Battlestar Galactica-Final Season (4) 5/16/08--Guess What's Coming to Dinner

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Brother Cavill.


At least to some extent, this is true, at least to everything I heard. The whole religious angle, or boomer being a sleeper cylon, where not ideas made during the mini-series. This only came as they went along.

I suppose, though, that the writers have a pretty firm grip on these things now. Basically, they started with some random ideas and questions, and let them "evolve" over the course of the series.

Well, so much for crackpot theories.

You see at the end of the miniseries that Boomer is a cylon. It is the scene when the group of cylons walk into the ship where Adama met Leobon. I think the religious angle was present in the miniseries because they introduced the oracle character who died on Kobol when they were looking for the tomb of Athena. I don't remember her name but she is the short black woman who presided over the funeral and who told Rosilyn about the Pythia scrolls.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

You see at the end of the miniseries that Boomer is a cylon. It is the scene when the group of cylons walk into the ship where Adama met Leobon. I think the religious angle was present in the miniseries because they introduced the oracle character who died on Kobol when they were looking for the tomb of Athena. I don't remember her name but she is the short black woman who presided over the funeral and who told Rosilyn about the Pythia scrolls.

The Boomer idea was a "last-minute" thing, as far as I understood.
The religious angle was a throw-away line by Six, that they decide to give more importance.
Helo's run on Caprica was also something that wasn't really considered during the mini-series, but they decided to pick it up for the actual series.
What "head-six" actually is, or that Caprica-Six would get a "head-baltar", was also decided very late (well, at least head-baltar was decided on. They could still not have a definition for the Head-Sixes & Baltars, but I think at this point, they might have.)

 

[Villano]

Brother Cavill.

Well, he was modeled to look old. I was referring to aging. In other words, all Boomers and Sixes look exactly alike. There aren't older versions of them walking around.

 

[Mark]

The Boomer idea was a "last-minute" thing, as far as I understood.
The religious angle was a throw-away line by Six, that they decide to give more importance.
Helo's run on Caprica was also something that wasn't really considered during the mini-series, but they decided to pick it up for the actual series.
What "head-six" actually is, or that Caprica-Six would get a "head-baltar", was also decided very late (well, at least head-baltar was decided on. They could still not have a definition for the Head-Sixes & Baltars, but I think at this point, they might have.)

Could we have a link to where you are getting this information?

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Could we have a link to where you are getting this information?

To my knowledge, there is not single source for this - it comes from multiple places, and multiple commentaries.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

To my knowledge, there is not single source for this - it comes from multiple places, and multiple commentaries.

I've heard the Helo on Caprica thing, too. Apparently, he was added back in by popular demand.

Brad

 

[LightPhoenix]

I've heard the Helo on Caprica thing, too. Apparently, he was added back in by popular demand.

Brad

Yeah, that's in one of the very first commentaries. Helo had such a strong rating with the test groups a storyline was written for him.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Helo had such a strong rating with the test groups a storyline was written for him.

He tested well with women. Apparently, something about a big, strapping handsome fella making noble sacrifice (giving up his seat) and such as appealed to females. Go figure.

 

[Mkhaiwati]

He tested well with women. Apparently, something about a big, strapping handsome fella making noble sacrifice (giving up his seat) and such as appealed to females. Go figure.

Odd question concerning that. I didn't see the mini-series, but in the flashbacks I remember him giving up his seat to Baltar, and staying there with a group of people for which there wasn't room for. When the series started, however, he was alone. What happened to the other colonists? Was it ever explained or am I not understanding what happened in the mini-series.

All the crackpot theories are good. Just about anything could happen.

"JUMP!"

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Odd question concerning that. I didn't see the mini-series, but in the flashbacks I remember him giving up his seat to Baltar, and staying there with a group of people for which there wasn't room for. When the series started, however, he was alone. What happened to the other colonists? Was it ever explained or am I not understanding what happened in the mini-series.

All the crackpot theories are good. Just about anything could happen.

"JUMP!"

I don't think it was ever explained. Maybe he brought them to safety and was looking for new supplies? Or they all died due to radiation poisoning? Or they didn't trust him after he had shot the desperate guy that latched onto the Raptor?