Bamber Hints At Apollo's Motivations for Season 2
3 June 2005
In season one of Galactica we saw the relationship between Captain Lee (Apollo) Adama and his Father slowly become one of mutual respect, both characters had a different viewpoint, but both were learning to appreciate those differences in each other, and just like that bang Commander Husker Adama gets shot, several times in fact. Jamie Bamber recently gave Dreamwatch magazines Brian Cairns some clue as to what Apollo's motivations are during the opening of Galactica's second season.
At the start of the second season Apollo's priorities are very much focused on his injured father.
“Throughout the series, Lee has come to see his Dad more honestly and come to appreciate his humanity and the similarities they share. There are moments where they are close without admitting it. In the boxing scene [in Kobol's Last Gleaming], there's an element where they recognize their flaws, warts and all. They are two guys who love and respect each other without saying it.
“Then to see his Dad gunned down without having the opportunity for that puts him in an emotionally tortured place. His only priority is to see his Dad recover. That is the only thing on his mind and everything else falls to the side.”
One element that was often teased bit never really dealt with to much during last season was the relationship between Lee [Apollo] Adama and Kara [Starbuck] Thrace , during the course of the first season Starbuck often hints that she has stronger unrequited feelings for Apollo. As to how this likely to develop is anyone's guess but Bamber is happy to feed the fan speculation with the following not so telling comments.
“Katee [Sackhoff] and I sort of decided way back in the mini – series that there was an attraction between them, and what happened with lee's brother just heightened the tension and made it much more confusing and difficult to accept.
“Kobol's Last Gleaming provided a very clever way of exploring their feelings in a way that didn't actually put them together but involved a third party [Baltar]. There are feelings of irrational jealousy that it drums up in Lee, which he doesn't expect to feel.”
With the second season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica now in production with a July Premier on the USA 's Sci Fi Channel, the episode count is likely to surpass that of the ‘Classic Battlestar Galactica' series. Bamber when confronted with this prospect admits to not having really given it any thought.
“To be honest, it is completely irrelevant to us. But what it may do is relax that whole debate about, ‘How dare we mess around with what we supposedly messed around with.'
“After a certain point, we become as valid a response to the material as they did because as you can think, ‘There's more of it in the can and more to love.' Now that I say that, I can see that antagonizing die hard fans of the original even more so, it may get even fiercer.
“My only wish is for it all to become a bit more mature and accepting of both shows because they are equally valid with their merits. It is not a competition.”
You can read much more of this interview with Jamie Bamber in the new issue of Dreamwatch which is out now in all good news agents throughout the UK. Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica will premiere on the US Sci Fi Channel from Friday 12 of July, and will premiere in the UK on Sky One sometime in October.
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