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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
He Battlestar Galactica The remake is quite traumatic in many aspects … after all, this is a series whose backdrop is the almost apocalyptic genocide of all humanity. Interestingly, one of the most traumatic moments of the program arrived early in the episode of season 2 “Valley of Darkness”, which showed a dream vision of the commander Adama drowning a baby. The producers were worried that this could be too traumatic for the spectators, but Battlestar Galactica The Ronald D. Moore showrunner insisted on maintaining the scene because he felt he built the tradition of the program to define the relationship between Adama and Dr. Baltar.
Battlestar Galactica gets hard for tradition
This particular Battlestar Galactica The episode was already quite dense in tradition because it made our characters visit Kobol, the original ancestral home of 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 visions of dreams about a mysterious baby, one that gives Adama. Battlestar Galactica commander drowns the baby at a very horrible moment, but Ronald Moore insisted that this scene was vital for the tradition of the program because he showed that Adama was destined to be the adversary of Baltar.
As with so many things in the Battlestar Galactica Remake, fans could not understand the complete implications of the tradition of this episode until much later. For example, we finally learn that Baltar’s vision was about Hera Agathon, the human son/Cylon of Karl Agathon and Sharon Valerii. She was the first hybrid and was considered instrumental for the will of God by the version of the cylon Six that resided on Baltar’s head.
Therefore, the sequence of the dreams of this early Battlestar Galactica The episode established an important tradition about this baby and its eventual importance, as well as 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 the spectators, but the Ronald Moore show insisted on maintaining the scene to build the program myth. The final scene was a commitment: it showed Adama drowning 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.
In retrospect, this Battlestar Galactica The sequence of sleeping episode dreams is very confusing from a perspective of tradition. Of course, he establishes Adama as an obstacle to Baltar, but the commander was never really an enemy of Hera Agathon … In fact, the climax of the end of the series was that Adama led his crew to rescue the child, and associated with Baltar to do so. It could be said that this sequence of dreams is one of the many things in the program that demonstrates what Ronald Moore admitted later: despite the opening of the program, insisting that the cylons “have a plan”, the showrunner did No Have an iron covered plan for the myth of the series or its end.
Leaving those nitpicks aside, it is fun for any Battlestar Galactica Fan to get an idea of how Moore created the tradition of the program. In this case, it was apparently a little vibrations -based narration 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 that tradition, well … What else did you expect from a showrunner who never hesitated to make fans cry with an emotional blow after another?
