PATREON EXCLUSIVE UNCUT REACTION - Battlestar Galactica (1978) ep22 - Experiment in Terra
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I remember buying the Imperious Leader action figure (threw him in the cantina)and thinking to myself how you finally get a good look at him.
Rory OToole
2023-08-09 10:44:21 +0000 UTCWow, that's funny I forget that Edward Mulhare was the ghost in The Ghost and Mrs Muir TV series. He looks so different with the gray hair as opposed to his original natural color. Ghost was a fun series that I got into just recently.
Rory OToole
2023-08-09 10:42:29 +0000 UTCOn a side note, the Cylon Imperious Leader was only shown from the back not because there was going to be a big reveal, but because Glen Larson didn't think his mask looked good enough. Some closeups were shot, but were never used (except in a theatrical film called "Mission Galactica," which was a weird mashup of The Living Legend and Fire in Space).
James H
2023-08-07 16:10:49 +0000 UTCNot only was that one guy Claudius Marcus from Bread and Circuses, but the doctor guy who examined Apollo was Ken Lynch, who played Chief Engineer Vanderberg in The Devil in the Dark. So it's a double Star Trek guest shot. Edward Mulhare, who played John, was best known at the time for the Sixties sitcom "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." As the ghost, he had a similar ability to appear and disappear or to become visible only to specific people. In the original draft of this episode, Starbuck was the one sent to the planet. At the time, though, Richard Hatch had been complaining that Apollo wasn't getting a central enough role. So Glen Larson basically said, "We'll fix that," but the way he fixed it was by literally just switching around the names Apollo and Starbuck in this particular script. Although I love this episode, it got kind of messed up in the editing because some important stuff was deleted. Apollo's mission was to get an audience with the Presidium to reveal the President's secret-- that the Eastern Alliance had been systematically attacking Terra's satellite planets. In the deleted scenes, the President steals Apollo's thunder by revealing that fact to the Presidium right before he announces the peace treaty (the terms of which include nuclear disarmament). So when Apollo gets the chance to speak, he switches tactics and stalls for time on the treaty by talking about the destruction of the Twelve Colonies as an object lesson in peace through strength. But in the version that aired, we don't see the President admitting the truth or proposing nuclear disarmament. So what Apollo does makes no sense, because as soon as he's given the floor he should be telling the Presidium about the destruction on the satellite planets, which he (well, actually Starbuck, but see above) had personally seen. Anyway, it's still an enjoyable episode if you don't think about it too much. By the way, the title is a pun on an obscure 1962 movie called "Experiment in Terror," which really has nothing to do with the episode.
James H
2023-08-07 15:58:53 +0000 UTC
