Hero
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| "Hero" An episode of the Re-imagined Series | |||
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| Episode No. | Season 3, Episode 8 | ||
| Writer(s) | David Eick | ||
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| Director | Michael Rymer | ||
| Assistant Director | |||
| Special guest(s) | Carl Lumbly | ||
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| US airdate |  2006-11-17
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| Population | ? survivors | ||
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Overview
- A figure from Adama's past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the Twelve Colonies. [1]
Summary
Questions
- Did humans taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies provide the original genetic pool for the humanoid Cylons?
Analysis
Notes
- A revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Admiral William Adama was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing its head. An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant. (David Eick revealed this in an interview with iFMagazine [2].)
- According to an interview with David Eick, this is probably episode 7 of Season 3. A contemporary of Adama's and Tigh's from the past arrives on Galactica with a very dark secret about Adama.
- In another interview with Eick, he revealed that this episode "involves a human POW who's been trapped on the Cylon base ship for the last four years, and when we meet him we realize it's a great homecoming for him because he was one of Adama's pilots. But by the middle of the episode you realize the reason why this guy was taken prisoner was because Adama shot his ship down. And it becomes sort of an episode about why such a thing would have happened and how Adama begins to believe that on some level he might have been responsible for provoking the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies."
- According to Ron Moore at the BSG Comic-Con panel, Carl Lumbly will guest star in this episode as "Bulldog", an old pilot of Adama's who was taken as a POW in the war.
- A spoiler image shows the CIC of the battlestar Valkyrie.
Noteworthy Dialogue
Official Statements
- A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. [3]
Guest Stars
- Carl Lumbly as Daniel Novacek
- Barry Kennedy as Admiral Corman
References
- ↑ TV.com Episode Summary (backup available on Archive.org) (in English).
- ↑ Interview with iFMagazine (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).
- ↑ Introducing Bulldog (backup available on Archive.org)
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VID) (2006-10-11).
