Talk:Cylon War/Archive 1

Question...

Was there also a reference to Saul Tigh being a vet of the Cylon Wars as well? His references to not hearing certain commands, such as the one where a Cylon nuke was incoming (Mini-Series), and his reaction to the events of "33" making him "feel alive", make it seem like he was involved in the wars.

Or maybe I'm just imagining things...?

--Joe Beaudoin 22:02, 8 Feb 2005 (EST)

I also seem to recall a reference to Tigh being a veteran also, but I can't remember where. His age also doesn't seem to hold up; the war ended 40 years prior to the miniseries, but Tigh's only listed as 50 or so years old. Kuralyov 22:05, 8 Feb 2005 (EST)

Veterans Affairs

Nice edits, Spence and Ricimer, just a few points:

• It's not actually clear that Tigh is older than Adama. Tigh refers to him as "the old man" frequently.
• Info on Tigh's service as a deckhand/promotion to fighter pilot needs citation or death. --Peter Farago 19:26, 18 November 2005 (EST)

Although Tigh refers to Adama as the Old Man because that's what everyone calls him, he calls him "kid" in the flashbacks in "Scattered" plus podcast commentary basically sets up that he's older. As for Tigh's service record, it was given in Ron D. Moore's podcast in which he said that this is what his past is in the official series bible. --Ricimer 21:03, 18 November 2005 (EST)

What Tigh says is "Ha! Yes! He's in. The kid is back in the fleet." I think could be taken as a metaphor, like "the kid stays in the picture". In any event, that's the only time he calls him that. He has referred to him as "the old man" fourteen times so far:

• Miniseries - once
• 33 - twice
• Bastille Day - once
• Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down - twice
• Scattered - twice
• Valley of Darkness - once
• Fragged - three times
• Resistance - twice

FWIW, the other characters which have referred to him as such are Thrace (five times), Dualla (three times), Kelly (twice), Valerii (twice), Lee Adama (once), Socinus (once), Gaeta (once), Tyrol (once), Agathon (once). So Tigh is clearly in the lead in that regard. The runner up is Thrace, and I can't imagine that if it was originally her pet name for him, he'd ever have picked it up. So it seems like it's his name for Bill, not someone else's.

As for Tigh's service record, here's what I've got:

"The backstory to the series is that the initial Cylon conflict was fought forty years ago, and in that war both Tigh and Adama were young men, who did not fight together - they fought in separate ways on separate vessels, had separate experiences, and after the war was over, both men were discharged along with many other servicepeople out into the civillian world and they both sort of happened to sign up aboard the same civillian sort of tramp freighter that was plying the trade routes among the colonies, and that was how they met." (Scattered podcast, teaser)

"Back a little bit, just to jump out and talk about Tigh and the backstory, we did shoot a whole seen with Tigh and Adama that was set in the same period as the flashbacks that you saw in "Scattered", and it was a scene - it was a drinking scene between the two men, and it was sort of modeled on the scene in "Jaws" where Quint is telling the story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and it was sort of a similar beat, where Tigh and Adama, who again were on the freighter the night before Adama goes back to the fleet, are getting drunk - getting really drunk, and they're sitting there and they're trading stories, and it turns out Tigh was on a ship called the "Brenig", and the Brenig was boarded by Cylons and they tried to decompress the ship and kill them all and turn the guns of the Brenig against the other ships and their escort fleet and Adama went through and Tigh - it was his first taste of real, ugly, hand-to-hand combat, he saw dead people for the first time, and then it turned out that Adama had gone through something similar on the Galactica - it was the first time we'd ever gotten to show that Adama was actually on the Galactica, it was in his backstory, I'd always felt that Galactica was the first ship Adama was assigned to during the first Cylon war as a pilot, and that he went through a similar experience and Galactica lost a lot of men, a lot of good men died when the Cylons got on board. (Valley of Darkness podcast, act 2)

So in short, I don't think we have any evidence that Tigh is older than Adama at all. If you remember somethign else, you need to quote it yourself. I don't like fact checking for you. --Peter Farago 03:33, 19 November 2005 (EST)

Well yeah, but Tigh calling Adama by the nickname "Old Man" which the rest of the crew also calls him is no real proof that Adama is younger than Tigh. --Ricimer 12:17, 19 November 2005 (EST)

As I said above, Tigh calls him that far more than anyone else does. At best it's a wash. --Peter Farago 12:27, 19 November 2005 (EST)

We need more info. I hope we get more flashback stuff someday. --Ricimer 13:33, 19 November 2005 (EST)

Our wish is granted. According to this scene, Tigh was a Petty Officer (gunner's mate) on the Brenig during the second year of the war. Tigh describes himself as "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager."

So we know that Tigh was between 13 and 19 during year -50, at the very least, making him between 63-69 during the series.

Bill was serving on Galactica when it was boarded during the last week of the Cylon war (year -40). Nearly 2000 people died when it was boarded. --Peter Farago 19:42, 3 December 2005 (EST)

Okay, you're right. Bill's younger. c.f. Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down (podcast)#Act 2. --Peter Farago 23:56, 14 December 2005 (EST)