Bamber likes `Apollo's' new course
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Bamber likes `Apollo's' new course
By Maureen Ryan
June 19, 2005
Things look pretty bad for Apollo.
In the closing minutes of the shocking first-season finale of Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica," Lee "Apollo" Adama refused to go along with a coup engineered by his father, Commander William Adama. What's more, the senior Adama, military leader of the space fleet carrying the 50,000 survivors of Cylon attacks, was shot by a Cylon assassin in front of his handcuffed son.
So, all things considered, Jamie Bamber likes how things are going for his character, Apollo.
"That was a great moment," Bamber said of Apollo's decision to support "Galactica's" president, Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), and scuttle the coup. "It's defined [Apollo] in a new way. He isn't the son of the commanding officer anymore. He's completely alone in the fleet. His dad has been shot, he's an orphan, he's not defined by being the heir to a military tradition. He doesn't regret his decision for a second. For the first time, he can truly be an individual, rather than [someone] trapped in this military world."
Apollo's not a literal orphan, Bamber hastens to add. Though papa Adama was shot in the finale, he's still alive at the beginning of Season 2, which begins July 15. "But Dad's out of the equation" as far as his son's concerned, Bamber said by phone from the Vancouver set of the show. "Dad's not there to tell him what to do. [Apollo is] looked to in his own right as a person of influence and resources." And the powers that be can't let a hotshot military pilot stay locked up forever, Bamber notes. "They have to let him out, to do what he does best."
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Bamber likes `Apollo's' new course
By Maureen Ryan
June 19, 2005
Things look pretty bad for Apollo.
In the closing minutes of the shocking first-season finale of Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica," Lee "Apollo" Adama refused to go along with a coup engineered by his father, Commander William Adama. What's more, the senior Adama, military leader of the space fleet carrying the 50,000 survivors of Cylon attacks, was shot by a Cylon assassin in front of his handcuffed son.
So, all things considered, Jamie Bamber likes how things are going for his character, Apollo.
"That was a great moment," Bamber said of Apollo's decision to support "Galactica's" president, Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), and scuttle the coup. "It's defined [Apollo] in a new way. He isn't the son of the commanding officer anymore. He's completely alone in the fleet. His dad has been shot, he's an orphan, he's not defined by being the heir to a military tradition. He doesn't regret his decision for a second. For the first time, he can truly be an individual, rather than [someone] trapped in this military world."
Apollo's not a literal orphan, Bamber hastens to add. Though papa Adama was shot in the finale, he's still alive at the beginning of Season 2, which begins July 15. "But Dad's out of the equation" as far as his son's concerned, Bamber said by phone from the Vancouver set of the show. "Dad's not there to tell him what to do. [Apollo is] looked to in his own right as a person of influence and resources." And the powers that be can't let a hotshot military pilot stay locked up forever, Bamber notes. "They have to let him out, to do what he does best."
Which "Battlestar Galactica" stars are "indisputably attracted to each other"?
Click here to find out
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