I lived in the same apartment with my parents since I was nine years old. Two days ago, we drew the curtains, turned off the lights, and locked the front door for the last time, after eleven years. This is what it felt like.
@@logan32086 how long have you parents Ben gone whst they die from my grandparents died thre yers ago now the house has since been sold off for the last 3 years
That ‘broken down old ship’ became the hope of the human race. I remember when this was on TV and I bawled openly when she flew into the sun. Goodbye old Friend, you will be eternally missed
I do like the Anders bit, showed that he was connected to perfection: Galactica. R.I.P Old girl, the finest ship in Sci-Fi history, no shields, no pretty laser beams, just a kickass warrior that wouldn't give up.
EnglanderUK it’s been a while since your comment. That ship was so bad ass, I bet it flew straight through the Sun and kept on going. Hope you are well.
they should build a city behind the moon or make a second moon and let the ship sleep in the moon cmon humans will travel to the stars so fix the galactica and live it in the moon base
As sad as that scene was, I was so happy to hear the original theme one more time. I'm glad they were able to elevate it as a very solemn military theme within the reimagined show.
@john Mullholand When Lucy Lawless' character showed up and did the report on the Galactica and her crew, we also hear it during her final broadcast version. In the Re-Imagined series, the original theme is the Colonial Anthem.
BSG2003 used it as the Anthem of the Colonial Fleet. Kinda like Anchors Aweigh is for the US Navy. Although I was rather disappointed with the 'fast march' version used in the Mini-series and Diana's Documentary. It lacked the grandeur of that final usage and the Original Series.
This was the textbook "The Commanding Officer is the last to leave the ship." I loved Lorne Greene;s character on the old BSG, but Edward James Olmos really did a spectacular role as Adama.
FUCK THE END THEY WASTE IT THE SEQUEL ABOUT GALACTICA THEY SHOULD BUILD A CITY ON THE MOON OR MOON BAD THEN LIVE GALACTICA ON THE MOON TO BE USE BY THE NEW HUMANS
How fitting the Admiral was the last one to leave the ship. His flyby was his paying respects to Galactica, the finest Battlestar in the Colonial fleet. SO SAY WE ALL.
The Battlestar Galactica; the ol' girl was the true star of the show, and was given a lovely send-off. She was laid to rest where life can begin - in and from the stars themselves.
Fantastic ending. Although i would have liked to see the ending that was apparently discussed where Galactica ends up on Earth and is found by archeologists in the present.
Fun trivia, if you look closely at the paper Angel Baltar was reading at the end of the series, it discusses archaeologists discovering a colonial Raptor in Africa
my wife and i love this series. so emotional in every episode, you can put yourself in the shoes of the characters. the soundtrack is awesome. I have to admit that I had goose bumps in the scene and also shed a few tears when the president died. I've seen a lot of series but this one ... a stunner 🤘
I'm old now. My grandmother, when I was little, watched a lot of Lorne Greene in Bonanza. She was very, surprised, to see Lorne Greene on the Battlestar Galactica. That is all.
When the 70’s end theme kicks in I can’t help but hear Lorne Greene’s voice saying, “fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last battlestar, Galactica...”
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who silently shed tears and sobbed with something in my throat at the sight of poor old Galactica and the rest of the fleet flying into the Sun. Very sad moment indeed. I also broke down watching the last ever Concorde commercial flight landing - someone did a brilliant animation video with nicely dubbed music that’s so poignant, it gets the tears flowing every time! 😭😢
Me too... And that scene where they find Earth... the music playing whilst the Raptor flies by the Galactica and the Earth suddenly comes into view, all big beautiful blue and instantly recognisable to us before cutting to Earth itself with the crew watching our primitive ancestors.
Man, I was so sad to see the whole fleet disappear in the sun... I could have never done that... Sacraficing everything, all the technical knoweledge, that the few people had left...
