From Chris Snellgrove
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If you had to describe Ronald Moores Battlestar Galactica Restart to someone who had never seen it, they would probably use terms such as “brood”, “serious” or even “prestige speakers”. Probably the last descriptor that you would ever advertise is “funny” because this show dealt in very blunt and bleak and at the same time tells a story about humanity that is confronted with extreme extinction. However, the only exception is the bizarre funny season -1 -episode “Tigh me up, tigh me down”, but it turns out to be Crimson Tide.
Harried me up, house me down
When it was a while since you have seen this Frakkin episode, this happens here: In “Tigh me up, tigh me down” the A-Action affects Dr. Baltar’s newly completed cylon detector and the B-Action concerns the surprise discovery of the Colonel Tighs. This would have been very difficult points of action, but they are mostly played to laugh. For example, the version of six in Baltar’s head keeps him sexually stimulating and causes Starbuck (who cannot see the other woman) that Baltar is masturbating. And Tigh’s wife is incredibly strange, rubbed the step of the young captain Adama during dinner and generally behaves like a hot (and very drunk).
At that time it was very surprising that that Battlestar Galactica I did a comedy episode in the middle of all the gloomy horrors of the first season. And “Tigh me up, Tigh me down” is even more remarkable afterwards because the show never tried again to make a comedic episode again. We couldn’t help it GalacticaOwn homage to the paranoid U -boot thriller Crimson Tide.
Originally, the main conflict of the episode would be due to Adama and both suspect that the other was secretly a cylon. Baltar’s detector would probably have played a role in such an action, and the version of “Tigh me up, tigh me down” has one echo From this original idea when we see how commander Adama and President Roslin are tacitly suspicious. Fittingly, this episode had a different title at the time: “Secrets and lies”.
Things change
So what happened to the idea of making a fatal serious homage Crimson Tide? According to Ronald Moore, “we had just got out of a very heavy, very dark, very disturbing episode” – this was “meat and blood”, in which Starbuck was a cylon for information that many were able to save lives. If he had been to the original action of “Enge Me Up, Tighe Me Down”, it would have been “a very disturbing, very dark, very (art) unfortunate episode in which our two … leading characters started to get up to each other show . “”
Moore stared at the prospect of having two incredibly bleak episodes and made the kind of hard command decision that Commander Adama would have made proud. “I just decided, just let’s punt. Don’t let us make the dark and brooding episode, ”he said, decided that this was the perfect time to“ try a different tone ”.
It was a solid decision, and the laugh, which provided the final version of “Tigh me up, tigh me down”, were a big counterpoint to the agonizing (in several types than a) plot of “meat and bones”. But like the cylons, Moore had a ulterior motive. He didn’t want the audience to giggle, but also see if the show could withstand something easier. And he decided that the best way to carry out such a test Galactica can withstand. “
Apparently, Battlestar Galactica did more than withstand This story. The show then delivered three more seasons from (yes, it has to be said). Admittedly, these seasons were more likely to correspond to the desolation of “meat and blood” than the carefree laugh of “Tigh me up, tigh me down”. That makes us all the more grateful that the show was at least one That made us laugh against an entire series that made us crying mainly.
