showrunners Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner discussed with ComingSoon their upcoming show and the difficulties they had to overcome to make it happen. Devlin had the idea of making a show with people traveling through space for a new home, Glassner simply saw the potential of that story. Ahead of the series release on SyFy on February 1, the pair also discussed their most significant influences, having a woman in the leading role, and more.
What is it that both of you like about hav ing some people confined in a spaceship, moving towards a new home on a new planet?: Well, I think it’s a pressure cooker. Whatever conflicts or personal dramas you would have in a normal show, it gets heightened because they’re all in this contained space. They can’t escape each other. I think what makes this one unique from other ones is that in the opening scene of the very first episode, all the leadership of the spaceship are killed in an accident.
I like the series as a psychological study of the fact that even in the future, even a hundred years from now, people won’t change. The behavior is the same as it was even thousands of years ago. What is it in human behavior that makes us repeat the same mistakes over and over again?: Well, that’s a huge question. That’s like a question for scientists and philosophers. I think we have evolutionarily, we have tribalism in our genes, and I think that’s caused a lot of problems for us.
Having a woman in charge of the spaceship in Lieutenant Sharon Garnet, how did you come up with this narrative solution, and how does it reflect our reality?: Well, I don’t think it was a choice to say, ‘Well, wouldn’t it be interesting if it was a woman instead of a man?’ I think what we really looked at was just simply what are the differences of these characters. Only one of them is kind of inclined to fill any gap. In other words, Garnet can’t help herself.
No, for sure. We can say that the sci-fi genre has been very revolutionary as far as this goes. It’s not the first time we see a woman in leadership in a sci-fi contest, that’s for sure. It really shows us the potentiality of these narrative solutions.Yeah, that’s true. Which was the trickiest part to write and then execute or shoot?: I think the trickiest part is that John and I write these things as though we had $200 million in and all the time in the world to make it.
Hmm I’ll hav to try this out tomorrow night
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