BATTLESTAR GALACTICA | Season 1 Ep 2 WATER | First Time REACTION | Gallifrey Gals Get Frakked 

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." Yes, this line has taken on a life of its own well beyond the series, for obvious reasons.

"- there is a reason why the army and the police are separated". the episode could also be called "the wisdom of Adama".

The Anxiety Gals have returned

Tricia Helfer and Grace Park deliver some of the most amazing performances in which they give distinctive personalities to all of their myriad iterations.

It's so easy to forget how huge every episode of season one of this show felt

Roslin can be a soft touch. But she's also the one who looked at Apollo's analysis of "Sorry this is for the *species.* We have to leave the sublight ships behind.", and agreed in moments, even though it had to go against everything she wanted to do. There's steel in her when there needs to be.

I love these first few episodes where you’re like, “what was his name?” When, by then end, you will know everyone’s name. You will know them forever. Strap in! I’m envious of y’all.

When you said the name of the episode is Water my first thought was its called that because every time Starbuck is on screen Kat gets thirsty

Mary McDonnell is fantastic in this series. As are so many other actors. The main cast is just phenomenal.

Aside from her wanting to destroy Galactica, Sharon is awesome!

One of the great things about this show is the way it discusses important yet timeless issues. Things like loyalty, sacrifice, religion, morality, and safety vs freedom. One of the sad things about this show is that these issues feel more poignant today than thet did 20 years ago.

you may have to do 2 a week. We are impatiently waiting to see how anxious you get : )

I THINK Baltar is a reflexive Horndog and was just running his usual game. I'm confident Starbuck saw him coming a mile off and let him think he was succeeding, until she got that cigar. Money is one thing. A good stogey is quite another.

Laura Roslin remains my favorite fictional politician

Love that y’all love Madame President Roslin so much! Mary McDonnell is phenomenal!❤

Not giving any spoilers nor hinting at anything beyond this episode. I always got the impression that, this early on in the series, shipping of Adama and The President, had nothing to do with the writing or season planning. Put two other performers in those roles with the same scenes and lines and you wouldn't get any impressions of the sort. But these two performers together just have such phenomenal deliveries and chemistry that it becomes palpable.

The sign of a good show is how fast time goes by while your watching. How would you like to have to wait a week for the next episode to came out.

The thing you need to remember about Starbuck is that she is a deeply flawed and complex person. She has amazing talents, she is brilliant, a genius pilot, an unconventional thinker and beautiful. However she is also self destructive, short tempered and arrogant (although to be fair her arrogance is usually justified). She is taken with Gaius because she can sense that he is bad for her, and deep down doesn't think she deserves to be with a good person like Lee.

Not sure if you noticed this Kat, but the guy who was in the Raptor with Boomer when they were scanning for water is your picket line buddy Sam Witwer (this is Eli btw not a random creeper who somehow knew that) Also the name of the guy who gets assigned to work with Baltar (Gaeta) is pronounced Gate-uh

Mary McDonnell (the President) was Stands with a Fist in Dances with Wolves. She so very in that too.

At this point in the series, Helo doesn't KNOW that there are cylons that look like humans. He's under the impression that the Number 6 he saw was a collaborator rather than an actual cylon. How long that lasts... you'll need to wait and see.

Loving your reactions to this incredible show. it really does have one of the best casts in television history, top to bottom. Regarding Baltar's interaction with Starbuck in this episode, one thing to keep in mind is that although Baltar's obviously a very intelligent person, he's not much of an advance planner, as we've seen throughout the miniseries and the first two episodes. Instead, he's really good at bullshitting on the fly. So it's actually not usually the case that Gaius is acting with some sort of secret plan or purpose in mind. He's generally way too impulsive for that. Instead, most of the time, he's just scared or desperate (or, as with Starbuck here, horny), and he's just very good at making up a web of lies in the moment. Like the whole mess with the fake Cylon detector - that was a lie he made up in the spur of the moment during the miniseries to deal with an immediate problem, and now, in true pathological liar fashion, he's having to come up with more and more lies to fix the problems he created with his earlier lies. So in this episode, I don't think he went to play the card game because he had some clever plan or long game in mind. I think he saw an attractive woman, and being the sleazeball he is, decided to hit on her instead of work on his assigned task. (Especially since he, of course, has no idea how to actually build a functioning Cylon detector anyway.) Also, IMO Baltar's schtick works with Starbuck here because, although she's very smart in her own way (especially in the cockpit), she is also, like Baltar himself, impulsive to a fault. And for all Baltar's underlying sliminess, it's undeniable that he is an extremely good looking guy with charm to spare. They're two horny idiots in a horny idiot pod.

