For anyone wondering: As Richard Ched pointed out, the civilian death count should be 68.6 billion, not 6.86 billion. Yes, I missed the two Centurions Starbuck shot while rescuing Cree. It is unclear whether the Carillon entertainers escaped or whether the Pegasus was destroyed, so I opted not to include them. I originally included background footage and music during the final tallying but had to remove them after getting partial blocks by NBC and UMG. I included Ila's name but I'm not sure why it didn't make it into the final render.
Wow. This is such great work. Thanks! I always thought that the capital ships in the original series had much larger crews. 2,000 for a basestar or a battlestar is less than half the crew complement on a 21st century US aircraft carrier.
The Cylon ship design and the cylons themselves were a much better design in 78. In the reboot they took out the blasters and gave us some bullets instead ! SUCKED!,energy-related weapons are needed I think. There are so many it would take all day... so I say say OLD - SCHOOL IS THE WAY
@@hankmessaros6700 if i remember correctly they said that they want it to feel more realistic But honestly, i cant see how realistic it is for approximately 500 PDCs unable to even defend against toasts coming out of their racks and needing to rely on giant flak shells
Awesome job on this! Loved watching reruns of BSG on the sci-fi Chanel after school as a kid. I recently did a similar thing myself with the Gundam franchise, but your video is far better in presentation and editing!
Every time something blew up it sounded like a nuclear explosion, LOL. They reused that same sound effect Hollywood has been using since the 50's, ad nauseam.
Great respect to you; however, I feel your Ovion death count is incorrect as all of the Ovions on Carillon were destroyed in the detonation of the planet. In terms of those we see die individually on screen, if that was your term of reference I can't complain.
I didn't quite see, but did you add any deaths for the colonial's every time a raider rams into the landing bay? That always seems to do quite a bit of damage and lights the ship on fire.
The one part that I found funny from the shows pilot was when the cyborg daggit bit the leg of the Cylon bringing him down and the RoboDog started jumping up and down on his hind legs man that was funny even though I now know it was a chimpanzee inside that suit.
@@darthplagueis4626 well there was Vulpa in Gun on Ice Planet Zero part 2. Cain destroyed two base stars and you saw the gold cylons in command. Then finally there was the base star in the Hand of God.
@@richardjenkins3756 There's no way to confirm that the two basestars were commanded by Command Centurions. However, there was one in the command center on Gamoray.
@@darthplagueis4626 there was one in Gammoray you’re correct. But there was also one shown as the Pegasus was approaching, I’d assume both base star commanders were centurions but one certainly was
Funny. Im surprised its not 17 hours long considering all the reuse battle effects that were used. Any chance of putting up the alternate ending and cut scenes. Like the Colonial Anthem.
Nice work, slow moving, barely mobile mechanical storm troopers, that move only slightly? faster and with more surety than my elderly mother. You (somehow), managed to genocide an entire, sophisticated multi-planetary species with faaaaaar better hand-eye coordination, not to mention technology, at least as good. 10/10. If Baltar had given the Cylons the secret of improved servos and gears instead, the war would have likely ended 500 yearahs, or cubits, or .......years ago even.
I utilized the Encylopedia Galactica (yes, it does have errors), which states that 98% of the approximately 7 billion Colonial population was wiped out by Cylon pluton weaponry. Presumably the rest were put to the sword, but there isn't enough information provided in the series or the Encyclopedia to calculate exactly how many of the other 2% died.
Good job, but I couldn't tell was it +1 death for Apollo's smiting but then a -1 when he was resurected? And the epidode where Apollo and Starbuck where in white uniforms, wouldn't that be a +2/-2
Carillon's population is unknown, as is the number of Colonials that escaped the planet in time. As far as the Columbia, that name is retroactive. Dialogue from the pilot named all the battlestars at Cimtar (none of them Columbia) so I counted those separately.
I do not understand how you could watch the video and post that comment. It should be clear already that I counted each Raider destroyed as three Centurions.
@@darthplagueis4626 yes! in the first few seconds i really wondered why each time a raider was destroyed the count raised by 3. than i remembered that raiders were 3 seaters.
What's your source on that? Right off the bat, I contest the fighter complement, as Colonel Tigh states in "The Hand of God" that a baseship carries 300 Raiders.
@@darthplagueis4626 my source is my colonial warriors hand book 800 is max 300 is stander. your count of the soldiers was right but you didn't include the rest of the crews on the battlestar's and the 200 to 250 pilots plus the 2 bay stars il and command cylon Cain took out. but i love your work. you need to show the rest of living legion attack with baltar
See the pinned comment for the Colonies. As for Gamoray, there is no source for the number of Cylons killed so I could only go off what was seen onscreen.
I assumed each fleet mentioned contained at least three. However, the Rycon was scuttled at the Battle of the Cosmara Archipelago, so I didn't include it. Battlestars confirmed destroyed were the Atlantia, Acropolis, Triton and Pacifica at Cimtar, the Columbia not long before, a fleet at Caprica (so I assumed three), and the Fifth Fleet at Molecay two yahrens earlier (Pegasus survived, so two).
