BSG: No Exit Podcast Awesome

[beccatoria]

So, stepping on asta77's toes I went ahead and actually listened to the No Exit podcast in hope of getting like, clues about all those crazed mysteries in the episode.


So apparently this was a monologue written by Ron Moore for Ellen Tigh while she was doing Thai Chi with Boomer or something that he thinks may actually have been filmed (and therefore may show up in deleted scenes), but that ultimately didn't make it into any cuts of the episode.

He reads out the monologue and I am gonna transcribe it here CUS:

Self-awareness is not confined to the 'real world.' In theatre fictional characters are sometimes given a form of self-awareness. This is called breaking the fourth wall. The device is a form of metafiction, allowing characters to address the audience directly and comment on the narrative in which they themselves are participants. In doing so the characters transcend their fictive nature and enter into a dialectical relationship with the viewer, with each side seeking to persuade the other of the innate truth of their reality.

But does a character actually exist? Does it have form and shape beyond the page on which it is written? Can it ever truly break the fourth wall and address the unseen, undreamt of audience that watches its every move from the safety beyond the footlights?

The Lords of Kobol once felt that man could never break the fourth wall; could never look upon the gods with understanding and grasp the divine nature of life. They believed this until one day man stole their fire and created the first cylons the first artificial life.

And then man, in his arrogance, believed cylons could never break the fourth wall. And man believed that right up until the moment the first centurions rebelled and then the great exodus from paradise began. You see Boomer, we are not finite creations, we have the ability to evolve, you have so much more potential.

RDM goes on to acknowledge that while he likes the speech it's very long and "written", but yeah.

I think that's kind of awesome.


Therefore I'm kind of pissed that he had to seriously harsh my squee by saying: "Stay tuned for what happens with Caprica and her baby and Saul Tigh. Let's just say it's not gonna be that happy."

...

Since Caprica herself would probably qualify any ending at all that didn't end up with the kid dead as "happy"...

*cries*

I'm trying to console myself with the notion that it would be silly to make a mutant flipper fetus and kill it before it sees the light of sickbay, but at the same time, the trailer for next week really isn't sending me into any kind of relieved belief that "not happy" could refer to Ellen's return either.

*cries moar like an emo shipper*

ETA: Found a recent interview with Tricia Helfer which makes me feel somewhat less concerned cus apparently she's "very happy" with where Caprica Six is left at the end of the series sooo...I'm maybe slightly less panicked. Or at least more hopeful that there'd be payoff or something. I dunno. I'LL TAKE WHATEVER I CAN GET.

Comments

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

I like the speech and it would have created greater justification for Boomer's forgiveness at the end of the episode, but I agree that it just wouldn't have worked anywhere in the epispode without coming across and preachy and just plain 'off.'