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"I'll be damned. What's got into Starbuck? She actually sounds like a real instructor for a change." -Colonel Saul Tigh- P op rock icon Rick Springfield (remember, he's done everything for you and created some great music too) once played the cameo role of Apollo's brother Zak Adama in the classic Battlestar Galactica . Maybe it's because he became a pop star but Springfield was instantly memorable in his brief cameo in Saga Of A Star World once upon a time. Here, the character is replaced by an unmemorable actor to serve the story in Battlestar Galactica , Season One, Episode 4, Act Of Contrition . Though the Zak character is given more depth here given he had a relationship with Starbuck in the Ronald D. Moore rendering as well as being son to Commander Adama and brother to Apollo. In Larson's series he was just the young hot shot side kick brother of Apollo. A boy among young men. Zak was the brother of Lee "Apollo" Adama, son of W

"I t's the children, after all, who say they watch Gamera films, not adults. For me, Gamera just bubbles over and flows straight out of my heart, ... and fills me with nostalgia." -Noriaki Yuasa, 2001, Gamera: The Giant Monster , DVD liner notes- (Gosh, me too.) "T he first Gamera was a B-movie, but that turned out to be a big hit, so the second one [War Of The Monsters] was promoted to an A-budget. I think Daiei thought I wouldn't be able to handle such an A-movie. It was the most expensive one; it cost $225,000. Return Of The Giant Monsters was about $167,000, the black and white Gamera was about $111,000. Destroy All Planets and Attack of The Monsters were about $67,000, and Monster X and Zigra about $97,000." -Noriaka Yuasa, Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! (p.75). W ith it's bigger budget, Gamera Vs. Barugon (1966; aka War Of The Monsters ), in the hands of director Shigeo Tanaka, was not the success Daiei likely intended despite its im

"H e's a criminal and a terrorist, people aren't gonna give him credence." -Commander William Adama- "Don't be so sure commander. Rebellions are contagious." -President Laura Roslin- O ne man's terrorist or " butcher " is another man's freedom fighter or " prisoner of conscience " as two sides of the proverbial coin or argument fall squarely on the subject of political dissent for the third episode. P olitical dissent and the politics of the series in general i s clearly the theme in play and on full display for Battlestar Galactica , Season One, Episode 3, Bastille Day . The title is a clear reference to the Parisian prison Bastille that was stormed, and the triggering events of the French Revolution (1789). The allusion echoes the tumultuous events aboard the prison ship Astral Queen in Bastille Day . W hile some of the writing in the entry definitely leans left on making its argument, on the whole both sides are r