Colonial: I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Toaster. Centurion: What about side by side with a friend? Colonial: Aye, I could do that.
one thing i always liked about the finale is how when lee has a few rogue centurions with him, he treats them the same way he does his marines - it's a very small but clever touch
I've seen this episode 4 or 5 times, but I never noticed until watching it just now, that before they attacked the colony, the crew had to have moved all of the raptors from the functioning launch/landing bay of the ship to the non-functional "museum wing" of the ship, and then had them FTL out of it despite the damage it would do to the ship, because it was more important to get their birds in the air as quickly as possible. And it echos the tactics used in the episode Exodus to launch the vipers as the ship is "at 100km and falling like a rock" before using a short jump to make it back into orbit.
@@peterz1647 How else would they get out in useful numbers under all that PD fire? They made a point of showing us both the larger guns on the colony, and smaller caliber, rapid firing quad-mounted guns. Assuming those were for taking out nukes and planes. It'd be suicide to launch normally under all that, not to mention the likelihood of just smashing into the colony itself after clearing the tube. Everyone knew it was Galactica's last fight, hell they were starting to strip the ship down and abandon it before Adama decided to do this shit. Might as well act accordingly and do all kinds of surprising, unconventional stuff
0:48 If that shared smirk between Tigh and Adama doesn't speak volumes about their relationship, I don't know what does. One of my favorite throwaway moments from the finale.
Couldn't stop laughing. This turned up in my recommendations. Because the title is long, it read as follows: BSG The Final Battle: Ramming the Colon.....
@@jzenhenko Obviously none of you followed the series, and just decided making gay jokes was better than the actual show. Go back to watching intelligent television like "Love Island" please.
The best part are those early seconds where you really start to think that it's the end, and the endless weapons fire from the station is going to blast Galactica into dust.
This battle, the battle for the fuel on the asteroid, the pilot series at the end, Starbuck flying the Raider for the first time, the battle towards the end of Season 3 and beginning of Season 4, the battle of New Caprica, and (by far my favorite scene that had the most intense setup to a potential battle) the squaring off of the Pegasus and Galactica halfway through Season 2 at the end of episode 10. Those are the top favorites for the majority of the fans.
not really they didn't even shoot back. They went through the mess before the jump about being close range and guns only, bla bla bla and then jumped in, and didn't fire a shot as the enemy ship just blasted the heck out of them.
I know he won't be saving 15% or more on his insurance by switching to Geico. Kinda like the scene on the James Bond Movie: Tomorrow Never Dies when Q tells Bond about the Insurance Damage Waiver for his beautiful new car.
There was a build by the show's writers leading to this endgame all or nothing battle. So I was totally expecting a climactic assault on the cylons. But when the admiral gave the command to jump and materialized a few football fields away from the command ship of the enemy I was on the edge of my seat. Galactica though small in comparison to the cylon ships had built up the persona of invincibility that made them their ultimate adversary. This episode by far gives the underdog story a new height when facing the enemy.
They just don't make em like they used too. Pegasus could dish out a LOT of pain but Galactica...she can take more pain than anything in that show could dish out. Even when falling apart and on her last leg. As rob said, she cant be conquered. Took our own sun to finally finish the job. lol
when they appear next to the colony after jumping, that scene was the first time a show has ever made me exclaim "oh shit" out loud. BEST freaking finale ever!
Well the thing is. Technically it is possible to hear explosion sounds in space. Explosion in space means particles exploding from a certain point at high speed. Those particles hitting the hull of a for example a viper would definitely cause some sound to be heard.
Actually, the Mercury class was better in every respect. The CNP backdoor was their only downfall, but besides that they had much bigger guns and more of them, twice as many flight decks, more main engines, viper production facilities, and more tonnage overall. Had the Colonials been given a fair chance, they'd have fought to a bloody stalemate at least.
