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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s Ronald D. Moore Sells Non-Sci-Fi Pilot Script To NBC!!
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Writer-producer-director Ronald D. Moore (“Star Trek,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Carnivale,” “Good Vs. Evil,” “Roswell,” “Virtuality,” “Caprica”) has sold to NBC a script for his Coast Guard adventure drama “The McCulloch.”
This is not the first non-sci-fi project for Moore, who had a hand in scripting 2000’s “Mission: Impossible II.”
Moore attended Cornell University on a Naval ROTC scholarship and even served one summer on the USS W. S. Sims, but was disqualified from Navy service due to a high school knee injury.
Moore’s other big-screen credits include “Star Trek: Generations,” “Star Trek: First Contact” and the upcoming Mary Elizabeth Winstead version of “The Thing.”
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...and make it about a bunch of goofball acidheads who are trying to avoid service in Vietnam. Hallucinations and boats. Sounds awesome. The whole NBC things keeps making me think of Seaquest and the ghost of Jonathan Brandis.
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his resume is fucking amazing. I hope this show is successful. I mean why not a show about the coast guard?
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A few thoughts: Terrible name. Fan of Ron Moore. I have no interest in this. Wake me when he gets back to SciFi.
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I thought Virtuality had some promise. I also liked Defying Gravity. But they were both canceled. Kings was also pretty good. All canceled.
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Nov. 9, 2010, 10:18 p.m. CST
The main villains will be Pirates! and the BP oil spill!
by Quadrillionaire
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Wow. That was a pretty brief but descriptive look at Moore's career. Are you trying to sell us on the idea that Moore has somewhat good career, with the low points being Star Trek:Generations and the now defunct Caprica? Unless it's a comedy on NBC Thursday night, not set in India, this new show will be classed as "meh".
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And More Boring.
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Jus' trollin'...
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or will they copy what other popular branches of the service are doing as they go along?
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Was there some growing movement of fans who were desperately waiting for this guys next script to hit the screens?<br /><br />He's a hack, who had some moderate success (as many hacks do). But his colours were revealed, and he stands before us naked in his utter hackdom. <br /><br />You can choose to avert your eyes, and swear the emperors clothes are beautiful, but I can see his shrivelled nutsack and it's cold outside.
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considering that this "hack" turned a space show into a mainstream success and had you guys debating about it week after week, who could he be anything but a "hack"?
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Moore created the most sucessful and critically acclaimed sci-fi show in modern times, contributed to the stellar first season of Carnivale and ran one of the (supposedly, I don't do Trek) best Star Trek series so I wouldn't describe him as a hack. Even if you hated the BSG finale, which I didn't, then you can't deny that the show itself was a sucess. <P><P> And Moore was more than open with the fans and media about the writing process on BSG, he made it up as he went along, and most of the time it worked out great. Compare and contrast this with the 6 years of bulshitting from Cuse and Lindelof's interviews (all questions will be answered, etc etc) and I know a better fit for the label of "hack". <p><P>Just sayin...
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Did not know that. And I agree, Moore isn't a hack. He's a smart man who got a lucky break. Good for him.
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I think Moore was Braga's writing partner for Trek which may include the sheer awfulness of Generations and to a lesser extent First Contact. But you've also got assholes like Berman adding two cents worth, plus TNG stars like Spiner and Stewart that probably feel they should have input on the story. To sum up, dumping Braga was the nest move Moore ever made.
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No thanks
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Love what Moore accomplished with DS9 and most of BSG. Ruining what may be the greatest Sci-Fi series ever is tough to forgive.<p>Maybe he belongs on the ground.
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What a wonderful show for nearly 3 seasons. One of the best I'd ever seen. Then, he washed his hands like Pilate and said, "It's the CHARACTERS, stupid." No, it's the plot AND the characters, douche. <p>Can never root for this taint-licking sloth again. what an artistic choke job.
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When it comes to BSG however he was I think the following things happened: <P> 1.) He was a victim of his own success. After BSG became a hit he was asked to script doctor and work on other projects. He spread himself too thin and quality suffered. <P> 2. Skiffy management. Asked for less arch stories and more standalones. They also started cutting BSGs budget forcing more bottle shows. <P> I will agree that season four was full of misfires: Starbuck wandering around on her garbage scow searching for her special purpose, telling instead of showing the origin story of the final five, However, point to another series that had all the great episodes of BSG like "33", "The hand of God" the Pegasus arc, the escape from New Caprica, the discovery of Cylon Earth with all the swelling music and and redemption imagery only to pull the rug out from under the audience with it being a radioactive wasteland. <P> All great stuff. They set the bar for a new kind of story telling on TV.