And they did it for a utopian dream that ultimately failed, rather than make effort to actually LEARN and APPLY lessons. But there's also this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ndbcLU0U28M.html
I mean, real people probably wouldn’t give up the tech, but that’s kinda the point of fiction, it makes you see things and feel things you normally never could or would So I can’t give them too hard a time for how the ending panned out, it may have been cut short as a series and the writing really suffered due to the writers strike, but overall its still a fantastic show and a good ending And hey, at least it’s not Game of Thrones 😂
I don't know if many of us can truly grasp what Adama felt doing this. He served on that ship as a young man and then had the privilege of commanding her towards the end of his career. Here he is on the other side the galaxy finally retiring from his final command and decommissioning the ship that was a large part of his life.
I wish they had just send it to one of Jupiters moons and allowed people of Earth to learn the truth when time was right, it would have made a good sequel series.
I always wished that when Head Six and Head Baltar were talking in the last scene one of them had mentioned about how the guidance system on Colonial One had failed, and she had fallen into an orbit around Mercury. With our current technology we would be bound to stumble across her any day now, go there and crack her open. Read all of Roslin's notes, learn the history from her memory banks, learn the secret to FTL technology. That would have been something, to suggest that the last chapter of the story still had yet to be written.
And she would of survived the longest of them all. Her radiation shielding, it would of meant she could watch her fleet get lain to rest properly before she dies herself. Thankyou Galactica
My family lived in the same house for ten years. My children left to go live with their mother, I wasn’t sure if I’d see them again. I moved out after buying my own house. I walked to the front door and turned around. Seeing all the memories of them. I said in a loud voice to my kids “ I’m going out buddies, I’ll see you later.” Then I walked out. This is the feelings
I love that feeling. That empty, hollowness of being _the _*_last_* person in a place that was teeming with people, aflood with purpose. You can _feel_ the energy, the weight of history.
I grew up in the 80s and this was one of the few shows i watched with my Grandpa. They never made it home that time befor the show was canceled. This remake was great. So glad they ended it right. So wish they had somehow burried the ship instead of one last send off toward the Sun. So Say We All.
The ending was brilliant. It tied everything together with us, the audience, perfectly. I hated to see it end, but the ending was necessary. Much, much better than dragging it out season after season with no resolution, until the writing got sloppy and lazy and people started losing interest. You know, Walking Dead style.
The ending that was needed would have explained the "all this has happened before" with full details including Starbuck's foreknowledge "goddidit" is not an answer
The "all this has happened before" was perfectly explained. At the very end, man (us today) was creating self-aware robots again. Just like they did with the cylons. The survivors were looking for a fabled planet "Earth." The people of THAT Earth had their own robot war that led to the 12 colonies. It's a cycle. And the "God did it" thing is one that militant Atheists can't accept. But it's simple. It's simply that science and religion are not opposite each other. They are not mutually exclusive. Man can have all the advanced technology in the world, and all the understanding of nature that can possibly be gathered. But none of that excludes a creator. Understanding the created system, inventing fancy technology by following the rules of the created system, does not exclude a creator. Mans self-righteous arrogance is where "there is no god" comes from. Not knowledge of a created system. So this ending was absolutely perfect. It explained a lot and left a lot open to wonder. Genius.
@@ecso828 No. Recall Starbuck's imprisonment on Caprica? The whole "So many times you were too afraid to make the transition" speech? By extension, the EXACT scenario had played out repeatedly. The writers, Behr in particular, are "cyclic reality" trope spinners (Star Trek DS9, Space Above and Beyond) and this was entirely in keeping. So why change? Maybe because someone was looking at the politics changes in the biggest market,the U.S. and submitted to biblical memes instead.