I really love how the actors playing Cylons in this series (Boomer and Six in particular) really get to exercise their acting chops by playing different copies of the same Cylon model that then get shaped in different ways by their individual experiences.

Baltar can't resist a challenge or a conquest...or a blonde, apparently. I think it was Baltar making sure Gaeta wouldn't be immediately looking over his shoulder...and I think Baltar likes to remind himself and everyone around him occasionally that he's the smartest person in the room. As for Starbuck, I saw her throwing it back in his face a little. 'You won the game, but out here I decide if I lose to you, and I don't like to lose.' Showed her control over him by accepting his cigar, and then blowing the smoke in his face. You can be nice to me, but I don't have to be nice to you.

You should check out Portlandia one more episode. It’s about a couple who get wrapped up in watching Battlestar Galatica. It’s hilarious.

The extra layer in the card game was Balthar putting moves on Starbuck because she is a beautiful woman and he sees her as a challenge.

You're staring down the barrel of 4 seasons of convoluted uncertainty. False clues. Dead ends. Cruel twists.. Stunning reveals. New mysteries that will dwarf any that you now perceive. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Need more episodes than once a week.

You have a wild, emotional, deeply intense ride ahead of yourselves, full of subverted expectations, unexpected subplots; & characters you never expected to like becoming deeply meaningful for you! At least, that's how it was for me. My favorite character is Sharon-2, the one who's hooked up with Helo on Caprica. Be patient. Hopefully you'll learn why she is. Boomer's at war with herself. This episode started a theory in my head: that the Cylon "woke up" prematurely, & has spent the past few years "going native": falling in love with Boomer's friends, coming to admire the Commander; & wants to be human! I still hold to that head canon.

The beginning of this show is so strong! Episodes that just grab you. One of my favorite shows ever.

Enjoy this big, beautiful, stressful, well-written, well-acted, brilliant series! I think I shared this before, but just in case: PORTLANDIA did a perfect bit on how addictive this show is... it's hilarious, true... and there are no spoilers... so enjoy: It's called "ONE MORE EPISODE:" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AyHXzYTuLi4.htmlsi=oPN1OBjronwN3bnf

If you ever decide to do bonus content regarding this show, please PLEASE watch & react to the Portlandia BSG skit. I feel like yall would already be able to relate and it’s high key hilarious!

For the roll of president Roslyn, they actually put on the call sheet that they were looking for a Mary McDonnell like actress. Also Kat being in to Star Wars, should know Witwer/Crashdown is also STARKILLER IN SW: Force Unleashed .

This is already one of my favorite reaction series ever, it's painful waiting a week between episodes.

There was a recent interview with Sam Witwer (who plays crashdown - Boomer's new copilot and on a side note, also does a ton of voice acting for Star Wars) by Katee Sackhoff (Starbucks' actress who runs her own podcast now). Apparently, the producers often encouraged the cast to improvise some of their lines which is very unusual for most shows. Supposedly, Aaron Douglas who plays the Chief, was very good at improvising lines.

This is going to be awesome! BSG has a great combination of top notch writing and incredible performances from every Actor and Actress. When it comes to questions about what's going on, I like to think of Ronald D Moore saying this, "Just when they think they know all the answers, I change the questions."

I've seen this show so many times that all of the tension is gone. It is so refreshing to see you two react to it. Especially since you are such empathetic people. While I'm numb to the show, your reactions allow me to feel the show again. Thank you.

you two are so great ☺️☺️☺️ i cannot wait for more and more episode reactions!

Love your reactions!!!! It’s exactly like we all had the first time we watched it

This is the best written scifi series ever made. It is hard saying that because I'd have said TNG or DS9 was the best written series before I saw this one.

This is why the BSG game from FFG is a hidden role game... and includes the possibility of someone finding out they are a cylon at the midway point!

Glad to see more reactors taking up this series. One episode a week is going to be a long time until we "brace for turbulence". Thankfully the show is a banger, so I guess we're in for the long haul :D

I can't wait for ya'lls descent into madness. Don't forget the HR monitors LOL.

When originally watched this.. at the end I had to watch again and still not sure what happened There is so much more to understand and then ....... . Love watching with you xx

I love how much you guys love Roslin, she’s my fav 😍😍

Helo was originally meant to have died on Caprica in the mini-series. However the showrunners were so impressed with the actor's performance that they created the ongoing plot on Caprica. That would have been very different if not for that actor. (Sources available from the wikipedia page for Karl Agathon, but be careful as lots of spoilers)

Nicely perceptive observations,ladies.

