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Sunday, 6 March 2005
Hooray, retcon!
It Stinks!

Or retroactive continuity, the alteration of a TV show's history to excise facts inconvenient to the current storyline.

Back in the pilot of the Battlestar Galactica remake aired, there was a scene where Colonel Tigh put a cigar through a picture of his ex-wife, who oddly enough looked exactly like the Cylon spy Dr. Baltar was banging, and who has been spending the rest of the series as Baltar's annoying imaginary friend.

A couple of weeks ago, they had an episode where another copy of Baltar's fantasy girlfriend showed up to accuse him of treason. I found myself asking, "Why is Tigh standing there right next to his ex-wife and not even reacting to her presence?"

But that conundrum was resolved in this week's episode, wherein Tigh's ex-wife comes back. As we see in the "previously" clips, Tigh wasn't burning his cigar through Cylon Chick's picture at all! Our memories — and the recording I made of the pilot — were just faulty, that's all it was.

Will the REAL Mrs. Tigh please stand up?

Do they really think the viewers are so dull-witted that they wouldn't notice? Yes, apparently they do.


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They made Starbuck a chick. After that, what changes matter?
Posted by The Lunchbox on 6 Mar 2005 21:12
well, that doesn't bug me, the pilot was awful and the show (thankfully) is much better. They weren't sure if they were even gonna BE a series and so i know how availability goes for a role that was so minor in the pilot that she was ONLY seen in a pic.

It bugged me more that Stargate recast Elizabeth Weir for the Atlantis series.
Posted by jen on 19 Mar 2005 20:20
oh and that's not the cylon chic, she's clearly much older and little more rounded and less brickhouse.
Posted by jen on 19 Mar 2005 20:21
ACTUALLY! the wife in the first pic looks like actress Elizabeth Shue, took me a min to remember the name.

http://www.elisabeth-shue.org
Posted by jen on 19 Mar 2005 20:26