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"She's broken her back. She'll never jump again" That was so incredibly sad for me, humanizing Galactica like that. It's easy to forget the show actually is about the old ship really.
If you think about it, what battles this ship has done, how many strikes it survived, it' incredible. Other Battlestars blew up when they got hit by just a bunch of nuclear missiles, and Galactica withstood a hell amount of them. Sure, at some point every ship has taken enough damage, but considering when that happened to Galactica .. omfg ..what the hell of a tank she was in that decommissioned State when all began.
Um did no 1 think its not 1 ship. The rest of the fleet which was multiple ships could have jumped away at anytime lol. I was sad til I remembered the rest of the fleet.
I found it extremely eerie seeing Galactica's hull buckle so much like she was being held together by thin Lego pieces while being manhandled by a toddler. The Saul's damage report sounding like a medical diagnosis of an injured squad mate who just took a bullet for you. They rode her hard but she didn't fail them, all the way to the promise land.
Pretty much everything was fine except for her superstructure, but that had started showing signs of failing earlier on, with even the Cylons on board shedding blood and tears to try to keep her held together. I swear 6 showed more love for Galactica than she ever showed Baltar. Everyone on board that old bird was invested in keeping her alive and going. If they tried one more jump, she would have fallen to pieces, killing everyone on board.
Looked at that at .25 speed - 2 or 3 Vipers slide to the edge and something roll sideways down the bay, but the front end whips back up before they fall out. But that would be a fun find - Viper on the moon! Man our civilization would flip out...
@Marcus Knightingale- Well I'll be dipped...you have good eyes, and probably better video resolution. I'm on a laptop, slowed the video to .25 and ran it a few times to see. At 3 seconds and at 9 and 10 I finally saw the Viper. Babylon 5 - gawd I miss that show too, even with its dated CGI. That made part of the atmosphere of the show. And that's another one I never saw the end of because it was moved to cable.
I remember when I saw the Moon going, "yes, Yes, YES!" I was ecstatic that it was our Earth they found and I remember my father rushing in to see what I was so ecstatic about.
And then they threw the ships into the sun because who doesn't want to die from one of the many threats an entirely alien ecosystem would present. It was an awesome moment for sure, but sadly it just makes the ending hurt even more.
@@gregthepeglegpregdreg Weren't there humanoid Cylons that opted to go out exploring instead of living it out on Earth? Pretty sure they would have taken any humans along that wanted to go. Yes, I can see how that ending felt a bit sucky. But you have to weigh everything they learned during their travel, especially considering the mistakes that were made by them in the past 100 years. Adama was right to try to break the cycle. If they kept their technology going, someone eventually would start to wonder why a bit of help couldn't be built again. And then the cycle begins anew. Going Adama's route, they forget everything, short of anything shared by spoken tales. Instead, those spoken tales become folktales painted to tell of heroes on shining horses.
@@samsonguy10k true enough, I suppose I just have a bit of a pessimistic view of it. With humanity being an endangered species I feel that abandoning absolutely everything is a bit too big a risk, and I see it as just setting them up to go extinct. I do understand narrativly why it is the way it is, but when it feels like they're just going to end up withering away to me, personally it leaves a bad taste. I mean I guess the extinction of humanity still serves to break the cycle so I guess there's that...
Well.... I guess he'll miss out on living a hard subsistence life with the native pre agricultural humans. The little half cylon half human girl that was at the center of so much drama in the show dies while young.
"And the lords anointed a leader to guide the Caravan of the Heavens to their new homeland. And the new leader suffered a wasting disease and would not live to enter the new land.'' Roslin entered the new land. Galactica did not. Galactica was always THE LEADER ,old, rusted, slowly dying, she guided the caravan of the heavens (the fleet of ships) to their new homeworld. While Roslin and crew often had arguments and were almost always on the verge of colapse, Galactica was the only constant and the true leader of them all.
Roslin never entered the new land. She died before Bill could show her where he was building their cabin. Roslin was the leader. She was the one sent a vision of serpents numbering 2 and 10. She was the dying leader that came to know the truth of the opera house. Galactica being the "dying leader" may have some poetry to it, but it doesn't really fit.
@@Arkalius80 She did enter Earth in the final scene. Laura then was placed into a Raptor that would lead her to where that cabin would be. It was then when she died. But she did enter Earth. Galactica did never enter. Landing in such condition would be suicide. Galactica was the leader
Broke my heart, probably the only time tv has made me cry. She gave everything she had, and even broken, she still came through for family. Best ship of the fleet.
To see Galactica like that. All those years of Abuse and Damage finally take a toll; it was heart-wrenching. Still She took her charge all the way to Their Destination. There has never Been a Better Ship.
