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2006-12-10T09:10:13Z

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* The episode "[[The Passage]]" is now available for download at the [http://www.apple.com/itunes iTunes Store] (Installation of [[ITunes Videos|iTunes for Mac or Windows]] is needed to access the iTunes Store.)
* Season 3 of ''Battlestar Galactica'' '''finally''' begins in the U.K. with the episodes "[[Occupation]]" and "[[Precipice]]" on Tuesday 9th January at 9pm GMT on [http://www.skyone.co.uk Sky One].<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.digiguide.com|title=DigiGuide - Sky One TV listings for January}}</ref>
* [http://www.battlestarpegasus.com BattlestarPegasus.com] has been relaunched under the guidance of [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]. See Joe's announcement on [http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13503 Colonial Fleets].
* ''Entertainment Weekly'' has an [http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1560707_3_0_,00.html interview] with [[Ronald D. Moore]] and [[David Eick]] about how they transformed a '70s TV footnote into a rich sci-fi powerhouse.
* It's official: ''Battlestar Galactica'' moves to Sundays at 10PM/9C, starting January 21, 2007.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=38969|title=SciFi Wire - ''Battlestar'' Moves To Sundays}}</ref>
* [[w:Harlan Ellison|Harlan Ellison]] interviews [[Ronald D. Moore]] on "Why ''Battlestar Galactica'' is So Damn Good" during Moore's acceptance of the Screenwriting Expo's Award for Television Writer of the Year.<ref>[http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/11/07/harlan_llison_interviews_ronald_moore/index.html Harlan Ellison Interviews Ronald D. Moore on Why "Battlestar Galactica" is So Damn Good]</ref>
*Ronald D. Moore gave an update on the BSG spinoff ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' in a SciFi Pulse [http://scifipulse.net/battlestarnews/RDM_Caprica_Update.html interview]. The scripts have been reworked and are in the laps of SciFi executives.

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Battlestar Wiki:News/Colonial Fleet News Service

2006-12-10T09:09:21Z

CzarDominus:

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* The episode "[[The Passage]]" is now available for download at the [http://www.apple.com/itunes iTunes Store] (Installation of [[ITunes Videos|iTunes for Mac or Windows]] is needed to access the iTunes Store.)
* Season 3 of ''Battlestar Galactica'' '''finally''' begins in the U.K. with the episodes "[[Occupation]]" and "[[Precipice]]" on Tuesday 9th January at 9pm GMT on [http://www.skyone.co.uk Sky One].<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.digiguide.com|title=DigiGuide - Sky One TV listings for January}}</ref>
* [http://www.battlestarpegasus.com BattlestarPegasus.com] has been relaunched under the guidance of [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]. See Joe's announcement on [http://www.colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13503 Colonial Fleets].
* ''Entertainment Weekly'' has an [http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1560707_3_0_,00.html interview] with [[Ronald D. Moore]] and [[David Eick]] about how they transformed a '70s TV footnote into a rich sci-fi powerhouse.
* It's official: ''Battlestar Galactica'' moves to Sundays at 10PM/9C, starting January 21, 2007.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=38969|title=SciFi Wire - ''Battlestar'' Moves To Sundays}}</ref>
* [[w:Harlan Ellison|Harlan Ellison]] interviews [[Ronald D. Moore]] on "Why ''Battlestar Galactica'' is So Damn Good" during Moore's acceptance of the Screenwriting Expo's Award for Television Writer of the Year.<ref>[http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/11/07/harlan_llison_interviews_ronald_moore/index.html Harlan Ellison Interviews Ronald D. Moore on Why "Battlestar Galactica" is So Damn Good]</ref>
*Ronald D. Moore gave an update on the BSG spinoff ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' in a SciFi Pulse [http://scifipulse.net/battlestarnews/RDM_Caprica_Update.html interview]. The scripts have been reworked and are in the laps of SciFi executives.
* The episode "[[Unfinished Business]]" is now available for download at the [http://www.apple.com/itunes iTunes Store] (Installation of [[ITunes Videos|iTunes for Mac or Windows]] is needed to access the iTunes Store.)

