Not compelling (or important) enough for a real name but fun to look at: "Tough Six" (Tricia Helfer).
Hard now to believe I was this excited 7 months ago to see the long-off Battlestar Galactica mini, ''The Plan," a recounting of the Cylon perspectives leading up to and shortly after the destruction of the 12 Colonies. It was to be as well an opportunity to get answers to some pressing questions that had were not answered in the series, leaving quite a few fans peeved.
Unlike many comments I saw at the time, my quibble wasn't a WTF? about Angel!Kara, Angel!Six or Angel!Baltar (!?!) I had but one teeny-tiny query, one that probably no longer mattered other than as the answer to a BSG trivia question.
I wanted to know who met with Caprica Six outside the Marketplace on Caprica just before the bombs fell. It was kept secret from the viewer from the miniseries' inception in 2003 through the series finale in 2009. It was a simple question to be answered and those bastard writers near series' end in Season 4 hinted enough to give it away--but one couldn't be sure until viewing The Plan and then, there it was. Yet a another scene involving Cavil or "One," the evil Cylon mastermind responsible for the destruction of the colonies. He did so, as he freely admitted, to impress the Final Five---his makers--his parents--as we found in the later BSG Season 4 episodes. Cavil's mommy issues (she told him he was damaged goods from the get-go and boy, did they illustrate that until my brain hurt in "The Plan") is ostensibly why there was "A Plan" and frankly, that is almost LOL funny, if it were not so unimaginative. Meh.
Even Cylons have issues and there are issues are aplenty in The Plan. Having had Jane Espenson pen it, how else could it have gone down?
Previously:
Battlestar Galactica - The Plan - New Trailer *SPOILERS*
Battlestar Galactica: We Already Knew the Cylons Had a PlanSome Stuff you'll see or learn in "The Plan" - We see more of the Six named Shelly Godfrey and how she was coerced by (who else?) Cavil to frame Baltar. She was airlocked--by Cavil for her efforts, solving the mystery of how she 'escaped.'
In 'The Plan' you learn that Cavil gave Boomer
her instructions while she was in sleeper mode. We see the "device"--a pocket sized wooden carved elephant used to switch her back and forth.
You see Cavil macking on both Boomer--see just below--and Six--both really creepy stuff.. Just yuck. What was wrong with Leoben or Simon!?!
Scroll quickly if you cannot bear to watch Cavil's sexual coercion of the confused and suicidal Boomer:
Despite NOT being in sleeper mode, Boomer still has to be coerced by Cavil into shooting Adama.
Bleh! Looks like a grandpa kissing a teenager.
What was wrong with Battlestar Galactica's 'The Plan?"
Start with waaay too much of this guy --#1 --a/k/a (Brother)Cavil. This was one of his better scenes as it answered for once and all, in the BSG miniseries, who did Caprica Six meet with in the Marketplace shortly after bidding Gaius Baltar goodbye--shortly before the destruction of the Colonies?
More later.
Cast:
* Edward James Olmos as William Adama
* Dean Stockwell as Number One
* Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders
* Grace Park as Number Eight
* Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
* Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
* Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two
* Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
* Rick Worthy as Number Four
* Lymari Nadal as Giana O'Neill
* Matthew Bennett as Number Five
* Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
* Tricia Helfer as Number Six
* Alisen Down as Jean Barolay
* Tiffany Lyndall-Knight as Hybrid
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