The Controversy of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003)

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After the original Battlestar Galactica went off the air and Galactica 1980 failed to catch on a devoted fan base kept the property alive.
So much so that various creatives tried a few more times to get Battlestar Galactica back on TV. One of those attempts finally made it to air.
Battlestar Galactica hit the air in 2003, lasting 4 seasons and bringing with it much controversy, first from casting and then from tone but went on to be one of the top series of the 2000's.
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@skippermatt7939 Месяц назад

In 2008, my girlfriend and I went to our first DragonCon. Edward James Olmos led the crowd in the big auditorium in a rousing chant of "so say we all!" It was amazing. 2 years later, we got the congregation at our wedding to repeat it back to the officiant. Our older relatives were confused but our nerd friends were beaming.

@markh995 Месяц назад

My wife and I were there for that chant at D*Con 2008. Best times ever.

@antr7493 Месяц назад

Mandolorian pretty much ripped it off

@dungeonsanddobbers2683 Месяц назад

Did ye, aye?

@DefaultProphet Месяц назад

Weirdly I've been to three different weddings where that happened lol

@williamwalkup988 Месяц назад

Loved to have been at your wedding just to say, So say we all... It is a great bonding confirmation.

@b.thomas8926 Месяц назад

You know, there are people alive now, working/going to college who hadn't been born when this show came out. I feel so old.

@scottcampbell9515 Месяц назад

My back hurts while reading this.

@ChagrinElectric Месяц назад

There are grandparents that weren't alive when the original came out in the 70's either😂

@geesterfunk Месяц назад

time passes, it always has

@michaelinterbartolo3 Месяц назад

@@ChagrinElectric you dont have to be a grandparent to be old enough for the 78

@wstine79 Месяц назад

I graduated from college a year before the miniseries aired.

@AlexJimenezLit Месяц назад

The fact that this came out days after I finally finished watching this show proves that I'm living in my own Truman Show.

@frankgesuele6298 22 дня назад

Are you gonna break out?🤔

@christopherneufelt8971 21 день назад

@@frankgesuele6298 Look behind you. Hi.

@Knuck_Knucks 5 дней назад

We live in a simulation.🐿

@frankgesuele6298 4 дня назад

@@christopherneufelt8971 👋🏻

@wstine79 Месяц назад

One of the last shows to air before the network changed to SYFY.

@mahatmarandy5977 Месяц назад

Not really. You also had Stargate Atlantis and Eureka and Sanctuary and others

@ishotmyboss Месяц назад

Sifee

@satansshadow2163 Месяц назад

Cee fee

@seibervideo Месяц назад

Where my Being Human and Lost Girl fans at?

@reggaemortis4117 Месяц назад

@@seibervideo Being Human ❤

@darkhierophant4914 Месяц назад

What a small world we live in. I'm rewatching the show. I'm in the 3rd season right now. Love it. Richard Hatch was a regular customer at a music/video store back in 2002-04. He was a cool guy. He told me he was working with others to try to get a new BG show going. RIP

@bamesbamesbames 17 дней назад

I lived just outside of Vancouver and got to go to the set of BSG with my high school film class in 2004. There wasn't much going on that day but two actresses happened to be there. Katie Sackoff (Starbuck) was bumming around the set chatting with the PAs, and quickly turned sour when she saw she had to play meet and greet to a bunch of teenagers. She basically said hey hows it going, hope you like the show, then she quickly peaced out. We were all rather disappointed and even the PAs said she was a handful on set. Later, just as we were almost done the tour, Tricia Helfer (Six) came around the corner unexpectedly, gave us all a big smile, a genuine welcome and shook all of our hands. She chatted with us for a few minutes and answered a few questions about the show and the industry. Pure Hollywood class, as our teacher put it then.

@btetschner Месяц назад

Tricia Helfer lived an actor's dream to nail their first big role like that, so iconic! She is one of my favorite actors.

@liahfox5840 Месяц назад

I agree with you. I think her acting ability gets over-shadowed by her beauty, or she'd get more credit.

@btetschner Месяц назад

@@liahfox5840 Agreed! Society values female beauty so much that it tends to blind the viewer to other talents. I don't know how old you are...but there was a very memorable 80s commercial that had the tagline "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."

@ocularpatdown Месяц назад

She is such a kind person!

@btetschner Месяц назад

@@ocularpatdown Would be great to meet her!

@ShallowSedai Месяц назад

No person could have played that role better than she managed. Magnificent performance. Stage play one room scenes (in space).

@The1Remainder Месяц назад

I can’t believe it’s 20 years old.

@NebLleb Месяц назад

Never thought I'd see the day when the Galactica 2003 show gets proudly featured on Secret Galaxy.

