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	=== Footnotes ===		=== Footnotes ===
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	[[Category:A to Z]]		[[Category:A to Z]]
	[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]		[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]

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	* ''[[Edward James Olmos]] to fans of the [[Original Series]]:''		* ''[[Edward James Olmos]] to fans of the [[Original Series]]:''

	: If you are a real, real staunch ''{{TOS\|Battlestar Galactica\|Battlestar Galactica}}'' person, please don't watch it. [N]ot only because of {{callsign\|Starbuck}} but because we really don't stand true to the kind of characters that were built around the original.		: If you are a real, real staunch ''{{TOS\|Battlestar Galactica\|Battlestar Galactica}}'' person, please don't watch it. [N]ot only because of [<nowiki/>{{callsign\|Starbuck}}] but because we really don't stand true to the kind of characters that were built around the original.

	: I've gotten some really strong mail [from Original Series fans]. They're very angry. And I know [[Sci Fi Channel]] wants to say that everybody's going to enjoy it. They're not. They're not going to like this program.<ref group="commentary" name="catlin_courant_olmos_warning_original_fans">{{cite_web\|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2003-12-08-0312081262-story.html\|title=TO `GALACTICA' FANS: DON'T WATCH THIS\|date=8 December 2003\|accessdate=19 September 2019\|last=Catlin\|first=Roger}}</ref>		: I've gotten some really strong mail [from Original Series fans]. They're very angry. And I know [[Sci Fi Channel]] wants to say that everybody's going to enjoy it. They're not. They're not going to like this program.<ref group="commentary" name="catlin_courant_olmos_warning_original_fans">{{cite_web\|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2003-12-08-0312081262-story.html\|title=TO `GALACTICA' FANS: DON'T WATCH THIS\|date=8 December 2003\|accessdate=19 September 2019\|last=Catlin\|first=Roger}}</ref>

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	{{disline\|This article refers to the 2003 re-imagined version of ''Battlestar Galactica''. For information on the 1978 Original Series, see [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]].}}		{{shortcut\|TRS<br/>TNS}}{{disline\|This article refers to the 2003 re-imagined version of ''Battlestar Galactica''. For information on the 1978 Original Series, see [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]].}}

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	: I changed the things I knew didn't work. The original {{TOS\|Baltar}} didn't have a motivation for betraying his race<ref>Moore's statement is subjective. Some readers may feel that Baltar's motivations were power-based. By deliberately making a deal with the Cylons, he believed that the Cylons would spare his colony and subjugate the human species under him {{OS\|Saga of a Star World}}.</ref>, so I knew I'd have to change that character. I also never understood why the Cylons were so intent on pursuing these humans across the galaxy<ref>For detail on the Original Series Cylons and their motivations, see [[Cylons (TOS)]].</ref>, so I changed the background of the Cylons and their relationship with the human beings. Making the Cylons the creation of humanity enabled the Cylons to have a much more complicated love/hate relationship with humans, and also provided us with a way to use humanoid Cylons in the series, which was something we knew we wanted to do because there would be limits on how much we could use CGI Cylons.		: I changed the things I knew didn't work. The original {{TOS\|Baltar}} didn't have a motivation for betraying his race<ref>Moore's statement is subjective. Some readers may feel that Baltar's motivations were power-based. By deliberately making a deal with the Cylons, he believed that the Cylons would spare his colony and subjugate the human species under him {{OS\|Saga of a Star World}}.</ref>, so I knew I'd have to change that character. I also never understood why the Cylons were so intent on pursuing these humans across the galaxy<ref>For detail on the Original Series Cylons and their motivations, see [[Cylons (TOS)]].</ref>, so I changed the background of the Cylons and their relationship with the human beings. Making the Cylons the creation of humanity enabled the Cylons to have a much more complicated love/hate relationship with humans, and also provided us with a way to use humanoid Cylons in the series, which was something we knew we wanted to do because there would be limits on how much we could use CGI Cylons.

	: {{TOS\|Athena}} didn't seem to serve any function in the original show other than look beautiful and be a love interest for Starbuck, so I just got rid of that character.<ref>The series would transfer the daughter-figure aspects of the Original Series Athena to {{callsign\|Starbuck}} and {{callsign\|Athena}}, who [[Torn\|later]] receives the callsign of "Athena."</ref> And while I thought {{TOS\|Boxey}} was part of the family and decided it would be nice to [[Boxey (RDM)\|include him in some peripheral way]],<ref>The character of Boxey in the Re-imagined Series was intended to be part of a family unit with [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Sharon Valerii]], but a place for the character within story arcs were eventually dropped, and the character has essentially been dropped from the series.</ref> I never considered keeping [[Muffit\|Boxey's dog]] for a second. The dog was just absurd! it was right out from the moment I took the show.<ref group="Books">{{cite_book\|last=Bassom\|first=David\|authorlink=\|authorlinkurl=\|coauthors=\|year=2005\|title=[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]\|pages=13-14\|editor=ed. Adam "Adama" Newell\|publisher=Titan Books\|location=\|id=ISBN 1-84576-0972}}</ref>		: {{TOS\|Athena}} didn't seem to serve any function in the original show other than look beautiful and be a love interest for Starbuck, so I just got rid of that character.<ref>The series would transfer the daughter-figure aspects of the Original Series Athena to {{callsign\|Starbuck}} and {{callsign\|Athena}}, who [[Torn\|later]] receives the callsign of "Athena."</ref> And while I thought {{TOS\|Boxey}} was part of the family and decided it would be nice to [[Boxey (RDM)\|include him in some peripheral way]],<ref>The character of Boxey in the Re-imagined Series was intended to be part of a family unit with [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Sharon Valerii]], but a place for the character within story arcs were eventually dropped, and the character has essentially been dropped from the series.</ref> I never considered keeping [[Muffit\|Boxey's dog]] for a second. The dog was just absurd! it was right out from the moment I took the show.

	* ''Moore discusses the religious aspects of the series:''		* ''Moore discusses the religious aspects of the series:''

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