Apollo in Battlestar Galactica

October 12, 2005
NICKNOTNED

The new Battlestar Galactica, whose second season is now (tragically) ending, is almost certainly the best televised science fiction series ever. (Apologies to Firefly fans.) One could cite the quality of the acting and writing, or the silence of the space battles, which marks television's belated acknowledgement that sound does not travel in a vacuum. But this is Fleshbot. So let's give credit to the shower scenes! In Final Cut, a recent episode, Lee Adama, aka Apollo, commander of the Viper pilots, struggles with a skimpy towel as a reality TV camera pans up and down his torso. Apollo is prime space totty, and the camera lingers lovingly for a good couple of minutes. If anyone has a vidcap, please email it over*. A DVD boxset of the first season awaits you, as retro as that format may be. (As a bonus, you'll also find a link to a BG adult fan fiction site for Apollo and Starbuck, another pilot. Which sounds dubious, given that Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica back in the 1980s was a young boy. Worry not: the new Starbuck is a hot, kickboxing chick, and the fan fiction is sweaty, hetero, and without pedophile overtones.- ND

* Update: Read more, see more pics and watch the towel-slip video after the jump.