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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
If I had to describe Ronald Moore’s Battlestar Galactica Restart someone who had never seen it, probably would use terms such as “melancholic”, “serious” or even “prestigious television.” Probably, the last descriptor to apply is “fun”, since this show dealt with very romos and gloomy terms while telling a story about humanity that faces absolute extinction. However, the only exception is the strangely hilarious episode of season 1 “tigh me up, tigh me down”, but it turns out that this wide comedy was going to be a seriously deadly episode inspired by the successful film Crimson tide.
House puts me, get me down
If time has passed since you saw this episode of Frakkin, this is what happens: in “Tight me up, Tigh Me Down”, plot A refers to the recently completed cylon detector of Dr. Baltar and plot B se Refers to the surprise discovery of Colonel the wife separated from Tight. These could have been very heavy plot points, but they are mostly played to laugh … for example, the version of Six in Baltar’s Head continues to stimulate it sexually, causing Starbuck (which cannot see the other woman) assumes that Baltar is masturbating. And Tight’s wife is hilarious rare, rubbing the crotch of the young captain Adama during dinner and usually acts as a hot disaster (and very drunk).
At that time, it was very surprising that Battlestar Galactica I made an episode of comedy in the midst of all the bleak horrors of season 1 and “Tight Me Up, Tight Me Down” is even more notable in retrospect because the program never tried to make another comic episode again. We could not avoid asking what happened here, and it turned out that this episode was originally conceived as GalacticThe tribute itself to the Paranoid Undarino Thriller Crimson Tide.
Originally, the main conflict of the episode was going to reach Adama and Tight suspecting that the other is secretly as a cylón. The Baltar detector would probably have played a role in such history, and the version of “Tight Me Up, Tight Me Down” has an echo of this original idea when we see how Commander Adama and President Roslin suspect each other on each other . Very well, this episode had a different title at that time: “Secrets and lies.”
Things change
So what happened to the idea of making a mortal tribute Crimson tide? According to Ronald Moore, “we just left a very heavy, very dark and very disturbing episode,” this was “flesh and blood”, in which Starbuck violently tortures a cylón to obtain information that could save many lives. If you had stayed with the original “Torc Me Up, Tight Me Down” plot, it would have been “a very disturbing, very dark, very unhappy episode in which our two … main characters began to point to weapons each other.”
Looking at the perspective of having two incredibly umblial consecutive episodes, Moore made the type of hard command decision that would have proud of Commander Adama. “I decided, well, let’s just take off. Let’s not do the dark and melancholic episode, “he said, deciding that this was the perfect time to” try a different tone. “
It was a solid decision, and the laughs provided by the final version of “Tight Me Up, Tight Me Down” were a great counterpoint to the tortuous plot (in more than one sense) of “flesh and bone”. But like the cylons, Moore had a hidden reason. In addition to wanting the public to laugh, wanted to “see if the program can endure something lighter.” And he decided that the best way to perform a test of this type was that the program “tries something that is closer to a comedy, or as close to a comedy as Galactic can support. “
Obviously, Battlestar Galactica He did more than withstand This story. The program delivered three more seasons (yes, it must be said) prestigious television after this. Okay, those seasons were more in line with the desolation of “flesh and blood” than the cheerful laughs of “Tight Me Up, Tigh Me Down”. That makes us even more grateful that the program has had at least one That made us laugh in balance against a complete series that mostly made us cry.
