Podcast:Bastille Day - Revision history

Joe Beaudoin Jr. at 21:10, 17 July 2025

2025-07-17T21:10:31Z

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	'''Ron Moore''': Battle's a good word.		'''Ron Moore''': Battle's a good word.

	'''David Eick''': About [[33]], the first episode. And it was certainly in the spirit of, you know, having a lot of support and a lot of love for the show, but it was such a dark tale and it had such a controversial story point involving the destruction of the passenger ship that contained people, and and the network was so, I think, you know, for reasons that are probably understandable, anxious to see if we could play any other chords within the context of the show. And so, this episode has, as Ron was just saying, more of a self-contained quality to it, but it's also got probably a little bit more of a an uplifting or heroic quality to it. It also represented the first time that we uh, did a [[Lee Adama]]-centric story. I mean it was early in the season. We hadn't really done anyone's specific stories yet. But, uh, [[w:Jamie Bamber\|Jamie Bamber]], who plays [[Lee Adama]], was, uh, the first one we chose to center a story around and and, as we'll see as we go through this, he really rose to the occasion.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 02:20</ref>		'''David Eick''': About "[[33]]," the first episode. And it was certainly in the spirit of, you know, having a lot of support and a lot of love for the show, but it was such a dark tale and it had such a controversial story point involving the destruction of the passenger ship that contained people, and and the network was so, I think, you know, for reasons that are probably understandable, anxious to see if we could play any other chords within the context of the show. And so, this episode has, as Ron was just saying, more of a self-contained quality to it, but it's also got probably a little bit more of a an uplifting or heroic quality to it. It also represented the first time that we uh, did a [[Lee Adama]]-centric story. I mean it was early in the season. We hadn't really done anyone's specific stories yet. But, uh, [[w:Jamie Bamber\|Jamie Bamber]], who plays [[Lee Adama]], was, uh, the first one we chose to center a story around and and, as we'll see as we go through this, he really rose to the occasion.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 02:20</ref>

	'''Ron Moore''': Yeah, Lee was sort of a an unusual character in that, you know, in the in the [[Miniseries\|mini-series]], he came in defined solely by the relationship with his father, and it was a very difficult, dysfunctional relationship he had had with [[William Adama\|Adama]]. The two had been separated for a couple of years. And so, as a result, his arrival aboard this ship was, uh, he was pretty sour, pretty unhappy through that whole mini-series. So there was a feeling on the part of the network that, you know, maybe he was coming off too unlikable. And so we wanted to do something to sort of demonstrate other sort of, uh, colors and other sort of qualities of Lee Adama, and this and this particular tale presented a good opportunity to do that.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 02:56</ref>		'''Ron Moore''': Yeah, Lee was sort of a an unusual character in that, you know, in the in the [[Miniseries\|mini-series]], he came in defined solely by the relationship with his father, and it was a very difficult, dysfunctional relationship he had had with [[William Adama\|Adama]]. The two had been separated for a couple of years. And so, as a result, his arrival aboard this ship was, uh, he was pretty sour, pretty unhappy through that whole mini-series. So there was a feeling on the part of the network that, you know, maybe he was coming off too unlikable. And so we wanted to do something to sort of demonstrate other sort of, uh, colors and other sort of qualities of Lee Adama, and this and this particular tale presented a good opportunity to do that.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 02:56</ref>

Joe Beaudoin Jr. at 20:59, 15 July 2025

2025-07-15T20:59:03Z

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	'''David Eick''': and David Eick.		'''David Eick''': and David Eick.