Joseph Stassup From what we can see in the series, a Battlestar is better than a Cylon Baseship in almost every way. If it wasn't for that scumbag Gaius Baltar and his CNP, than the Colonial Fleet would have likely smashed the first Cylon attack force. They may have become overwhelmed later, and possibly have lost a few of the less important colonies, but i have no doubt that they would have been able to save Caprica.
mowtow90 yeah although the galactica Class ship where designed to be harder to hack in the first war and could also handle heavy attacks fully armored as if you would have seen in the movie blood and chrome the fully armored galactica during the first war. The mercury class like the Pegasus was sucpectable to hacking due to it's reliance to HI-TECH pretty much the ship wasn't analog. The reason why the Peggy survived in the first place was when they surprised attack the Scorpio ship yards the Peggy was offline
TheSilverwolf1001 hence if they Cylon's had came to a prepared fleet and gaius baltair didn't give them the colonial codes they Cylon's would have been destroyed by the flagship atlantia which was stationed at earth and was very new and was bigger than battlestar class
Never realized this before but it looks like the Cylons are supposed to be using some kind of EM cannons (coilguns maybe, I don't see rails) here. At least that's what it looks like the VFX artists were trying to tell us. The Colonials were directly said earlier to still be using gunpowder or some other chemical propellant in their guns, so that's interesting if it was the intention
And kudos to the directors and the writers and Mr. Moore. God I sound like an Academy award nominee. But really, thanks guys because when I am feeling along , I can always plug this in.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i shall not walk alone, for i shall take more than a few of mine enemies with me for company on the road to judgement!
Gotta say this final battle and all the way until they jump to Earth and Galactica is sent to the Sun was the best of the series, followed by the part where Galactica jumps into the atmosphere of the colony planet to rescue everybody and launches the Viper while falling and burning due to the friction with the air.
I like fanfics and there's some really good ones where things go differently. The best has Sam die in the Mutiny but resurrect on the Colony due to a backup system the Five had in place. When Galactica arrives due to other circumstances a massive battle erupts that leads to many deaths including Helo and Athena. However the Centurions are freed and leave with Tory and Tyrol to start anew. The Colony takes damage that requires its engines to be shut down and John Cavil recruits Sam to help as his own access is blocked and he needs someone who can enter the datastream. After its discovered they need Hera's help to solve the problem Sam convinces Cavil to end the fighting in exchange. They are able to get the Cylons to back down and Roslin gets the humans to. She marries Adama before dying shortly afterwards. In the aftermath the humans and Cylons coexist on the Colony together and make their way to Earth. They nearly start fighting again over the planet the Cylons want until Cavil reveals it to be Mars. Afterwards the Cylons settle on Mars and the humans on Earth and are able to peacefully coexist.
In an early episode, a raptor jumping in close proximity to Galactica usually meant hull breaches, so that's probably what happened, that , and the fact if was museum stuff too.
@@uzelon3888 Oh! Cylons are sentient AI. They are organic and look like us (sometimes) but they are living AI. They were originally made as robots for work. All their technology is organic. Their ships can heal. Their computers are like neural tissue. Those "people" in the bath are Hybrids. Hybrid is like main computer for Cylon baseship. I'm oversimplifying but in that scene one Hybrid launched cybernetic attack on another. He hacked her and turned off their weapons. I hope that makes sense.
Ya know the ship took all that fire and the FTL drive was STILL online??? I never got that one. Pegasus took 2 nukes in season 2 and that knocked their drive off-line. That bombardment would've done a hell of a lot more damage than THAT.
GTpcGaming Pegasus's armor was actually better than Galactica's. However Galactica's systems were much more rudimentary meaning that it was almost impossible to knock a whole tech system out through one good hit. Pegasus's engine system while more armored was also much more exposed and not built directly into the superstructure (Pegasus's engine system was much more external/layed on). All in all Peggy has the bells and whistles but it's more liable to be hacked or knocked offline from a good hit/attack.
+Alduin the Anti-Dragonborn No point. The PD's can't stop bullets, and the main batteries would have a hard time taking out something they can only vaguely see where it is.
