From Julia Houston,
Your Guide to Sci-Fi / Fantasy.
ME: How interesting. Its another point of tension between your character and the President, who definitely doesnt believe. Thats a very interesting relationship between them. Do you have any take on where it might go?
EJO: You have two people in an overwhelming situation. I told the others at the story meeting that while they must unite together in leadership, if that gets physical, I think it must be shown that they cant handle it.
ME: Mary McDonnell said in her interview that she felt sexual tension was inevitable between the characters, but that she wasnt sleeping with anyone.
EJO: Hm.
ME: Ron Moore is excellent at unexpressed sexual tension. Theres so much to do with both your characters.
EJO: The paramount issue as weve seen it is her cancer. Here we are in this advanced society and they evidently still havent found a way to cure it.
ME: Even if they did, all the hospitals are gone now.
EJO: Right.
ME: Adamas really got the central role in terms of the relationships on the show Starbuck, Apollo, the President, Tigh. Probably the most popular tense relationship around right now is the troubled father-son dynamic, and weve got a great one of those going with Adama and Apollo. But its in danger of being a little stale. I know Im a woman, and thus may be limited in my thinking, but just how much father-son angst is there to deal with and keep fresh?
EJO: The freshness comes from the writing, but also, perhaps even more, the attitude. Drama with any audio/visual event, on the movie screen or television, is about the unspoken word. The character grows with not what they say, but how they say it.
I was on a show back in the 1980s, Miami Vice.
ME: I remember that one.
EJO: They had a lot of dialogue for my character, a lot that had been done before, and I was always cutting my lines. There was no need to say it, when I could express it without words.
ME: I remember on that show how different your character became - if you will forgive me - in that he was a little pissy. He created a space of command and told people how to behave in it. Youve got the opportunity, certainly, to do that with Adama as well. Do you see Ron Moore going along with that?
EJO: He has no choice. If he didnt want to deal with the way I work, he shouldnt have hired me. Ron has tremendous ability, but I was to make sure were telling a good story.
ME: Well, I for one am really looking forward to seeing where it goes.
EJO: I am too.
Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.
Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planet shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble?
Your Guide to Sci-Fi / Fantasy.
ME: How interesting. Its another point of tension between your character and the President, who definitely doesnt believe. Thats a very interesting relationship between them. Do you have any take on where it might go?
EJO: You have two people in an overwhelming situation. I told the others at the story meeting that while they must unite together in leadership, if that gets physical, I think it must be shown that they cant handle it.
ME: Mary McDonnell said in her interview that she felt sexual tension was inevitable between the characters, but that she wasnt sleeping with anyone.
EJO: Hm.
ME: Ron Moore is excellent at unexpressed sexual tension. Theres so much to do with both your characters.
EJO: The paramount issue as weve seen it is her cancer. Here we are in this advanced society and they evidently still havent found a way to cure it.
ME: Even if they did, all the hospitals are gone now.
EJO: Right.
ME: Adamas really got the central role in terms of the relationships on the show Starbuck, Apollo, the President, Tigh. Probably the most popular tense relationship around right now is the troubled father-son dynamic, and weve got a great one of those going with Adama and Apollo. But its in danger of being a little stale. I know Im a woman, and thus may be limited in my thinking, but just how much father-son angst is there to deal with and keep fresh?
EJO: The freshness comes from the writing, but also, perhaps even more, the attitude. Drama with any audio/visual event, on the movie screen or television, is about the unspoken word. The character grows with not what they say, but how they say it.
I was on a show back in the 1980s, Miami Vice.
ME: I remember that one.
EJO: They had a lot of dialogue for my character, a lot that had been done before, and I was always cutting my lines. There was no need to say it, when I could express it without words.
ME: I remember on that show how different your character became - if you will forgive me - in that he was a little pissy. He created a space of command and told people how to behave in it. Youve got the opportunity, certainly, to do that with Adama as well. Do you see Ron Moore going along with that?
EJO: He has no choice. If he didnt want to deal with the way I work, he shouldnt have hired me. Ron has tremendous ability, but I was to make sure were telling a good story.
ME: Well, I for one am really looking forward to seeing where it goes.
EJO: I am too.
Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.
Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planet shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble?
