Battlestar Galactica - Season II

I kind a miss some stuff from the old show too.

 

I knew they would run the whole first season again sometime soon.

Unfortunately I think it was last week on the 6th.

 

Nobody says "By your command" in the new one..

 

Had to record the premiere, but I'll be watching it tonight.

And check this out...

David Eick, co-creator and executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, offered SCI FI Wire a few more details about the introduction of the Battlestar Pegasus, a returning element from the original series, which co-creator Ronald D. Moore revealed in a panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego. "This really came out of a conversation Ron and I had early on about the episodes we had seen of the original show and what felt like they might be well served by a fresh interpretation," Eick said in an interview. He added: "The storyline that we thought was interesting was the Battlestar Pegasus. And so, naturally, we put a pretty unexpected and, I think, pretty subversive spin on it. But it's definitely going to be a fixture for a while." The Pegasus appears beginning in the 10th episode of the second season.

The arrival of the Pegasus will launch a complex story arc inspired by current events, Eick said. "It stands to reason that in a show that's all about how we're all trying to survive this horrific attack by this inhuman enemy, that the thing that we're really exploring is not that threat from without, but how it turns itself inward and how it becomes insidious and internal, and how it begins to break us down from inside ourselves," he said. "And what better way to take that idea to the next level than to introduce another human being who, on the face of it, is going to help us defeat the Cylons, defeat that third outside enemy, once and for all, but in reality serves to only remind us once again that the biggest enemy is really us?"

Eick also hinted that the Pegasus will be involved in a multi-episode arc, though its crew may not be around as long. "It's not going to go away as quickly as people might think," he said. "That's not to say that the folks involved in bringing the Pegasus to us are going to remain indefinitely. But for sure it's going to be a fixture for some time." Battlestar Galactica airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

 

Fuck. They were doing a damn good job of entertaining without bringing blatant politics into it.

 

Galactica's Starbuck Finds Love

Katee Sackhoff, who plays Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the SCI FI Channel original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that she asked the producers to expand a storyline in which her character finds romance. "I have a love interest that comes in in episode four and five, and he left," Sackhoff said in an interview. "He was gone. And I thought to bring him back, and it's a big deal to have to bring him back, because basically you have to go back to Caprica again. ... It's a huge thing. It's a couple of episodes, if not more than that, to bring his character back, and I fought for that because we have great chemistry and I enjoy him."

Sackhoff said that the producers took her suggestion and are writing the character, played by Michael Trucco, back into the show. His return may end a streak of brief trysts for Starbuck, which Sackhoff believes are a product of her character's insecurities. "She is extremely vulnerable, and extremely fragile," she said. "And she wants so badly to be loved. And she doesn't know how to do that. She's been hurt so many times in her life. The easiest way for her to feel loved is to have sex with somebody, to feel that immediate connection. And I think that when she [did] do that and realized that wasn't what [she] wanted, again, she leaves them. So that's why it's a string of men and it's only one time or two times. But I think with the man that she met on Caprica, she finally gave her heart to someone. And it's a big thing for her, and we've been seeing the emotional toll it has taken for her, because she misses him a lot."

In a separate interview, producer David Eick (whom Sackhoff calls an "actors' producer"), told SCI FI Wire that it was Sackhoff's performance that inspired a more three-dimensional take on the character. "You really find yourself writing Kara Thrace as the most vulnerable character, because Katee has that vulnerability, and she has that sort of tough exterior," Eick said. "And that balance, that sort of contradiction, really, is what's so interesting about the character. If she was just Han Solo with a haircut, you'd say, 'Okay, nice.' But it starts to feel a little bit cute; it starts to feel a little bit contrived. And the truth is, she's the most emotional. And yet she's the one who's the best shot, and she's probably the one that will pull the trigger first. And that's an interesting contradiction to us, and that contradiction was really provided by Katee." Battlestar Galactica airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

 

I think Colonel Tigh is a very interesting character. His being in command is creating a pretty interesting dynamic.

 

I'm catching that second episode tonight. Where in the hell were he and Adama that they had to be reinstated to the fleet?

 

I don't know, that kind of caught my attention too. They really do not address that in the second episode either. It is a good episode though.