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Edward James Olmos as Commander Adama and Mary McDonnell as President Roslin on BATTLESTAR GALATICA.
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GALACTICA Set Visit With Mary McDonnell

By: News Editor
Date: Friday, March 03, 2006
Source: Hollywood North Report

HNR visited the set of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA had a chance to talk with Mary McDonnell about her role as President Laura Roslin on the series.

In terms of what some people consider a rather grim and a pessimistic worldview on the show, McDonnell responded, "I think the sincere commitment here is to reflect what's happening in the world through a sci-fi genre, which gives us license to go into some different kinds of reverberations. So we get to materialize the metaphysical, as well as the flat out, down to earth struggle every day; war, famine, etc. So to me, the show isn't really any bleaker than life, but it is bleaker in the sense that there is a relentlessness to it because they're stuck on these ships. So that can be difficult. But I also think there is a relief in" the sci-fi elements of it that we don't have in life."

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Comments/Responses

• Mar 03, 2006, 03:00am •

I love this show.

I also appreciate that Cinescape has altered their advertisements so that the sound only ignites IF you place your cursor over the ad. Thank you very much (re: the domino ad).

• Mar 03, 2006, 06:49am •

Battlestar Galactica is intelligent scifi that seems very believable, realistic. While I will always love Star Trek, I could never buy the utopian overtones. While I admire Roddenberry's optimism, I think the future would look more like Battlestar Galactica, and I like the more "realistic" view.

wayne94 • Mar 03, 2006, 08:19am •

I cannot say enough good things about this show. Last week's episode had me on the edge of my seat, but also laughing out loud. Hard to do both. :)

Hopefully they'll keep it up!

snallygaster • Mar 03, 2006, 09:12am •

I agree with the kudos above, this is a fantastic show.

I was originally among those who resisted the show. I particularly didn't like the gender-bending of some of the main characters - it sounded like a cheap sellout to appeal to female viewers. So I skipped watching the miniseries and the first half of the first season. But then I heard some good things and gave it a try, now I'm hooked.

• Mar 03, 2006, 09:46am •

Best show on television! And the season finale begins tonight! Counting down the hours...

• Mar 03, 2006, 09:55am •

Wessmith, I hope the future doesn't look too much like Battlestar. I'd like there to at least be no holcaust of humanity involved.

teabagging2000 • Mar 03, 2006, 11:05am •

Being a big Star Trek fan and never having understood the old Battlestar, I was so surprised when I started watching this halfway through this season. Resist is a good word for the way I treated this show. Now, I make sure to come home to catch this. Great characters, great stories with tough subject matter, and some surprisingly good special effects. Great show, I tell anyone who will pretend to listen about it. Also, was the idea of a human rebel movement on the Cylon controlled planets from the last episode a new development or had they touched on that in a previous episode?? Anyone?

• Mar 03, 2006, 01:57pm •

There were a lot of big words in her comments. I'll have to think about it while I look for a dictionary.

• Mar 03, 2006, 01:59pm •

Seeing teabagging2000's post made me realize that something vital is missing from the BSG universe. Just once, after a Colonial bags a Cylon skin job, I'd like to see some teabagging.

• Mar 03, 2006, 03:55pm •

"...down to earth struggle every day"
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Excuse me? Isn't Moore's UNauthorized version of BSG supposed to take place light years away from Earth? Isn't it supposed to be about a humanoid, alien civilization that supposed developed indepenedent of Earth? Btw, some of us don't see life as bleak, etc. Some of us see the cup as half full, instead of half empty. Someone needs some Prozac.

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