What gave this scene full power was how the used the music from the original Galactica series (1978) which was adapted in this series to be the colonies anthem. I watched the original series when I was a kid, and this one scene really got me. I know the studios are attempting to make a new movie/series, but I think they could explore this series as an alternative. Remember, the Galactica and the fleet did not go straight towards the Sun, they can't, instead, they have to follow a spiral going inward towards the Sun that could take a long time. Technically, the fleet could have taken years to finally crash into the Sun... so, if there were no computers anymore, and the one and only pilot is no longer to control it (maybe he dies before reaching the destination), there could be a small chance of the Galactica itself missing the Sun, and perhaps crash into any of the planets, could be Venus, Mercury, or if it somehow passes the Sun and slingshots out of it, it could crash into any of the planets including Earth. A follow up series could show humans today or in the near future finding the wrecked Galactica, a good spot would be either Mercury or the Moon or a large asteroid since there is no atmosphere and it would not burn up on reentry and the lower gravity would allow it to "crash land". That would be very inetresting.
Anders' final scene is my favorite scene in the entire series, and very few parts of any fiction I've consumed in my life have resonated with me more. Alone, staring upwards into flickering lights, in a bright cybernetic bath, with sprawling wires and mechanics strewn all around him, in a ship that's just broken her spine, you'd think out of context that this is quite bleak. But no ending could be more forgiving. To be fashioned into the complex computer of such an old, yet beautiful man-made machine, which has carried humanity's hopes with it to this final destination, to have the computation and interpretation of the universe flow through him, while serving as the final punctuation of a divine path - THAT is the ultimate perfection to Anders, the final manifestation of a path woven by both divinity and science, the full expression of what existence is composed of. Many fans dislike the religious aspect of the show, but I personally enjoy it when religion and science are blended effectively in fiction, and this scene is the absolute touchstone of that core theme.
It kind of reminds me of of the destruction of the original Enterprise back in Star Trek 3 The Search for Spock yes I'm a Star Trek fan and also a Battlestar Galactica fan the Enterprise blew up and fell into the atmosphere of Genesis and burned up in a glorious Fireball a viking funeral it's what my Viking ancestors would may have also referred to as a Warrior's funeral. Both scenes were sad But A very emotional end to two very famous ships of science fiction history and most importantly to their fans. The fans who loved and appreciated them. The Enterprise and the Battlestar Galactica were the true Stars of their respective shows
I still feel the urge to cry whenever I watch that scene. Especially since Kirk had always used the destruction of the Enterprise as a bluff. This time it wasn't a bluff; he did what he always did, to quote McCoy: "Turned death into a fighting chance to live." But that chance came at a cost--the only woman Kirk ever truly loved.
to destroy the necessary technology that this ship gave, and could teach, was a crime against humanity. To say lets start from scratch was stupid as it was a mantra in the series "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again" so to destroy all knowledge is to perpetuate the cycle. keep the knowledge that AI will always rise up so as never to create the same mistakes and sufferings.
@@gunner678 yea I get that by this time the writers of the series had no idea how to end it, especially following the recent Hollywood writers strike. From the start they made it up as they went along and got utterly wrapped up in loose ends and contradictions. So they finished the series with a lot of mumbo jumbo nonsense and mystical rubbish. Most people who'd followed the story from the beginning felt betrayed and let down. Basically the destruction of all technology and starting from scratch (stone age) in the hope that they could avoid the rise of AI was dumb as frak. and if it wasn't done to avoid the mistake of the rise of AI, but was done to teach humanity a lesson to start again and not commit the sins that led to the fall of the human race was utterly selfish and self indulgent and simply led to 100 000 years of suffering that could have been avoided. And id ask you, what sins had the human race committed that they deserved that or wouldn't repeat through having no knowledge of past mistakes.
