Consider it or not, greater than twenty years have handed since Battlestar Galactica premiered on the The Sci-FI Channel, and the present has bounced round totally different streaming companies within the years since its four-season run resulted in 2009. The legacy is robust, nevertheless, and never as a result of Katee Sackhoff is likely one of the most memorable Massive Bang Idea visitor stars. Sackhoff and her BSG costar, Tahmoh Penikett, have opened up concerning the present’s lasting influence that Edward James Olmos predicted… although they did not consider him on the time.
Sackhoff and Penikett had been of their early 20s once they debuted as Kara “Starbuck” Thrace and Karl “Helo” Agathon, respectively. Each had some TV credit to their title on the time, however no breakout hits and positively nothing that shot them to popular culture fame like BSG would beginning in 2004. In distinction, Edward James Olmos was in his late 50s and had an extended checklist of movie and tv credit to his title earlier than he debuted as Invoice Adama on BSG.
Trying again whereas talking to Katee Sackhoff on her The Sackhoff Present podcast, Tahmoh Penikett stated:
We had been children after we began it, and we’re nonetheless on this realm. We’re nonetheless speaking about this unbelievable present that we did that way back. Eddie and Mary [McDonnell] each knew, Eddie particularly. He stated from day one, ‘This can be crucial factor you ever do.’ And I am so proud to say that.
If anyone within the solid would have recognized about about what works and what would not in showbiz, I positively would have named Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell even earlier than listening to Tahmoh Penikett’s feedback. After all, on the time, exhibits from The Sci-Fi Channel (now referred to as Syfy) weren’t actually recognized for lasting legacies and reaching broad audiences, so the younger stars did not completely respect Olmos’ feedback. Sackhoff shared:
I bear in mind on the time he stated that, and being like, ‘Go fuck your self.’ As a result of additionally, I do not consider that one thing I do at 23, I do not wish to be that prime college quarterback trying again… And fortuitously we have all labored since then, to the purpose the place we are able to say, ‘I’ve labored. I’ve had a profession. I am not the highschool quarterback, however I’m the skilled athlete that appears again and received the Tremendous Bowl in like my third yr.
Each actors have actually collected their very own lengthy lists of credit within the years since Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff even leaping from a TV present concerning the army set sooner or later to a TV present concerning the army set a very long time in the past in a galaxy far, distant due to her function as Bo-Katan in The Mandalorian. One in every of my private favourite roles of Penikett’s must be his recurring function as Gadreel in Supernatural Season 9. Suffice it to say that they now know that Edward James Olmos knew what he was speaking about!
Tahmoh Penikett went on to substantiate that they now perceive that Olmos “wasn’t making an attempt to demean or sabotage the remainder of our careers or saying we would not quantity to extra.” The Dollhouse vet stated:
What he was saying is the standard, the significance of this story and the way lengthy it might final, the longevity of it, could be large. And he understood that. Being the humanitarian that he’s, a person who’s leant his title and his character and his compass to so many alternative issues. He understood the burden and the significance of the present, a lot in order that it is loopy. It is like he was Nostradamus. He knew, he stated to us, he stated to me over and over. ‘Twenty years from now’ – and he was saying that is the primary fucking season – ‘folks can be speaking about this present.’ And we’re speaking about it greater than ever.
Whereas Olmos’ knowledge concerning the legacy of the present could appear supernatural a la Nostradamus, there is a purpose why he joined Battlestar Galactica after turning down Star Trek, and it wasn’t as a result of he all of a sudden got here round to starring in a present set in house. He clarified to The A.V. Membership that he did not wish to be a part of sci-fi within the sense of “four-eyed folks, or bizarre jellyfish folks, or bizarre outer-space folks” or “Creature From The Black Lagoon-ish kind of individuals,” however was received over by the “writing,” the “storytelling,” and the “originality of the story itself.”
Regardless of his model of BSG technically being a reboot, the remake is wildly totally different from the unique to the purpose that I do not assume anyone might argue that the 2004 sequence did not have loads of originality. There have additionally been rumblings of one other reboot lately, with govt producer Ronald D. Moore having one stipulation. No reboot or sequel has been produced on the time of writing, however a minimum of Katee Sackhoff and Tahmoh Penikett have come round on Battlestar Galactica being the “most necessary” factor they’d ever do.