‘Battlestar Galactica: The Plan’ Proves the Credits of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Have Been Misleading us for Years
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan is a made-for-DVD BSG movie written by Jane Espenson and directed by Edward James Olmos (aka Admiral William Adama).
The movie, if it even qualifies as that, begins nine months and two weeks after the attack on the colonies, then within two minutes jumps back ten months to two weeks before the attack. That's the first jump in a series of jumps that speed the film forward through various scenes that take place over the course of the next ten months, scenes which chronicle the aftermath of the attack from the perspective of the Cylons as they struggle to handle something they didn't anticipate: human survivors.
In the lead up to its release, here's two key things Olmos had to say about it:
“The Plan is … literally, at the beginning of every single episode you see that the Cylons are created by man, there are many of them, and some of them don’t know that they are Cylons. And they have a plan. Well, this is the plan. This is what caused this to happen.”
and
”When Battlestar fans see The Plan, they’re all going to have to go back and watch the entire series again.”
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of The Plan is that it proves both of those statements utterly wrong which, when added to his now legendary outburst on Attack of the Show claiming that BSG had influenced the UN to amend its non-existent 1947 charter, well, that's three strikes and you're out.
