarry. And these have all been fantastic people with (as far as I can tell) great relationships, and it's not like Howard and I are any better of people or have any stronger of a relationship. We were just luckier. that was it. We were lucky, our friends were not (or got lucky later.)
Love has NOTHING to do with it.
Tell love has something to do with it to the teen mothers. Tell it to the women who get pregnant from being raped. Tell it to the woman who took precautions and had them fail. Tell it to the couple desperately in love that don't WANT children, and are sick of societal pressure and children being the ultimate expression of love.
ARGH.
Also? I still think the Cylons accepting mortality and therefore they could procreate solution some BRILLIANT person came up with was infinitely better than LOVE.
GAG.
Wondering what Ronald D. Moore was doing reading National Geographic
in the final episode of Battlestar Galactica? And was the lesson of
the series that love will save the day? A new interview answers both.
National Geographic spoke to Moore and co-producer David Eick about
the magazine's appearance in the final episode. Moore explained why it
happened:
We wanted the last voiceover to be in the form of a journalistic
article. It was about an archaeological find. It was in Africa, and we
wanted it to have a beautiful map on it. It felt like National
Geographic was the obvious choice... It's just more visual [for it to
be a magazine]. It's more interesting. And we wanted it to be outside
and on the street. It was either that or they're reading it off their
iPhone and that didn't quite seem as interesting.
And the point of the article? To show us how soppy that Moore and Eick
really are, according to Eick:
It's... sort of [an] uncharacteristically positive and optimistic
message because we had labored in the early part of the season to
establish this mythology that the reason why the Cylons couldn't
procreate is because love was necessary. They had all the biological
equipment but didn't have the emotional connection. It's like the
Beatles' song writ large: All you need is love. Love is all you need.
And so the idea that we are all partly Cylon sort of reinforces the
notion that only through love could human and Cylon procreate, so on
some base level [love] kind of what makes us who we are.
Admit it; you knew they were soppy all along, right?
http://io9.com/5187380/love-really-is-all-...ms-bsg-producer
:: HEAD. DESK. ::
I HATE THIS CONCEPT. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.
Look, I get the Cylons are fictional, okay? But love=babies? YUCK. I've watched friends desperately in love want babies. I've watched them struggle with infertility. I've watched them miscarry. And these have all been fantastic people with (as far as I can tell) great relationships, and it's not like Howard and I are any better of people or have any stronger of a relationship. We were just luckier. that was it. We were lucky, our friends were not (or got lucky later.)
Love has NOTHING to do with it.
Tell love has something to do with it to the teen mothers. Tell it to the women who get pregnant from being raped. Tell it to the woman who took precautions and had them fail. Tell it to the couple desperately in love that don't WANT children, and are sick of societal pressure and children being the ultimate expression of love.
ARGH.
Also? I still think the Cylons accepting mortality and therefore they could procreate solution some BRILLIANT person came up with was infinitely better than LOVE.
GAG.
