By Chris Snellgrove | Published
THE Battlestar Galactica The restart has mentioned a lot of God as a figure that cylons and a handful of humans love like a distinct divinity of the lords of Kobol. This figure seemed to be an abstract belief for a large part of the show until the series final confirms more or less that this upper figure was real and that some of our characters had obtained divine visions. While the Battlestar Galactica The community of fans is divided by making this divinity a tangible force in the universe, most fans do not realize that God was almost introduced at the end of season 1.
Battlestar Galactica almost threw God
The two -part final of season 1 “Kobol’s Last Gleaming” was a show in which the fleet discovered Kobol and hoped that it would open the way to the earth. Meanwhile, tensions and power struggles arise between President Roslin and Commander Adama, the latter, who is unexpectedly fired by Boomer after having succeeded in destroying a Bassetar cylon. This Battlestar Galactica The episode had a little of everything, but the producers almost included Baltar recognizing a song by Jimi Hendrix and discovering a character of God who would have been played by Dirk Benedict.
Needless to say, it would have been daring Battlestar Galactica To introduce a tangible god in season 1, and the showrunner Ronald Moore always liked to make such great narrative oscillations. Why, then, did we not see the character of God of Benedict speaking with Baltar? In short, the executive of Syfy, Mark Stern, thought that the whole sounded Hokey, and Moore accepted, finally reducing this point of the intrigue of the “latest brilliant Kobol”.
For once, we are happy with the interference of the network because such an introduction to God would probably have ruined the rest of the show. This is because the things Moore relumed forced the final of season 1 were things that are things that Battlestar Galactica Fans hated in subsequent seasons, including the random use of a song by Jimi Hendrix and the final revelation of the series that God is real. At that time, the show was that it was popular enough for these “hokey” narration pieces was not enough to pour the show, and even the failed landing of a final of the series was not enough to destroy our collective impression of the show.
But just imagine if the first season of Battlestar Galactica ended with a character with a heart to heart with a literal god after taking the turn of Jimi Hendrix. Honestly, “Hokey” is probably too generous in a description of this crazy idea. It was quite serious to accept the characters hearing Hendrix during the subsequent seasons, especially after the series final confirmed that he was not born for many millennia. And the confirmation of the existence of God would undoubtedly make all the future stories to unleash because fans should debate if free will even exist or if everything happens (AHEM) by his command.
Fortunately for all of us, Battlestar Galactica Tandoned on this savage season 1 idea and do not torture with revelations about God or Hendrix until much later. These points of the subsequent plot have become some of the weakest aspects of the whole series, and we are grateful not to appear earlier and to ruin the chances of renewal of the show. If this had happened, fans would likely start to call on a higher power to bring this seminal science fiction series back.
And you know what it would mean: a plot very specific fans for Dirk Benedict.
