SFX clusive: David Eick and Ron Moore explain how they are upping the ante on the Battlestar spin-off
“In the second half, we felt like we were able to really isolate and identify, define our characters, in a way that we were still trying to figure out in the first half. And in so doing, we have freed ourselves to tell stories with much more suspense and action – a lot of spectacle, a lot of visual effects,” says Eick. “We deepen the mythology of the virtual world and what we know as New Cap City, in terms of how Zoe is able to harness it to express herself.”
“The second half of the season,” adds Eick’s producing partner Ron Moore, “starts to pay off a lot of that setup and the characters start going into different directions, the plot starts moving faster. It has a little bit more momentum.”
Read the full article in SFX 200 , out next Wednesday.