Yep - throw away , x-ray, antibiotics, all modern medicine, modern farming and condemn MILLIONS , of your descendants to short lives full of pain, the native population should have wiped out these colonist idiots, without their tech - what use would they be? First winter would wipe most of them out
There is another side to this, you know. The Cylons were on the trail of the Galactica and the fleet. Theirs was a mission of utter annihilation of the human race. With the Galactica, a warship that they were all too familiar with, hovering in orbit, the Cylons would have obliterated it anyway and destroyed what was left of humanity. A second, not so bright, possibility was if they sent off the Galactica and the ships into space empty, the Cylons might have found the ships and upon discovering they were empty, might have back tracked to find the humans. Humanity, what was left of it, now found a place to call home. The Cylons would have detected the technology and shown up to wipe them out. The only way to be sure was to remove the Galactica and her ships from the equation entirely, effectively making the human race "disappear" from the Cylons world. Remove the technology, and the Cylons don't find you. Flying them into the sun was the only way to make the ship completely disappear...no ship, no debris, no trace elements. It just left orbit and disappeared. As the captain of a battered, burned, old in the beginning, unable to jump anymore, but undefeated warship that carried and protected humanity to the very new home they have, this was the most fitting end in his eyes and he just wanted to say his goodbyes. "We therefore commit this ship to space, atoms to atoms, dust to dust in the sure and certain hopes that the Cylons never find us".
The ending is a nice thought and all, but "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Is more true than that BS about throwing out knowledge to break the cycle. And at least they should've retained the knowledge of basic medicine, thats not "tech" that will be detected by Cylons. All they did was slow the inevitable rather than change anything, humanity will do the same again but with less knowledge but now have to deal with Cylons with tech that is 150,000 years more advanced since they last encountered them.
It's amazing that the oldest battlestar (wither exception of Battlestar Jupiter) managed to outlive all the big battlestar ever made, especially all the class of battlestars that preceded the Jupiter-class.
Scuttling her is a better fate then the breakers yards and being turned into the colonial version of razor blades. Bravo Zulu and fair winds and following seas, Galactica... you were the sci fi version of USS Enterprise (Cv-6). Both of you held the line against very heavy odds. Enterprise was the only survivor of her class in WWII (Yorktown and Hornet were sunk. Wasp and Lexington were also sunk and the only other prewar carrier to survive in the Pacific Saratoga was not of the same class...She'll be missed by her crew...
Amusingly enough, Ron Moore wrote in his series bible that “The Viper is now under the control of the Launch Officer, who sits in a small booth where s/he oversees the launch of all spacecraft leaving Galactica. No spacecraft can be physically launching without this officer's direct action- inotherwords, there can never be the moment when the "rogue" pilot decides to take off on their own accord.” So he violated his own rule to have this scene (I love the whole sequence, btw). He acknowledges this in his old podcast from the series. This is merely FYI.
Very befitting way to out. She served her purpose until the end...protecting humanity. Im glad they preserved none of it, a clean slate is a clean slate. The whole theme of the series is technology had become the downfall of man. I like how the end is open ended....who is to say the fleet made it to the sun? Since they never showed that the possibilities are endless. Nevertheless one of the most touching sequences ever. Reminded me how I felt when I walked off the deck of the USS John F Kennedy CV 67 April 7th, 1993 after four deployments and 12 years of active service...and since she is decommissioned resting in Philadelphia now she too will head one day to the breakers..RIP gallant warships
Poor Adama, leads the people to the promised land, but looses both his women right at the end. First Glactica, the Laura. Tough break after all he has been through.
The ONE thing I would have done, would be to document everything, including the science and technology, place the data in a special capsule, and then bury said capsule on the Moon. This capsule would lay doormat, Earth is sufficiently advance enough to find it on the Moon.
The people were absolutely exhausted after the Battle of the Colony. The humans were tired of running and Zarek's coup meant that eventually they would eat each other alive even without the Cylon threat. The stress of losing the first Earth (the irradiated one) and New Caprica before it caused many of the humans to lose hope. This Earth was a happy accident and pretty much everything about the Colonials was to be forgotten. No more reminders of the past. Just the people and their memories.
Battle star Galactica you have served humanity in more ways then you think you lead humanity to a new home and seeing you having a good send off was needed
There have been a lot of remakes and reboots, this was best from the writing to the actors the CGI all top notch. Yes it was different but so good. The last eps played the original music. It needs to come back miss it
Galactica was dying. It was either try to keep her together with stop gap repairs until she broke in two or give her a dignified, almost triumphant final voyage into the heart of a star.
