Anyway, these friends these dear and precious friends conducted what amounted to a geek intervention.
And so I said: Frakkin?
What the fudge are you talking about?
That was all they needed to hear.
I had been born again.
Frakkin good news, indeed!
Okay, maybe Im exaggerating the details.
But thats pretty much myBattlestar Galacticatestimony.
(Im totally getting my phone tapped for that one, arent I?)
If you are still as lame as I once was, I encourage you to giveBattlestara ride.
If that sounds like Im saying the show isnt always fun well, yeah, youre right.
But its always riveting, and I dare say it might even beimportant.
Until then: Keep on frakkin!
RM:Was it December?
DE:It was really on the heels of 9/11.
It was in that winter.
He called and said that [Sci-Fi] was looking for somebody with a new take onBattlestar Galactica.
I said, Im not sure if I want to do another space opera…
So I said, Let me think about it over the weekend.
I went and found a copy of the original series pilot and watched it again.
Moreover, I had been thinking about some things in science fiction that I wanted to do differently.
I wanted to reinvent the way you did stories in science fiction.
I wanted to lose things like space hair and space costumes and… just make it more real.
So I called David back on Monday and said, Lets attempt to make this happen.
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