That in turn led them to start doing radar ground imaging of what was beneath the surface of- beneath the surface and that led to the discover that there was a whole underground city that had been buried over time, and then they were gonna start looking more in earnest. Except for the process of discovering the Temple of the Five and then the- getting to the Eye of Jupiter were slightly different in that originally they were- the people that were working on the algae collection were down here on the planet and I think Cally was going to trip over or somehow find a human bone fragment in the dirt. In early versions of the outline were pretty to where we eventually ended up. That the Galactica universe- I'm sorry, the Galactica storyline would collide with the Cylon baseship storyline that we'd been following throughout these opening episodes and this was the place that they both came for different reasons. That this was going to be the place where the two storylines ultimately collided. We had always wanted this to be the focal point that. The algae planet storyline was something we talked a lot about in the writers' room and how it was gonna work into the plot. I believe we've used other Roman names, from time to time, as well, although of course right off the top of my head I can't remember which ones they were, but I think we have established that. And it was nice to have both names- both proper names present in the Galactica world. Some could argue it's more hokey, but it was also a nice way to broaden the pantheon, as it were, ha ha ha, of the gods and their references in the Galactica universe and the mythos, in that Zeus being the Greek name for the father of the gods, and Jupiter being the later Roman version of the same idea. But we didn't want to- the story still was what the story was, and we didn't really wanna lose that aspect of what the episode was and the slide to call it Jupiter instead of Zeus was an arbitrary one, except it, somehow, for subjective reasons that are hard to explain, it sounded a little less hokey. Just that there was something about "Eye of Zeus" that seemed a bit too mystical and a little bit too over-the-top, even for us. We changed the name, ultimately, for not very deep reasons. "Eye of Jupiter" was originally called "Eye of Zeus" for a very long time in draft form and into script. I think I have been banned from the New York offices. And I will be sending this shortly over to the offices at Scifi Channel, here in New York, which I have actually never set foot on. I am coming to you this week from New York City, where I am in town for less than two days on non- Galactica related business. Moore, executive producer and developer of the new Battlestar Galactica, here to welcome you to the podcast for what we call episode ten, " Eye of Jupiter".
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