Chief & Boomer’s Picon Dream House

I have only just started watching season 4 of EUREKA because James Callis has joined the show. This may be old news because I have not seen any episodes of season 1 to season 3 of EUREKA, but Allison Blake (the lady with the autistic son) lives in Chief & Boomer’s ‘Picon Dream House’ from the BSG episode 4×17: Someone To Watch Over Me.

 

The images on the left are from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. The images on the right are from EUREKA.




 

Below is a video clip with scenes of the house from both the BSG and Eureka episodes.

The first 1:40 is from the BSG episode 4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me.
I cut out the parts where Tyrol goes upstairs to see their daughter.

The last 1:10 are from the EUREKA episodes 4×01: Founder’s Day and 4×02: A New World.

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Bear McCreary: BG4: “Someone to Watch Over Me”

BG4: “Someone to Watch Over Me”
By: Bear McCreary
Date: February 27, 2009
Source: Bear McCreary’s BSG Blog (HERE, HERE and HERE)

 

Note: This is a snippet from BEAR McCREARY’s blog where he mentions AARON DOUGLAS / CHIEF TYROL. To read the full blog entry, click HERE, HERE and HERE.

 

BG4: “Someone to Watch Over Me,” Pt 1

Bradley Thompson added “We had some idea it would be a Starbuck vehicle, and we had some notion that we’d get to do Boomer/Tyrol, but we definitely knew that given the choice, we’d sing our swan song with Michael [Nankin].”

“I remember you talking about Gershwin in our conversations,” Weddle recalled. “So when it came time to come up with a title for the episode, I looked up Gershwin songs and found ‘Someone to Watch Over Me.’ I ran it by Brad and he said, ‘Jesus, that’s perfect! Not only for the Kara story, but for the Tyrol/Boomer story as well.’ Brad was primarily responsible for writing the Tyrol/Boomer story, so that became a seal of approval.”

 

 

BG4: “Someone to Watch Over Me,” Pt 2

I also performed additional pieces at the request of Michael Nankin. “I also started having ideas — which developed during prep and the shoot—about using Slick’s compositions as score for other scenes,” Nankin explained. “In my shooting script I’d drawn lines from piano scenes, extending over the next two scenes (or the previous two scenes,) indicating where this would happen. I started talking to Bear about this in the early stages, so that he could write to it, essentially scoring the episode before it was shot. The episode contained stories that were very different in tone (Starbuck’s visitation, Tyrol and Boomer’s cylon projections, the plot to steal Hera, Adama and Laura saying goodbye) which I felt this approach to the score could smooth out. I always attack an episode with the idea of making it all of one thematic and emotional piece, rather than disjointed A, B and C stories.”

Nankin showed me these specific scenes in the script he wanted music for and I played them out in my mind, performing score that I thought would be useful in the cutting room. It was strange, to “score” scenes that hadn’t been edited (or in some cases, even shot) yet. Supervising editor and associate producer Andy Seklir was also on set, so I was able to discuss these pieces with him as well.

I performed solo piano versions of “Roslin and Adama,” Tyrol’s Theme and Starbuck’s Theme and anything else I thought might come in handy. (And since you’re wondering, the entire Roslin and Adama subplot was cut out of the episode, so I hope you can see these scenes on the DVD set.)

 

 

BG4: “Someone to Watch Over Me,” Pt 3


Before the teaser ends, we begin the episode’s other plot line. Chief Tyrol learns that the cylons wish to execute Boomer for her role in the cylon uprising. At the moment he realizes this awful truth, listen for a subtle statement of the Boomer Theme in the gamelan:


This theme is one of the oldest in my toolbox and, in combination with the Tyrol Theme, will play an important role in their arc this episode.

At the end of the B Theme, we cut to the Chief’s storyline. He’s welding in a hallway, but thinking about his past relationship with Boomer. Here, the score takes an interesting turn. We are no longer in Joe’s Bar, and yet we continue to hear Slick play the piano. But, it moves from the physical space of Joe’s Bar to sounding like it’s in a concert hall. It has, in essence, transitioned from being a real instrument in the ship, to a part of the score itself.

While the Tyrol Theme would have been an obvious choice for this montage, I felt it was more important to establish the piano music as a thread tying this episode together. So, Slick’s piano plays the Sonata A Theme throughout the entire montage, although joined by percussion, yialli tanbur, duduk and the other BG score instruments.

At the end of the montage, we again witness Boomer dying in Chief’s arms and the piano slowly echoes away, playing an ascending figure that we will hear again when the Chief / Boomer storyline reaches its climax at the episode’s conclusion.

