The difference between Art and Spectacle is that Art is rewatchable. This version of Battlestar Galactica is rewatchable, even nearly 40 years out of date.
I still think one of the hardest thing s to see in this bit, other then a Battlestar being destroyed, is seeing the President desperately holding on to the rail as the air is getting sucked out of the Atlantia's bridge.
@@tuvanuner3045 They probably didn't even have their Vipers remotely ready to launch. Like not even in the tubes. But The Galactica did because Adama didn't trust the Cylons. But by the time they were ambushed they didn't have time before they were destroyed.
@@tuvanuner3045 The President was deceived by Baltar and had ordered the entire fleet to be at absolute minimum readiness to greet the Cylons "peacefully". None of the other Battlestars were ready to launch before they were being swarmed by Cylon fighters. Their Vipers were being picked off as they launched, before they could target any of the enemy ships. Only the Galactica was able to get its fighters out before the attack arrived because Adama was not convinced that the Cylons had suddenly changed after a thousand years of war.
Good thing that Boomer & Starbuck were at a safe distance when they saw the Atlantia with the President of The Council of 12 and everyone aboard her get destroyed by the Cylons. Boomer & Starbuck had courage trying to defend the Atlantia but were outnumbered.
You'd think they'd put more guns on the back guarding those wide open landing bays. Maybe there were smaller support ships that weren't deployed to the Peace Conference in a sign of good faith. To only have their battlestars (all lined up in a nice row like Pearl Harbor).
Yeah they had gunships to back up battlestars as well but the real reason was that the Battlestars were supposed to have wings of fighters protecting it, the Cylons should never have gotten that close but they held back launching the fighters because "Peace Process" and the Cylons got a straight run into the bay.
I would say, the reboot is real too. The 80's Galactica showed us an "optimistic" future where all surviving humans are working together. And most of the time, all we see are the Viper Pilots. The civilians are mostly not included in the series. The new one showed us, what would mostly really happen if society completely collapses and every human is forced to live in those ships because they are always at the edge of extinction.
@@Anthyrion You must have not seen the original series, because they did show civilians, they hung out on the Rising Star and also spent time in the Rejuvenation Center. People were forced to switch professions, like Cassiopeia who was a Socialator and than became a Med tech later on in the series.
Best edit I’ve seen in a while; I once saw a fan edit of Galactica vs Base star and firing forward lasers to destroy the base star; was very cool but I can’t find it anymore
It was the 2nd last episode in the series IIRC. it was not a fan edit, the Galactica really did have twin Terrawatt lasers under the chin. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8fmzVTY8kWY.html
Those Cylons are so dirty that they don't care about killing women and children, though there weren't any children on the Atlantia there were some women on her, and one of them called for help from the other Battlestars as the Atlantia was under attack.
@@danieltadros3262 I would more say the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. That event lasts until today in the heads of Japanese people and so did the destruction of the Atlantia and the other Battlestars stuck in the heads of the Galactica crew
It was like pearl harbor attack . All battlestars and other warships were not alerted and prepared for a big scale strike,so they got most of them destroyed or damaged
@@danieltadros3262 er, British. The majority of the damage to Dresden (the firestorm) was caused by the RAF firebombing at night. The USAAF showed up during daylight to target anything that survived.
Problem with the 78 BSG is that there is so much backstory missing, which the 04 version filled in with just 2 paragraphs of writing. Even for the middle of the Cold War, the humans looked like fools. The novelization didn't even make them seem so foolish. The landing bays being so vulnerable, its a wonder any Battlestar ever made it anywhere. Where was the President's Colonel Tigh? What was his Command Center XO (The guy at the Computer console next to him) was sitting there with his D**k in his hand? All that said, the part that kills is when they get to pleasure planet, everyone is suddenly ready to "give Peace a chance" with the Cylons, even though they were all "Pearl Harbored" (Copyright Gorilla Monsoon) not a month earlier? Such awful, simplistic writing, even for the time.
