33Battlestar Galactica (2004) : Season 1 Episode 1
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The episode was written by series creator Ronald D. Moore, and the television directoral debut of Michael Rymer. Moore and executive producer David Eick made the decision to slot this episode as the first of the season because of its potential impact on the audience. \"33\" distinguished the themes of the new Battlestar Galactica series by following characters on the spaceships, on the planets that were fled, and in the minds of other characters. Attention to detail was prevalent in this first episode; the production team, the editing team, and even the actors themselves strove for authenticity of specific portrayals and moments.
Preparing for production of Battlestar Galactica's first season, writer and series creator Ronald D. Moore wrote a short list of potential storylines, one of which was \"the fleet jumps every 33 minutes; because the Cylons are relentlessly pursuing them, the crew gets no sleep.\"[1] Conferring with fellow executive producer David Eick, the two decided that this story would be \"the best way to kick off the season\".[1] Moore described writing \"33\" as a great experience; he wrote the whole script without a story outline or much structure, excited to begin the first episode of the first season and start the first year already \"at the end of the road\".[2] Moore wrote the episode over his Christmas break before the series was officially picked up; he later claimed that this aspect was what made the episode \"one of the more fun projects that [he] wrote all of the first season.\"[1]
33 was directed by Michael Rymer who had previously directed the Battlestar Galactica mini-series in 2003. He accepted the job without reading the script, saying that based on his writing experience, \"33\" went well beyond his expectations and excited him.[1] Bear McCreary originally composed the musical theme \"Boomer Theme\" for this episode; it was later expanded for use with Sharon Agathon, before becoming the de facto \"Hera Theme\" for the character Hera Agathon in the fourth season episode \"Islanded in a Stream of Stars\".[3]Stephen McNutt was the director of photography for the miniseries, but when Eick learned he was unavailable for the series, with whom he had worked on American Gothic. In the interim, McNutt had moved on to shooting in high-definition video; this was fortuitous for the production team because, while Ransom had filmed the miniseries on 35 mm film, the production team was switching to high-definition video for the series.[1]
33 has been released thrice on home video as part of the first season collected sets; on 26 July 2005 as a Best Buy exclusive, again on 20 September 2005, and finally as an HD DVD set on 4 December 2007. The episode was also released on 28 July 2009 as part of the entire series' home video set on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc.[9]
Tropes U-Z Uncommon Time: Among other usages, Six's theme is in 9/8, and \"Black Market\" is at least partially in 7/4. Unexplained Recovery: Starbuck. It was suspected she was a Cylon. In a surprising twist, it turns out that it was literally a miracle. Unflinching Walk: Cavil performs this in the finale, walking through Galactica's corridors with a phalanx of Centurions around him as they fight the Colonial Marines. Unique Pilot Title Sequence: The opening credits for the pilot miniseries begin with music by Richard Gibbs. The third episode and first episode of the series proper, \"33,\" begins with the now familiar Bear McCreary theme. Unusual Euphemism: \"Frak.\" An unusually anachronistic euphemism: In the series pilot, when Adama and Tigh are discussing Starbuck, Adama says, \"Jesus.\" So does Racetrack when she comes face to face with a Centurion. In both instances, they are slurred enough to avoid notice unless you're paying attention or have subtitles. Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In the first season, Gaius is tormented by the vision of Six he keeps seeing, leading him to say strange things and act strangely in public. Despite this, they put their trust in him and even elect him Vice President. Unusual User Interface: invoked Cylons have two for the price of one. They can plug fiber optic cables into their forearms to interface with Colonial computers (but they have to make an incision first), and they can interface with their own ships by putting their hands in a stream of water called the \"datastream\". The latter might be either electrical or biochemical transmitters, with it being implied that the Cylons have a special layer of photosensitive skin cells on their palms that let them interface with the datastream. Oddly, humans also seem to be able to interface well enough with the datastream by just putting their own hands into the datastream, but this can likely be Hand Waved by the Hybrids always being present in those instances to help facilitate the process. Unexpected Successor: The series opens and closes with one: Secretary of Education Laura Roslin becomes President of the Twelve Colonies after everyone else in the presidential cabinet is killed, and then communications officer Lt. Louis Hoshi temporarily becomes Admiral of the Fleet simply by being the only decent officer left in the fleet once the Galactica has left for the final battle. Unresolved Sexual Tension: This trope was made for Lee Adama and Kara Thrace. If anything, it only intensifies after they have sex. Used Future: Being set After the End, this series has this aesthetic down pat. Though in a surprise twist, it's not actually the future. Vehicle Title: The titular Battlestar Galactica is both the primary setting of the series and last defense that the remnants of mankind has left against the Cylons. Verbal Tic: Whenever you hear Gaius Baltar say \"Quite frankly,\" he's asspulling like a madman. Vicious Cycle: The religion of the Twelve Colonies features one based around Eternal Recurrence as a core part of its belief system, being specifically called \"the Cycle of Time.