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the final season? I get that people don't like the finale, and I understand why even if I don't agree with them. But for me season4 is a vast improvment on season 3, and despite the muddled final 5 arc, at least it tells a consequential story rather than the string of pointless standalones that plagued the second halves of seasons 2 and 3. <P><P>Yes, the first half of BSG is better than the second, but I don't agree that the dip in quality was as dramatic as you make out
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I hope so, then if they can't think of an ending he can just wrap it all up in crazy religious shit.
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so say we all.
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Ron Moore living in Vancouver to work on BSG and Caprica probably did.
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Ron Moore is dead to me. http://tinyurl.com/ksq7kc
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MS II is, by far, the worst in the franchise (so far). He is one of the few show runner's that can actually make sci fi as boring as a soap opera. Now he is going to creat more content in mundane settings?<br><br> Two words: Bionic Woman"
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MS II is, by far, the worst in the franchise (so far). He is one of the few show runner's that can actually make sci fi as boring as a soap opera. Now he is going to creat more content in mundane settings?<br><br> Two words: Bionic Woman"
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Australian "Sea Patrol" is good. <p> But it's Navy, not Coast Guard, if that is of significance to the Guardians of the Thread.
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RIMSHOT!
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I'm still waiting...
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Tell me it ain't so. There's only one thing and it's John Carpenter's version, damnit? So is Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Kurt Russell or one of the other members of the all-male cast?
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Forgotton he scripted the new Thing movie, so bonus! Still dubious about that new Thing movie, though.
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Albeit I didn't think Virtuality was entirely awful (though fairly risible), I still think after the 'why did I invest my time in this crap' debacle that was the last season and a half of BSG, RDM has got a long way to go before he earns back any goodwill. Even LOST with all it's loose ends managed to cross the finishing line in a better state than BSG did with the whole 'angels' BS.
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more refers to readressing the balance between plot & characters seen conventionally in a 'high concept', or 'event' televised serial;, rather than literally making it entirely about the characters. Maybe i'm wrong.<p> I do have to admit though the last season did have some serious rough patches, or dubious choices set across the limited no. of episode orders, but i am firmly in the camp of folk who thought the Final was excellent, suck it etc.
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Nov. 10, 2010, 5:10 p.m. CST
in other news, SGU revealed Destiny's true mission
by DioxholsterOperationsOutpost
And yet no talkback
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God, some of you are hopeless nerds. Just hopeless. To try to critique a stirring TV achievement like the full run of Moore's BSG (best sci-fi show ever, and I loved the ending) by picking apart the psuedo-science is just... just too nerdy for words. The only legitimate way to critique BSG is on a spiritual/philosophical level, because that's obviously what Moore was really concerned with... and on THAT level, the finale works perfectly. Also, there is no indication that "burnt Earth" is our Earth or that "coda Earth" is our Earth. Happened before, happened again, remember? There is room in BSG for much speculation, much of it is very purposefully ambiguous. It's a masterpiece. For instance, if you read the final images as meaning "the robots are coming!", you really, really have no facility for "decoding" art, popular or otherwise. The montage of the goofy robots is all about the main question the whole series was on about: are we controlled, or are we free? Do we want to be free, or do we prefer to think we have a destiny? Jesus, you people. Pearls before swine.
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And MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD? Is that a joke?
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test
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To search for the alternate universe where BSG seasons 3 & 4 where as good as and made sense within the context of season 1 & 2?
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Nov. 11, 2010, 12:39 a.m. CST
Krinkle, thou art easily wowed by pretentious "Message" writing.
by BurnHollywood
...Ye are hereby restricted to viewings of THE WIRE, BREAKING BAD and MAD MEN until such time as ye grasp the subtleties of good teleplay writing...
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while the final 5 arc was a bit fuzzy... some of the best episodes of the series were in season 4. The two parter with the mutiny was BSG at its finest. Really people you finale haters are just way too over the top. Get some kleenex, wipe your noses and move on with your lives.
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..they left New Caprica...right up to the exodus the show WAS gripping, genre busting television...then it drifted into all about "on the nose Iraqi allegory", became hit and miss and clearly showed it had no idea where it was going or how to end in a satisfying, classy way. The potential good news here is, it sounds like "Blood and Chrome" (aka "cylon war 1 with asskicking Adama") WON'T have Moore involved. I think later "Galactica" and "Caprica" showed that Moore had lost interest/inspiration for this universe. If you believe the "conspiracy theorists", Moore exhausted all the "good" ideas he lifted from the Singer/DeSanto BSG bible - female cocky fighter pilot (daughter of the original) Starbuck, human cyclons in their midsts, the supernatural "angel aspect" similar to the "War of Gods" aliens from the original series that would have been a big part of the Singer Desanto BSG etc.) after 3 years and just ad libbed after that. A "Moore-less" (and hopefully "Eick-less" given his big non Galactica "creative" experiment" was the revamped "Bionic Woman" a couple of years back) war set "Galactica" series might just be the creative reboot it needs. The gritty, edgy, character driven "war footing" aspect of BSG but WITHOUT the new age-y, pseudo religious crap (which was present in BSG but FRONT AND CENTER on the dull, uninvolving "Caprica" soap opera) and navel gazing human cylons might be a huge Win for viewers. Sorry all you "trekkie-like, BSG was BRILLIANT THROUGH AND THROUGH defenders....Get a life, so say we all!