@JeffersonRedeyes Месяц назад

What about the day Galactica 2003 got a pinball table? Dropped last month on Pinball FX and it's really good. Before anyone asks, yes there is a "FRAK" ramp.

@ChairmanChico Месяц назад

We all knew it was coming…

@kaibotski4939 Месяц назад

A new reboot is coming btw.

@NebLleb Месяц назад

@@kaibotski4939 Oh, yes. I know. I honestly hope that after doing the military grit with the 2003 Miniseries and Show, that they go back to the adventurous tone of the 1978 series.

@synisterworldwide Месяц назад

I'm surprised there was no mention of Bear Mcreary.. AMAZING and innovative score to the show and this one really kicked off his career.

@billkasperdotcom 17 дней назад

Bear Mcreary also did the music for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The Walking Dead. Immensely gifted artist.

@realGBx64 16 дней назад

especially how the music itself becomes part of the story in season 4!

@nathangriffiths6218 Месяц назад

There were some great characters in the reboot but Edward Olmos's Adama was really the core of this show in my opinion.

@itsdantaylor Месяц назад

10:11 Also Edward James Olmos read the initial script and said 'The second you write a alien into the script, I'm done. I will see the alien, I will scream, faint, they can carry me off set, then I'm done with the show entirely'.

@Mecha82 Месяц назад

That's actually funny.

@TerranIV Месяц назад

I hate when actors dictate story. You are in a sci-fi show, sir! Get off your high-horse about aliens being "too nerdy" for you to handle! Sheesh.

@zenquantum1246 Месяц назад

@@TerranIVtotally get what you’re saying. However, Olmos’s point was that he wanted to be a part of a show that was about characters and their experiences in extraordinarily stressful circumstances with a definite end, but not a monster-of-the-week, deus-ex-machina, VFX-fest that makes new episodes just to keep going. (Think of what The Flash TV series on WB became)

@makasete30 Месяц назад

Ok Olmos, how about angels, God and a human resurrection? Just joking. At this point the writers weren’t sure if the religious themes would turn out be be true. I wonder how he felt about it as he took on a father role for the crew as it went in and often helped the younger actors in scenes (they often mentioned it). I get what Olmos is trying to say, even though I disagree. At that time, sci if tv within aliens was looked down in in some corners of the old school of acting. The actor for Baltar and Lee Adama also had doubts about the series and mentioned they had images of the 1970s camp series. Olmos revealed on a panel discussion of the show that during the reveal of the final 5 in the script, the actor for Tigh walked out of the room when he found out he was one of them. He kind of implied that he didn’t like the choice.

@phoule76 Месяц назад

an alien

@wstine79 Месяц назад

"What the Frak!" I hope they have this T-Shirt that was featured on 30 Rock in the 80sTee shop.

@DoggoDogman Месяц назад

I always thought of the new series as a "sequel to an imaginary reboot." Like, it still felt like there was a story that came before it, only the details were all different from the original.

@protorhinocerator142 Месяц назад

The prequel Caprica series was just shoehorned in. I could definitely see that originally as another "AI gone bad" show set in our future, maybe 20 years out. Someone must have realized it could pass as a prequel the BSG and they renamed it Caprica. If you were to place that whole show on Earth in 2040 you really wouldn't need to change that much. Replace all the other planets with other countries and keep all the racial tension. It was a pretty interesting story, but it might not have been funded if not for the tie-in to BSG.

@kayvee256 Месяц назад

@@protorhinocerator142 I tried really hard to like Caprica. I stumbled on a thing somewhere where the... producers? I think it was the producers. Anyway, it turns out that there were two scripts floating around, one for a virtual reality AI gone rogue thing, and another with a Galactica prequel thing with AI gone rogue thing, and those producers just decided to smoosh them together into one show. It showed. It was a long time ago I watched that show but there was this jarring back-and-forth between stuff that felt like Battlestar and stuff that felt completely different. It was such a botched project right from the get go.

@Yvory6 Месяц назад

That why they call it "Reimagined" to place the old Battlestar as the first war against the cylon but yeah some detail are no more canon like that they discovered modern earth back then and probably some other things as well.

@SoloRenegade Месяц назад

all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again....

@protorhinocerator142 Месяц назад

@@Yvory6 If you listen to the original opening for the show, it took place in the sixth millennium of time. From a biblical view (and probably Mormon) the current time is in the sixth millennium. Basically the idea for the show was Space Mormons. The new show takes place over 100,000 years ago, which is completely different time-wise. The newer show isn't as Space Mormon as the original.

