Posted on 07/11/2007 6:49:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Cast members of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica told reporters that they weren't happy at first to discover that their characters were Cylons, but they have come to terms with the revelation in their own ways—and hinted the Cylons may not be what they appear.
"I've always thought to myself—I don't know if I said it out loud, I must have—that I sure am glad I'm not playing a Cylon," said Michael Hogan, who plays Col. Tigh, in a news conference in Vancouver, Canada. "I'm not happy about being a Cylon at all. But I don't imagine any of us who are being picked to be Cylons are happy about it. But the scripts and what we've been doing so far are great, and the only way that I can deal with it is as a human being. So far, that's all I've had to do. And I'm not sure what's going on."
Hogan added that the new information about his character has added a level of complexity to his performance and challenged him as an actor. "For Tigh so far, it is like a mental illness," he said. "It's like the ringing in the years and visions and constantly wondering what's going on. So [in] almost ... every scene we do now, it's that thing where you're thinking, ... if you've had a personal tragedy happen to you, then you've got to carry on with life: You kind of realize, 'Isn't this amazing that I'm actually talking to people?' But this is all going on inside."
Aaron Douglas, who plays Chief Tyrol, said at the same press conference that he came across the information by chance early on and has had a little more time to process the notion. "I found out months in advance, accidentally," he said. "I found a piece of paper lying around that I wasn't supposed to read, but I read it anyways. And I said, 'What the ... is this?' And [director Michael] Rymer went, 'Oh, you're not supposed to read that.' ... So I kept my mouth shut until it officially came out, and then I phoned [executive producer Ron Moore]. 'What the hell is this?'"
Douglas said he didn't like the news at first. "Because I thought you're taking a fan favorite, a character that's very identifiable, very human, that the fans really, really like, and you're really marginalizing him," he said. "So Ron spoke to me for, like, an hour and a half on the phone, and he explained the whys and the wherefores, and I was convinced at the end. Now I've embraced it, more than Michael has, I believe. And I don't mind going down in history as one of the Cylon gods and one of the 12 Cylon human forms."
Douglas also revealed a detail about the final five Cylons that had previously been kept under wraps. "The differentiation between the seven and the final five will become more clear," he said. "We're not like them. In all seriousness. We're Cylon, but we're not connected to these guys at all."
This show has the worst writing I have seen this side of a soap opera. Wait, this dreck IS a soap opera!
The blond cylon is hot, though.
Just as long as we don’t see flying motorcycles.
I don’t think so...
A kid named Boxy and his robot monkey will save the day.
Isn’t this a SPOILER? I don’t recall it on the show, maybe I missed the Episode> Or has there been a public announcement?
Well, the actors reaction seems to mirror the characters they play from what I remember of that episode.
It’s a shame this is the last season. If NBC/Universal didn’t blow all their cash on the Global Stupid concerts maybe we could get another season?
At the end of the last season, those guys THOUGHT that they were Cylons, which was a STUPID thing to think and would be even STUPIDER if it were true.
Looks like the show will go out with a whimper after all.
I'd hoped that there would've been enough fan outrage to have them reconsider it. (Actually, I really didn't think that they were going to go through with it in the first place.)
It really is turning into a big steaming turn pile.
Which is a shame considering the show that we could have gotten.
OMG! those were about the best thing about Galactica 1980 except for the Starbuck episode.
I think it’s a kick ass development. You shouldn’t whine so much.
This was ONCE the “best on TV”. Season I and the Mini were untouchable.
Then midway through the second season... they ran out of original material from which to copy... and the show has been dropping like a rock ever since.
For most all of the last (3rd) season it had less than 1 million viewers.
The Cylon ending was a desperate ratings gimmick....
It failed.
The show now SUCKS beyond words.
If you haven’t seen it at all... Season 1 and the first half of season 2 are worth the DVD price.... then just pretend it was canceled and ignore the rest.
I thought BSG was cancelled.
Im an eternal optimist, but the show has become a bore to watch. Of course Ill watch, but not with the enthusiasm of the 1st and 2nd season.
They’re all Cylons.....
BSG lost me in the third season. The episode that pretty much did it for me was the one where they discovered the virus that kills Cylons and Helo took it upon himself to foil the plan to use it against them, citing ethical reasons. What was portrayed as a ethical stand is in fact a very unethical decision, because instead of preventing genocide, he in fact enabled it to continue. Yet he was show to be a hero for this.
Dittoes - though I nearly left the show over the Pegasus rape-torture episode of season 2. That's where it started coming off the rails for me.
It bounced back with the awe-inspiring "Exodus, Part 2" in Season 3, but then in the 2nd half of this last year I think it permanantly crashed.
I'll have to wait to see the entire season to make my judgement. You probably should too, although it is something of a kick in the teeth.
Thank you - people are quick to judge and I have been fascinated that things that annoyed the holy **** out of me at first suddenly turn into interesting plot twists. I will be interested to see where the final season goes.
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