By Chris Snellgrove
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Part of what made Ronald Moore Battlestar Galactica The restart was so convincing that it told a completely original story while providing tributes to the incredible films and shows that had preceded it. For example, the first of season 2 (“dispersed”) has a flashback scene when a young colonel is about to burn his medals and commit suicide very well, and this frightening scene may seem familiar to the students of the film. This is because this is particularly depressing Battlestar Galactica The scene was strongly inspired by Apocalypse now And one of the darkest scenes in cinematographic history.
Battlestar Galactica inspired by the apocalypse now
Originally, the producers shot many different flashback scenes for “dispersed”, and the last episode only understands a handful. One of them shows a younger colonel who frantically pours lighter liquid everywhere in his old military medals; He is preparing to light them on fire and perhaps committing suicide and committing suicide and committing suicide and his partner in bed, but he stopped by visiting the military police. They tell him that he was restored in the service, and Battlestar Galactica Guru Moore confirmed on the podcast’s comment for the episode that “there is a quality of tribute defined in Apocalypse now. “”
If you are a Battlestar Galactica fan who did not look Apocalypse now Recently (or maybe you’ve never watched it at all), you may be wondering what tribute is. In the Francis Ford Coppola Film, some military police present each other and find the character of the army of Martin Sheen if the wooden mouth that they must throw it in the shower to make it relive. In “Dispersed”, TIGH (apparently halfway through a large decanter of alcohol) is in a similar position, although visiting deputies do not have to throw it in the shower.
Interesting, the Battlestar Galactica Showrunner thought that this minor divergence of Apocalypse nowThe scene made the scene more impactful. He noted that Tigh “leaves and gathers” and how it was “for our history … more effective”. In this same commentary by Podcast, Moore deplored that “we were unable to transmit” the fact that if Tigh lit his medals on fire, “the whole place could rise”.
Obviously, the scene of Coppola’s film where the character of Sheen must be thrown into the shower is very memorable, so why did Moore thought that it was better that they have shown that Tigh is capable of gathering alone? Basically, “dispersed” is an episode where the alcoholic stamp must assume the command of the ship after Adama was killed, and it was a surprise for the public and the characters that the trembling and violent drunk on the ship was in fact a reliable officer with a good instinct. However, the previous flashback to before Tigh was used for Battlestar Galactica foreshadows this by showing that he can (unlike his Apocalypse now homologous) gathers at any time.
When we looked at this for the first time Battlestar Galactica episode, we have not timed the similarity between the stage of Young Tigh and the equivalent scene in Apocalypse now. We cannot see the connection now, and we love Ronald Moore to add such complexity to Colonel Tigh, one of the best characters in the series. As for Tigh himself, he would probably describe to take command with the same two words that Marlon Brando spoke towards the end of Apocalypse now: “Horror … horror!”