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If you see a structure in the Cosmic Microwave Backgroud radiation, then a few things.<br />1) It's everywhere in the universe. No need to travel anywhere to see it.<br />2) You can't chase after it to the ends of the universe and find it. It's in the past. That's why you can see it today.<br /><br />The writers seem to be trying to say that there's some great structure "at the end of the universe" which Destiny is racing towards at faster than light speeds. And that's just retarded.<br /><br />SciFi can work just fine when you posit technologies which don't exist yet, but might. It fails spectacularly when it doesn't understand basic physics.
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Richard Hatch kept the BG torch burning since the 70's, and these jokers stole it out from under him, turning it into a dour, self-important mess.
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If it is what I think it is, was also known as "GvsE" and starred Clayton Rohner and Richard Brooks. It was about people working for Heaven on Earth who fought Morlocks and tried to save the souls of people who had made deals withthe devil. It was all done in a kind of 70s, baxploitation feel and was entirely awesome. One of the best and least watched shows of the 90s. Some episodes are on YouTube
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And that is why no-one remembers it. And that is why is failed. No seriously...awful.
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...The finale sucked most of all, and the overall suckiness was such that it set off a temporal suck-wave that even overwhelmed CAPRICA. Maybe LOST, too, somehow...<p> That Moore's moving away from SF seems to be a pretty obvious sign that even he acknowledges his shortcomings in the arena...<p> Anyway, BSG was probably the best two-and-a-half seasons of TV SF ever.
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Maybe that fatso he calls his wife, mrs.ron. could play whale or an island or even a continent.
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"BSG was probably the best two-and-a-half seasons of TV SF ever" Agreed. The Rot definitely set in after that esp with the lame assed introduction of the 'final 5'which pretty much undermined the whole human struggle on New Caprica, given most of the resistance turned out to in fact be Cylons....coupled with the writers killing off pretty much all the remaining human side characters (Dee, Cally, Gaeta, etc, etc) along the way....
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And you know what, the original was better. The new BSG had extraordinary potential up through the Pegasus episodes in S2, then it floundered for a while with a few good (even great) eps like Exodus Pt. II. Then it jumped the shark with the final five. I know that's an overused term, but it truly applies here. It undid the impact of some of the greatest moments from earlier in the show (like Tigh killing Ellen). It also made the characters incomprehensible in their actions. Like Adama getting all cry baby buddy-buddy with the annihilators of the human race who can't ever be trusted so long as they can be programmed.<br /> <br /> BSG and Lost each represent a blue ball in the sack of unfulfilled expectations. Abrams, Moore and Darlon have joined the ranks of Bragga, Berman and Bill Gates as natural geek repellent. The only thing I'd watch from Moore, at this point, would be a DS9 movie.
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Let's see...<P>Lee's wife. Symbol of hope in pilot, who's attraction to Billy convinces Adama not to pursue oblivion. A cynical heartbreaking suicide.<p>Chief's wife. Murdered Boomer the 1st, in retaliation for shooting Adama. One of the first new mothers. Executed by a poorly conceived final five.<p>Savior of Cylon prisoners. Idealist who believed in government and redemption. Ejected from airlock for mutiny.<p>I'd say they were badly screwed over, but they certainly did something.
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is to discount some of the best storylines of the whole run. While I agree that the 1st 2 seasons are more cohesive, seasons 3 and 4 gave us Baltar's trial, Cally's death, The Hub, nuked Earth 1, the Mutiny and the kick-ass final battle. Personally I loved all of those moments and they rank right up there with the Pegasus arc, Kobol and Hand of God as classic BSG episodes.
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Billyeveryteen, pretty much called you out with his response. However the fundamental point is, that for a show that was all about this desperate struggle for survival by the last remnants of humanity, by the shows end there were barely any cast members left who qualified as human, undermining the whole affair from start to finish. When the show started off it was great because it was exceptionally ballsy, but somewhere along the way it lost it's edge (probably around when the Deus Ex Machina miracle baby blood 'saved' Roslin from rightfully exiting the series). Everything got precious, save the secondary cast who all suddenly became red shirts.
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Nov. 13, 2010, 4:13 a.m. CST
Didn't they find out they were all cylon/human hybrids when they
by kadayi
No. The final 5 realised their past origins, but there was no revelation that all humans were somehow Cylon hybrids.
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