Trying to get in just that right mood for the fourth season premiere of Battlestar Galactica, I watched the rerun of "Act of Contrition" from the first season on Swedish Channel 5 yesterday.
If you need evidence as to why the series creator Ronald D. Moore and his writers can provide us with such dark wonderful television, look no further than to this episode!
Moore infamously explained in the episode podcasts for season 1 that literally the only time the Sci fi Channel has asked him to change something in the first two seasons, was early in production when they were a bit uneasy about the extremely dark tone of the series. Hence the network asked if Moore could insert some lighter material, such as everyone having a birthday party for someone.
The result can be seen in said episode. Moore sarcastically inserted a scene into the beginning of "Act of Contrition", in which a large number of pilots have a party to celebrate one of the pilots 1000th landing, when a bomb accidentally falls from some old fauly webbings and goes off, killing most and seriously injuring a few. Moore has said that Sci-Fi Channel responded by saying "yes, we get it" and never tried to interfere in the running of the series again.
Only four days to April 4th and the season premiere("pepp", "pepp")!
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