The Road Less Traveled gets another visit
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- May
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After a week’s break, the good folks over at the SciFi Channel resumed giving us recap clips of the last Battlestar Galactica episode. So I present you with this, a quickie recap of The Road Less Traveled:
And meanwhile, to prepare you for tonight’s episode, called “Faith,” check out this interview Beliefnet did with BSG exec prod Ronald Moore about “The Souls of Cylons.”
Here’s a snippet:
At the beginning, I sort of assumed that the Colonials — the human beings — would have a belief system, probably polytheistic. In the original, the “Lords of Kobol” were referred to several times. But it wasn’t until the development of the miniseries when I sort of randomly gave the Cylons a belief system. I was creating the characters and working on some lines for Number 6 and I thought it was interesting if she professed a belief in a single God. I had really given her a belief in a singular God almost by accident.I compared that with the polytheistic religion of the colonials, I started to realize that an interesting pattern was developing — the Cylons believing in the one true God and the Colonials having an older, multifaceted system of deities that was obviously patterned on the Romans. As the series went on, I started to believe that the Cylon belief was going to be a guiding principal.
There’s lots of really interesting stuff, so check it out. But then come back here tonight, about half an hour or so after “Faith” ends, to see my insta-thoughts.
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