Battlestar Galactica I salute you for the years of service you've contributed to the colonial fleet and also a few words you were one frakkin hell of a battlestar if only you still had all your armor plates you could've lasted longer on the assualt on 'The Colony' and if you had the back up of the Aires, Pegasus, Valkryie, Alantia, Rycon, and Fenris but I salute you.....o7
She'll be back. In one form or another. Galactica will always come back when we need her most, and she will fight for us until she can't fight no more and we will see her fight again. She is like the Enterprise from Star Trek and real life, she can never truly be gone. This has happened before and it will happen again. However for this version of her. So long old girl. -_-7 SO SAY WE ALL!!!
As an ending to the series it is one of those classic love hate moments for me. It is visually and emotionally sad. I loved EJO's Adama. He always reminded me of my Father who was a career military man. I just could not get with the finale's implied Neo-Luddism. It turned it's back on everything that made us Human.
I felt like that for a long time too, BUT maybe because I saw this over a decade ago and I have changed since I can see the wisdom in Lee's words: 'As a species our technology has always out-paced our hearts. Maybe we give that up. Give them a chance. Break the cycle.' Especially in this BSG series the emphasis is on the cyclical nature of time, and that we are stuck in this never-ending loop of birth, technological superiority, rebellion of said technology against its creators, defense, exodus, and starting over again. This is, afterall, what we see happened to the Lords of Kobol: leaving Kobol, founding the 12 Colonies, Cylon creation and rebellion, defense (first Cylon war), exodus. It also happened to the 13th colony of Earth-1. A never-ending cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. This has all happened before, and this will all happen again. Lee hoped that by giving up our tech, and giving our morality a chance to catch up to us, AND teaching the natives what happened to them MAYBE the cycle could be broken. I was surprised to see that the whole fleet gave up their tech and society without much of a fight, but maybe it was as Bill Adama said to that very question, of 'how tempting it is to have a clean start. To start over.' That said, that ending scene with Head 6 and Head Baltar seem to imply that we may STILL be locked in that cycle. **** As a sci-fi fan, when I first saw this all those years ago, I was heartbroken seeing The Grand Old Lady being wasted and flown in to the sun: Why not create an orbital defense network? If we were being wiped out on Earth wouldn't we want to retreat to the safety of Galactica? Our technology? The first time a child is sick and dying of a simple infection, wouldn't we curse ourselves for flying all those antibiotics and medical technology in to the sun?! One could argue, that "if any Cylons happened by our Earth, they probably wouldn't bother destroying them because they are not the same "Colonial civilization" just a genetically identical group that happened to evolve on a planet on the other side of the galaxy. The Cylons would probably keep going, there is no Battlestar, no ships, just a bunch of people running around in loin-cloths! Couldn't possibly be the same people!" Lol! But to me, it all seemed a little ridiculous to give up all that to live as a sheep-herder on some back-water planet! But maybe that's a young man's thinking. Someone with more fire-in-the-belly. Someone who takes too much pride in "winning" and not "being a better person". Now that I'm older and creaker and achier (not unlike the Galactica herself in this scene) and I see that society is going off the rails, descending into madness, I can see the wisdom in giving it all up to be that sheep-herder. A yearning for a simpler life. One without the threat of nuclear annihilation, gain of function research, taxation, Modern Monetary Theory (money printing), etc -- all examples of our heads out-pacing our hearts, by the way. Ironically, we are seeing this today, in all age groups of people disconnecting -- going off-grid in a van or living in a cabin with solar panels and permaculture to provide for their daily needs. Seems really appealing to me. **** Sorry for the overly-wordiness, but you touched on something here I've been thinking about and have talked to my friends about who are also BSG fans. So say we all.
