Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009) (V)

Director:

Edward James Olmos

Writer (WGA):

Jane Espenson (written by)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors. |

Plot Keywords:

Humanoid | Girl In Bra And Panties | Fighter Pilot | Execution | Black Bra And Panties

Cast

Edward James Olmos	...	Commander William Adama (also archive footage)
Dean Stockwell	...	Brother Cavil (also archive footage)
Michael Trucco	...	Samuel Anders (also archive footage)
Grace Park	...	Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii (also archive footage)
Michael Hogan	...	Colonel Saul Tigh (also archive footage)
Aaron Douglas	...	Chief Galen Tyrol (also archive footage)
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Leoben Conoy (also archive footage)
Kate Vernon	...	Ellen Tigh (also archive footage)
Rick Worthy	...	Simon (also archive footage)
Lymari Nadal	...	Giana
Matthew Bennett	...	Aaron Doral (also archive footage)
Rekha Sharma	...	Tory Foster
Tricia Helfer	...	Number Six (also archive footage)
Alisen Down	...	Jean Barolay
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight	...	Hybrid

Also Known As:

Battlestar Galactica Movie (USA) (working title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

David Eick Productions

Trivia:

Edward James Olmos and Dean Stockwell first played together in the 1985 Miami Vice episode "Bushido".

Quotes:

Brother Cavil: But first we're going to die in a vacuum.
Brother Cavil: There's a 170 ft launch tube in front of us, we might die of our injuries before we get to the vacuum.
Brother Cavil: I don't like you.
Brother Cavil: I understand that.

Movie Connections:

References "Battlestar Galactica: The Farm (#2.5)" (2005)

Resurrection ship. The beginning is the end. Ouroboros

After a very disappointing final episode of the series that answered and revealed naught, the plan finally digs deeper into the motivations and questions that a created construct has about it's creator and what it means to develop into an evolved human prototype. From my estimation the plan is both the beginning and the definitive ending of this exotic and brutally honest space opera. It brings full circle the entire series. The fact that it is pieced together like an elaborate jigsaw puzzle is apropos in my mind.

The eternal recurrence, that this has all happened before, this is a complex morality tale that both satisfies and justifies many unanswered questions that I had, it places its brand upon the entire series and I can now breath a sigh of relief that this was truly one of the best dramas in television. No longer a hurried, convenient open exit, the end is now the beginning and so we must continue to wonder and to speculate on what the idea of humanity really means.