By Chris Snellgrove
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If you are a fan of firearms, you probably spend a lot of time screaming at your TV because your favorite characters do a terrible job to explode their enemies. It is generally the actor’s fault … like, what would you expect from others when someone who has never drawn from a pistol suddenly receives an accessory and says it get crazy? However, Battlestar Galactica ‘S Nicki Clyne (who played Callly) is the exception to the rule: she told Starlog that in the first of season 2 “dispersed”, she was reprimanded by the director for having dismissed her weapon too well!
Nicki Clyne vs Cylons
Now, if you know a lot about it Battlestar GalacticaYou know that the character of Cally does not spend much time fighting the emblematic robot enemies of the show directly. It is because it is a bridge of the hand which, like the colleague and possible husband, the head of Tyrol, specializes in the maintenance of the vipers of the ship in the air and fully operational for the pilots of Galactica. Nevertheless, Cally was part of a shooting in “dispersed”, and Nicki Clyne trained at this time so strong that when she started to shoot the cylons, the director said: “You shoot these weapons Also Well “because” Cally has not drawn weapons since the basic formation! “”
If you have not seen “dispersed”, here is a little context: in this episode, some of our characters explore Kobol, a kind of legendary planet which is supposed to be the original birthplace of humanity. Some are temporarily blocked on this planet while Galactica plays a desperate game of cat and mouse with a Bassetar cylon, and most of the action of this episode takes place on the main ship and the Viper cockpits of the assorted pilots. But there is still a lot of action on the planet, as Cally discovers it when her investigation team is attacked by bloodthirsty robots and that she must provide coverage for Chef Tyrol.
Naturally, Nicki Clyne wanted to obtain his big action scene against cylons, and that meant training: as she said, “I focused on doing it correctly, because weapons experts showed me how to aim and shoot the arms.” This is what led director Michael Rymer to punish her to “draw these weapons Also Well, because it would be out of character for a hand bridge that has never seen the fight to be so good in this area. The actor respected, but she also had a “defense” against the director’s criticism: “I thought:” Hey, if I Can learn to shoot a weapon so quickly, then Cally can certainly. “”
Although Nicki Clyne’s comment may have been slightly ironic, she had a point on the first real fight of her character with the cylons. A major theme of Battlestar Galactica is that our heroes are on their retro-and-on-the-road most of the time and must acquire new skills on the fly in order to escape their implacable pursuers. Cally may not be like exactly a cracking, but on the basis of how she adapts to some of the dramas she ends later in the show (including her husband turns out to be a secret cylon!), It is perfectly reasonable to think that she would be a quick study with firearms.
We really loved hearing how Nicki Clyne was a bit Also Good to shoot cylons, but there is only one problem: we are now seized with the desire to review the Battlestar Galactica Restart again for what must be the millionth time. The alternative, of course, consists in verifying part of the slope that passes for modern science fiction television on various streaming services. And we prefer that Cally puts us simply like another cylon before we are content with slass.