Well, at it's heart, BSG is the Anti Star Trek. Trek promises a brighter future through technological advancement. BSG posits that no matter how advance humanity's technology, we're still the same upright tool using apes we've always been, and technology can't change that. On a practical note, diving into a neo Luddite lifestyle was going to happen eventually anyway. All the tech was worn out and used up, and whatever industrial base they had to maintain it or build more was either destroyed with Pegasus or abandoned on New Caprica. That was made clear in the final few episodes as they ran out of parts and ship systems began to fail.
Even the Annun-Na-Ki didn't destroy their ships and tech when they settled here! Sad to see one of my favorite ships get destroyed! Farewell, Galactica, old girl! Over two-hundred yahrens of faithful service!
I like how the CGI/models team kept every bit of battle damage and just kept adding to it with every passing battle. The ship started out in good condition like a museum ship, at the beginning of the series, and by the end there's hardly a spot on the exterior of the ship that isn't damaged. It's even physically bent visibly in several sections. Armor plating is bent and missing. It's HAMMERED. In short it looks like it was the only Battlestar to survive an all-out war with the Cylon fleet.
I've watched this episode for years and just noticed something sad - look at N7242C's DRADIS display - none of the ships are broadcasting their transponders
I always wondered about the people left on the original 12 that the cylons were experimenting on. And those rebelling. You know there were some people left behind.
I thought the ending was brilliant. I know many people can't get their heads around it, especially the destruction of "technology", but I get it. They had reached the new world, the world they would call home and it was time to break the cycle of war and to create a new life on a new planet. In addition, Galactica was a broken ship, held together on a wing and a prayer and some duct tape. She wasn't going anywhere except to a fitting death hopefully. And she got that. In addition, I loved the way they wrapped up the show on Earth with the scene with Adama and Laura Roslin and her death. They had been through so much together, so much pain, so many challenges, and they had survived by their wits. It was heart breaking to watch, but it was real, and it was the way life goes. Same for Starbuck. Starbuck had died, she was resurrected from the dead in a Christlike fashion, she lead her people to their salvation and he work was complete. Lee was left alone with a pile of unanswerable questions. It was all so perfect. Life ends, a new one begins, life goes on. We don't always get the answers we are looking for, but when in life do we?
Galactica and CV-6 Enterprise have a lot in common they both gave all to protect their personal and country and in the end were completely worn out but there legend lives on.
This part of the episode was about the send off of an epic icon, the Battelstar Galactica. Something I loved since the first series. If wishes were fishes then I would want them to create new flash backs relating to the Hx of the ship, Adams’s taking command of it, the slings and arrows given it. The end of such a fine series was hard to watch with my eyes so watering. I tip my hat to everyone. But someone please tell me why the Irish sounding music? Love to all who love BSG!
Seeing the old ship Rest In Peace, yet my version is, the engineering teams, download the blueprint and technical diagrams, the source codes, the very seeds of rebuilding a “new” Galactica-A? Same body style, improvement from original and enhancements to be better built.. That’s how it works for me, give death a fighting chance to live.. Let Galactica say farewell and somewhere, a new keel being laid.. On a planet where materials can be obtained and a new Galactica being birthed. Say farewell to the old, and embrace a new ship! Fracking yeah!
At least... my Alternate Ending.... The Broken Galactica towed to a moon, or planet that has a ship building facility.... gutting the good components from the broken Galactica, laying the keel, moving the working systems to the new hull, the engineering space faring humans, wanting to remain in a defensive perimeter around earth, Building a new and improved Galactica in case humans on Earth survive and discover the Galactica hidden in a base the technology, archived, and saved for future generations.. Fracking YES! William Adama and Madam President, escape to a ship till the new Galactica is ready... While Lee Adama remains on Earth.. Somehow.... I knew this wasn't the real end... Let's all give Death... a fighting chance to live... The ships that were damaged beyond repair go to the sun-star..
I know it was written for the dramatic effect, but from a practical point of view destroying all the ships was a huge waste of resources that could have had unnumbered benefits.
