So who lost ‘Lost’…. and while we’re on the subject….Heroes…Prison Break….the Bionic Woman…Supernatural…. the list goes on!!… I’ll tell you who bloody lost them (or at least is partially responsible). The bloody Writers Guild of America and their fecking strike….!!!
The strike is over!!!….now give me back my TV shows… damn you!!!! Reducing the selection of what we watch to House… and er…. House… and ……………House!!!!!!!
Thank god Battlestar Galactica is back on the Air!!! David Eick has come thru and delivered… and from what I heard even BSG was at risk of being canned!!!!!!!
SOooooo the writer guild were striking….*sigh*… and it’s taken god knows how long to get sorted…. damn you WGA!!!… for the sake of a payrise lets put 1000s of peoples jobs on the line and destroy other peoples livlyhood…. what a crock of sh*t!!
At least there’s good news. Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse has said his team is “ready to make episodes quickly to try to fit in five more this season”.
So unlike Heroes and Prison Break we’re probably gonna get a reasonably sized season.
So I watched the first ep of Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 over the weekend….. they certainly know how to make their fans pine for more…damn them!!! Whoever invented the phrase “to be continued……” should be shot!!!
So we’ve got 4 new cylons all aboard the Battlestar Galactica…. all of which will no doubt have different loyalties… plus Starbuck is back after being presumed dead for 2 months (though she thinks she’s been gone a few hours)… oh and Baltar now has his own cult that worship him like a prophet…..so it’s all go!!.
Let’s not forget that in BSG:Razor Kendra Jade heard the “old cylon pilot” warn that Starbuck was “the harbinger of doom for all mankind”….. I suspect this will become clear…. damnit….. i want to know now!!!
So as Tricia so kindly put me on her blog previously I added her to my blog in kind. I’m a BSG fan so I check her blog every now and then for info/news.
She’s recently added a picture/season 4 ‘teaser’ on her site and it certainly is leaving me hungry for more S4 info!
Battlestar Galactica’s executive producer Ronald D. Moore has accepted that the show may never resume filming following the current writers’ strike in America.
In a posting on his blog after production on the acclaimed show’s final season shut down, Moore stated: “I refuse to believe that we won’t finish, that we won’t be back to film our final stories, but I know and accept there is that possibility.”
Currently, only 13 episodes have been filmed with nine yet to be completed. Moore added: “I am ready to put the rest of the story on the table and take the risk that I’ll never be able to tell it, in support of this strike. Like Adama says, you make your choices and then you live with them.”
Number Six refers to a fictional model for characters portrayed by Canadian actress Tricia Helfer in the television “re-imagining” of Battlestar Galactica.
Number Six is a seductive, statuesque Cylon infiltrator. Most, but not all, versions of Six have platinum-blonde hair. She was the first example shown of a new generation of Cylons capable of adapting to human form and emotions. Little else is known of her earlier years. She can, like other Cylons, retain memories and be downloaded into another body if the original body is killed. Like her counterparts, her body was designed to mimic the human body at the cellular level, making her almost undetectable to testing procedures, and there are many copies of her in existence.
Copies of Number Six appear regularly, mostly within Cylon society. Several notable versions have had more prominent roles:
Caprica-Six
This Six copy is involved in an intense sexual affair with Dr. Gaius Baltar. Pretending to be an employee of a rival computer corporation, Six seduces Baltar while helping him with his work on the Colonial defense system. Six then reveals her true nature to Baltar, and informs him that the Cylons will use the computer secrets that he has given her to infiltrate the Colonial defense systems, disable the Colonial military and attack the Twelve Colonies. That day, the Cylons launch their attack and destroy most of humanity. Six uses her body to shield Baltar from a blast from the attack, saving his life and sacrificing hers.
In the episode “Downloaded”, this copy is downloaded into a new body. This Six, nicknamed “Caprica-Six” by fellow Cylons, is viewed as a hero amongst the Cylon civilization for her complete success in her mission to compromise the colonies’ defenses. She retains her sentimentality and expresses some regret at her actions, as evidenced by her constant visions of Baltar. This “Phantom” Baltar plays a similar role to her that the virtual or ‘inner’ Six plays towards the real Baltar, as a critical counselor and manipulator.
Baltar’s inner Six
A distinct copy derived from Caprica-Six resides in Baltar’s head following the destruction of the colonies, “Inner Six” appears as a figment of his imagination, invisible to everyone else. She suggests that this phenomenon might be caused by either a computer chip implant or insanity over his guilt. When Baltar undergoes an MRI-like “brain scan”, it reveals no sign of a computer chip or any other foreign object in his brain. While this briefly leads Baltar to think that he has truly gone insane, he concludes this is impossible, given Six’s knowledge of events unknown to him (for example, the prediction of the birth of the Human/Cylon Hybrid to Sharon Agathon while a prisoner aboard Galactica). Confronted with this, Six declares that she is neither a computer chip nor a hallucination produced by mental instability. When Baltar then asks just who or what she was, she simply replies that she is “an angel of God sent here to protect you.”
