Tonight is a very important night for geeks - the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica shall be united! Well... sorta. Buffy writer (i.e. genius) Jane Espenson wrote tonight's BSG episode, titled "The Passage". From AICN:
Oh I love Jane. She's a terrific writer, and always came off as an adorable geek herself in the Buffy DVD extras. Can't wait to see what she's got in store for our Cylon-beleaguered crew.
Jane also answered some BSG-related questions over at TV Squad this week, but my spoiler-averse eyes have stayed away. But feel free yourself...
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"Tonight’s Battlestar Galactica reunites two great talents: funnygirl screenwriter Jane Espenson and showrunner Ron Moore, who once labored together on Herc’s favorite version of latter-day Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Jane Espenson tells Ain’t it Cool:
"I had a blast writing "The Passage." I was very fortunate to be given a really exciting (and harrowing) story by Ron and the writers. There was so much there to play with. You ask about stretching the ol' Star Trek (TNG) muscles, but other than getting to work with Ron, it felt so very different. TNG was a show about ideas, and I adored it, but this is so much more a show about people and relationships. I never got to write an actual episode for TNG, but I wrote a lot of TNG specs, and then ultimately an episode of Deep Space Nine, and writing dialogue for those shows involved a lot of thinking about the best, most elegant way to express a thought, while writing for BSG is much more about thinking about the most human, rough, heart-exposing way to express an emotion. I loved it."
Oh I love Jane. She's a terrific writer, and always came off as an adorable geek herself in the Buffy DVD extras. Can't wait to see what she's got in store for our Cylon-beleaguered crew.
Jane also answered some BSG-related questions over at TV Squad this week, but my spoiler-averse eyes have stayed away. But feel free yourself...
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