Thanks to: indysid
This just getting so very dark and scary. Felix Gaeta is an avatar of deep, dark, evil symbolizing the entire hopeless mess.
Battlestar Galactica has a stellar ensemble cast consisting of - Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Tahmoh Penikett, Katee Sackhoff, Mary McDonnell, Grace Park, Jamie Bamber, Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas.
And now for a bit of levity: In these neat, short videos, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, one of the small screen's best couples ever, discuss with a TVGuide interviewer, their characters President Laura Roslin and Admiral William Adama, who they play on the Peabody Award-winning Sci-Fi channel/NBC drama, Battlestar Galactica, which is currently finishing up it's fourth and final season.
Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 1
Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 2
Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 3
Credit: 30 January 2009 9:07 AM, PST | From TVGuide.com - Features
Even as several sexy relationships have blossomed on Battlestar Galactica, a more powerful love affair has quietly grown between President Roslin (Mary McDonnell) and Admiral Adama (Edward James Olmos). In part three of our interview with Olmos and McDonnell, the actors discuss why it took so long for their characters to admit their feelings and the chemistry they've shared since the beginning.
See full article at TVGuide.com - Features
I'm sure this puts me squarely on the side of *squeedom* but it is apparent in these little videos that Mary means it when she comes right out and states,"we have chemistry," when explaining the complicated Adama- Roslin pairing. Eddie looked a wee uncomfortable as Mary was very, very close to him on the couch, away from the interviewer. She was done filming the showback in July, 2008 but he's been directing the telemovie. I think she was happy to spend time with him. :) At one point they catch each others eyes fully and you can see that it is a dear relationship to them both. EJO says that this is the hardest gig to leave and he ticks off theatre (he sings! but I knew that), film and tv, and says that of all of them, Battlestar Galactica has been the "most satisfying." Mary nods in agreement. HOWEVER.
There are huge SPOILERS here and in the videos, forget which one, early on--he blurts his character's ending and it's the second time that I've heard him put it that way.You need to highlight to read.Start "Alive, but devastated" and "very, very, dark" are two ways that Eddie Olmos describes the state of his character of Admiral William Adama at the Conclusion of Battlestar Galactica.
Unless you've been sleeping through the series you know that his lady-love-lead Mary McDonnell has cancer which has already gone into to remission once. Laura Roslin's cancer is the kills-you-quick kind and she's already improbably but truly did get better after taking blood from baby Hera. I know. Right? She'd been fine physically for a good chunk of the series and has now gotten sick again and it's going to be tear-inducing to me when she dies. She was saved once by Cylon baby blood but it won't work this time, says Doc Cottle. Laura Roslin has to die or the show would not feel real. I would have loved it if they stopped the show right before she died because I don't want to see Laura die. :( But I accept she has to. Writers have better have written it as good at least as this season's "The Oath" I'm told next episode' is more intense than this one. Bear McCreary says they needed quite a bit more fighting-type music for "Blood" next week./Finish highlighting.
I'm bracing myself.
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