Boxey’s the obsequious urchin character from the original BSG series, the one the scriptwriters kept bringing in so that Apollo could give a wholesome “life lesson” lecture to the audience through. He was present in the reimagined miniseries, but disappeared pretty quickly when it was realized that sickeningly-cute kids and annoying robopooches have no home in this new universe.
Okay, so let’s bring him back now. He’s a teenager now, he has all that angsty energy after losing his folks and barely surviving off the generosity of others, and (so far) hasn’t dredged up an annoying robotic dog. When everyone in the series is getting the “life lesson” crammed down their throats, I don’t see any problems with one more. Plus, in a darker BSG universe, they can do some really mean things with a kid. Think Wil Wheaton’s “Stand By Me” character instead of his “Star Trek” character, except he’s also hanging out with Viper pilots and smoking stogies, and (for example) selling drugs and shooting Cylons in the kneecaps whenever possible. The Twelve Colonies need a violent urchin.
Scriptwriters get bonus point if they can take advantage of the fact that Boxey’s dad was the first official casualty of the Cylon invasion, and still maintain credibility.
Well … OK. But only if Ron Moore gets to “reimagine” the character as he has done with others. For example, I would make Boxey a girl. Who is at least 18. And who got her nickname via her profession, which is … well, you get the drift.
Boxy already was on BSG – he was a boy, he was picked up by Boomer when she left Helo behind. He shows up in the background of a few episodes early in the first season – hanging around the ready room, maybe in the background of a poker game (or whatever “star poker” is called now… Triad?).
Finally, Moore and Eick realized that there’s just no use for the character. They had intended that Boomer-Tyrol-Boxy would become a pseudo-family unit, but abandoned that idea (and how). I think Moore talks about it in one of his earlier blogs over on Sciffy.
Of course, there’s the possibility he might show up again, if Moore gets the wild hair to do so. I’d’ve thought Capt. Kelley was gone for good (maybe making those little ship models Adama likes playing with) – but he showed up again on Galactica’s bridge last week.
Er, yeah. I knew that, I didn’t make it clear enough in the OP. His picture was on the desk in the initial scenes of the miniseries, at the Armistace Station. We’re led to believe that the human officer at that station was a close relative, likely his father.
Slight hijack - I had to chuckle at this one. I’m reminded of the main character in George Lucal in Love - while he’s agonizing over the setting for his “space farmer movie”, he keeps mulling over the crop. “Space…corn. Space…wheat. Space…oats.”
Boxey could enter pilot training as a nugget on Pegasus and get killed for the sake of poignancy. But I don’t care what you all say, that dog was awesome. I had the action figure toy and it made me awesome simply by association. I think I was like 4 years old? Preschool awesomeness.
Some heretics believe that after the original Galactica went off the air it briefly resurfaced in the year 1980 as a new and incredibly lame series. Of course, such a thing never existed. It’s a figment of sick fantasy, like Highlander 2, which also never existed.
Are you high? The kid was annoying at best, and the idea of having the cute little munchkin and his dagget running around making cute little quips to Tigh or whoever makes me want to puke. Half the episodes with him in it would probably involve some cloying “let the children lead them” moral that would, again, make me want to vomit. I’m guessing many who admire Galactica’s bleak atmosphere and dark content would be equally repulsed.
You do see the Boxey-saved-by-Boomer in one of the episodes during the series-just for a minute. I vaguel recollect that he was smirking around some pilots meeting and/or in the hallways once. I was listening to the audio commentary for the mini-series and one person said the character was played by his real life son-no idea if it was Ron Moore who said that.
This is a fantastic idea; while we’re on the subject, I think I’m going to edit Jar-Jar and Jake Lloyd into the original Star Wars movies, since I miss those mischievous rapscallions so gosh darn much.