So wrong, but mesmerizing. One thing I liked about the original series is big G was "built like a brick sh!thouse" or "built like a Mack truck" for the family-friendly version... Obviously the special effects have changed to allow showing the flexing from one too many structural abuses. And I cried hard after I found this clip the first time.
Vigneswara Prabhu I agree. The only reason why she made the jump cause of the organic material to keep the hull from breaking apart and the FTL upgrades
It's funny how ships like the Galactica or the Enterprise take on an almost human quality over time. They become characters in their own way, and you feel for them when they get "hurt."
the enterprise is pure crap... galactica survive aromin bomb without having a energy shiel wile if you remove ghe energy shield from the enterprise it will explode even if you shoot at it with a small pistol
Galactica isn’t just a ship. She was a character. And as her engines flared one last time you can guess there were a LOT of Engineering personnel turning wrenches and getting systems up as fast as they could. Likely many died.
Yeah, That's something I didn't stop to think. Well everyone is having thier moment on the bridge, 100s of engineers and crew are probably putting put fire, turning wrenchs and ensuring the old gal keeps operating. Even during the battle.
He does end up alone, but it's not his last scene. He is seen again in the exodus camp. He mentions to Apollo that he'll head north, to a large island north of the northern continent. 'There are some nice highlands there'. The island is Britain/Scotland, and the highlands are specifically referring to the Scottish Highlands. This was a reference, and a nod, to Star Trek. Tyrol would be the seed for all future Sci-fi engineers, specifically a chief engineer named Montgomery Scott.
Seeing the Galactica near shattering on jump exit had me on edge...then the engines fired, and it felt like everything was OK...then..."She's broken her back. She'll never jump again." Such a gut punch after everything.
She was well over 50 years old, she'd had most of her ablative armour removed, most of her munitions removed, most of her craft replaced with "relics" and even a portion of her balistic armaments replaced with older systems to make her look the part, and show her with an older configuration... The USS Texas is literally falling apart, only being fixed at about the Dame rate as she is disintegrating with age, by sincerely dedicated volunteers. Texas didn't have to take hits when she was in service during WW2. Galactica took repeated nukes, with minimal armour.... She was surviving on plot armour by season 3, she deserved finally being put out if her misery, as sad as that made us...
@@GrasshopperKelly Agreed. I felt the same IRL after they announced HMS Ark Royal, my favourite of the ships I served in, was being decommissioned. Seeing her towed out of Portsmouth tore my heart out.
I never understood the dislike for the 4th season. There's certainly some questions regarding the decision at the end, but once the choice was made to have them be in our past instead of the future, it was kind of necessary. I like to think they didn't just fade into obscurity, though, and are the founders of Atlantis. Hell... they could even be worked into Stargate's backstory if you're feeling creative (and are willing to ignore some of the 10th season lore).
@@Swiftbow I don’t like the way they introduced the final five, which required them to gin up an entirely backstory completely unknown before then. Such a plot wasn’t impossible, but the way they did it felt rushed and not well planned. What are the odds that out of billions of people killed in the initial attack all five of the missing cylons wound up on Galactica? I know the show was going for a religious theme, but you shouldn’t just chalk everything to “God did it” whenever something doesn’t make sense. It was a great show but it started coming apart at the end as the plot kept getting more convoluted with no payoff.
or dying because the compartment decompressed.. there was a lot of decompression there.. like if half ship vented into space.. Still the death toll for this battle was quite high .. i think 110 or so people.. that covers the entire operation.. the assault , damage, boarding and (if) final jump damage
The moment they fly past the moon and Earth comes into view, set up by them going to 'their' Earth and it being burned out, only to arrive here and name this new planet Earth. This entire series was so well thought out and filmed. One of the very few shows I've seen where a week seemed like too long to wait until the next episode.
3:09 "She's broke her back....she'll never jump again." 12 years ago this year...and that line still hits me like a closed fist to the heart. Whoever's chopping onions in here, that's NOT frakkin' funny....
" _The great ship_ Galactica, _majestic and loving, strong and protecting; our home for these many years while we endured the wilderness of space, and now we near the end of our journey. Scouts and electronic equipment have confirmed that we have reached our haven, that planet which is our home to our Ancestor-Brothers. Too many of our Sons and Daughters... did not survive to share the fulfillment of our dream... we can only take comfort and find strength in that they did not die in vain. We have at last found... Earth._ " - Adama
And then the tragedy of it is that they couldn't land because it would bring the wrath of the Cylons down on a planet incapable of defending itself against them. They were hoping for a stronger, fiercer set of ancestors to welcome them in and defend them. Granted, proper story development implies that they accelerate Earth's technology to the point where it and they together can take the Cylons on and beat them, but that was asking too much, I suspect.
