Battlestar Galactica’s perfect prequel exists but many fans never saw

By Chris Snellgrove
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Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica Restarts the standard for Sci-Fi TV, and fans have been drooling for more of this universe ever since the last chapter broadcast in 2009. If you are one of those Battlestar Galactica Fans who have wanted more content, we have good news: A kind of small prequel is hidden in the special features for the “Scattered.”

The secret Prequel Battlestar Galactica of “Scattered”

“Scattered” is the first episode of the second season of the show, and opens with Commander Adama Reel from Boomer’s surprising gun shot and Colonel Tigh having to enforce like cylones close to our heroes. Originally, though, Battlestar GalacticaProducers wanted to make the entire episode a flashback Prequel, faking fans who hoped that “scattered” would quickly solve the life and death cliffs ending season 1 quickly. After they ditched that idea, they continued to film plenty of flashback scenes that demonstrated how Adama and Tigh first met.

If you are a Battlestar Galactica Fan Hungry to look at the value of a prequel of backlashes, you simply need to look at the special features for “scattered.” Several different scenes were set in the distant past, all of which were intended to show how it formed the remarkably tight relationship between Adama and Tigh over time. These scenes go far beyond the limited backlashes we see in the finished chapter, which is there for the flesh of Tigh’s character.

So you are probably asking a simple question right now: If the Battlestar Galactica Producers filmed enough flashback sequences to create a bite size prequel, then why did they eventually leave them out of the finished “scattered”? It all started with the fact that no one wanted to cast younger versions of our favorite characters, so we have Edward James Olmos a Michael Hogan play versions of their characters that are supposed to be decade Thursday. This was achieved by putting the actors in terrible wigs, and ultimately the producers decided not to torture viewers with all the backlashes they had filmed.

Of course, as a hard core Battlestar Galactica Fans know, the last episode is still teasing in the prequel we could have had because of “scattered” force Include the most effective back. In a particularly dark scene, we see that Junior Tigh is about to commit suicide and only by doing so he was stopped from doing so by the discovery that Adama had been restored as a military service. Moore saw this scene as homage to Apocalypse nowAnd as in that movie, this is a bleak revelation of how tormenting the main character is actually.

Obviously we’re huge Battlestar Galactica Fans, but while we are grateful for her little prequel full of deleted scenes, “scattered” is a better chapter for keeping the back -lares to a minimum. The final chapter does a better job of maintaining the momentum of season 1, and we get just enough backlashes to boost our understanding of tight as a character. If we had to stare at the horrible back wigs no longer, nevertheless we would be happy to save the effort and flush for Laura Roslin ourselves out the air lock.