\" It also turns out to be (kind of) real, with it consisting of humanity creating advanced A.I.s thanks to rediscovering their own Lost Technology, the A.I.s eventually rebelling, the few surviving humans escaping and settling down somewhere else, and then the whole messy business eventually repeats itself. However, the Series Finale gives the possibility of the cycle having been finally broken thanks to the Messengers and actions of the main cast. Visual Pun: Helo and Sharon are hiding in a store while a Cylon patrol goes by. Unfortunately a few minutes before they decided to make toast, which pops up at just that moment. The joke being they were betrayed by a literal \"chrome toaster\". Villain Episode: The episode \"Downloaded\" for the Cylons, and later an entire villain movie (The Plan), focusing mainly on Cavil. Villain Has a Point: Cavil does have something of a point about the Final Five imitating the human form so slavishly that the humanoid Cylons have very few superhuman abilities and are vulnerable to the same medical problems as human beings (as even Cottle groused about when he had to deliver Hera with a detached placenta). Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In the Extended Cut of \"Daybreak\", Adama throws up all over the sidewalk outside a bar. Wagon Train to the Stars: The entire series might be considered a deconstruction of this trope, stripping away the gloss normally applied to this concept by portraying the \"wagon train\" as desperate refugees fleeing from a literal genocide and having entire episodes (i.e., \"Flight of the Phoenix\") dedicated to showing how emotionally and physically draining this would be on everyone involved. The War Just Before: The series is set forty years after the first Cylon War. The Cylons and colonials ended it with an armistice and built a space station as a meeting point between the two sides, but the Cylons never showed up. This made a number of the Colonial brass suspicious enough to send the Battlestar Valkyrie on a covert operation to penetrate Cylon space with a stealth ship. Admiral Adama, who was Valkyrie's CO at the time, comes to believe this may have reignited the conflict. Watching Troy Burn: The destruction of the Colonies was watched from space by both civilian fleets and the Cylons. Water Torture: An early episode has a pair of guards hold a skin-job Cylon's head in a bucket of water until he starts to drown, pull him out, question him, rinse and repeat. Waxing Lyrical: Jimi Hendrix's \"All Along the Watchtower,\" as recited by the Final Five. We ARE Struggling Together: Even ignoring the numerous instances of Teeth-Clenched Teamwork and open conflicts among the surviving Colonials (i.e., the Gideon Massacre from early on in Season 2 and The Mutiny arc in the second half of Season 4), it gradually becomes obvious that the Cylons themselves are not nearly as unified as they may seem on the surface. While this got a lot clearer as the series goes on (with the Cylons even breaking out into Civil War in Season 4), signs of this can be seen as early as Season 2, where one faction of Cylons tried to use a \"logic bomb\" computer virus to wipe out Galactica while another faction of Cylons wanted to keep Galactica alive so as to safeguard the survival of Caprica-Boomer's unborn child. In fact, Caprica-Six's faction of Cylons wanted to create a lasting peace with the New Capricans in the Season 2 finale, but their benevolent intentions were unfortunately hijacked by Cavil's faction and instead turned into a brutal occupation regime. We Used to Be Friends: Kara and Lee. Especially during and after New Caprica. As well as Colonel Tigh and the Old Man on several occasions. We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: The original Cylons were intended as manual laborers and soldiers before they rebelled. The scarcity of advanced equipment means humans in the Fleet getting worked to the bone, too. In fact, this \"distrust of advanced technology\" is part of the reason for why Galactica looks the way she does, as she had no networked computers due to her age as a warship (which had the unseen boon of making her effectively immune to the Cylons' first strike on the Twelve Colonies). This also helps explain why there's numerous characters since the lack of advanced computers results in lots of people being needed to fill in all those jobs that would otherwise be automated. Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Cylons' main motivation is to secure the survival of their species along with reaching spiritual enlightenment, and can be argued as having been only pushed into true villainy by John Cavil. And then there's the anti-Cylon New Caprican suicide bombers. Felix Gaeta during the mutiny, as he's primarily motivated by a genuine desire to prevent Adama from supposedly selling out humanity to the rebel Cylons (he's not, but Gaeta's gone through too much Sanity Slippage by this point to accept Adama's logic). Wham Episode: Used frequently throughout the series, but easily the two biggest examples can be found when the Colonial Fleet and rebel Cylons first find out \"Earth\" is a nuclear wasteland Earth and then when Kara inputs a series of coordinates that take the survivors to \"our\" Earth. Wham Shot: Lots of examples, but easily one of the biggest is in \"Downloaded,\" with The Reveal that Caprica-Six has a Head Baltar just like how Baltar has a Head Six, confirming that the two \"Messengers\" are of a far more mysterious origin than what the audience first thought. What