@@darthplagueis4626 impressive job detailing the battlestars defeated in detail and where/when. I don't recall mentioning in the pilot episode that there was a fleet at Caprica at the same time as the Battle of Cimtar. You might be confusing this with the RJM pilot, which did have battlestars above Caprica at the time of the attack on the Colonies.
@@darthplagueis4626 I think at least two of these battlestars are double-counted. The Cylon in “Gun on Ice Planet Zero” mentioned the Columbia as having been destroyed at the peace conference. That means the series was inconsistent on which battlestars were present. But the Columbia being there meant that one of the others is just the wrong name. Now if the Columbia was one of the ones mentioned by Adama as having been at Caprica, that would be a different double count. Plus, I was assuming when Adama mentioned the fleet destroyed at Caprica, he was using shorthand about the fleet destroyed at Cimtar because he considered the whole plan as one attack and Caprica was near and dear to his heart. So perhaps those three battlestars did not exist. I always thought canon said all existing battlestars were at Cimtar and that none were left behind at the colonies. I think the accurate count would be six: 4 at Cimtar and 2 at Molecay. If I’m wrong and there was a fleet of 3 battlestars at Caprica that was not present at Cimtar, then the total would be nine.
Atlantia, Pacifica, Triton, and Acropolis all blew up in the Battle of Cimtar, every man onboard all of them disintegrated with the ship. Columbia blew up 'at the peace conference' somewhere away from this main battle, some sources claim survivors but it is most like everyone onboard turned to ash with the ship. Solaria was destroyed over one of the colonies, everyone onboard was barbequed when she blew up. Rycon was scuttled after sustaining critical damage in an earlier victorious pitched battle, some of the crew survived. Prometheus was never mentioned and is only known as it is on the original list of battlestars given to the props department. Presumed lost with all hands since both Adama and Baltar believed Galactica was 'the last Battlestar'. Cerberus was Adama's and Cain's original battlestar during their days as viper pilots, again presumed destroyed with all hands. Pegasus was presumed blown up at Molecay but actually survived, later presumed destroyed with a skeleton crew all burning with her after a suicide run against a couple of base ships. Most of her crew and all her vipers survived on the Galactica. Galactica is.... well..... Galactica.... So it is fair to assume, the battlestars that blew up at Molecay were Prometheus and Cerberus, since Rycon was on her own when she blew up, Solaria blew up 'over a colony', and the other 5 all blew up at Caprica.
Shouldn't more Gold Cylons bite the dust? Sure we only see 3 but there's got to be more on the Base Stars. And I didn't not know Cylons had civilians. I wish someone spent the money to redo all the special effects....
Battlestar Galactica introduced Plot Armor to entertainment by default I suppose. Star Wars and other took it to the ridiculous point of no return. Actually, if you combine all the Colonial loses they are only half of those of the Centurions but unreplaceable under the circumstances so the result is about even strategically.
If only there was a "Boxy" kill for the Cylon side! And that awful robot dog, too! 😀 Except for Alderaan in "Star Wars," BSG may have the highest kill count of all-time... at least for a TV show, and most movies.
If you include all works of fiction, the winner will always be 'Star Control'. Basically the ridiculously powerful 'Ur Quan' split into 2 factions, one spreads spinwards throughout the galaxy the other antispinwards. One of them conquers and gives a choice of 'join us or be slaves' to every race it meets, far enough. The other ANNHILIATES every race. And when they meet again, in a tiny sector of space that includes both Earth (that is captured and enslaved) and the Ur Quan homeworld, as well as around 20 other races, in a final battle for control of the galaxy. So basically, in a highly populated GALAXY (ie billions of star systems), half of the races are obliterated. And that s just civilians.
:) Recently destroyed Centurions should not count. They're Machinery, Nothing to remorse (Despite what the 2004 Skin jobs tried to make everybody believe :)). Both great versions.
The number of Colonial and Cylon deaths is incorrect. You have to factor in the fact that many of the same scenes are used multiple times throughout the movie and entire TV series. The scene where you see a Cylon fighter chasing the a Colonial viper across the screen (upper right to lower left),and another Colonial pilot fires at the viper ahead, but when the laser bolts reaches the spot where the viper was, it instead hits the Cylon fighter. This of course is a spacial anomaly, and those three Cylons are dying over and over again.
I am quite well aware of the reuse of VFX shots. That does not negate the fact that, in-universe, they are different kills, even if represented with the same footage.
ABC were F’m morons for canceling this show. They should have double down on the budget so they won’t have to keep using the same recycled special effects. And Battle Star Galactica 1980 was a God awful cheap excuse of a continuation that absolutely SUCKED and did not deserve to exist. Just another example how Corporate Executives are Freak’n Clueless and don’t deserve a even a fraction of what they are paid. Especially those in Hollywood.
