Battlestar Galactica

Yahoo! TV recently posted an interview with Ron Moore about what’s to come for Battlestar after the hiatus. As noted in the article, it’s mildly spoilery. But not really. Like all good show creators, Moore manages to talk a lot without actually saying much about what’s in store.

It’s miserably formatted, so I’ll summarize the important stuff…

• More about Baby Hera: Yes. Let’s be honest, though, we knew they’re going to get around to The Chosen One eventually. Personally, this plotline has been killing me since the first season.
• More about Starbuck’s “daughter”: No. But I got the impression that that plotline was more about how she was totally manipulated by Leoben rather than about the girl herself.
• Is there something going on between Adama and Roslin: Could be, could be. Roslin is the metaphorical mother of the fleet and Adama is the father, after all. Although would seeing a relationship develop between them be kind of like watching your parents get it on? Let’s hope not. It was nice to see them all cozy in a hayrick (or whatever that was) in “Unfinished Business.”
• What the frak is going on between Baltar and Six: Ron Moore remains vague. Good question, though. When I first saw “Downloaded,” my mind were racing with the implications of Caprica Six having a Baltar hallucination. Is it a Cylon thing? A spiritual thing? A metaphor? They seem to have laid the issue aside for the time being, but it’s too spicy to drop out of sight entirely.
• Why hasn’t Baltar knocked Six up: This is perhaps the most interesting question. It’s a bit confusing in the article, cause it’s not clear where the interviewer stops talking and Ron Moore starts. But he seems to imply that love might be necessary for a human and a Cylon to conceive a child together…and if that’s true, then Baltar must be lying (to himself or Six) when he says he loves Six. If only love were a prerequisite for children in the real world.
• Are the artifacts of the 13th colony intentional traps for the Cylons: No, the plague was an accident, War of the Worlds style. I like that answer. It would have been a little too neat/convenient if the plague was part of some larger design. Like the fleet’s food shortage, the plague is just a random occurrence in an unsympathetic universe…

There’s some discussion of what the remaining episodes are going to be about. It’s not terribly earth-shaking (A fighter-pilot ep for Starbuck! A multi-part finale! Quelle surprise!) but Moore does say that they will explore Adama’s ex-wife and Lee’s mother…a really fascinating long-standing blank spot. I can’t wait to see who exactly she is. Maybe she’s Ellen Tigh’s spiritual sister and that’s why the Colonel and the Admiral are so close. In any case, it’ll definitely shed some light on Adama’s relationship with Roslin…and perhaps Apollo’s relationship with Roslin. Also apparently Ron Moore has some idea of how he wants to end the show. I just hope this is better than Stephen King’s idea for ending Lost.

In other news, BSG is moving to Sunday nights at 10 in the spring. Which can only be a good thing, because nobody except cloistered bloggers stay in to watch SciFi on Friday nights. Hopefully this’ll boost the viewership.

So - what do you think is going on with the Baltar and Six hallucinations? I had a long argument with a friend about the meaning of it all…he insisted that it was just a poetic device, and I wailed that it can’t be that simple, it just can’t…but I have no better explanation…other than guessing that Baltar is one of the Final Five Cylon models and both hallucinations are products and projections of his fractured mind…