@jinpei05 Месяц назад

Everyone was nuts for Tricia Helfer, but for me, it was all about Grace Park 😍

@user-be7tc2bd6e Месяц назад

It was Kandyse McClure who played Dualla that did it for me. She was-GORGEOUS-and-FINE-and those pretty,green eyes had me in orbit. LOL.

@CantankerousDave Месяц назад

The dimples.

@mem1701movies Месяц назад

I didn’t like her with the 6 hair. But she was fine with her real hair.

@tartrazine5 Месяц назад

Nicki Clyne for me. Before all the NXIVM unpleasantness.

@Sephiroth144 Месяц назад

I was definitely on the Grace train- that said, much like Baltar, I could branch out.

@Briansgate Месяц назад

What the hell!? Where have I been? over 20 years....gone in a flash!!

@mosando Месяц назад

I only realized the 20years after reading the comments, I know he said the dates but seeing it written made me feel old. 20 years wow

@frankgesuele6298 22 дня назад

As if it were a dream🤯

@eerieeric834 Месяц назад

This show seemed ahead of it time on what topics it was talking about

@Hadgerz 21 день назад

Ahead of its time, and now nothing dares touch on what it did. We regressed.

@AFNacapella Месяц назад

plottwist: BSG 2025 will be 100% written by AI

@seandalziel7414 Месяц назад

It's so frighteningly possible.

@LukeJohnson-tw5bo Месяц назад

By cylons you mean?

@pete3011 Месяц назад

Considering the job the humans have been doing recently, sounds like a good plan

@frankgesuele6298 22 дня назад

Ironic🤖

@karendarrenmclaren 19 дней назад

And played by AI actors to cut costs😂

@jjohnsonmarine Месяц назад

I loved this show so much! I was deployed to Iraq in 2005, but my Uncle sent me "dubious" copies of the series on dvd, and we watched it in the FOB. My entire squad was 100% on board. This is maybe the most consistently amazing sci-fi series ever produced...tbh....there hasnt been anything even close to this good in the sci-fi series genre except maybe the Expanse and Altered Carbon, but BSG is always going to hold my #1 spot!

@LukeJohnson-tw5bo Месяц назад

Farscape is fantastic

@musicisfree91 Месяц назад

The Expanse was a worthy successor to BSG. I was hooked right away by both of them.

@tedwojtasik8781 20 дней назад

@@LukeJohnson-tw5bo Farscape was about the best puppet sci-fi ever made. Loved the show, hated the puppets.

@Rocket_Man232 Месяц назад

🔔 TRIVIA: EJO was utterly convinced that he could bring a BSG sequel into existence. He even had a script. It starts out with him in his cabin on (our) Earth and there's a knock at the door and it's Saul Tigh, who says, "Bill, we've got a problem."

@tedwojtasik8781 20 дней назад

Followed with, "That twat Baltar invented some shit called disco, some other shit called cocaine and all hell is breaking loose!"

@TagardMC Месяц назад

Anyone else here ever play the BSG board game? Shit rocked.

@tartrazine5 Месяц назад

"When does my Alcoholism take effect?"

@mccallosone4903 Месяц назад

super good, but cant get it anymore. its been reskinned as a game called "Unfathomable", also good

@Kresegoth Месяц назад

Still own the complete game and all expansions. It's literally a crown jewel of my board game collection :)

@Yvory6 Месяц назад

Gala Games are working on a Battle Star video game, I don't know it if will be good.

@joanmoriarity8738 Месяц назад

Meh. I liked it better the first time I played it when it was called Shadows Over Camelot".

@danielarizmendy5399 Месяц назад

I love that you including the Portlandia stuff. It’s because of that episode that I watched BSG and I’m so glad I did.

@Doughy_in_the_Middle Месяц назад

Just started binge watching this with my wife and daughter (20). The three of us typically watch NCIS, but all are on hiatus. My daughter and I have already watched Supernatural, all of modern Doctor Who, and Firefly, plus she and I are just starting TNG. I decided this was next for the three of us. Wife and I loved it back in the day, and I'm glad that daughter is enjoying it too.

@tipulsar85 Месяц назад

While I have MOST of this series on disc downstairs, the one thing that still is interesting is how well it translated to a tabletop game. In 2008, Fantasy Flight Games adapted it to board game form using the then latest craze, secret roles given to each player on top of character sheets so that you could play as most of the regulars in the cast. The base game only covered the first season, with expansions covered a season each, meaning it had four boxes the size of Ticket to Ride by the time they released the final box in 2013. However back in 2007, it had already been adapted into an RPG by Margret Weiss Productions that had all of a single core book using the same system they had already tested out in 2006 with the now cult classic film Serenity which was the film finale for 2002's Firefly. While the RPG is not all that sought after, the Board Game and its expansions are. The one problem with a tabletop RPG is that most people coming to the hobby are coming to it from the co-operative storytelling side, and might not want to deal much with PvP unlike board games.