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Hero

2006-11-19T01:39:36Z

CzarDominus: /* Analysis */

{{Episode Data
| title= Hero
| image= Season 3 - Promo - Hero -Adama Tigh and Novacek.jpg
| season= 3
| episode= 8
| guests= [[Carl Lumbly]]
| writer= [[David Eick]]
| story=
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2006-11-17
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population= 41,421
| prev= [[A Measure of Salvation]]
| next= [[Unfinished Business]]
}}

== Overview ==
:''A [[Bulldog|figure]] from [[William Adama|Adama]]'s past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the [[Twelve Colonies]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/hero/episode/748771/summary.html |title=TV.com Episode Summary}}</ref>''
== Summary ==

=== On ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' ===

* ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' detects three [[Cylon Raider|Raiders]]. Much to the surpise of the [[CIC]] crew, two Raiders are pursuing a third. [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] and [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] are dispatched. After destroying the pursuing Raiders, they go after the third.
* In CIC, Adama orders Kat and Starbuck to escort the Raider to ''Galactica'', after hearing [[Bulldog]]'s communication squaks.
* Kat and Starbuck escort the Raider in. In the hangar bay, Adama and the party that meets the Raider, surprised at the fact that a human appears to have piloted the craft. A visibly weak Bulldog salutes Adama; Adama returns the salute.
* Over a meal (noodles eaten with chopsticks) Adama asks Bulldog how he escaped. He relates a story of plague on the [[Basestar]] and escaping after killing a Number 3 with a blow to the nose delivered through the cell bars.
* Bulldog is debriefed by the president with Adama present, where they tell a story of a mining facility too close to the Armistice Line. When it is concluded she asks Adama if he is going to tell her what really happened. He replies that it is his mess and that he will deal it.
* Bulldog goes to see Saul Tigh in his quarters shortly after Adama talks to him. Saul informs Bulldog that he was shot down by the Valkerie to get rid of evidence.
* Starbuck reviews the gun film from the fight with the Cylon Raiders and realizes that they were deliberately missing their target, letting Bulldog get away. She goes to Saul Tigh with this information, who deduces that Bulldog was sent there by the Cylons to kill the admiral.
* Tigh finds Bulldog in the process of killing Adama and stops him. Bulldog has flashbacks to being let out of his cell.
* Later, Adama is talking to the president when she tells him that part of his penance will be to accept a medal for 45 years of Colonial service on the Galacitica flight deck.
* After sending Bulldog off to a berthing on another ship with a uniform, Tigh and Adama sit down for a drink in the admiral's quarters.

=== On a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ===
*In a dream, [[Three]] is trying to avoid marines on ''[[Galactica]]''. The marines corner her against a hatch labelled End of Line. The marines raise their weapons and Three tells them to shoot.
*As the shots go off, Three wakes up in bed with [[Baltar]] and [[Caprica-Six]]. She has apparently been having a sexual relationship with Baltar and possibly Six as well.
*In the Cylon control room Caprica-Six questions Three about her bad dreams. Caprica asks if the dreams are about Baltar and Three tells her that it's nothing like that, but does not elaborate.
*Three gives a centurion orders to shoot her, and then delete any information regarding the incident. The centurion obeys and shoots her in the head. In the moments before she is downloaded, she experiences images from her dream mixed in with memories from New Caprica and other more cryptic scenes.
*Three awakes in a rebirthing chamber where a worried Caprica-Six tries to help her recover. Three tells her, "There's something beautiful, miraculous between life and death."