I love that Saul and Adama are it until the end. They stared at each other right before the jump to the Colony, two friends who have had 30 years of fighting along side each other, going to their last fight. While Adama had been changing his tune toward Cylons a bit, I think finding out his best friend was one, and had been one the entire time, and was still loyal to him and the fleet despite being a cylon, that fully brought Adama to what we see he is at the end.
@@Rschaltegger lets be real......a FTL System that doesn requiere going through Hell and is pretty pin point.......Ad mech would get a massive Boner for Galactica
Given that she's a human ship unaffiliated with any of the Chaos powers, I'm sure the Battlefleet Solar would welcome the Galactica into their ranks with open arms. And with the aid of the Adeptus Mechanicus, she'd probably be restored to better than new condition.
@@Mobius_118 Yee, but considering the Imperiums bias for a "shoot first, ask never" mentality, Id say the chances for survival would be pretty slim. ^^
This wasn't star trek. We didn't go through a battle, take some so called damage, and in the next episode the ship looks like it just came off the factory line. This was Galactica. She held her own against a fleet, flew through a radioactive nebulae, fell through the atmosphere, and through it all she still flew one more time and went toe to toe against a cylon Starbase. How can you not love Galactica.
In all fairness the Enterprise had access to hundreds of stardocks dotted all over the Alpha quadrant while any place capable of holding Galactica for maintenance was nuked to oblivion.
@@GoLakers3900 Are you implying that Star Trek lacked magical nonsense? Consider Vulcan mind-melds, the Organians, time travel, mind-swapping technology, a mirror universe, transporter malfunctions that could split people into their good and evil halves, Charlie X, Tremayne, the Q, and ESPers flying through a galactic barrier that turned them into literal gods, but no magic BS there whatsoever! Have you even WATCHED the show?
@@colormedubious4747 I'm not going to dignify your crude comment by addressing it. Blind buffoons everywhere ignoring the freaking BG's premise revolved around religion...
@@GoLakers3900 Thank you for admitting that you have no valid counterargument. That sort of honesty is refreshing! You need to look up the meaning of the word "crude." That word doesn't mean what you think it means. I said nothing crude. I also NEVER said that BSG's plot did not revolve around religion. I merely pointed out that Star Trek is also loaded with magical nonsense. That doesn't mean it's not a fun watch. I even have all of TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT on BD/DVD.
"Where have you taken us Kara?" "Salt Lake City" "Colonel Tigh, plot a jump" "Bill, she _can't_ jump... I just told you" "Kara took us to Salt Lake City... I'm willing to take my chances"
seeing the Galatica, going through one battle after another against impossible odds always coming out in the fine, broken and battered like that breaks my heart. Even for a ship older than any of the ships in the Colonial Fleet she held it together to bring Humanity to their new home. R.I.P. Galactica.
Although Pegasus with much more armour plating on her hull was blown up after enduring just a fraction of what Galactica endured over three years. Pegasus being destroyed so easily is probably the only bit of lazy writing I can find in the show, she should have died by being flown into a moonbase or being surrounded by half a dozen Basestars, not the two she was fighting.
"May the Valkyries welcome you and lead you through Mercury's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla and know that you've taken your rightful place in the fleet of battlestars. For a great vessel has fallen: A warrior. A protector. A home. A friend."
Galactica jumps, only to appear in front of the Earth defense grid built by the UNSC to point at them. "It was at this point that Kara knew, she fucked up".
Tiny detail point. The Earth they show is today's Earth. 150,000 years ago the Sahara was a green grassland with numerous lakes and swamps. Desertification started around 10,000 years ago, forcing human and animal migration to the Nile Valley.
12.800 ago Younger dryas that is when it changed. after the 2nd impact the Sahara has become todays. largest freshwater lake in the world was once in the middle. Younger dryas impact killed most of the animals in north America including the human clovis Indians. Gone. Oceans rose 300-400 in what science is showing maybe a couple of days. Sent ice chunks as big as yankee stadium 1800 miles from Saginaw Michigan to form the Carolina bays. Created ice in the atmosphere so high much took decades to return causing epic cooling period we know as the Younger Dryas. Humanity has afar different story that we are taught. DNA now shows a way defferent migration. Peru and Persian dna found in NewZealand , amazon Indians have aboriginal dna, and mummys from dynastic nile have eastern European. Northeast china mummys in the desert area are also completely devoid of any Asian dna as we know it. Honestly DNA in mummys in peru linked to Caspian sea area. How that happen?
