Battlestar Galactica intentionally traumatized the audience

According to Chris Snellgrove
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The Battlestar Galactica In many ways, remake is quite traumatic … After all, it is a series whose background is apocalyptic almost genocide of all humanity. Interestingly, one of the most traumatic moments of the show soon came in the episode of the 2nd Valley of Darkness, which showed the dream vision of commander Adama, who drowned the child. Producers feared that it could be too traumatic for viewers, but Battlestar Galactica Showrunner Ronald D. Moore insisted on retaining the scene because he felt as if he had built the tradition of the show in defining the relationship between Adama and Dr. Baltar.

Battlestar Galactica goes hard for its tradition

This particular Battlestar Galactica The episode was already quite dense in Lore because our characters visited Kobol, the original home for humanity, before humanity began to colonize the stars. While many things happen in this episode, the most surprising thing is that Baltar begins to receive dreams of dreams of a mysterious child to give to Adam. The Battlestar Galactica The commander drowns the child at a very terrible moment, but Ronald Moore insisted that this scene was vital to the show of the show because it showed that Adam was destined as a Baltar opponent.

As with so many things in Battlestar Galactica Remake, fans were unable to understand the complete consequences of the tradition of this episode much later. For example, we will learn that Baltar’s vision was about Hera Agathon, a human/cylon child of Karel Agathon and Sharon Valerii. She was the first such hybrid and was considered the assistance of God’s will of the version of the Cylon Six, which lived in the Baltar’s head.

Therefore, the dream sequence of this early Battlestar Galactica The episode determined an important tradition of this child and its possible importance and an antagonistic relationship between commander Adama and Dr. Baltar. The producers wanted to reduce the scene because they thought it would be too traumatic for the audience, but the showrunner Ronald Moore insisted on keeping the scene to build a mythos show. The last scene was something like a compromise: it turned out that Adam had drowned a child, but some of the more violent moments (such as seeing the baby’s air bubbles on the water surface) were eventually interrupted.

In retrospective this Battlestar Galactica The infanticidal dream sequence of the episode is very confusing in terms of tradition. Sure, it sets Adama as an obstacle to the Baltar, but the commander was never an enemy for Hera Agathon … In fact, the culmination of the final of the series was Adam, who led his crew to rescue a child, and he joined Baltar to do it. It is likely that this dream sequence is one of many things from the show that proves what Ronald Moore later admitted: Despite the opening of the show, it insists that the cylons have a plan, showrunner No Have an iron clothing plan for mythos series or its finals.

You nitpicks aside, it’s fun for all Battlestar Galactica Fan to get an insight into how Moore created the tradition of the show. In this case, it was obviously a bit of a vibration -based narrative, where the most important thing was the establishment of Adama and Baltar as enemies. As for the fact that Moore is not afraid to traumatize viewers to build this tradition, well … What else did you expect from a showrunner who never hesitate to cry with one emotional intestinal blow after another?