The fact that she flat out commandeered the Basestar and non of the Cylons present even contemplated objecting is very telling of what she conveyed right there
I think the news of Saul, one of the Final Five, being killed, played an important role in that. Both Laura and the Cylons lost something invaluable and wanted revenge.
She's leaning on that control table the Cylons link to the hybrid with by the end of her line. I assume the hybrid just agreed and pushed out the weapons.
@@adam1third But she's human, she can't interface with the goo panel. The hybrid, since she is the ship, just heard the sheer incandescent rage in her voice
@@vgernyc "The sparkling buds of spring open gently - all cannons locked all missiles locked all safeties detached all warheads armed hold on to the safety rails please"
I so hated her at first. But she slowly grew on me until I felt she was one of the best written characters in the history of television. This scene was so fucking awesome.
Without fail this scene gives me the most epic of goosebumps. This moment is one of the best in the entire life of the Scifi Channel Series. Frak! I miss this show.
A ball that has its own gravitational force to a ship without any artificial gravity. that kind of ball that everyone fears and admires at the same time.
I'm continually inspired by the power she exuded with her unbridled determination and rage. The last shot going down the line of Cylon cannons was epic. As a kid I remember yelling "Do it! Blast them out of the sky!" I'm glad they didn't but man... I felt that
Frak me what a powerful scene... Despite all their differences in the past, all the trials and tribulations that they've endured be that alone or inflicted upon one another by each other, this scene unites them all. Even Baltar looks emotionally gutted upon hearing that Adama had been executed. And then when Roslin refuses to give up and lets her rage surface you can see it infect and unite all present. Again, even Baltar looks like he wants to fight alongside them lol. Epic stuff and by the Gods I miss this show.
There is a point at which despair gives way to insanity and rage. People describe it as seeing red, or something inside them breaking, but the contours of the experience are the same if difficult to put into words. The border between the two is an emotional cascade which overwhelms everything else in your being with frightening speed. Adama is describing something very similar after the Fleet breaks up over Kobol, that the anger over his betrayal "suffocates all other thought, all other emotion, until nothing is left but the rage." The acting here is simply incredible, not just for Mary but for Trisha and James as well. You see the cascade occur on Mary's face, from shock, to utter and complete despair, to a withering and all-consuming determination for vengeance no matter the cost. Her declaration is so emotionally powerful that you can see the unconscious impact it has on Baltar and Six, the gravity of the emotion behind her words immediately firing the spirits of both, who experience a piece of that cascade based on their own experiences. Hell, even Felix hears it over the wireless. Anyone who hears this immediately understands the threshold that was just crossed, and how they can never go back. Finally, when Adama gets on the horn you see the cascade of rage come to an immediate halt, as if Roslin had jumped off a precipice and someone hit 'rewind' returning her to the ledge. It's as thought you've witnessed the birth and death of a monster that was always inside us all. It's incredible.
@@danielhaire6677 yes..... and she would have lost her temper and would have ordered a nuke to be fired on the galactica. Sooooo... good that she wasn't there
I've said it before, but I love the reaction of the Six in this scene - she's shocked by the pure fury coming off Roslin. The Sixes were obsessed with love, and here was a prime example of what love can drive a person to do.
It really is intresting to watch this agian knowing the hate that adama had for roslin in the early days but that hare grew to love and devotion and well i will to do anything for you
I don't think Adama hated her at all. Even in the whole coup issue, it was nothing personal towards her, he wanted to keep the fleet safe under his direct command.
He definitely never hated her. He doubted her competence at first and they mistrusted each other a bit, but she earned Adama’s respect very early on-specifically when she persuaded him that fleeing was their only shot at survival. Right after that he acknowledged her legitimacy as president in a ceremony (I’m not remembering the exact details, but Roslin thought it was just military showboating or whatever and Lee told her it was actually meant to be a gesture of support). Their relationship got derailed when she sent Starbuck to Caprica against his orders, but that whole thing ended up bringing them even more together. I actually think Adama had rockier relationships with Lee and Tigh than with Roslin.