Rewatching this show through you has been great. I've been hesitant to rewatch it after my show crush and boomer's actor got all involved in nxivm

The titles aren't spoiler'y. They are often cryptically prophetic.

Mary McDonnel (sp?) as the President - she's my favourite character, along with Helo.

You guys are in for a ride.

Hello from The Netherlands, thank you.

Love your reactions GGs! So great to "relive" this show again through new eyes! I remember having to wait each week until another episode came out, then the pain of the break between seasons! So say we all.

Well, Madam President is as soft as it gets... she used to be a teacher after all before ministry of education! Less facetiously, i'm loving your reactions, the writing of BSG is so good i have actually zero problems rewatching for the nth time. No spoilers here, but fandom has names for all duplicate characters but as the story progresses sometimes they change. But of course, you do not speak of the secret names to those who are not in the known. So far the names of the characters to not confuse, as far as you know them, are: Sharon: the copy down on Caprica with Helo, who you think "she is acting". Boomer: the sleeper cylon on board the Galactica, who found the water. Head 6: the copy of blonde cylon in the red dress whom only Baltar can see.

"I think I'm gonna be sick." "I feel sick." I hope it's not a spoiler to say that BSG never really leaves this gear. Take deep breaths and maybe make yourself a cup of tea first ❤

I frakking love you both

With younger people the main viewers now I tend to forget that most are not familiar with the "Monster of the Week" format to TV. Most young people are more familiar with these long arching storylines. I miss the TNG, XFiles and Quantum Leap shows that were "Monster of the Week" style. Having to watch something from show one to show 45 is work. Yet the long storyline gives a much better story and more satisfying. During the time of BSG the long format was becoming more popular and starting to become the standard. You can tell after season one they were struggling a bit with the direction but they keep going. This was a good initial try at making a good long story. This show is the product of Star Trek DS9 and Babylon 5 doing season long story arcs. It is going to be a struggle to get through but worth the view.

Love that you’re watching and enjoying BSG! Best show out there. Oh the days of binge watching those late into the night…so addictive! Love your takes on it, too. 😍 Starbuck, right?!?

Given how hooked you already are and knowing where we're going ... you are in for a tidal wave of WTFs and FEELS, lol.

I am going to enjoy watching your reactions to the rest of this show. It’s going to be one heck of a journey

The mini-series established Gaius Baltar as an _actual frakking celebrity_ in Colonial society before the Cylons attacked: almost the first thing we saw of him was a televised interview (then immediately bedding the interviewer), and he was famous enough that a normie like Helo recognized him on sight (and believed that saving Baltar was worth his own life). There's no real comparator in modern US society, no public intellectual with that degree of star power - but you might try to imagine Baltar's role on pre-apocalypse Caprica as "Albert Einstein-Kardashian." Some of Baltar's interactions with other characters, especially here in the first season of the show, will just plain make more sense if you keep in mind that he's almost certainly the most famous person to escape the destruction of the Twelve Colonies.

This shows why folks at the level of General and Admiral are required to read a couple dozens books per year, obtain advanced degrees (PhD preferred) and spend LOTS of time analyzing historical events. Adama has the wisdom of that, coupled with decades of real world experience, as his offer to bring to the table. He and the president, AKA “Mom and Dad”, really pull their weight, they ARE the leaders we all deserve. Let’s just say, Starbuck’s got issues. Hell, her issues gots issues. Gaius? Well, um, yea, issues. Can Boomer escape her programming? I don’t know, can any of us? A show about ‘robots’ is really about being human. Or, are they robots?

BSG brought me to your channel, and loving it so far. 👍

I really love how into BSG you're both getting!! - it really gets a hold and doesn't let go does it? 😊😊 Not gonna say anything specific so as not to spoil the journey, but having watched all your thoughts & analysis so far - I'm looking forward to you getting further in & there are certain future episodes I can't wait for you to see!! Enjoy the frakkin journey!

there's a nice contrast in this one between Lee learning to take responsibility for his actions even when they might be mistakes, and Baltar doing the exact opposite and spending the whole episode ducking his responsibilities and trying to make sure no one finds out about his mistakes

Many of the names are familiar from my memories of the original , but the roles and characters are certainly not the same . I guess I'll get to know them with Kat and Paula . It's developing nicely so far .

To avoid confusion, it’s best to refer to the #8 cylon on Galactica as Boomer and the one on Caprica as Sharon.

