iF MAGAZINE: Did you and co-creator Ron Moore watch the original GALACTICA before you started work on the new series?
DAVID EICK: I did a show with Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi called HERCULES. At one critical point during development of that show, Rob Tapert instructed everyone at the company to go home and read Robert Graves, to
become immersed in mythology and Greek myth. Everyone dutifully went home and read the materials, and I very deliberately chose not to.
Something interesting happened. Over the course of the next few months, I was the guy in the room that it had to make sense for. Someone in the room would say Narcissus was such and such, and I would say "I don't
know what that means." It was a good balance, because there was always a voice for the audience saying you can't just have things written for people who know the mythology, otherwise we won't have a TV show.