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Callis: New BSG To Be 'Far Darker'
"This Is Remorseless And Relentless," Actor Said
(May 09 2006) - If you thought the first two seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" were dark and brooding, well, then you haven't seen nothin' yet, series star James Callis told SciFi Wire.
"In the upcoming episodes, the simplest way to explain what happens is that the wheat is separated from the chaff," Callis said in an interview at this month's Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif. "I'm not actually sure at this moment which I belong to, which bothers me, whether I'm the wheat or the chaff. All I know is that we are necessarily separated."
Callis plays Gaius Baltar, the new Colonial president and maybe Cylon-conspirator.
Callis said comparisons of the coming third season, in which the humans struggle under Cylon domination, to France under the Nazi occupation of World War II are apt.
"And the first few scripts of this particular season are phenomenal," he said, "and far darker and more gritty and more worrying than anything that you have seen before. I really am not just saying that. I remember just reading it going, 'My God almighty, this is remorseless and relentless.' And as such should be very gripping television. Even though it's very, I think, the word is dystopic."
The third season of "Battlestar Galactica" gets underway with new episodes in October on the SciFi Channel.
