Podcast:Six of One
Hello, and welcome to the podcast for episode 404 of season four. This is "Six of One". I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the new Battlestar Galactica, and I'm here to welcome you to the second podcast of season four. Hopefully this one will be slightly more together than the first one, but you never know.
This episode, as were all the episode- all the first half episodes of the season, were done- we broke them all as one- part of one long story arc. In the previous session's podcast I read some quotes from the initial story document on that episode, so I thought we might revisit that again here as well, if I can pull it up here on my handy-dandy Mac. From the initial season notes: Episode two says, "The theme is civil conflict. In a nutshell: Laura and Kara present conflicting direction- directions to Earth. Lee brokers compromise. Tigh, Anders, and Tory take exception to Tyrol's growing obsession with Kara's Viper. Cavil and Leoben clash over the interpretation of reluctant raiders. Results: shocking violence. Birth of Cylon civil war. In depth: The Cylon story. Leoben and Cavil go to the hybrid, ask, "Why do the raiders turn away from the humans?" Hybrid is enigmatic, "Because they won't attack their own." Cavil: "Hogwash!" Unilaterally lobotomizes the raiders to get them to follow commands, incensing Leoben, who responds by making the centurions more alive. Centurions slaughter Cavil-thinking Cylons. Kara and Adama, vis a vis Kara with gun ending episode one, surrenders it to Adama, putting her life in his hands. Her raw emotional purity convinces Adama to reinstate Kara. Laura's outraged. Has her own vision on which way to Earth, plus visions tell her Kara is not Kara. Lee brokers a compromise. Kara will lead scouting mission in her direction while fleet embarks in Laura's direction. Adama promises to himself to be there for Laura and her cancer, regardless of their disagreements. Zarek gets Lee appointed to the quorum as the new delegate from Caprica, and Zarek has his own plans. Final four: Tory is moved when Baltar tells her that the Cylons possess souls, and Cally becomes suspicious of Tyrol, who's sneaking off at night." And basically that is still the rough outline of this particular episode. As you can see, we knew from the beginning that we were gonna end on the