A little Moore

A very nice article about our favorite rag-tag fleet and the people that run it. (I love that those words have never appeared on the show, yet that's what everyone involved with the show calls it.)

Well good heavens. David Eick was a Sam Raimi guy! Used to produce Hercules and the Darkman sequels. (Didn't produce Xena, as the article claims. Hey, it's the New York Times, how can they be wrong?)

This is a nice bit about Moore:

"In grade school he built models, including an extremely detailed miniature of the Enterprise, which he still has today, and wrote stories about dinosaurs fighting in World War II. He went to Cornell to study political science on a Navy R.O.T.C. scholarship. Though he flunked out of college and never ended up joining the Navy, he still has a deep affinity for the institution and its rituals and still subscribes to the Navy journal Proceedings (''Much to my horror,'' says his wife, Terry, who grew up in Berkeley). In his office in L.A., Moore has a complete set of Samuel Eliot Morrison's multivolume history of the Navy's World War II campaigns, a model of the U.S.S. Utah and an actual ship's binnacle (as well as a rather vicious-looking bat'leth, the ceremonial sword of the Klingon empire)."

Wow, a Hollywood guy writing about the military that actually has a passing experience and interest in the military? That's crazy talk!

I'm curious about that quote from his wife. From the BSG podcasts I'd gotten the impression that she was rather pro-military. I believe he referred to her as "believing in invading countries" or some such. I also gather that he doesn't. I never could quite figure out how he can in one sentence say he's a big fan of Bill Clinton, and in the next say that he's based much of Gaius Baltar on him. Go fig.

Almost September, which means it's almost October!