ComicMix has weekly interviews with Battlestar Galactica co-executive producer Mark Verheiden. In the latest interview, ComicMix asked an interesting question about something I didn't notice from the season premiere (warning: SPOILERS!):CMix: In Tigh's hallucination, he shoots Adama in the same eye that Tigh lost. Intentional?
MV: Per one of the writers of that episode, Mr. David Weddle:
"I was waiting for someone to pick up on that telling detail. Congratulations. But I am disappointed you have not figured out its significance within the larger mythology of the show. It's all laid out for you. All you have to do is run the episode over again in slow motion, and the deeper truth will be revealed."
Hmmm... Makes me want to run it slow motion!
While I didn't run the episode again in slow-motion, I did go back again and watch the scene (it's actually embedded at the end of last week's review). While it's true that Bill Adama gets shot in the right eye, I didn't notice anything else of significance. However, I did notice that in the scene with Anders, it's his right eye that responds to the Cylon Raider. Interesting.I'm wondering now if there's particular significance in a Cylon's right eye, as in that it's the eye that communicates with other Cylons in the same manner Anders did with the Raider. What's going to be interesting to see is how this is going to affect Tigh, since that's the eye he's missing. Was that eye removed for a purpose other than torture or was it pure coincidence?
I also wonder if the single-eye theory has anything to do with how the "toasters" have that familiar single, red eye that tracks back and forth.
I'd say this is complete over-thinking on my part, but Mark started it! So there!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
4-08-2008 @ 2:15PM
nattyff said...
wowww... that sounds... interesting. About tight and his missing eye... we never learn wich one of the models was the one who actually removed his eye, so... maybe if the eye have a grearter significance (and i think it will) i could mean that one of the models aside of d'anna knows about the identities of the final five, and with the eye poking was triying to change something (asuming that it was not just a coincidance, and that d'anna wasn´t the one who tortures saul... wich some may argue cause... well, she apologices to him... but it could be also that she was apologizing for something that a fellow silon may have done or even she could be apologizing to another one of the final 5... maybe the 5° himself...).
PD: sorry for the grammar, please don´t complain about it... these is not my laguaje!!! :)
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4-08-2008 @ 5:27PM
Akbar Fazil said...
Doral removed Tigh's eye. It is in a cut scene from season 3. I wouldn't put anymore significance in it. While D'Anna had nothing to do directly with removing his eye, she could easily be apologizing to him in her vision of the five. Or she could be apologizing for almost braining Anders with a chunk of concrete. Or apologizing to the Chief for sending his wife away to be executed.
4-08-2008 @ 6:33PM
Dorv said...
Akbar: Haven't you argued before that cut scenes aren't canon?
4-08-2008 @ 2:25PM
bsgfan2003 said...
I reviewed that scene. The only thing that I noticed was a small red light dot under Adama's eye as he was saying, "Saul, Saul."
It's common knowledge that the final is not Adama, so I have not the slightest notion as to what the meaning might be, if any.
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4-08-2008 @ 2:25PM
jessie said...
The thing that revealed the last five Cylons was the Eye of Jupiter. Maybe because Tigh's eye is gone he will remain unprogrammable (yeah, it's not a word, but you get the gist). Therefore he is a Cylon, but he never be the puppet he doesn't want to become.
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4-08-2008 @ 2:26PM
skim said...
I think Mark was kidding.
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4-08-2008 @ 3:00PM
apronk said...
Perhaps Tigh's missing right eye will render him unidentifiable by other cylons.
I think it will play a role in his fate - they will kill him, not knowing that he is a cylon, and him never admitting that he is.
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4-08-2008 @ 3:56PM
nattyff said...
jessie and apronk: i like both of your gueses!!!
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4-08-2008 @ 4:02PM
Keith McDuffee said...
There's a good chance David Weddle was joking, but if he is it reeks of fan mockery. As in, I don't think it's obvious enough that he's joking. So, instead, he's trying to throw fans into a tailspin by telling us to look at something that's not there.
Look, I know I like to over-analyze this show much like many do for 'Lost', but it's fun. If he's frakking with us, then it's just plain mean.
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4-08-2008 @ 4:44PM
Oreo said...
They also like leading fans in the wrong direction.
And Tigh was made a Cylon after he lost his eye. When Tigh was tortured they didn't know he would be one of the four.
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4-08-2008 @ 5:26PM
vacelts said...
Maybe I’m reaching, but in Adama’s glasses I see the reflection of the board behind Tigh. With the hole that bullet left, I think his eye looks like the Eye of Jupiter.
Here are some screen shots:
http://redlightnaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/bsg-4-he-who-believeth-in-me/
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4-08-2008 @ 5:28PM
Akbar Fazil said...
I do think that is a bit of a stretch, however I would not rule that out. Good call.
4-08-2008 @ 10:28PM
bsgfan2003 said...
Drat. He says all we have to do is watch it over in slow motion, and it's all laid out.
Now I'm counting red lights on dash boards, and bald pates. I will probably have full blown OCD by the time Friday rolls around. Thanks Mr. Weddle. :)
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4-09-2008 @ 8:11AM
loudalmaso said...
dig out your bibles...wasn't Saul blinded on the road to Amaous (sp)?
just sayin'
and I agreee, I think the writers didn't plan on Saul being a Cylon when they tortured him. they just aren't planning that far in advance. (if you believe what they say in the commentaries)
4-09-2008 @ 9:44AM
bsgfan2003 said...
Do you mean Damascus?
If your right then, Saul will become an Apostle like figure for whom? Baltar's one true God.... also it could mean martyrdom...
4-09-2008 @ 1:06PM
loudalmaso said...
you're absolutely correct. I meant to say Damascus. ( I just didn't know we could cuss on this board...hee)
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4-09-2008 @ 1:13PM
loudalmaso said...
Well, Saul went from persecuting the jews to being the Apostle Paul.
So Saul Tigh goes from persecuting the Cylons to being one of the four "fundementally different" Cylons...
who will he "serve"?
I'm kind of digging the theory that the Galactica herself is the final Cylon.
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4-09-2008 @ 1:18PM
bsgfan2003 said...
After Cottle, I like Galactica as final too. (Especially after all my red light counts :)
4-11-2008 @ 2:11PM
Benjamin said...
Hmm. What color are Anders's eyes? And Tigh's (err... "eye")? "And the caravan of the heavens was watched over by a great lion with a mighty blinking eye, red and blue" The scriptures are supposed to be polyvalent, right? Perhaps the "different" cylons are to protect the fleet after all?
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4-19-2008 @ 5:38PM
SFMatMan said...
Speaking of the right eye - anyone remember the scene in the very first episode (miniseries): In the midst of the initial Cylon attack and at the very moment the Galactica is getting word of it, Col. Tigh (a Cylon) is in his cabin looking at a photo of his wife - and he burns a hole in her picture right where her right eye is. The burn first creates a bubble, and then her right eye is replaced by a glowing red ring of ember, not unlike the Eye of Jupiter mandala Starbuck painted. Here's a screen-capture of the photo just before the hole burned through:
http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/8/8f/Miniseries_Ellen.jpg
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