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   From: buffhunter@my-deja.com   
      
   In article <6979d45a-03d5-49ba-a661-   
   e040ff0959a3@w3g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>, jrs9@columbia.edu says...   
   > On Jun 4, 1:06 pm, Michael Reed  wrote:   
   > > The basic ending had to be in mind early.  Re-watch the pilot and "33"   
   > > and count all the religious references from Head Six and Baltar.  It   
   > > never changed all the way through to the end.  The people who   
   > > complained about how it ended sorta kinda missed everything from   
   > > episode one on, or chose to ignore it.   
   > >   
   > > The one "added in" feature that seemed most abrupt to me was the   
   > > hybrid.  That did seem to move things in an odd way.  But it's all   
   > > good.   
   >    
   >    
   > They probably did that last scene planned from the start, just as the   
   > writers for Lost had theirs, but it is everything inbetween that   
   > turned out to be confusing.  I don't know if it is still up on the   
   > SYFY BSG site, but there was an amazing webcast from one of the   
   > writers where he says they all sat around the table one day after the   
   > series was half way through or so going through all the characters   
   > trying to decide who would make the best Final Five. You'd have   
   > thought they would have studied JMS before starting in on the series.   
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   No that is right. They didn't have that planned out about the Final    
   Five and RDM flat out admitted that he likes being spontaneous as he    
   went along, however that doesn't mean they didn't have an overall    
   outlook for the show, that for example the Good Cylons and the    
   remains of humanity will find New Earth and co exist and intermingle    
   and for the original mythology how the Cylons came about and the    
   cyclicalness of the humans "enslaving" them, Cylons rising up and    
   attacking humans-and previous generations of Cylons set.    
      
   I am sure that they knew how one season was going to begin, arc and    
   end, and who would be left standing and where the story would be at    
   that time.   
      
   It is the *individual* episodes that they fully admitted that they    
   didn't have planned out because they wanted to be free to go in    
   different directions with the individual characters. Like maybe at    
   one time they made have considered to have Boomer live and Athena    
   die, or both live or both die, Kara to stay dead etc. but they new    
   that the Good Cylons would end up on New Earth together with the    
   humans.     
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