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There goes [[James Lyman|Jammer]]. Jammer, interestingly enough, in early drafts Jammer was killed in that sequence. He died in the firefight and then there was even a draft where Jammer died a little bit later on. And I ultimately decided not to do that. And- for reasons that will become clear in future episodes. | There goes [[James Lyman|Jammer]]. Jammer, interestingly enough, in early drafts Jammer was killed in that sequence. He died in the firefight and then there was even a draft where Jammer died a little bit later on. And I ultimately decided not to do that. And- for reasons that will become clear in future episodes. | ||
This is also a pickup. This little pickup here of [[Connor]] finding the map was another little piece that we didn't have that we had to go back and recreate later for this key thing of- when he walks up and says that he's found the map and it was on a skinjob, we didn't really have the shot of when that occured. Sergeant [[Erin Mathias|Mathias]] is named aft- Gunnery Sergeant Mathias. Again, I wanted it to be a woman, for whatever reason, and someone in her forties that looked like she'd been around the block a few times. | This is also a pickup. This little pickup here of [[Connor]] finding the map was another little piece that we didn't have that we had to go back and recreate later for this key thing of- when he walks up and says that he's found the map and it was on a skinjob, we didn't really have the shot of when that occured. Sergeant [[Erin Mathias|Mathias]] is named aft- Gunnery Sergeant Mathias. Again, I wanted it to be a woman, for whatever reason, and someone in her forties that looked like she'd been around the block a few times. And she's actually named after the high school superintendent that preceded my father at Chowchilla Union High. His name was Jim Mathias and I just decided to name it after him. | ||
Terry: Does your father know that? | Terry: Does your father know that? | ||
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Another great matte painting, or matte shot. I don't know if they call them paintings anymore. | Another great matte painting, or matte shot. I don't know if they call them paintings anymore. | ||
[[Kara Thrace|Kara]] and [[ | [[Kara Thrace|Kara]] and [[Kacey]]. I like the little echoes here of- there's a sense, a feeling in the production design that is reminicent of that dark little apartment that we saw of Kara's on Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]]. There's not really a direct correlation between the two but there are echoes of it. There's the- something about the staircase and the way it's set-decked and the way it's shot makes me feel like it's Kara's home as well, in a very twisted reality. | ||
Very tricky to get interesting performances out of child actors. This is one- oh, I think I said this last week. But this is one of the better child actors that I've dealt with. And the key is usually just giving them very little- the younger they are, the simpler you have to make the material. If you're asking them to say a lot of lines and emote and give you specific reaction shots and looking at a certain way, looking in fear. It becomes very hard to coax it out of them on the set because they're just little kids. And they're overwhelmed by the environment. So you have to- if they're very young you have to almost think of them as props. And that you're just moving them from place to place and you're looking for little, key little bits and you're not asking very much of them as actors. | Very tricky to get interesting performances out of child actors. This is one- oh, I think I said this last week. But this is one of the better child actors that I've dealt with. And the key is usually just giving them very little- the younger they are, the simpler you have to make the material. If you're asking them to say a lot of lines and emote and give you specific reaction shots and looking at a certain way, looking in fear. It becomes very hard to coax it out of them on the set because they're just little kids. And they're overwhelmed by the environment. So you have to- if they're very young you have to almost think of them as props. And that you're just moving them from place to place and you're looking for little, key little bits and you're not asking very much of them as actors. | ||
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RDM: It might even be the oracle. Oracle is, like, her title. Her name is Sellona- [[Dodona Selloi|Selloi Dodona]]. Which is the name of an [[Wikipedia:Dodona|actual oracle]] from ancient Greece, I believe. Who is actually someone you can look up on the internet and learn all about. So I borrowed her name, the name of that oracle, to use as our own. | RDM: It might even be the oracle. Oracle is, like, her title. Her name is Sellona- [[Dodona Selloi|Selloi Dodona]]. Which is the name of an [[Wikipedia:Dodona|actual oracle]] from ancient Greece, I believe. Who is actually someone you can look up on the internet and learn all about. So I borrowed her name, the name of that oracle, to use as our own. | ||
This concept- I liked the idea that the two theologies of faith, the polytheistic and the monotheistic, that they were starting to have certain points of crossover. That the oracle of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies|Colonials' religion]] was actually gonna get a message from the [[ | This concept- I liked the idea that the two theologies of faith, the polytheistic and the monotheistic, that they were starting to have certain points of crossover. That the oracle of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies|Colonials' religion]] was actually gonna get a message from the [[God]] of the Cylon religion and pass through, as a conduit, to D'anna. And that there was some kind of common point between the two. That the both religions and both faiths had some glimpse of the truth, had some idea of the eternal but neither one was exactly right. But that there were paths that each side could take or be on that would eliminate the truth of the universe to them. | ||
And then we- and this was, I thought, a nice way to dive back into the storyline of [[Hera]], of the little girl. Again, this was all gonna start in "Occupation" but it was just too many storylines moving simultaneously. And this starts a arc that we're gonna play with D'anna of- for many episodes. And D'anna's journey and her arc as a character begins here. Her starting to dream about the child. What does the child symbolize? What is the meaning of God to D'anna? Why is she questioning God? What is she questing? What is she looking for? All those things propel her in subsequent episodes. | And then we- and this was, I thought, a nice way to dive back into the storyline of [[Hera]], of the little girl. Again, this was all gonna start in "Occupation" but it was just too many storylines moving simultaneously. And this starts a arc that we're gonna play with D'anna of- for many episodes. And D'anna's journey and her arc as a character begins here. Her starting to dream about the child. What does the child symbolize? What is the meaning of God to D'anna? Why is she questioning God? What is she questing? What is she looking for? All those things propel her in subsequent episodes. | ||
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RDM: The big finale. Goodnight and good luck. | RDM: The big finale. Goodnight and good luck. | ||
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