It's official. Battlestar Galactica is coming to an end. In only its fourth season, they are going to wrap up the series with a capper of finality. I know, get out your hankies. At least series creator Ronald Moore made himself available to talk us through our feelings of depression. And at least the fourth season will be a full 20 episodes, plus a two hour flashback introducing a new character, so that's still a lot more Battlestar to come.
CraveOnline: Are you planning a definitive end with no questions left? Will we see what life on earth is like?
RONALD MOORE: Well, I think at the end of season three, we showed you a glimpse of earth. You actually saw it and I think that you will see more of it. We will get to a place that we're going to call Earth by the end of the series. Yeah, you'll get to see it.
CraveOnline: But will we know what existence is like on earth?
RONALD MOORE: I think there's a good chance. I'm being sort of deliberately vague, not just for surprises. Also because we haven't written that show yet so it's a little premature.
CraveOnline: Do you want to leave the series open-ended to do a feature, or do you want to have a closed end?
RONALD MOORE: The plan is to end the show. The plan is to bring us to a definitive conclusion. There are no plans, or even thoughts, in our heads of then doing a feature or mini-series, or anything, beyond that, but it’s also the kind of thing where you never say never because who knows how we’ll feel when we actually write the conclusion. Will there be a plotline or a story that springs to mind, or that we create on the page that then opens a later door? It would be foolish to say, “Absolutely not.” But, right now, the plan is for a definitive end.
CraveOnline: Do you think you’ll have time to bring closure to all of the relationships between characters?
RONALD MOORE: Well, that’s the plan. That’s how we approached the storylines as we were breaking them out for the season. The intention is certainly to concentrate on the characters and their relationships, and bring them all to an endpoint. I don’t know if we’ll resolve every single thing about every single relationship. I think there’s value in leaving some things open to the imagination and having some things that are tantalizingly unresolved. But, the intention is to move towards what is a final chapter.
CraveOnline: How will the next season play out, in terms of timing? Is it going to be divided up again? Do you have that mapped out yet?
RONALD MOORE: At the moment, the network has not settled on a definitive schedule yet. All we can really say definitively is that season four officially begins sometimes in early ‘08. But, we don’t have any kind of air schedule yet.
CraveOnline: Will reaching Earth be on tap for the beginning of the season, or is that the last shot?
RONALD MOORE: I don’t want to be that definitive about it, but the show has always been about the search for Earth. To end the series without getting to Earth, or a version of Earth, or something we call Earth, or at least having somebody say Earth would be unsatisfying. It will definitely figure in to this year’s storyline.
CraveOnline: Did your idea for the end of the show change along the way?
RONALD MOORE: I think it continued to head in the same general direction since I first started thinking about where the endpoint of the series would be. I think what's changed is sort of the path to get there, who is going to get there, what it would mean to them, what context, but I don't know that the end point of the series has really changed that much since I first started really thinking about it.
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