Geek Alert - extended interview with BSG's Ron Moore

Geeks, stop what you're doing now and read this huge interview with the (re)creator of Battlestar Galactica, Ron Moore. Among other fascinating topics, his extended critique of the original show, including this priceless tidbit:

The show was about an apocalypse. The show opens with a genocide, an apocalyptic destruction of 12, count em, 12 planets. Billions of human lives are lost. The survivors heroically run away, fleeing an implacable enemy that is determined to destroy them no matter what, and they're looking for a mythical place called Earth.

And the first place they go is the casino planet.

There's more to it than that, of course -- Moore has a lot of affection for the original show, but he used the franchise as a Trojan Horse to tell the kind of science fiction story he wanted to tell. I don't think it's going too far to say that sci-fi TV is richer as a whole for his efforts.

Just a handful of episodes left.

Read the full interview with Ron Moore on Wired.