@@sarahdara1982 I think you need to watch it again , In the early days Adama had zero respect for her to the point of hate and you can clearly see it from how he talks about her, sure he tried to make her welcome but that as the ep shows was not love or care but rather programmed military protocol, as in a time of trouble he fell back on what he knew at the time for some level of normality, but if you watch the EPs that follow he does all he can to undermine her, he then moved to remove her from office and you do not do that to someone you care about or love, no you do that when you hate someone
@@EQINOX187 Nah, not hate. That's simplifying it too much. He was under a lot of pressure, and was frustrated. Even the lack of respect was because he was misguided in thinking his way was the only way. That's the military training. You can't doubt yourself, especially when you're in command. The situation compounded that. He was respectful in the beginning even though he disagreed with her, and he had every reason to. Just saying he hated her early on is ignoring all the nuance that went into their interactions.
god fucking dammit I must have watched this scene 90 times and every time I get goosebumps and burst out laughing at the end uncontrollably because of how badass it is it's like my body is in shock and doesn't even know what to do. one of the great sci fi leaders of all film TV and movies
Roslin could be intimidating (cf. Taking a Break from all your Worries). But her unleashing such an onslaught of indignation here propelled her into a whole nother tier of intimidation unmatched by Adama, Cain, the Cyclons, or anyone else, that one could be forgiven for thinking this alone is what caused Galactica's structural integrity to begin buckling.
The star power through this series.....I mean James and Mary goes without saying......James Callis, Tricia Helfer.....they were incredible......Jamie Bamber.......and all the others.......it was just an incredible series.......
in this moment Laura reminds me of Delenn from B5. Delenn, Flat out breaks her own council and through almost sheer force of will brings a fleet to save B5 You are infront of me, He is behind me. If you value your lives.. BE somewhere else You just dont want to be on the side that pi$$es eithier of them off lol :D
What a woman! She'd have made a fine Klingon! I honestly think an angry Roslin is every bit as scary as an angry Adama. Of all the things that happened in this series, if I could change just ONE thing, then at the final end of the series I'd have written it so that Adama and Roslin got to live out their golden years on Earth together. Everything else was perfect but she didn''t have to die upon reaching Earth. Never saw how that moved the story.
@Manny L Given that their purpose, to a significant extent, at this point was to get Cylons that could breed presumably they pretty much needed to include the entire system - and that would include waste removal.
@@JeremyMacDonald1973 Cottle did remark that they didn't do the plumbing right, though, when Athena went into labour. Which begs the question... Boomer never went to OB/GYN?
'No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you! I swear it!I'm coming for all of ya'. At that moment, 6 just came.
I would put this one along Delenn's (B5) - If you value your lives, be somewhere else. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UYloWBP79ro.html
Down the years, a welter of idiomatic expressions have been created to indicate the vastness of a person’s desire for a particular thing or outcome: people have in rhetorical outpourings offered their hair, their right arms, their last penny, their firstborn, their shirts, their last drop of heart’s blood, even their lives and immortal souls. To offer one’s eye teeth is a good example of the type. The pointed long teeth - also called canines because they look a bit like those in dogs - are called eye teeth because the pair in the upper jaw lie directly below the eyes. Originally, only the upper pair were given the name but later the pair in the lower jaw also came to be called "eye teeth". Why people seize on eye teeth as a dramatic way to indicate their longing for something is harder to get a grip on. If only you were asking about cut one’s eye teeth or cut one’s teeth, I could respond at once by pointing out that the eye teeth are among the last of a baby’s first set of teeth to appear and so to cut them (have them emerge from the gums) implies that babyhood is in effect over. To say that somebody has cut his eye teeth means he’s wide awake and isn’t easily fooled. If you’re cutting your eye teeth (or just teeth) on something you’re gaining experience in a situation you’re new to. These suggest that eye teeth are especially valuable, because they figuratively embody hard-learned skills and one’s experience of life. The association with eyes results in an even more powerful evocation. To lose them would cause one to be severely hampered, not merely in eating but in everyday affairs. Ergo, if you would be willing to give your "eye teeth" for something, you are prepared to make a personal sacrifice for that thing to transpire.
Eye-teeth. The 'canines'...... closest thing you have to fangs. Humanity's oldest weapon, before fire. They didn't become obselete until one of us picked up a rock or a club. Way before battlestars.
Much as I love Delenn from Babylon 5, angry Roslin makes angry Delenn look like a bunny rabbit. I'd also like to express appreciation for six's expression at 0:56. Really helps to sell it.
Delenn's anger simmers and is kept in check. For the greater good of the entire galaxy. If she "Hulked out," pray to whatever deity strikes your fancy.
