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The Official Fansite for actor Aaron Douglas. Aaron is best known for his role as Chief Galen Tyrol on the SyFy television series Battlestar Galactica.
17 years ago today, the BSG episode ‘1×01: 33’ aired on January 14, 2005 on the Sci Fi Channel in the USA.
EDIT: For those of you that weren’t aware, the “shut up” line was an ad-lib by Aaron. The original line in the script was “it’s gonna be alright”.
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On the 15 year anniversary of the airing of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode ‘1×01: 33’ I posted a video clip from the episode and a copy of the script that had different lines than what was said on screen. So either that was an old version of the script or Aaron ad-libbed the last line. I had a feeling it was the latter.
The below video shows the scene from the script, then the scene from the episode.
Today while listening to the latest Battlestar Galacticast podcast which was a table read of episode ‘1×01: 33’. Bodie was playing Chief Tyrol and he says “it’s gonna be alright” in response to Cally. So “shut up” *WAS* an ad-lib by Aaron. You can listen to the audio clip of the scene below.
You can listen to the whole episode at https://www.syfy.com/tags/battlestar-galacticast
Cast for the table read …. Edward James Olmos (Commander Adama), Kerry Norton (Jamie Bamber’s wife, playing Dualla and Cally), Sandra Hess (Michael Trucco’s wife, playing President Laura Roslin), Michael Trucco (playing Colonel Tigh b/c Anders didn’t exist yet), Jamie Bamber (Apollo / Lee Adama), James Callis (Gaius Baltar), Bodie Olmos (playing Chief Tyrol, Gaeta & Socinus b/c Hotdog doesn’t exist yet), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck / Kara Thrace), D.B. Woodside (playing Billy & Crashdown), Tricia Helfer (Number Six), Rekha Sharma (playing Boomer b/c Tory Foster didn’t exist yet).
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15 years ago today, the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode 1×01: 33 aired on January 14, 2005 on the Sci Fi Channel in the USA. #BSG15Years.
Here is a different version of the above scene. I have no idea where this script came from, it’s been on an old external hard drive for years. But I want to believe that Aaron ad-libbed that last line and that’s what ended up in the episode.
Aaron Douglas (@theaarondouglas) January 16, 2020
HA! Yeah…. I am pretty sure that was an ad-lib. And a pretty good one if I do say so myself.
EDIT: Just to clarify … The BSG miniseries aired 16 years ago (December 8, 2003). The first episode of Season 1 premiered in the USA 15 years ago (January 14, 2005). But this episode aired in the UK on October 18, 2004. In fact, all of the Season 1 episodes aired in the UK before the USA.
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#TBT. Behind-the-scenes photo of Director Michael Rymer, Chief and Cally (Nicki Clyne) during the filming of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episode 1×01: 33. This episode aired 10 years ago on January 14, 2005.
#TBT. Aaron and Nicki Clyne (Cally) during the filming of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episodes 1×01:33 and 2×20: Lay Down Your Burdens (Part II).
TV SHOW: Battlestar Galactica
EPISODE: 1×01: 33
AIR DATE: October 18, 2004 on Sky One (UK) & January 14, 2005 on Sci Fi Channel (USA)
AARON’S CHARACTER: Chief Tyrol
WRITTEN BY: Ronald D. Moore
DIRECTED BY: Michael Rymer
LINKS: IMDb / Wikipedia / Battlestar Wiki
NOTE: The video will wait until it is fully buffered before playing
(1) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
Cally: Why do the Cylons come every 33 minutes? Why isn’t it 34 or 35 or…?
Tyrol: Cally…
Cally: What?
Tyrol: Shut up.
(2) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
Tyrol: You got 32 minutes, people.
(3) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
Tyrol: Hey, can you do me a favor? Tell Captain Apollo he owes me one wing.
Deckhand: You got it, Chief.
Tyrol: No, Cally, there’s three. I know there’s three. Can you check it again for me, please?
Cally: Yeah.
Tyrol: At least get some starting to work? Hey, we’ll sleep when we’re dead, come on.
(4) INT. RAPTOR – HANGAR DECK
Crashdown: Boomer, heard the latest?: these Cylons look like us now. Primary fuel?
Boomer: Primary fuel 2-8-9-3 K.R.G.
Crashdown: A marine told one of the pilots that we marooned some guy back on Ragnar because the X.O. thought that he was a cyclon.
Boomer: You know what?: I don’t give a frak. Red light on the number-four thruster. Go make a visual I.D., see if it’s blocked.
Crashdown: Right.
Tyrol: A little rough on the new E.C.O. Don’t you think?
Boomer: He’s not my E.C.O. He’s some refugee from Triton that I’ve been saddled with, and I didn’t ask you.
Tyrol: Helo’s gone, Sharon.
Boomer: I didn’t ask you that, either! (just before he leaves) Sorry…
(5) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****
Apollo: Hey, you see the note from the X.O.?
Starbuck: Yeah, I saw it. No way.
Apollo: Kara, everyone else-
Starbuck: I don’t fly with stims. They blunt your reflexes, your reaction time…
Apollo: Come on, Kara, gimme a break. Just-
Starbuck: Why are we arguing about this?
Apollo: I have no idea.
Starbuck: Neither do I. You’re the CAG, act like one.
Apollo: What the hell does that mean?
Starbuck: It means that you’re still acting like you’re everyone’s best friend. We’re not friends, you’re the CAG. “Be careful out there”? Our job isn’t to be careful, it’s to shoot Cylons out of the frakkin’ sky. “Good hunting” is what you say. And now one of your idiot pilots is acting like a child and refusing to take her pills. So she either says “Yes, sir” and obeys a direct order, or you smack her in the mouth, and you drag her sorry ass down to sick bay, and you make her take those pills.
[Pause, then she snickers. He follows]
Apollo: Well, I’m glad I’m not working for you.
Starbuck: Damn right you’re glad.
Apollo: So do I have to smack you in the mouth, lieutenant?
Starbuck: No, sir, I’ll take my pills.
[Apollo produces the pill]
Starbuck: Oh, perfect.
[Apollo puts them in her hand and she takes them]
Apollo: Carry on.
Starbuck: Yes, sir.
Intercom: Pilots to Ready Room, pre-flight briefing. Pilots to ready room.
Starbuck: (to a watching Tyrol) What?
[Tyrol shrugs]
Transcript: Sci Fi SadGeezers