This Six often appears suddenly, without warning. She often advises and gives instructions to Baltar. While she usually appears to him as part of the real world, occasionally he interacts with her in an imagined but persistent dream-like setting within his mind. In this, Number Six resembles the character of Harvey from Farscape (who in turn was based on the “imaginary” character from the Jimmy Stewart film Harvey).
While Six can physically interact with Baltar in his imagination, she also appears able to physically affect him in the real world — for example, in one episode Number Six throws Baltar into a bulkhead and grabs him by the throat, and passersby see his physical reaction to this. On another occasion, she can be seen while she ties the knot on Baltar’s improvised noose.
This manifestation of Six in particular is extremely religious. In contrast to the colonists, and like the other Cylons, she believes in a singular God, whom she identifies as Love. She constantly attempts to convince Baltar to believe in the Cylon God, and to accept his part in God’s plan or will.
Her motivations are unclear. While some of her advice appears to benefit humanity, for example pointing out a Cylon device to Baltar on Galactica and helping him build a Cylon detector, it more often serves only Baltar’s needs, and she expresses enjoyment over what she considers the inevitable extinction of the human race.
Baltar’s inner Six appears to be somehow related to Caprica-Six, which is the Six model who seduced Baltar on the planet Caprica and encouraged him to give her access to the Colonial Defense Mainframe. This belief is encouraged by the fact that Caprica-Six has her own inner Baltar, implying some sort of transcendental connection between those two specific characters. The precise identity or nature of Baltar’s inner Six is unknown.
Shelley Godfrey
In the episode “Six Degrees of Separation”, a copy of Number Six in the fleet using the name “Shelley Godfrey” appears. Godfrey attempts to frame Baltar for betraying the human race with supposed photographic evidence. In addition, she attempts to seduce Commander Adama. She disappears abruptly after her “photographic evidence” is proven to be fake. As her appearance coincided with the temporary disappearance of Baltar’s Inner Six, it is often wondered (and indeed voiced by Baltar himself) whether she was a physical manifestation of Inner Six posing in a dual identity.
The episode does cause the audience (and Baltar) to think Shelley Godfrey is related to Baltar’s inner Six, however this is demonstrated to be a deliberate red herring by subsequent episodes of Battlestar Galactica. In Season 3, both when Baltar is on Cylon-occupied New Caprica and held as a prisoner on a Basestar, it is revealed that every humanoid Cylon is an individual - even amongst the same model type. Furthermore it is revealed that only the individual Cylon known as Caprica-Six has any romantic feelings or attachment to Baltar - all other Number Six models are indifferent to Baltar and his plight. Based upon this it is reasonable to conclude that Shelley Godfrey was simply just another Number Six model hiding in the Colonial fleet and unrelated to Inner Six. This interpretation might help explain the hidden meaning behind the name of the episode: “Six Degrees of Separation”.
Gina
This copy of Number Six had infiltrated the Battlestar Pegasus, posing as a civilian network engineer and using the name “Gina”. After Gina is exposed as a Cylon, she is imprisoned and subjected to torture and gang rape by members of the Pegasus crew. A lot of the backstory surrounding this is discussed in the New RAZOR Battlestar Galactica TV-Film.
Gina has honey-blonde hair, actress Tricia Helfer’s natural hair color, instead of the platinum-blonde of most Sixes. Like Shelly Godfrey, she sometimes wears glasses.
Other Number Six Facts
The name “Number Six” is, according to “Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion”, written by David Bassom, an indirect tribute to Patrick McGoohan’s cult 1967 television series The Prisoner — a series that addressed topics such as personal freedom and identity, mind control, illusionary experiences and the infiltration of society’s supposed guardians (secret agents) by a nefarious force (those behind The Village). Ron Moore himself later confirmed in his blog that the name is an homage to The Prisoner.
According to Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion, Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell were hand-picked for their roles, while the rest of the characters were cast by audition: among the actresses in the running for the role of “Number Six” was The O.C.’s Melinda Clarke, though the role ultimately went to Tricia Helfer.
BATTLESTAR RAZOR
With Battlestar Razor leaked on the web and soon to be released to the masses we’ll be sure to see more of Number Six. I’ll leave you with a taster of Razor courtesy of YouTube.
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