If you're as obsessive about BSG as we are, there might not be much in Wired's extensive interview with the show's creator Ronald D. Moore that you haven't already gleaned from, oh, let's say, calling in sick to your dayjob and relentlessly going through the special features and commentaries on the DVD's. Still: a heck of a good insight into the mind of the guy most responsible for the gritty, relentless tone of the show, a direct counterpoint to the original series.
The [1970's] show was about an apocalypse. The show opens with a genocide, an apocalyptic destruction of 12, count em, 12 planets. Billions of human lives are lost. The survivors heroically run away, fleeing an implacable enemy that is determined to destroy them no matter what, and they're looking for a mythical place called Earth.
And the first place they go is the casino planet.
One question we got, though: how come Moore and pretty much the rest of the cast and crew seem to think that 33 -- the show's first regular episode following the pilot miniseries -- is their favorite. Don't get us wrong: awesome episode. But better than the Pegasus/Cain arc? The total mindscrewing of the second season finale? The escape from New Caprica? What about you: any others that we've missed?