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Now here at the beginning, we're of course revisiting the end of "[[Precipice]]", last week's episode. And essentially what we wanted to do was play these events over again for the audience and then lead you to a certain point, in the recap section here, and then restart and show you what happened from the other perspectives. This was very tricky. It took a lot of massaging on the page and in the editing room to really make this whole sequence work. but here we're still- here come the [[Cylon Centurion|Cylons]] over the hill. Some great work by [[Gary Hutzel]] and his visual effect team. That's very tricky stuff. Getting those guys coming over that rise. The rise wasn't really clear on the shoot. They had to artificially play around with the ground and where the Cylons- where their feet actually touch the ground and all that kind of stuff.
Now here at the beginning, we're of course revisiting the end of "[[Precipice]]", last week's episode. And essentially what we wanted to do was play these events over again for the audience and then lead you to a certain point, in the recap section here, and then restart and show you what happened from the other perspectives. This was very tricky. It took a lot of massaging on the page and in the editing room to really make this whole sequence work. but here we're still- here come the [[Cylon Centurion|Cylons]] over the hill. Some great work by [[Gary Hutzel]] and his visual effect team. That's very tricky stuff. Getting those guys coming over that rise. The rise wasn't really clear on the shoot. They had to artificially play around with the ground and where the Cylons- where their feet actually touch the ground and all that kind of stuff.


So know you can see we're doing the chiron, "One hour earlier". I took a pass at the script after [[David Weddle|David]] and [[Bradley Thompson|Bradley]] did as well, and this section here at the beginning of the tease was some of the most difficult stuff to make clear. That, ok, we're gonna dial back an hour and show you how the rescue developed from [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]'s point of view. And this little beat here with [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], I thought was really important 'cause I really wanted to have one more scene of the two of them together before all hell broke loose in this particular relationship. And I thought it was really important to see them togtether one more time as a husband and wife.
So know you can see we're doing the chiron, "One hour earlier". I took a pass at the script after [[David Weddle|David]] and [[Bradley Thompson|Bradley]] did as well, and this section here at the beginning of the tease was some of the most difficult stuff to make clear. That, ok, we're gonna dial back an hour and show you how the rescue developed from [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]'s point of view. And this little beat here with [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], I thought was really important. They really wanted to have one more scene of the two of them together before all hell broke loose in this particular relationship. And I thought it was really important to see them togtether one more time as a husband and wife.


Terry: Hey. Can I interrupt?
Terry: Hey. Can I interrupt?

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Teaser

RDM: Hello. Welcome to the podcast for "Exodus, Part I", the second or third episode of season three of Battlestar Galactica, depending on how you want to count. I'm Ronald D. Moore the developer and executive producer of Galactica. And welcome you once again to the exciting and always interesting podcast. Tonight Mrs. Ron is here but she is probably going to be silent, since she's exhausted.

Terry: Well, I don't know about silent.

RDM: (Laughs.) Never silent.

Terry: It will be the sound of me turning magazine pages, like the sound of chinking teaspoons on bowls last week with those-

RDM: -Yeah.-

Terry: -Cheerios. And I just have to say hello to all my friends on the "Okay" thread. That's my thread on the Scifi.com bulletin board. So I just wanted to give them all a special nod.

RDM: It's called a shoutout.

Terry: I'm not doing a shoutout.

RDM: She's doing-

Terry: That sounds so-

RDM: She's a shoutout to-

Terry: -fat, white person-

RDM: -to her peeps.

Terry: -trying to do black lingo. It's so pathetic.

RDM: A shoutout to her peeps in the hood.

Terry: I'd like to say hello to my compatriots. (Laughs.)

RDM: And I'm saying hello to nobody.

Ok. So here we go. "Exodus" is, as I alluded to, or actually stated, last time, "Exodus" has been split into two separate episodes because it was such a large piece of material that we quickly realized that it was probably gonna be two different parts.

Terry: Oh, look. The tinkling of ice.

RDM: Ah the tinkling ice.

Terry: Oh and the kittens are joining us.

RDM: Yes the kittens are start-

Terry: They have names.

RDM: Tonight's Scotch is a Longmorn Fifteen-

Terry: Oh, god...

RDM: A highland Scotch. A darn fine one.

"Exodus" is two parts. We kind of knew it going in, even though the script itself was no longer or shorter than any other script. There was just so much material to cover and we knew that to play the action beats correctly, to deal with all of the various threads coming together, it just seemed unrealistic, from the get go, to really do it in an hour. Director for this episode, Felix Alcalá, did a really great job in bringing all this together on time and on budget, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. But nevertheless we still felt the need to split it into two pieces to really play it.

Now here at the beginning, we're of course revisiting the end of "Precipice", last week's episode. And essentially what we wanted to do was play these events over again for the audience and then lead you to a certain point, in the recap section here, and then restart and show you what happened from the other perspectives. This was very tricky. It took a lot of massaging on the page and in the editing room to really make this whole sequence work. but here we're still- here come the Cylons over the hill. Some great work by Gary Hutzel and his visual effect team. That's very tricky stuff. Getting those guys coming over that rise. The rise wasn't really clear on the shoot. They had to artificially play around with the ground and where the Cylons- where their feet actually touch the ground and all that kind of stuff.

So know you can see we're doing the chiron, "One hour earlier". I took a pass at the script after David and Bradley did as well, and this section here at the beginning of the tease was some of the most difficult stuff to make clear. That, ok, we're gonna dial back an hour and show you how the rescue developed from Tyrol's point of view. And this little beat here with Ellen and Tigh, I thought was really important. They really wanted to have one more scene of the two of them together before all hell broke loose in this particular relationship. And I thought it was really important to see them togtether one more time as a husband and wife.

Terry: Hey. Can I interrupt?

RDM: Yeah.

Terry: Can I tell them I've seen all the way through episode eleven?

RDM: Yep.

Terry: I have seen all the way through episode eleven as of last night, and this show, this season is so good. You really- tell your friends and relatives. It's really- he's done a really good job. He really has. They all have.

RDM: If Mrs. Ron says it's so, it must be so.

Terry: You guys know that I'm critical when I need be.

RDM: Now you'll notice here that Tyrol has mysteriously lost his beard. This has to do with a lot of complicated scheduling problems that we were dealing with, because while we were shooting these episodes and shooting pickup scenes we were also having to shoot scenes for the flashback episode that's coming. It's kinda hard to unwind all of this and explain it now, but in essence, this scene, this little sequence of Tyrol and Tigh and Ellen in the tent was a pickup that we added later. Once we were stretching this into two episodes we needed a little- we were slightly short on the first episode, maybe about nine- seven minutes short, I believe, on the first hour. And on the second hour we were only three or four minutes short. So we still had to go back and pickup some material to round out the two hours. This scene is one of them. Well, we were also shooting it after the fact. That is, we had already shot these episodes and we were going back and shooting them in tents. You could tell that was an interior set that we were doing, much later in the schedule. Well, by then, he had shaved Tyrol's beard. 'Cause he had come back to Galactica. I don't think I'm giving too much away by saying, "Yes, they do eventually get back to Galactica".

Terry: No spoilers.

RDM: Watch the spoilers. I already made some errors last week, I was reminded of.

Terry: By me.

RDM: Yes.

And Tyrol's beard had already been shaved off. Well, we had the option at that point of either, see there's his beard in the main title section. We had the option of either just shaving it off and saying, "Ok. Tyrol decided to shave it himself because the Galactica was coming."

Terry: Which is what I thought when I saw it.

RDM: Or we could go for the fake beard.

Act 1