	'''Ron Moore''': And we're here to, uh, give you the commentary track on, uh, Bastille Day, episode three of the first season.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 00:43</ref> This episode was the first sort of standalone episode that we did last year. It's kind of the only standalone episode we did last year with the I guess the possible exception of "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]." This was developed, uh, pretty early in the season as you might guess. And we were still trying different sort of, uh, formats and styles of storytelling. So we weren't quite sure what sort of show that worked best on the episodic level. I mean, we had done the [[Miniseries]], we'd done [[33]] and [[Water]]. And Bastille Day was really the first time we tried to do just one contained story as opposed to a lot of different plot lines and a lot of different continuing tales. So as you watch this episode, it's pretty much a self-contained, standalone story. It's just the story of [[Lee Adama]] and, uh, [[Tom Zarek\|Zarek]], pretty much. It's pretty much their story with a minor subplot going on aboard [[Galactica]] with [[Gaius Baltar\|Baltar]] and [[Number Six]].<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 01:31</ref>		'''Ron Moore''': And we're here to, uh, give you the commentary track on, uh, Bastille Day, episode three of the first season.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 00:48</ref> This episode was the first sort of standalone episode that we did last year. It's kind of the only standalone episode we did last year with the I guess the possible exception of "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]." This was developed, uh, pretty early in the season as you might guess. And we were still trying different sort of, uh, formats and styles of storytelling. So we weren't quite sure what sort of show that worked best on the episodic level. I mean, we had done the [[Miniseries]], we'd done [[33]] and [[Water]]. And Bastille Day was really the first time we tried to do just one contained story as opposed to a lot of different plot lines and a lot of different continuing tales. So as you watch this episode, it's pretty much a self-contained, standalone story. It's just the story of [[Lee Adama]] and, uh, [[Tom Zarek\|Zarek]], pretty much. It's pretty much their story with a minor subplot going on aboard [[Galactica]] with [[Gaius Baltar\|Baltar]] and [[Number Six]].<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 01:31</ref>

	'''David Eick''': It's also, uh, kind of, I guess you could say the episode that got us out of hot water with the network. We were still suffering the kind of aftermath of what was a controversial battle, I guess you could say.		'''David Eick''': It's also, uh, kind of, I guess you could say the episode that got us out of hot water with the network. We were still suffering the kind of aftermath of what was a controversial battle, I guess you could say.
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	(Phone rings)		(Phone rings)

	'''~~Ron Moore~~''': And you'll pardon a phone call.		'''David Eick''': And you'll pardon a phone call.

	'''~~David Eick~~''': We're going to ignore it.		'''Ron Moore''': We're going to ignore it.

	'''~~Ron Moore~~''': We're at Ron's house. Ron has a, uh, a house in, uh, that he rents in [[w:Vancouver\|Vancouver]].		'''David Eick''': We're at Ron's house. Ron has a, uh, a house in, uh, that he rents in [[w:Vancouver\|Vancouver]].

	'''~~David Eick~~''': It's actually an apartment, but who's splitting hairs?		'''Ron Moore''': It's actually an apartment, but who's splitting hairs?

	'''~~Ron Moore~~''': It's uh, and we're sitting here now. So we're watching this at his house. I've only been here when his wife is here with him, and his wife is not here with him now, so I'm I'm sort of feeling like we should be eating fried chicken and watching porno movies.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 04:42</ref>		'''David Eick''': It's uh, and we're sitting here now. So we're watching this at his house. I've only been here when his wife is here with him, and his wife is not here with him now, so I'm I'm sort of feeling like we should be eating fried chicken and watching porno movies.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 04:42</ref>

	'''David Eick''': I think what Ron was getting at before we were so rudely interrupted by your telephone, I think it was your wife. She wants something.		'''David Eick''': I think what Ron was getting at before we were so rudely interrupted by your telephone, I think it was your wife. She wants something.
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	'''David Eick''': Wow.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 12:12</ref>		'''David Eick''': Wow.<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 12:12</ref>

	'''David Eick''': [[w:Allan Kroeker\|Alan ~~Craker~~]] who's a veteran of [[w:Star Trek\|Star Trek]]... and [[w:Roswell (TV series)\|Roswell]]... he was a very affable guy... we had only done one episode of this show not directed by [[w:Michael Rymer\|Michael Rymer]]... so we were still at the embryonic stage of how do you make Battlestar Galactica when Rymer's not around...<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 13:18</ref>		'''David Eick''': [[w:Allan Kroeker\|Alan Kroeker]] who's a veteran of [[w:Star Trek\|Star Trek]]... and [[w:Roswell (TV series)\|Roswell]]... he was a very affable guy... we had only done one episode of this show not directed by [[w:Michael Rymer\|Michael Rymer]]... so we were still at the embryonic stage of how do you make Battlestar Galactica when Rymer's not around...<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 13:18</ref>

	'''David Eick''': ...my penchant for cinematic references... I'm going to the encyclopedia of film... and using it to punctuate scenes... what you just saw there was a literal reference to the film [[w:Jacob's Ladder (film)\|Jacob's Ladder]]...<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 14:10</ref>		'''David Eick''': ...my penchant for cinematic references... I'm going to the encyclopedia of film... and using it to punctuate scenes... what you just saw there was a literal reference to the film [[w:Jacob's Ladder (film)\|Jacob's Ladder]]...<ref>Podcast for {{TRS\|Bastille Day\|prose=y}}, timestamp 14:10</ref>

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