@Eric Cartman Carthaginian Empire: The Phoenician city-state of Carthage. During Roman times was failry fertile on North African coast which 80% of it now is not. Study of real climate change shows the current hoax. Every climate model has been wrong and by a lot. Man made is warming but many other factors like Albedo would be in play if Man had never existed. If the grand solar minimum comes we will be thankful for man made heating. last one caused little ice age and killed millions in Europe. We overdue and should come in this lifetime. Maybe starting now as we are in a solar minimum but not Grand or Munder.
@Eric Cartman I agree totally. Focus should be on cleaning oceans and better living. Can't tax that and use to control the population. Once you realize that it is a system of control you can see the hoax clearly.
I so love that shot of Galactica passing over the moon, then seeing our Earth with the African continent front and center. One of TVs greatest reveals!
i remember watching this streaming online with live chat, and how EVERYONE start screaming and jumping around when they show Moon and Earth, it was pure joy!
@@stephenbyrne2170 it’s a song. And if you know BSG series ‘what the frak’ is how some people react to Kara making references to music. She did All along the watch tower on the piano once , and a table full of people got on her case about it. 😂
The Galactica is like the Voyager, like Janeway said: She is more than a Ship. She feeded us, carried and protectet us. The End is really awesome, love that Show!
It's interesting because despite the fact that she could have survived a few more jumps still, the fact that they had to jump with the flightbays still fully extended probably weakened the hull critically during the jump.
"We are the Borg, lower your sheilds.....never mind....your biological and technological systems are obsolete and broken. Assimilation unnecessary. Leaving system."
one can only think, how many hull plates, vipers and other parts from the Old Girl fell off on the moon, durign her fly over, and are just waiting to be discovered millions of years later. Also, 0:00 to 0:29, crushing moment, when you realize, thats it, she is done, and here she will stay. Between this moment, the final lauch from the Old Man on his old Viper, and the Voyage to the Sun, this chapter made me cry so frakking hard!
Wounded and bleeding, she gave her all to get her crew to safety, an effort that ultimately killed her, but saved thousands of lives. Godspeed, Galactica.
You have to give credit to the engineers that built her , if her frame did endure such dire situation. with all that movement its suprise she held up as she did .
Really makes you think about the pounding poor Columbia took where she eventually exploded in the last battle of the first war. Not sure if there was anything that embellished on that, but it makes me think Columbia put herself into harms way so Galactica could do her duty. In the scene in Razor, it really looked like she was taking the entire brunt of the attack.
I never noticed till now the food chain that was Tyrol's love life. Tyrol killed Tori, who killed Cally, who killed Boomer. I wonder if that was intended from the start.
Imagine if they just left galactica, humanity’s protector, as a wreck on the moon? imagine the news reels when they find that and discover that a good portion of humanity came from the stars
Someday about 300 years from now someone in the Federation will find the pitted remnants of Galactica, or some other ship from the fleet, out in the Oort cloud. Insert dramatic chipmunk clip.
@@sailorx72 Unless due to the weakened structure, the CIC vented to space. A final little nudge that kills Anders and just slightly alters the course of the remaining fleet. In time, fuel exhausted, their mutual; gravity clumps them all together ... And after 500K years, they all begin that slow arc, back sunward. To a lush, green-blue planet where Cylons struggle amongst themselves once more.
There were 2 ‘keeper’ scenes in BSG. The first was the Pegasus bringing the cavalry to cover Galactica’s flight from the prison planet when all seemed lost and this one ‘her back is broken, she’ll never jump again’
I also like that they give a geological indication of where they landed in Earth's history. Based on where the white stops, it is probably at the end, or peak rather, of the last major ice age.
They later state in the show it was 150k years before modern times which would actually land them in the previous inter-glacial period before the last ice age only 50k or so years after homo sapiens first evolved on Earth. It would have been incredible to see the life on Earth at this time in history.
You survived countless attacks by Cylons, including the attack on Caprica. You managed to live through the occupation of New Caprica. Hell, you even survived Pegasus’ Admiral Cain’s tyranny. But you get blowed into space when you arrive on Earth. Whoops. At least it seems like some people would have died during those explosions on the last FTL jump.
I know it was a sort of divine vision with the piano keys that Kara used to make the jump but honestly, from all other perspectives she punched in a seemingly random set of coordinates
We guys do not cry easy. I can probably count on both hands how many times iv done tha while married. About half of them have been personal losses. The other half.. Shows like this, where an ending or 1 line completly broke me. *Shes Broke her Back, She'll never jump again* about tore my heart out
"I've brought us to a dead airless moon of lifeless rock. However, after a few years, I think we might want to check out that blue green planet over there... first things first though, we need to set up some domes on the surf... oh wait!"
