SyFyPortal Talks Season 2

SyFy Portal recently talked with some of the writers for Battlestar Galactica, and what we're going to be expecting in the next season. Caution, there are spoilers:

The first season of SciFi Channel's hit series "Battlestar Galactica" ended with Cmdr. William Adama (Edward James Olmos) lying in a pool of his own blood. A president (Mary McDonnell) under arrest. And a son (Jamie Bamber) disgraced.
Normally, season finales wrap up storylines and questions posed through the course of the season. But "Battlestar Galactica" hardly is normal.
Maureen Ryan, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, recently had a chance to talk to Bradley Thompson and David Weddle who wrote the two-part second-season premiere of the series, expected to air in July. While she didn't use some of the interrogation techniques that Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) used in questioning Leoben (Callum Keith Rennie) in "Flesh and Bone," but Ryan was able to use her fine-tuned journalistic technique to get some tidbits of the second season out of the writers.
The biggest question on many fans' mind is whether or not Adama -- who now has the inconvenience of two holes in his abdomen -- will be able to live long enough to carry on his mission for Earth.
"I can't answer that," Weddle said. "You saw where the bullets hit him. What do you think? Personally, I think it's goig to be very touch and go. Let's hope he makes it."
Apollo (Bamber) won't be gone forever, however. His jail stint probably will be a little more short lived.
"Can't tell you," Weddle said. "But what does he do now? Does he help Roslin fight to save the government, or has the shooting of his father so traumatized him that he seeks forgiveness for his actions and abandons Roslin? Galacitca needs him, he's one of their best pilots and they don't have many. Yet, he refused to obey orders and held a gun to Tigh's head. So what does Tigh do with him? These will not be easy conflicts for our characters to resolve."
Baltar himself will have a lot to do in the second season, as his collusion with the Cylons continues to grow.
"Baltar's spirituality and relationship with the Cylon god will continue to evolve," Weddle said. "As it does, we will learn more. But the more we learn, the more questions we will have. It won't all be laid out in one nice, neat easy-to-comprehend synopsis. Baltar's journey will reflect the spiritual struggles many of us go through over the course of our lives. He will have epiphanies, achieve a deeper understanding of Cylon theology, but also have crises of faith and be tempted to reject his role on god's plan."
The new political struggle will get the attention of one character who made a couple of appearances last season. You know him as a member of the Quorum of Twelve ... Richard Hatch's Tom Zerak.
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