By Chris Snellgrove
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THE Battlestar Galactica The remake is quite traumatic in many ways … After all, it is a series whose backdrop is the virtual apocalyptic genocide of all humanity. Interestingly, one of the most traumatized moments in the series occurred early in the episode of season 2 “Valley of Darkness”, which showed a dream vision of Commander Adama drowning a baby. The producers feared that it was too traumatic for viewers, but Battlestar Galactica The showrunner Ronald D. Moore insisted to keep the scene because he felt like he had built the program tradition to define the relationship between Adama and Dr. Baltar.
Battlestar Galactica goes hard for its tradition
This particular Battlestar Galactica The episode was already fairly dense in tradition because it showed Kobol, the original ancestral house of humanity before humanity begins to colonize the stars. While many things happen in this episode, the most surprising is that Baltar is starting to receive dream visions on a mysterious baby, which he tends to Adama. THE Battlestar Galactica The commander drowns the baby in a very horrible moment, but Ronald Moore insisted that this scene was vital for the tradition of the series because she showed that Adama was intended to be the opponent of Baltar.
As with so many things in the Battlestar Galactica Remake, fans have not been able to understand all the implications of the tradition of this episode until much later. For example, we finally learn that Baltar’s vision concerned Hera Agathon, the human child / cylon of Karl Agathon and Sharon Valerii. It was the first hybrid of this type and was considered decisive of the will of God by the version of the cylon six which resided in the head of Baltar.
Therefore, the dream sequence of this beginning Battlestar Galactica The episode has set up an important tradition on this baby and its possible importance as well as on the antagonistic relationship between Commander Adama and Dr. Baltar. The producers wanted to cut the scene because they thought it would be too traumatic for viewers, but showrunner Ronald Moore insisted to keep the scene to build the myth of the show. The final scene was in a way a compromise: he showed that Adama drowned the baby, but some of the most violent moments (such as seeing the baby’s air bubbles on the surface of the water) were finally cut.
Retrospectively, this Battlestar Galactica The infanticide dream sequence of the episode is very confusing from a point of view of tradition. Of course, this sets up Adama as an obstacle to Baltar, but the commander was never really an enemy of Hera Agathon … In fact, the highest point of the final of the series was Adama led his crew to save the child, and he joined Baltar to do so. Without doubt, this dream sequence is one of the many things in the series that prove what Ronald Moore admitted later: despite the opening of the program insisting that the cylons “have a plan”, the showrunner did not Have an iron plan for the mythos of the series or its final.
These nitpicks apart, it’s fun for everything Battlestar Galactica Fan to have an overview of how Moore has created the program tradition. In this case, it was apparently a little narration based on vibrations where the most important thing was to establish Adama and Baltar as enemies. Regarding the fact that Moore was not afraid to traumatize viewers to build this tradition, well … What did you expect from a showrunner who never hesitated to make fans cry with an emotional punch after the other?