From there, we cut to the first big step in the Chief / Boomer storyline. He goes to the brig to visit her and has an unintended projection, taking them to the dream house they never had the chance to build together. In this scene, Chris Bleth plays the Tyrol Theme on the alto flute:

This theme has an interesting and convoluted history. I originally composed it for Season One’s Litmus, intending to write the definitive Tyrol / Boomer Love Theme. However, unbeknownst to me, they had no more love scenes in the season, and she was killed early in Season Two. At the end of Season Two, I re-tooled the theme to serve as a Tyrol / Cally Love Theme, underscoring his heartfelt apology to her for breaking her jaw. After occasional uses in Season Three, the theme was basically put to rest when Cally died in Season Four.

However, in Someone to Watch Over Me, the Tyrol Theme comes full circle and again functions as the Tyrol / Boomer Love Theme, just like I’d originally intended.

After his initial bad projection experience, Chief comes back and tries it out again. This scene represents the most complete, lyrical and romantic version of the Tyrol Theme since their relationship together at the end of Litmus. The simple arpeggiated accompaniment in the gamelan, piano and harp is also a reference to that Season One cue.

Chief walks through their dream house, basking in every last detail. However, he’s surprised to see a growth chart on the wall for what must be their child together. At this touching, suspenseful moment, the Tyrol Theme is played by an ethereal piano… Slick’s piano! I did this to further blend these two storylines together, as if Slick were in the score as well, commenting on the Chief’s discovery of his daughter.

And what a discovery it is. As he moves up the stairs, the score modulates upward and swells to a big statement of the Tyrol Theme in electric violin, erhu, duduk and bansuri accompanied by gamelan, piano and harps. This kind of romantic musical gesture is rare on Battlestar Galactica, but the incredibly moving performances from Aaron Douglas and Grace Park allowed for me to write bigger musical gestures.

We return briefly to Chief’s storyline. Roslin informs him that she’s releasing Boomer to the cylons, and he doesn’t take the news well. He decides that he must rescue her. The cue underscoring this decision begins with low strings, synths and frame drums, a very typical Battlestar Galactica texture. However, as he puts his plan into action, Slick’s piano sneaks into the score, playing arpeggiated phrases against the ever-intensifying percussion backdrop.

Chief turns out the lights in a hallway where cylons are working and clubs a Sharon over the head with a wrench. At this point, the piano accelerates out of control. It breaks free from the percussion groove and takes on a life of its own.

With Slick coaxing her along, Kara begins to noodle around on the keys, struggling to bring the melody up from her oldest memories. These shots are inter-cut with Boomer retrieving Hera from the nursery and sneaking her aboard a raptor, unbeknownst to the Chief who is helping her escape. Throughout the whole montage, the mysterious piano strains slowly become more and more familiar, underscored with a haunting bed of strings and synths.

From the climactic moment of Kara’s storyline, we cut back to the Chief and Boomer one last time. He helps her aboard the raptor and kisses her. Even though the audience knows that Boomer is kidnapping Hera, the Chief is totally ignorant of this, so the score comments only on his emotions. We hear one last warm statement of the Tyrol Theme as they kiss, before the score takes a detour into more tense and dissonant territory.

After the pandemonium, Chief Tyrol discovers that he inadvertently helped Boomer kidnap Hera. Here, Chris Bleth’s also flute states a creepy version of the Tyrol Theme against shifting, minor chords. This is his darkest moment, and thusly the most dissonant arrangement of his theme yet.

The Chief, stunned and heartbroken, stumbles into their projected dream house. He finds his way into his daughter’s room, but she’s no longer there. The house is an empty shell, the façade it had always been.

The Sonata, lush and romantic on its own, provides painful, bittersweet counterpoint to the visuals. Kara’s father had given up everything he ever had so he could write this piece of music. And now it underscores the pain Tyrol experiences at losing the family he might have had if life had turned out differently. He falls to his knees, a broken man. But, the piano performance, fluttering through half-diminished chords like a butterfly, descends gently to its graceful concluding chord as we fade to black.

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BSG EPISODE REVIEW – 4×17: Someone To Watch Over Me (February 27, 2009)

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VIDEO: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – 4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me (February 27, 2009)

TV SHOW: Battlestar Galactica
EPISODE: 4×17: Someone To Watch Over Me
AIR DATE: February 27, 2009 on Sci Fi Channel (USA)
AARON’S CHARACTER: Chief Galen Tyrol
WRITTEN BY: Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
DIRECTED BY: Michael Nankin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993918/

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BSG SNEAK PEEK: 4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me

Thanks to SevorTB here is a sneak peek of a scene from 4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me featuring the Chief.

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TRANSCRIPT: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – 4×17: Someone To Watch Over Me (February 27, 2009)

PREVIOUSLY, ON BATTLESTAR GALACTICA…

Tyrol: Hairline fractures in all the beams. Her bones are rotten. There’s something on the Baseship that can help. It’s this organic resin. It’ll grow into the metal. It strengthens it as it matures.