Paula, don't worry, the series is extremely rewatchable. So when you finish you can watch it with your partner. It will probably be better as you will have both seen it before so you can avoid spoilers.

True story... when I watched this as it first aired, I would routinely shout at the screen at the end of every episode: "Oh, you did NOT just end it there!"

4:48 33, that's how long it took the Cylons to receive the signal from the beacon onboard the Olympic Carrier and calculate the jump to the coordinates of the Colonial fleet. They are machines, so the calculations would come very consistently.

I laughed out loud at “Oh no, how are we at the end of the episode?!?!”

You can just close your eyes during the drum roll in the beginning of teh flash-forwards

This is a great show to bingewatch.

Stumbled across your channel for the Doctor Who reactions and I'm so happy you're doing Battlestar! Fantastic show, one of the best in 20 years : ) Maybe next month I start subscribing to your Patreon.

All I'll say is, some Cylons are more Cylon than others, Hahaha!!!! If you fall in love with all the women on this show, it's perfectly normal. These are some of the best roes for women in most shows, let alone a sci fi one. So Say we all!!

This is one show where I don't think I could watch just the one episode at once. It's so well done that somehow simultaneously so much happens while also not enough. If it's at all able to fit your schedules I will ever so politely suggest you consider it. Episodes go by so fast and it's almost like you've adjusted to the pace of the show only for it to suddenly be over. I'm not going to pretend it doesn't benefit me if you do double episodes each week so I get to see you unpack two episodes worth of material and use both episodes information to try and answer all the questions the show presents. But this show was made for bingeing before that became a common thing to do. I'll leave that idea in your hands. I won't bring it up again. I've stated my case. Whatever happens I'll be with you for the next however many weeks. Between 35+ and 70+.

💜💛

Luna: "If you want to exploit me, then monetize my involvement. BUT, I will consider payment in kind. Can we discuss canned salmon?"

Anyone who hasn't *absolutely* needs to watch the Portlandia Battlestar Galactica skit

Looking up episode titles is fine, but looking up any kind of cast listing is really dangerous in terms of spoilers in this show.

The military mindset is different from the civilian mindset is different from the political mindset.

Another quality wet cat video!

Helo saw that copy of Six get shot, however he's only ever seen that one copy of her, so there was no real indication that she was a Cylon, only that she was working with them. As for Boomer, she is a Cylon. She has been programmed too, presumably had her real memories supressed, but that's what she is. As for the version on Caprica, it's probably best to think of her as Caprica-Sharon and the one on the Galactica as Boomer. Caprica-Sharon does seem to know things about Helo and the crew, but as of yet, it isn't clear exactly what her deal is.

Do more now😢😂

I wish the water shortage carried on for a few more episodes before they found a new source. I know they still have to mine it, but it was just instantly solved, similar to an upcoming episode... Which is one of my favourite episodes.

The episode titles do not appear on screen.

There are a handful of episode titles that I'd consider spoilery if you saw them far enough in advance - maybe six or so. But just looking before each episode? I can only think of two that might be an issue, and I'd consider them pretty mild. You should ask someone you trust, though!

Already over? That shows how engaged you two are.

It’s interesting and maybe ironic to see you two enjoy a show by a guy who played a big part of deep space nine. One big reason gave bsg a chance was because I enjoyed what Ronald d Moore did with TNG and DS9. Before this show Ronald D Moore tried to make Star Trek Voyager look like this.

So, about getting the stress ball for being able to cope with watching this show? Do I need to ship you some?

I think the acting DS9 and BSG is equally excellent...but the acting of the guest stars on DS9 makes me put it above BSG

Chief Galen Tyrol. Called "Chief" most of the time; Tyrol fairly rarely; Galen almost never.

I think you should watch the beginning of the original. I think you do get something extra from watching. To pick up on all the easter eggs and see all the things they've changed and all the things kept the same. Little things like the smoking or why the computers look so old. Also when you finish, please please, watch the Portlandia take on BSG.

Laura Roslin will always be my president. And yeah, Mom and Dad of the fleet are super cute.

He didnt bluff her, he slow rolled her. .. Which in a real poker game - could start a fight...

Maybe you could do 2 episodes a week sometimes, you feel like it's not enough, that you want more!

We are affectionately calling Adama and Roslyn for Mom and Dad. yes, we ship them too.

3:07 Andor? Any chance for a Andor?🙏

14:10 - He looked like Jim Carey there

At this point y'all should just give in and rebrand the series as 'Gallifrey Gals Get Stressed'.