Battlestar news roundup
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- April
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Lots of BSG bloggy goodness to share:
• The season premiere was the top-rated (they may be flawed ratings, but still…) cable prime-time program among those aged 25-54 and had 2.1 million viewers. Rock on.
• Tricia Helfer (whom I just last week declared to be one of the most underrated actresses of her generation) has signed a “talent holding deal” with Fox, according to The Hollywood Reporter. What’s that mean? It means that she’ll star in a network series, “probably a drama.” She was in the unpicked-up sci-fi drama pilot, Them. She also was in the independent film Walk All Over Me with Leelee Sobieski (yet to be released in the States). Bravo, Ms. Helfer.
• Great ideas for “The 5 Other Battlestar Galactica Spin-Offs We Want to See,” via ToplessRobot. They include Cloud 9 — “The Love Boat … with robots.”
• I nearly ran home to re-watch Tigh’s hallucination scene from “He That Believeth in Me” when I read ComicMix news’ 
interview with co-executive producer Mark Verheiden the other day. The entire interview’s worth a read, but check out this exchange:
CMix: In Tigh’s hallucination, he shoots Adama in the same eye that Tigh lost. Intentional?
MV: Per one of the writers of that episode, Mr. David Weddle:“I was waiting for someone to pick up on that telling detail. Congratulations. But I am disappointed you have not figured out its significance within the larger mythology of the show. It’s all laid out for you. All you have to do is run the episode over again in slow motion, and the deeper truth will be revealed.”
Over at TVSquad, Keith McDuffie expounded a bit more on the potential significance of the right eye in the mythology. Let’s just say it did not go unnoticed that the Cylon raider scanned Anders right eye. Could that be why D’Anna was so apologetic to one of the Final Five when she saw their faces back in the Temple of Five? The Cylons did, after all, dig out Tigh’s right eye.
• OK, the TVSquad folks also got their mitts on cool casting information for the Caprica pilot/series. Potentially spoilery info, so click at your own risk. Here’s a taste, the description of the young Bill Adama:
[WILLIAM ADAMS] 9 years old, Latino, Joseph’s sole surviving child, William is inward and withdrawn in the best of times, and grows more taciturn after the death of his mother and sister. Barely aware of his father, whose work kept him away from the family, William is a stoical Tauron who keeps his deepest thoughts to himself and rarely smiles. Promised a closer relationship by Joseph, he is taken aside, taught the basics of his Tauron heritage, and told that his Tauron name is William Adama…7 / 13 SERIES REGULAR -TO PLAY EDWARD JAMES OLMOS AT 9 YEARS OLD.
• TVGuide.com has an interview with BSG co-executive producer Jane Espenson. She used to work on Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and others, so there’s lots of geeky goodness for you all, including why Roslin and Adama aren’t cozying up to one another now that they’re back in the fleet:
Espenson: I think they felt that when they were down on New Caprica, their responsibilities were off their shoulders: There was no ship to be admiral of, and she wasn’t president…. But now that the responsibilities are back on them, they are the government. He’s the military side and she’s the civilian side, so they may have some fear of the perception that, if they were together, [people would think], “There are no checks and balances.” But maybe they’ll overcome that fear.
Awww, I hope so. Unless one’s a Cylon. Then they’d better call in Starbuck. She’ll know what to do.
All photos courtesy of NBC Universal.
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So is Tigh more Cylon because he only has one eye, like the Toaster models, or less Cylon because the humanoids have two? VERY INTERESTING…
And don’t forget the mandala symbol looks like an eye as well as the nebula…