BSG finale...

[grindmonkeh]

Ron Moore's wife just posted this message from Ron:



I don't want this day to happen.

I want it to be rescheduled, rethought, removed and recalled.

Tomorrow the story will be over, my tale having been told, and never again will there be the sweet anticipation of waiting for the next episode to be shown to fans and friends. The thought of it makes my heart ache even as swells with pride.

All I know is that today there is a show called Battlestar Galactica and tomorrow there was.

There will be joy in that too, I'm sure, touching the thread of memory and feeling it resonate all the way back to soundstages, locations, cutting rooms, writers' rooms, and sound bays where I lived for all these years and being comforted by the knowledge that a part of me will never truly leave those places. There will be reunions and retrospectives, special editions and extended cuts, interviews and seminars. Solace can be found.

We'd called the last season Senior Year and here, today, as I prepare to present the final episode to an audience of friends, colleagues, and family, I find myself feeling the same way I did on Graduation day at Chowchilla Union High, all those years ago. The mosaic of faces I'd grown accustomed to seeing day after day would regroup for one last event, one last celebration of our lives together and what we'd done, and then it would be gone but for the transcendent threads of memory waiting to resonant down through the years. I didn't want that day to happen either and fervently wished for it to be rescheduled, rethought, removed and recalled.

Somehow I get the feeling that today's wish will not be granted either. So this day, like that one, will wax and wane and all I can do is ride the wave and let it carry me where it will.

Thank you, all of you for coming here through the years. The shippers and the haters, and everyone in between; you've watched and you've posted and you've been a touchstone for my experience with the audience ever since that night back in 2003 when we first declared that the Cylons were created by Man and things were going to be different. It's been a genuine pleasure to surf your thoughts, rants, questions, snarks, complaints, praise, and humor as you watched our story play out and rest assured I will be here again tomorrow poring through the posts, laughing, cursing, sometimes just shrugging at what you take away from this crazy show.

It's been an honor to be your storyteller.

~ Ronald D. Moore
About to be former Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica

Comments

[jack-the-tyrant.livejournal.com]

I'm getting a little nostalgic too. I have all those flowing- face montages going through my head.
Good times.

[traballenguas.livejournal.com]

Well, that is about the best thing I can say about the end - it was a good ride most of the way, and they made an effort to reach closure. I wouldn't hire Moore for any writing projects, though.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Ron Moore has written the upcoming prequel to The Thing...just so long as it doesn't involve "God's plan", angel/messenger characters that may or may not disappear, and Admirals that decide to fly off, leave their son and friends behind, and live like a hermit for no sensible reason.

[traballenguas.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I am going to write something longer about why I think the show went wrong, because it was going really well there for a while. I think Moore started playing God too much, and manipulated the characters more than represented them.

[s0crates82.livejournal.com]

i also enjoy how all the stuff in the last ten minutes of the show happened last week. i get the impression that they cobbled that section together really really quick on thursday.