So...I could not finish the BSG podcast because Moore's wife was on. Can someone tell me if there is good stuff after minute 5? When she interrupted his train of thought, I bailed. I just couldn't take her anymore.

Oh god, LeN. I feel your pain. Nothing against the woman personally, of course, but she completely detracts from the pod casts. It was really light on ep talk. He even kind of acknowledged that at the end, saying that he would talk more about the ep on the DVD extended version. I wouldn't roll my eyes so much if she had anything to add about the eps but she just goes off on tangents.

I've only listened to half of it so far, LeN, and I totally agree. She annoys the living crap out of me.

Sorry, I was phone posting before.

He talked mostly about how it was to direct for the first time (and actually look through a camera for the first time ever), how he prepared, shooting choices, how certain days/scenes went. One cute thing - their kids were extas in the Baltar blah-blah scene. I can't really remember any good or juicy ep/story talk.

Oh, and he talked about (potentially spoilery, I guess, for the rest of the season):

why they chose to go with Tyrol not being Nicky's bio-dad - basically, it's because they'd set Hera up in the mythology of the show as The One True Hybrid, and she has A Special Role in everything. So, that was interesting, and hence, Hot Dog. Or, at least, I found it interesting because I'd started to wonder whether they were ever going to do anything about Hera and her specialness now that she had competition.

Yeah, that certainly seemed like the motivation. Especially because it doesn't sound like they started thinking about doing the Final Five storyline until season three, and they'd already created Nicky at the end of season two. So they wanted Tyrol as a Cylon but had to get around making Nicky another hybrid eventually.

Heh. I whitefonted because Jessica continued podcast talk over in Spoilers. Is that a hard and fast rule, or a judgment thing? I mean, clearly, if he had dropped some huge spoiler or hint at something, I wouldn't post it. Is whitefont podcast OK? I just can't remember and don't have the heart to scroll back.

If it hasn't broadcast on TV, it shouldn't be here. Well, if it points to future developments, and I think that does. Even though it's exactly as I surmised. Bad Ron Moore.

Ron drops spoilers in his podcasts and interviews. For example, his interviews with Mo Ryan have a fair number of spoilers in them. So, I think you were right to whitefont.

OK, noted, and thanks. I'll take future spec like that to Spoilers.

Planet Raptor. Oh, Sci-fi, don't ever change.