the Wagnerian castle-dwellers of Battlestar Galactica.
I've a feeling that in 1978 CE the producers of Battlestar Galactica somehow got ahold of Wagner's Ring helmets and decided to build their Episode 11, The Young Lords , around these Siegfried costume props. The fearless guerilla teen Kyle (Charles Bloom) confidently tells Colonial Warrior Starbuck that his siblings are a well-oiled army that've been successfully striking Cylon targets long before he gracelessly wrecked his Viper on their homeworld. On the planet Attila (which given the context just also happens to refer to the latter chapters of the Burgundian Song of the Nibelungs ) Starbuck is rescued by the operatic clad martial family which includes young Valkyrie-esque vixen Audrey Landers as Miri, the eldest daughter: [yes, they ride unicorns!] Of course flyboy Starbuck's flirty bad boy charm wins her over pretty quickly. After using B-roll long shot of an actual Rhineland castle, there's closer interiors/exteriors of a Universal Studio's Stage 30 set I...