Grant Morrison On Battlestar Galactica Game

Thanks to GameSpot for their interview with Grant Morrison regarding his writing on the new Battlestar Galactica game. Morrison is the noted British comic-book writer known for titles such as The Invisibles, and says of the Galactica re-imagining: "There seemed to be endless dramatic possibilities in the big biblical sweep of the Galactica concept, so I went with warrior-monks, high-tech cloisters, and the doom-laden struggle of man against pitiless machine." He also suggests that, in writing for videogames, "...the script format is quite different from a comic book script or a movie script... more 'fractal,' for want of a better word."

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Strange ... possible inconsistency

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How odd. It sounds from the interview like the Exodus will have been happening when Adama was young.

However, in the TV Show/Movie, the Exodus starts with the Cylon betrayal at Caprica, when the Galactica gathers the survivors and high-tails it out of there. Morrison surely can't be unaware of this, so I wonder how he's going to put the search for Earth that far back?

Hmmm. Well, at least this might go some distance to explaining Adama's almost fanatical faith that Earth exists and the the fleet will be able to find it one day. Too bad Galactica 1980 was waiting at the end of the journey. :(