Lee Adama

Biography of the character

Family

Originating in Caprica, Lee “Apollo” Adama is the son of William and Caroline Adama and the grandson of Joseph and Evelyn Adama. Several episodes stress that it maintains a conflict relation with his father, to which it reproaches in particular the death of his/her brother Zak, who was crushed with the orders of a Viper. It is reconciled with him to scramble itself again when it gives an opinion in favor of the president Laura Roslin that his/her father wants to oblige to resign. In an interview Jamie Bamber describes this relation thus: " This difficult character that in a certain way he envies, that he respects, admires, venerates, and with which he has at the same time considerable problems - a man of which he feels distant, that he does not include/understand completely, completely foreigner with the education which he received and his existence".

Love life

It is the best friend of Kara Thrace. Their hierarchical relation obliges them to keep a certain distance in spite of their reciprocal attraction. It has a connection with Anastasia Dualla which becomes his wife.

Career

It becomes pilot of Viper in the colonial fleet like his father. It is a highly skilled pilot, appreciated his men. At the time of the attack of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the let us cylons, it is charged to escort the governmental vessel of the delegation which attends the ceremony of disarmament of the Galactica . He manages to save this vessel of the destruction by cylons, and becomes ordering of the squadron of Vipers of Galactica.

He gains the confidence of the president Roslin and becomes his adviser charged to inform it on the operation of the military fleet. He refuses to carry out the orders of his father who wants to force the president Laura Roslin to dislocate his functions by the force, which leads it in cell. But he escapes and helps the President and his staff to be escaped, then takes part in the mutiny fomented by Roslin. After the reunification of the Fleet and the reconciliation of Adama and Roslin, it is reconciled with his father.

When the Pegasus joined the fleet, Apollo is transferred on this vessel by the admiral Helena Cain. It comes very close to death at the time of the human attack against the vessel of resurrection cylon, reinstates a time the crew of the Galactica in died of Cain before being promoted major, then commander-in-chief of the Pegasus .

Profile of the character

According to Jamie Bamber, Lee Adama is a “complete character” with the manner of the ideal of the Renaissance, a “man of action, which is also a man of the verb and a man of thought”.

In the series of 1978, the name of the character was Apollo captain, name which evoked a positive hero while pointing out the various missions Apollo (in particular Apollo 11). In this new series where ancient mythology has a greatter importance, Apollo (Apollon) is not any more the name, but the nickname of the character. This nickname is used at the time of the missions of hunting, but also by the president Roslin whose opinion is that it sticks to the character well. This modification corresponds to the ambition of this new grinding of the series, on which Ron Moore insists, which is to introduce characters realistic, complex, and not of the stereotypes. The fans of the series in general seem to keep reference to Apollon only one allusion to his legendary beauty. They speak in praise of the impeccable figure of Jamie Bamber which they can study very with leisure in the many scenes of showers or cloakroom whose extracts circulate on the fabric. If this dimension were well envisaged at the beginning, by showing that the nickname of Lee reflects the opinion of its pars the authors testify to a more ambitious design of the character. The casting of Bamber, according to him, was not done on athletic criteria but on the capacity of the actor to incarnate a cerebral character more . In the episode Revolution (season 1), the revolutionist Tom Zarek wonders about the relationship between Lee and God Apollo, underlining the complexity of the character; but the nickname connotes also its solar side, wink with the luminous side of the force animating the positive heroes of the Star Wars like Luke Skywalker; this characteristic distinguishes it from his/her father whose share of shade is systematically underlined by the setting in scene. The couple Apollo-sun allows in English an untranslatable pun on the homophons sun and its , from which the third season draws part with the episode 18, Its Also Rises , which diverts the title of the novel of Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (in French the Confrontation ). An amateur of the series notices that in this episode, Lee literally seeks to leave the shade of his/her father . This relation father-wire in any event is strongly connoted by the choice of the names, Adama, Adam, evoking a figure of universal father, Apollon being the eternally youthful son of Zeus.

But the intertextuality of the two names also insists on the ditch which separates two mental universes, the world vétérotestamentaire and patriarchal from where the patronym from the father (and the " is drawn; méchant" , in fact Helena Cain) being opposed to the Greek world from which the nickname of the son is borrowed (or those of Agathon, Athena and Hera, and even dyonisiaque Thrace). Whereas the president Roslin practices the Realpolitik, for the admiral Adama, who applies the Loi of retaliation towards cylons, the end often justifies the means (see the destruction of l' Olympic carrier in the episode ), with however of the limits which it does not cross, as the refusal of a drives out with the witches . In the episode Révolution , he acknowledges that he read works prohibited to form a personal opinion before showing that it is able to include/understand from the opposite points of view and to try to find compromises which respect the values of the two parties

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