By Chris Snellgrove
| Published
If you were to describe Ronald Moore Battlestar Galactica Restart to someone who had never seen it, you would probably use terms like “brood”, “serious” or even “prestige television”. The last descriptor you would likely apply is “funny”, because this program has treated in very frank and dark terms while telling a story about humanity in the face of total extinction. The only exception, however, is the oddly hilarious episode of season 1 “Tight Me Up, Tigh Me Down”, but it turns out that this large comedy was originally a serious deadly episode inspired by the successful film Crimson tide.
Hang me at home
If it’s been a while since you’ve watched this episode of Frakkin, here’s what’s going on: in “Tight Me Up, Tigh Me Down”, the intrigue concerns the newly completed cylon detector of Dr Baltar and B Plot concerns the surprise discovery of Colonel the separate wife of Tigh. It could have been very heavy intrigue points, but they are mainly played for laughter … For example, the version of six in Baltar’s Head continues to stimulate it sexually, causing the fact that Starbuck (which cannot see the Another woman) assuming that Baltar masturbates. And Tigh’s wife is hilarious, rubbing the crotch of the young Captain Adama during dinner and generally acting as a hot (and very drunk) disorder.
At the time, it was very surprising that Battlestar Galactica I made an episode of comedy in the middle of all the dark horrors of season 1. And “Thy Me Up, Tigh Me Down” is even more remarkable retrospectively because the series has never tried to redo another episode again comic. We couldn’t help but ask ourselves what happened here, and it turned out that this episode was originally designed as GalacticaIt is clean tribute to the paranoid submarine thriller Crimson Tide.
Originally, the main conflict of the episode was going to be summed up in Adama and Tigh suspected the other of the other to be secretly a cylon. The Baltar detector would probably have played a role in such a scenario, and the version of “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down” has a echo From this original idea when we see how Commander Adama and President Roslin are wary of each other. Rightly, this episode had a different title at the time: “Secrets and Lies”.
Things change
So what happened to pay a mortal serious tribute to Crimson tide? According to Ronald Moore, “we had just come out of a very heavy, very dark and very disturbing episode” – it was “flesh and blood”, in which Starbuck tortures a cylon violently for information that could save many lives. If he had stayed with the original intrigue of “Tirm Me Up, Tigh Me Down”, it would have been “a very disturbing episode, very dark, very (sort of) where our two … The main characters started to point out Pistols. “”
Looking at the prospect of having two incredibly dark back to back episodes, Moore made the kind of hard decision that would have made Commander Adama Fier. “I just decided, well, let’s just kick. Let’s not make the dark and brooded episode, “he said, deciding that it was the ideal moment to” try a different tone “.
It was a solid decision, and the laughter provided by the final version of “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down” were an excellent counterpoint to the tortuous intrigue (more than one title) of “flesh and bones”. But like the cylons, Moore had a ulterior motive. In addition to wanting the public to gloss, he wanted to “see if the show can resist something lighter”. And he decided that the best way to carry out such a test was that the series “tried something closer to a comedy, or as close to a comedy as Galactica can resist.
Obviously, Battlestar Galactica more than withstand This story. The show then delivered three more seasons (yes, it must be said) prestigious television after that. Admittedly, these seasons were more in line with the morve of “flesh and blood” than the light laughter of “tigh me up, tigh me down”. It makes us even more grateful that the show has at least A It made us laugh balanced against an entire series that made us cry.