== Questions ==

*Did humans taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies provide the original genetic pool for the humanoid Cylons?
*Did Bulldog know of or see other human prisoners during his three years of captivity?
*How was Bulldog directed to the precise location of the fleet?
*What class of battlestar does ''[[Valkyrie]]'' belong to?
*Why would a "Stealth Ship" in enemy territory break radio silence?
*Was ''[[Valkyrie]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mission the only one the admiralty undertook or were there others?
*Was [[Laura Roslin]] right in speculating that the admiralty might have sent ''[[Valkyrie]]'' in order to provoke a war?
*Why did the Cylons have one craft jump in and fire on the stealth star, then jump out? Then send in two more ships to finish the attack? Could the first Cylon ship have really been sent by the admiralty to expose the stealth star?
*Who were the white-robed figures [[Three]] saw in her vision before downloading?
*Were the Cylons on the baseship where Bulldog was held really sick?
*Does Bulldog have information regarding the other humanoid Cylon models that nothing is known of?
*How did Baltar's status change from torturee in "[[A Measure of Salvation]]" to an apparent sexual relationship with [[Caprica Six]] and [[Number Three]]?

== Analysis ==
*At the end of the episode, [[Saul Tigh]] appears to be attempting to try and deal with his guilt over his wife, but he does not seem to want his job as XO back, at least not any time soon.
*Adama's feelings of guilt over his actions during ''[[Valkyrie]]'s'' mission seem to shed new light on the motivation for his speech at ''[[Galactica]]'s'' decomissioning ceremony at the begining of the series.
*The Cylons seem to have been able to detect and destroy The Stealth-Star that had only entered two kilometers into their space. This seems suspicious given the fact that they were unable to detect the [[Blackbird]], presumably a far less sophisticated design. Either the Cylons had more advanced detection equipment on the [[Armistice Line]], or they had advance knowledge of Bulldog's mission.
**It is only speculation that the Blackbird's stealth capabilities were less effective than those of the Stealth-Star. The reason that the Blackbrid went undetected by the Cylons is that it's hull, at Helo's suggestion, was made of carbon composite. There is no way of knowing whether or not this was true of the Stealth-Star.
*Bulldog's story is even less believable given the fact that it took Kara Thrace several hours to gut a raider and learn how to fly it. Granted, the Raider Kara captured was damaged, but it would still have taken Bulldog some time to adapt the raider for his own use.
**As the episode implies that Bulldog was deliberately released by the Cylons in an effort to direct his anger towards Adama, it is possible that the Cylons allowed Bulldog to gain a working knowledge of the raider.
*Bulldog probably could have stolen a Heavy Raider, which unlike the light versions seems to have a crew compartment and perhaps piloting controls, but then the production crew couldn't have re-used the captured-Raider prop from "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]" on the flight deck set.
*That Kara Thrace goes to Tigh with her findings is an acknowledgment of their shared semi-pariah status and the connection that was shown in "[[Collaborators]]" for the first time
*The last two scenes of "Hero" appear to have been edited to ensure that the final scene was with Adama and Tigh. Right after the celebration scene, Adama is seen giving Bulldog a new uniform, but Adama is wearing his everyday uniform. In the final scene with Tigh, Adama is wearing his dress grays from the celebration. It appears at the very least, the two scenes were in reverse order, meaning the episode originally ended with Adama giving Bulldog his new uniform.
*The architecture of the place Number Three visits between life and death is similar if not identical to that of the operahouse on Kobol which Baltar and his internal Six entered in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]".
*Three's flashbacks after being shot indicate her to be the same individual who was killed on Caprica by [[Caprica-Six]] in "[[Downloaded]]" and who found Hera in "[[Exodus, Part II]]". It is of course possible that some of these recollections are the result of memory-sharing rather than direct experience.

== Notes ==

*In Number Three's dream, the door at which is she is shot by the marines is labeled "End of Line". As well as being a metaphor for death, this is a statement repeated often by the Cylon [[Hybrid]].

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

== Official Statements ==
*A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducing Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref>

== Guest Stars ==
*[[imdb:nm0447921|Barry Kennedy]] as Admiral [[Corman]]
*[[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Number Three]]
*[[Carl Lumbly]] as Lt. [[Daniel Novacek]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Doctor [[Cottle]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]

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