With Season 3 newly out on DVD and Season 4--the first half of the series’ swansong season--set to bow on the Sci-Fi Channel April 4, there’s no better time to talk about all things Battlestar Galactica. And no one’s in the know more than executive producer and co-creator Ron Moore, the visionary who re-imagined the semi-cheesy '70s sci-fi staple into one of the most arresting shows on television, regardless of its genre. Just be wary as Moore spills his secrets, lest you discover that you, too, are a Cylon.
Hollywood.com: The conclusion of Season 3 ended with the big reveal of several surprise Cylon sleeper agents aboard Galactica. How quickly in the new season do we get the first 'Holy frack!' moment in relation to these revelations?
Ron Moore: That's an interesting question. They're kind of sprinkled along the way. Probably in the first episode there are a few sort of surprises and then we start multiple storylines going for a while, but it builds towards a midseason cliffhanger that's pretty significant for the show, a pretty huge sort of moment that we get to halfway. The first half of the season is sort of one long story that's building on top of one another and involving and embroidering on the existing storylines that then get us to a central place.
HW: What are you able to tease in terms of which characters will be stepping to the forefront in the first batch of the episodes?
RM: There's a lot to do with Kara. She comes back and what she finds aboard Galactica and how she's received and how people think of her and the questions surrounding her and how it changes relationships – all of that is a pretty major storyline. Then her saying that she's been to earth and can take us there can launch us into a whole separate storyline that centers around Kara and Anders and people in her orbit. That'll take us through a big chunk of the first half of the season. Baltar has a very specific storyline that takes him in a new direction and will continue actually throughout the new season.
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