"'There must be some way out of here,'
Said the joker to the thief.
'There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief.'"
Battlestar Galactica isn't going to return until 2008? Um, what the frak?! I can't wait that long. Anyway, great finale. I'm so glad I resisted the temptation to read the spoilers. Also, I'm ashamed to admit that I had no idea that All Along the Watchtower was originally written by Bob Dylan.
GitM has linked to a great interview with Ron Moore about what happened in the finale. Now I'm even more confused. Damn you, Moore!
Bear McCreary talks about creating his version of All Along the Watchtower for the series on his blog.
I happened to catch Ron Moore in the hallway at Universal and, in a brief conversation, got everything I needed to know. I learned that the idea was not that Bob Dylan necessarily exists in the characters' universe, but that an artist on one of the colonies may have recorded a song with the exact same melody and lyrics. Perhaps this unknown performer and Dylan pulled inspiration from a common, ethereal source. Therefore, I was told to make no musical references to any "Earthly" versions, Hendrix, Dylan or any others. The arrangement needed to sound like a pop song that belonged in the Galactica universe, not our own.
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