It's a giant flying brick. Granted it can launch fighters, raptors for troop deployment, scouting, or support fire, and engage in ship-to-ship combat. When all other functions are no longer available, you are still a flying brick. Bricks are perfect for breaking shit.
Still quite curious why that thing was firing all guns as soon as it came out of FTL? After all, they had element of surprise and all. (Yeah Yeah they removed ordinance, but they had to have left some ammo in the ship. That just wouldn't make any sense) Should have blasted a hole in the colony and parked the whole ship in there.
I know right? hey were going to ram the ship with our ship. It's going to be a huge hit.. Ok mm lets just keep standing instead of bracing ourselves while the ship slams into the other one.
well that's the thing shield fail and what one or two hits and the ship blows up who designs a ship like that in the first place? Galactica being built with thick armor has no need of shielding to make her weaker in the hull depo so she is built to brute force her way through a battle plus when you really look at it ship wasting power on shields do not move a faster then a heavy armored ship like Galactica so really what's the point in weak hull strong shields when you end up taking just as many hits either way I mean how many hits has Galactica taken and without shielding to save her from them vs a shielded ship take in comparison
@@raven4k998 Shielded ships allow protection for exterior armament. Galactica could be completely neutered if the Cylons actually concentrated on stripping weapons off her.
Very true and I'm just asking because I wasn't sure she wasn't the strongest because they found out that when she was built they took shortcuts and cut corners.
I'm pretty sure she's the strongest just because she lasted as long as she did, and fought as hard as she did, all while having cut corners in construction.
@@krullachief669 let's not forget she was stripped of most of her armor plating when they were decommissioning her to become a museum. So she is pretty tough.
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When you consider the facts that the Galactica was already considerably weakened structurally, combined with the fact that the base's guns were lighting it up like Christmas Eve in Bellingrath, the "manual docking" stunt the admiral pulled to launch the landing incursion, *and* it had a wing of raptors jumping directly out its single flight pod still functional, you come to the conclusion that it was practically a miracle that rust bucket held together at all during the battle, as if there was some unseen hand guiding them to victory.
Taking that much beating and still managing a Jump? I know she was already limping, but damn she took it all. Makes Pegasus look weak. Galactica would have won that battle.
Not a miracle so much as a giant, immovable wall of armor and steel commanded by the toughest SOB ever to stand on a bridge seconded by his mean as shit alcoholic toaster XO. All three of them are flawed, but all three of them are tough as nails. I don’t think any show, even trek, has made a ship such a central character to a show. Every hit over four seasons is recorded, and even when she breaks her back, she’s still fighting to keep flying. It takes a whole star to kill her. And even that’s doubtful lol
You can see in the last episode, that almost nothing of the outer hull/armor remained. Its interior skeleton was barely holding on too. But the fact that she survived shows that Cain was insane when she thought Pegasus could take on Galactica one-on-one and win. Starbuck saved the entire crew of Pegasus from being battered to hell.
Here’s to Galactica, the finest ship in all of Sci-Fi. A good ship, with a glorious history. Going out win a bang to save her crew and her people. Gods bless, Galactica.
That's mainly the balancing of the game. It would be quite unfair to the cylons if the Jupiter class Battlestars could take the amount of punishment they can in the lore.
After all this time I just now noticed that when the Raptors jumped out of the museum/hangar deck, they blew a hole in the side while they were at it. Definitely a one time only kind of tactic.
diogenesbear they asserted that they would need the raptors deployed as fast as possible. As such, they moved them into the museum, and made them use their Jump drive there. This was done so the ship would suffer the least damage from the jumps.
My most favourite thing about this scene was that it was all for a child. It didn't matter who she was or where she came from she was taken and the all bound together to being her home.
She was the shape of things to come. They didn't know what that meant, and would have gone to save her regardless, but Hera is our Mitochondrial Eve, the most recent common ancestor that every single human alive on Earth can trace their mitochondrial DNA to. We are all descendants of the Human/Cylon Hybrid. All of this has happened before and it will happen again.