 

NOTE: In the the episode 4×15: No Exit the lines were:

Tyrol: This isn’t about those cracks, Admiral. I started thinking about damage that you can’t see. You know, stuff that’s deeper in, that you’d only see on an x-ray. Dealino, fire it up.
Dealino: Okay, Chief. It’s online.
Tyrol: We prepped the beam with this liquid that fluoresces. It’s not an x-ray, but you get the idea. It’s throughout the entire ship. Hairline fractures in all the beams. It’s in her bones, Admiral. Her bones are rotten.

and later in the episode…

Tyrol: I have an idea. There’s something on the Baseship that can help.
Adama: Cylon technology?
Tyrol: It’s this organic resin. It’ll grow into the metal. Make it stronger. It’ll take the load as it matures.

Tyrol: Nice to see you again. This is Boomer.
Adama: Marines, take this Number Eight to the brig.


(1) INT. GALACTICA – ADAMA’S QUARTERS

Tyrol: So, the stop-drilling and the shoring compound will buy the Galactica a few more jumps, but not many.
Apollo: How many?
Tyrol: Impossible to say. Till the hull caves in.
Adama: But we’re not ready to give up on the old girl just yet.
Apollo: Well, if there’s nothing else. Sonja, I wanna congratulate you on your election. I look forward to seeing you taking your seat in the Quorum of ships’ captains next week.
Sonja: Thank you. But you should know something. When we convene, I intend to formally request that the Eight you’re holding in Galactica’s brig be returned to us.
Tyrol: Boomer?
Sonja: Yes. Sharon Valerii.
Adama: She put two holes in me.
Sonja: I’m afraid I didn’t word that right. We don’t want Boomer set free. We want to try Boomer for treason. Sharon Valerii sided with Cavil in the Cylon Civil War, which killed thousands of our comrades.
Apollo: And if she’s convicted?
Sonja: Before the civil war, resurrection made capital punishment pointless. But now that we’re all mortal…
Tyrol: You want to kill her.


(2) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

[Humans and Cylons are working together on the Galactica repairs. Tyrol looks up from his welding and stares at a Cylon Number Eight]

FLASHBACK – 1×06: Litmus
Tyrol: You know, sometimes at work, I try and conjure up what your face looks like. The curve of your lips. The way your hair falls. How you smell.
Boomer: You see my face every day.
Tyrol: Yeah, but not like this.

FLASHBACK – 2×04: Resistance
Boomer: You know, what we had…
Tyrol: Was nothing. Nothing. You’re a machine, I’m not.
Boomer: Well, whatever I am. I know how I felt.
Tyrol: Software doesn’t have feelings.

FLASHBACK – 4×04: Escape Velocity
Tyrol: How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with? Got stuck with the best of limited options. And why? Because the ones we really want, that we loved, were dead, dying.

FLASHBACK – 2×04: Resistance
Tyrol: Oh, no. Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.
Boomer: I love you, Chief.

[Electricity goes out]
Tyrol: Gods damn it! Come on, people, you can’t draw your power from the same bus!


(3) INT. GALACTICA – BOOMER’S BRIG

Boomer: Thank God.
Tyrol: I don’t know why I’m here.
Boomer: You know, when I shot the old man… The things that you said to me. The way that you looked at me… I thought New Caprica was a way to set things right.
Tyrol: You can’t force people to love you at the point of a gun.
Boomer: I know that now. But at the time I felt betrayed. So I wanted to forget you. And hate you. Didn’t work. I’ve thought about you every day since that moment I died in your arms.
Tyrol: Me, too. If I had known back then what I am…
Boomer: I know. Galen, it’s okay. Really. I mean, the important thing is that we both know who we are now. [She puts her hand up to the glass] Let’s make the most with the time that we have left. (begs) Please.
[Tyrol reaches his fingers through the bars and touches Boomer’s hand on the glass. He is instantly transported to their Picon Dream House]
Tyrol: Tyrol: What the hell is this?
Boomer: Our house in Picon. It’s the one that we planned to build when we mustered out.
Tyrol: Tyrol: Stop. Stop.
[He removes his hand from hers and the projection stops]
Tyrol: Tyrol: Stop this.
Boomer: I’m sorry. Galen, I thought you’d be okay with Cylon projection.
[Tyrol is confused and angered by the illusion, drops the phone and leaves]


(4) JOE’S BAR

Tyrol: So that’s it. We’re just gonna sit on our hands? Let our people kill her for vengeance?
Tory: What do you expect us to do? Issue a formal decree of clemency? We can’t interfere.
Ellen: We can’t set ourselves up as Gods. The rebels are the aggrieved parties. They have every right to determine Valerii’s punishment.
Tyrol: Can’t. Can’t. Can’t! Boomer saved your life. You wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for her.
Ellen: And I will testify to that at her trial. But I won’t try to stop it. We have to let justice run its course.
Tyrol: Then they will kill her. Sure as hell.
Tigh: We’re all in hell.
Tyrol: Thanks for your input, Colonel.
Ellen: He just lost his child, for God’s sake. You leave him be.