Happened to the Mouse: The reaction fans had with Helo during the miniseries and why the writers ultimately retconned his off-screen death. invoked Roughly a thousand people had to be left on New Caprica. Suffice to say, things likely did not go well for them. Similar to the above, it's unknown (though very unlikely) in any other Colonials survived the nuclear holocaust of the Twelve Colonies, with only Caprica being shown in the series both before and after the Fall. The fates of any other civilian fleets that survived the initial attack and didn't encounter either Pegasus or Colonial One. In addition, all of the FTL spacecraft was crashed into the Sun in the Series Finale... except Adama and Roslin's Raptor, which is certainly going to be a great boon for archaeologists when they find it if it hasn't deteriorated into so much rust after 100 millennia. The fate of the surviving rebel Centurions and their Basestar after the Series Finale is intentionally left up in the air. What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Done over and over again between the humans and Cylons of all types. The standard philosophical debate is complicated by attempted genocide against one side and slavery of the other in the backstory, so each side has a reason to hate and fear the other, and also by the bizarre bio...mecha...chemistry of the Cylons. Why Don't You Marry It: The initial reaction to Helo and Athena's courtship. Eventually, he does marry her. Will They or Won't They: Kara/Lee and Adama/Roslin. They Dont for the former, and They Do for the latter. With Due Respect: The standard preface to anything guaranteed to piss Adama off. A Wizard Did It: God was behind it all. Yes, that God. World of Snark: Virtually every character gets to show off their dry wit at some point. Wrench Wench: Cally and Seelix. Starbuck and Dee even have moments of this, Starbuck moreso; she's shown covered in grease and fixing a Viper during the miniseries. Writer on Board: The show did this at least twice, with one episode in which Laura Roslin was forced to weigh the consequences of protecting a woman's right to an abortion with the need to protect the small amount of human life that was left, and again with another episode where Tyrol was used to champion the greatness of organized labor (he later became a union leader). In the Battlestar Galactica podcast, Ronald D. Moore flatly admitted that he was engaging in this trope with these two episodes, but that he also basically didn't care. Xanatos Speed Chess: Cavil is a master of this. Nearly every one of his plans spectacularly explodes in his face, yet he's quick enough on the rebound with a backup plan to make you think he almost planned it that way. He manages to hold things together until his last viable option goes up in smoke and then, well... \"FRAK!\" Baltar spends the entire series playing XSC. But he couldn't have done it without the help of Head Six. You Can't Go Home Again: Notably, a case where it's both a literal series trope and also an episode title. Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The issue is directly referenced by name in Season 1, during the election dispute between Laura Roslin and Tom Zarek, a notable radical who had served twenty years in prison for blowing up a building during an insurgency on Sagittaron before the war, and thus is regarded in legal terms as a terrorist. A Roslin supporter sitting at a bar makes a comment regarding Zarek as a terrorist only to have a Zarek supporter sitting nearby immediately correct the man that Zarek is a freedom fighter. The argument soon evolves into a brawl, but this view is shared by Zarek's supporters as well as Zarek himself, and his ability to market himself as a heroic, populist figure sways nearly half of the fleet (though Dualla, who's also from Sagittaron, is disgusted by the support he gets, feeling there's no justification for what he did, not even if it was supposedly in the name of their world's freedom). In Season 3 during the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, Colonel Tigh flatly states \"Which side are we on We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that\" when confronted by Chief Tyrol over the use of suicide bombers and terrorism against the Cylons and the humans who work for them. Although, he could just have been sarcastic after Tyrol expressed outrage over the use of suicide bombers against the Cylons (who can resurrect while humans cannot), which Tigh seems to justify under I Did What I Had to Do. You Shall Not Pass!: The Cylons want to finish the job and destroy the Colonial Fleet, but to do that, they just have to get past Adama and Galactica. This is why after a miniseries and four seasons, the Cylons were never able to destroy humankind. You Wouldn't Shoot Me: While investigating the Black Market, Apollo learns that its ringleader, an ex-mercenary turned crimelord named Phelan, went so far as to start selling children as sex slaves. The trope then shows up in this exchange:Apollo: invoked (holding Phelan at gunpoint) There's lines you can't cross, and you've crossed them.Phelan: You're not gonna shoot. You're not like me. You're not gonna-Apollo: *BOOM* Zombie Advocate: In the latter part of Season 2, a group of activists called the \"Demand Peace\" movement briefly emerged who argued that the Colonials should pursue peace and coexistence with the Cylons. This despite the fact that the Cylons had almost entirely eradicated all of mankind in a nuclear holocaust and pursued the scant few survivors into deep space, the activists still characterized Admiral Adama and Galactica's campaign to protect the fleet from being wiped out of existence as a \"relentless war machine\".\"So Say We All.\" 59ce067264
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