Battlestar Galactica now uses apocalypse for important scene

From Chris Snellgrove
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Part of what Ronald Moores did Battlestar Galactica Restart was so convincing that it told a completely original story and at the same time brought the amazing films and shows that had come before. For example, the premiere of the second season (“scattered”) has a flashback scene when a younger Colonel Tigh burned his medals and may want to kill himself, and this terrible scene seems to be known to the students of the film. This is because this is particularly depressing Battlestar Galactica Scene was heavily inspired by Apocalypse now And one of the bleak scenes in film history.

Battlestar Galactica inspired by Apocalypse now

Originally, the producers shot many different flashback scenes for “scattered”, and the last episode contains only a handful of it. One of them shows a younger colonel who wateres wildly lighter liquids over its old military hairdresses. He prepares to light them on fire and possibly kill himself and his partner in bed, but he stayed by visiting the military police. They tell him that he was set again in service, and Battlestar Galactica Guru Moore confirmed in the podcast comment for the episode that “there is a clear homage quality Apocalypse now. “”

If you are one Battlestar Galactica Fan who hasn’t seen Apocalypse now Recently (or maybe you’ve never seen it) you may be wondering what the homage is. In the Francis Ford Coppola Film, some military police appear and find Martin Sheens’ poor character in such a way that they have to throw him into the shower to revive him. In “scattered”, Tigh (apparently halfway through a large decanter of alcohol) is in a similar position, although the visiting MPs do not have to throw him into the shower.

Interestingly, that Battlestar Galactica Showrunner thought that this little deviation from Apocalypse nowThe scene made the scene more effective. He noticed that Tigh “simply starts and contracts” and how it was “for our history … more effective”. In the same podcast comment, Moore complained that “we were unable to convey the fact that if Tigh shone on fire,” the whole place could rise “.

Obviously, the scene in Coppola’s film, in which Sheen’s character has to be physically thrown into the shower. Basically, “scattered” is an episode in which the alcoholic tigh has to take the command of the ship after Adama was shot, and it was a surprise for the audience and the characters that the rocker, violent, violent drunks of the ship was actually a reliable officer with good instincts. However, the earlier review of before Tigh in Battlestar Galactica served by showing that he can do it (in contrast to his Apocalypse now Opposite) immediately contract.

When we looked at that for the first time Battlestar Galactica Episode, we did not play the similarity between the scene of Young Tigh and the equivalent scene in Apocalypse now. We can no longer visit the connection, and we love Ronald Moore even more to give Oberst Tigh, one of the best characters of the show, such a complexity. What tigh itself Apocalypse now: “The horror … the horror!”