(5) INT. GALACTICA – BOOMER’S BRIG

Tyrol: How long have you been going there?
Boomer: A While. Became my secret retreat. A way of feeling close to you. Do you remember how we obsessed over every little detail?
Tyrol: Ummm. That was you obsessing, I was just listening.
Boomer: Really? How many floor plans did you draw?
Tyrol: Ummm. That’s being thorough.
Boomer: Oh. We never had a chance to build our house, so I built it in my head. And I wanted so much to share it with you.
[Tyrol puts his fingers up to the glass]
Boomer: Are you sure? I don’t want to put you through any…
[Tyrol is transported to the Dream House. He looks around the house, appreciates it and Boomer’s company–and then finds signs of a child, their daughter. He goes into their child’s room and sits with her. Outside the projection, he laughs and cries happily]


(6) INT. GALACTICA – ADAMA’S QUARTERS

Tyrol: Madam President. I’m asking you as a personal favor to me, don’t sign that.
Roslin: Don’t do that, Chief. Personal feelings are what Sharon Valerii preys upon. You know that. Better than any of us. You need to clear your head.
Tyrol: You don’t have to kill her. Leave her in the brig.
Roslin: No. Uh-uh. She is a danger in the brig, out of the brig. Danger to us. Danger to our Cylon allies.
Tyrol: This can’t be the last option, Madam. Please. Madam President, please.
Roslin: We’re done here. Chief. You’re dismissed.


(7) INT. GALACTICA – GALACTICA REPAIRS
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[At one of the repair sites, Tyrol stares at an Eight who is busy applying the Cylon resin. He grabs a wrench. The lights go out, and mixed in with the sounds of people yelling is a heavy thump]


(8) INT. GALACTICA – BOOMER’S BRIG

[Tyrol helps the guards in the brig to reactivate the security cameras following the blackout. The unconscious, or dead, Eight has taken Boomer’s place in her cot]

Guard: Oh, you got it. Thanks, Chief. Every time the Godsdamn power goes out we gotta go down and check the locks. Prisoner still secured. She slept right through it. You gonna stay a while? Word is they’re shipping her out tomorrow.
Tyrol: No. I said all I needed to say.


(9) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Tyrol: Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa. Let me give you a hand with that.
Boomer: Easy, easy, Chief. Thanks.


(10) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Boomer: Come with me. I can’t do it without you.
Tyrol: Yeah, you can. We’ll meet again.
Boomer: There’s something I want you to remember. All the things that I said about us. I meant them with all my heart. So no matter what happens…
[Tyrol kisses her. Then they’re in the Dream House kissing. Then back on the raptor. Tyrol clears his throat and leaves]


(11) INT. GALACTICA
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Boomer waits for departure clearance in the port flight pod. Suspecting that she has been caught, she starts the raptor’s engines. Adama threatens to shoot her down, but she warns him that he will not be willing to fire on a raptor carrying Hera. As she spools up the raptor’s FTL, Adama orders the flight pods retracted. She launches, racing toward the narrowing gap and clearing it, but clipping the raptor in the process. She jumps away close to Galactica’s hull. The jump rips a hole in the battlestar, shakes the ship violently, and triggers power outages and explosions seemingly everywhere]

[Tyrol is in a Galactica Hallway]


(12) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Tyrol: I need a team, scaffolding and shoring compound to the forward magazine right away.
Dealino: One Eight looks like another.
Athena: How did a three-year-old girl get by you, though?
Tyrol: What the hell is going on up there?
Deckhand Brasko: Boomer took her kid.
Tyrol: What?
Deckhand Brasko: She took Hera. Just walked right out of the daycare.
Athena: How the hell do you let a three-year-old girl climb into a Raptor? How does she get by you?
Dealino: I’m sorry, sir. But nobody saw your daughter.
Helo: That’s impossible. Somebody saw her. She’s a three-year-old child. Explain to me how you didn’t see her.


(13) PICON DREAM HOUSE
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Tyrol runs frantically through Galactica. In the projected version of the house built by Boomer, he runs through all the rooms, and finds no one]


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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – 4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me (February 27, 2009)

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BSG TRAILER: 4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me (SCIFI) & (SPACE)

4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me (SCIFI)

Below is trailer for next weeks episode (4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me).

Video thanks to SevorTB (ddt73 on skiffy)

 

4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me (SPACE)

Thanks to pennyfeline here is the SPACE trailer for next weeks episode (4×17: Someone to Watch Over Me). There’s an extra scene with Tyrol that wasn’t in the SciFi trailer.

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