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...That actress Grace Park, who currently plays Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, originally auditioned for the role of Dualla, and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace? Park didn't get the role, but director Michael Rymer liked her performance, and asked her to return and audition for the role of none other than Starbuck! Park was actually one of two finalists for the role, the other being Katee Sackhoff, who ultimately got to be Starbuck. However, Rymer and the writing team were still so impressed with her that they asked her to join the cast to play Boomer. Grace Park actually never gave an audition for the role of Boomer, because she had already done ones for Dualla and Starbuck and the production team already knew her acting range, but as a result she didn't actually sit down and read the parts of the Miniseries script containing Boomer until after she was cast in the role.

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-</div>'''[[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]''' was originally supposed to have died after being stranded on Caprica in the [[Miniseries]]?  The production team enjoyed actor [[Tahmoh Penikett]]'s performance and fans kept asking them if Helo was going to appear again, because we didn't actually ''see'' him die, so they wrote him back into the Season 1 premiere, "[[33]]".  Even then, the writers were still trying to figure out the Helo storyline:  although [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica-Boomer]] encountered Helo in "33", it was only by around the fifth episode, "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]", that they created the storyline that the Cylons were trying to create Human/Cylon hybrids, which ultimately became a major plotline for the entire series.  Now that Helo and Caprica-Sharon have been tricked into thinking that their hybrid daughter [[Hera]] is dead, where will their relationship go next?
+</div>...That actress '''[[Grace Park]]''', who currently plays [[Number Eight|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], originally auditioned for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], and [[Kara Thrace|Kara "Starbuck" Thrace]]?  Park didn't get the role, but director [[Michael Rymer]] liked her performance, and asked her to return and audition for the role of none other than ''Starbuck''!  Park was actually one of two finalists for the role, the other being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who ultimately got to be Starbuck.  However, Rymer and the writing team were still so impressed with her that they asked her to join the cast to play Boomer.  Grace Park actually never gave an audition for the role of Boomer, because she had already done ones for Dualla and Starbuck and the production team already knew her acting range, but as a result she didn't actually sit down and read the parts of the [[Miniseries]] script containing Boomer until ''after'' she was cast in the role.