Podcast:Exodus, Part I

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Teaser

Hello. Welcome to the podcast for "Exodus, Part I", the second or third episode of season three of Battlestar Galactica, depending on how you want to count. I'm Ronald D. Moore the developer and executive producer of Galactica. And welcome you once again to the exciting and always interesting podcast. Tonight Mrs. Ron is here but she is probably going to be silent, since she's exhausted.

Terry: Well, I don't know about silent.

RDM: (Laughs.) Never silent.

Terry: It will be the sound of me turning magazine pages, like the sound of chinking teaspoons on bowls last week with those-

RDM: -Yeah.-

Terry: -Cheerios. And I just have to say hello to all my friends on the "Okay" thread. That's my thread on the Scifi.com bulletin board. So I just wanted to give them all a special nod.

RDM: It's called a shoutout.

Terry: I'm not doing a shoutout.

RDM: She's doing-

Terry: That sounds so-

RDM: She's a shoutout to-

Terry: -fat, white person-

RDM: -to her peeps.

Terry: -trying to do black lingo. It's so pathetic.

RDM: A shoutout to her peeps in the hood.

Terry: I'd like to say hello to my compatriots. (Laughs.)

RDM: And I'm saying hello to nobody.

Ok. So here we go. "Exodus" is, as I alluded to, or actually stated, last time, "Exodus" has been split into two separate episodes because it was such a large piece of material that we quickly realized that it was probably gonna be two different parts.

Terry: Oh, look. The tinkling of ice.

RDM: Ah the tinkling ice.

Terry: Oh and the kittens are joining us.

RDM: Yes the kittens are start-

Terry: They have names.

RDM: Tonight's Scotch is a Longmorn Fifteen-

Terry: Oh, god...

RDM: A highland Scotch. A darn fine one.

"Exodus" is two parts. We kind of knew it going in, even though the script itself was no longer or shorter than any other script. There was just so much material to cover and we knew that to play the action beats correctly, to deal with all of the various threads coming together, it just seemed unrealistic, from the get go, to really do it in an hour. Director for this episode, Felix Alcalá, did a really great job in bringing all this together on time and on budget, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. But nevertheless we still felt the need to split it into two pieces to really play it.

Now here at the beginning, we're of course revisiting the end of "Precipice", last week's episode. And essentially what we wanted to do was play these events over again for the audience and then lead you to a certain point, in the recap section here, and then restart and show you what happened from the other perspectives. This was very tricky. It took a lot of massaging on the page and in the editing room to really make this whole sequence work. but here we're still- here come the Cylons over the hill. Some great work by Gary Hutzel and his visual effect team.