Everything about this sequence makes excellent sense. The pods acted as support braces for the hull. Without them, with already the weakening fragility of the ship, this would be the result. Also, i love you see Vipers get thrown out the pods. Such a smart show
This is just a guess, but I would suspect that the "Jump Drive" requires a clean and symmetrical surface to actually "fold" into another region of space. Perhaps it's geometry requires all surfaces of the ship to be enclosed within it's functional envelope. Any surface past the primary structure like the landing pods must be locked and stowed as tight to the Battlestar as possible so it all can be "exchanged" at the point of entry/exit. Anything caught outside of the drives envelope is possibly "dragged" into the exchange from their former position to their new position. And In doing so, the stress on the overall structure is immense. Probably causing both longitudinal and lateral stresses like a sponge being wrung of it's contents, and thus severely damaging or even destroying the Battlestar entirely. When the pods are retracted, the ship becomes one gigantic, smooth (as possible) surface. Note, no weapons are deployed, no antennas or dishes are extended, no spacecraft are deployed until the conclusion of the jump. So while it is possible as we saw to "Jump" with pods extended, the Battlestar would have to be entirely restressed and redesigned to handle it, or risk destruction. Which begs the question? Has this happened before to the Columbia Class Battlestars? And if so, was that one of the reasons the Mercury Class was designed? To be able to immediately deploy and retrieve combat wings before AND immediately after a jump? It didn't appear the Pegasus needed to retract anything to jump. (It did not seem to have retractable pods). And Pegasus was much larger and far more powerful. Perhaps the ultimate war machine to match it's enemy the Cylons on its own terms. Shame they didn't try to save it.
The poor old girl broke her back and still kept the whole crew to arrive at Earth. Imagine if the Pegasaus lived and the Galatica destroyed? They've never make if half way in the series.
Pegasus was carried on the sheer will of her commander and in a lot of ways she began to die when Cain did, and especially when her Chief Engineer gave his life for her(Who should have been kept in that position. Adama fumbled when he chose to make him Captain). No way she would have endured what Galactica did from Ragnar Anchorage to Earth. Especially considering she was a peacetime-built ship.
Considering they say "what happens will happen again". A theory could be made that this is the distant past for what happens in The Terminator franchise.
Edward James Olmos (Admiral Adama) has stated in an interview that if you watch the original Blade Runner directly after the ending of the BSG remake, that it lines up pretty nicely considering what Baltar says at the end. That's how I like to think of it anyway. :P
From what I understand of how gravity generators work in most sci-fi, once activated they create a kind of momentum within themselves that keeps going even if offline. You have to actually trigger them to roll back in order to cancel out the gravity. They will eventually lose their own momentum, but not for a long time of complete inactivity. So even if gravity control was offline, the gravity field would remain for several days or longer. If the life support fails, you still have the air that was already in the ship. You get some time before the CO2 scrubbers become saturated.
@@k1productions87 The life support thing is just general common sense... and it works that way in real space ships, too. A big enough sci-fi ship is probably carrying some sort of arboretum/hydroponics bay that will also continue to recycle air the natural way. As for gravity, most of it is because of budget. The gravity DID go out with moderate/heavy ship damage in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
@@Swiftbow that created a whole different problem,... as Klingon Warriors should be trained in zero-G combat if they are to serve on a starship. At the very least be able to maneuver properly, rather than just flopping around like an invalid. Hell, we can already do that today better than they did in the film. It was an impressive scene, sure... but it was quite unfortunate lore-wise. A common problem I found in Star Trek VI in particular. Sure, say you have gravity generators and such, so you can save budget when filming. But at least have the lore show that professionals in Starfleet or the Klingon Defense Forces know how to do their job in weightlessness as well. You don't even have to show it, just SAY it. But too many times they treat Zero-G like some strange thing, not just in that film, but First Contact, and even DS9
I really don't understand that 15% of the fandom that really hates this finale. I personally think it's the best episode of the series and the most epic at that. All the copouts people complain, it's not like the show didn't prepare you for it. Kara jumping Galactica to earth was a patern finally coming to conclusion since s01. Kara being an angel I don't mind at all considering a) We've known there are angels to the show since s02 and b) Leoben told kara that she would become important in s01. The whole abandoning the technology part ok is a bit weak, but it does fit with the theme of humanity finally letting the hate go and both them and the Cylons start fresh. I really hope more contemporary audiences like this finale more, especially with the slew of actual terrible ending that have come ever since this one. I mean we saw how well you ended your masterpiece George RR Martin!