@freddiejohnson6137 Месяц назад

Was never a huge fan of the original despite my mother loving it when I was younger and having it on every time it was on TV. I loved this reboot though it actually manages to do something many Sci-fi shows don't and that is keep you gripped and does not run for too long before becoming a watered down version of what started. One of the few times a reboot has worked for me and not just done to cash in on the name it is using.

@Jkaninteangemittnamn Месяц назад

But last season were sleeping pill and the eding the same -but logical .I I bought them on DVD relese and last season i dont watch - bad produced and uninterresting plot

@PaulCashman Месяц назад

I was one of those fans of the original series who was irked by, say, a female Starbuck and other changes. I resisted watching it until a few years later I picked up the 4-hour miniseries cheap on DVD...and was totally blown away. They paid homage to the original series while removing the campy silliness and improving virtually every aspect of the show. I bought it all on Blu-ray and never looked back. Easily one of my favorite sci-fi series ever!

@Strideo1 8 дней назад

I never got past the season where they give up and settle on the crappy planet. That totally killed the show's momentum for me.

@PaulCashman 8 дней назад

@@Strideo1 wow, too bad. That sequence provided some of the most gripping moments of the entire series, culminating with the now-legendary Adama Maneuver.

@josebrown5961 6 дней назад

I was one of those fans of the original series. I was 14 when it came out. I was damn near 40 when this came out and I was willing to see what they would do with a female Starbuck, and Boomer. I ended up liking both of them. Now that I am posting I don’t remember a black character in the new series. Oh wait, there was a Cylon male and Dualla.

@cdadamly Месяц назад

SO SAY WE ALL!

@mosando Месяц назад

SO SAY WE ALL !!!!

@MiniPainterGamerDadD20 Месяц назад

SO SAY WE ALL!

@billyheaning Месяц назад

This was the very first show I ever watched from the day it priemiered to the series finale. Even used a VCR back then to record the episodes. It utterly blew my mind---I was instantly hooked. I know when I'm watching quality spaceship television and when I'm not, and this show delivered. The only other show in this genre that gets even remotely close is The Expanse, with a dash of Space: AAB and Firefly.

@JustMonikaOk 18 дней назад

Video title 'Controversy of Battlestar Galatic' introduced during video 'History of Battlestar galatica.' Nice clickbait.

@fernandowhitmore9281 Месяц назад

It's my favourite show. The first two and a half seasons are absolutely amazing.

@TheSybermedic Месяц назад

I am happy to say that I am old enough to have watched both shows live.

@badhareday7509 Месяц назад

I think new BSG set the gold standard for a lot of modern scifi and fantasy shows. And the casting choices were abolutely perfect. Just frakking amazing!

@medleystudios72 Месяц назад

When it premiered, it was just when sci-fi channel was turning into a pay channel on my cable netwrk, so I didn't get to see it until years later on DVD. It was then that I binged the entire thing, including The Plan (which I'm surprised you didn't mention.)

@tenebrousoul9368 Месяц назад

Alien Nation please

@MaximumWarp2099 Месяц назад

YES!

@thelaughingrouge Месяц назад

Absolutely

@excessmaterial Месяц назад

Don't forget the TV movies too. Those are solid too.

@kevinbartoe7881 Месяц назад

Hell yeah!

@tenebrousoul9368 Месяц назад

@@excessmaterial there were plural movies?! I only saw one

@rouenrobinson Месяц назад

I watched all of them except for Blood & Chrome... as a kid I really wished the hover bikes in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 1980 existed lol

@blameitonthebadgers Месяц назад

How did Jason Voorhees make it into an X-Men movie reel 🤔🤔

@jamesoneavatar8644 Месяц назад

I watched all the series, including Caprica

@XMattingly Месяц назад

God bless Michael Hogan. ✊ Colonel Tigh was _far and away_ my favorite BSG character: deeply flawed, conflicted and uncompromising, but in the end resolute, loyal and the ultimate wingman. Tigh is the ULTIMATE embodiment of “I am not merely a witness to my fate, I am who I _choose_ to be”. POWERFUL stuff, and Mr. Hogan played that character like a fiddle. *So say we all.* ✊

@Shryce 3 дня назад

Dirk Benedict was right... the Original Series nailed it the right way... the reboot just never found it's balance and was way to unhinged.

@joeblankenship377 Месяц назад

I watched the new show because of Portlandia. Then I understood the Portlandia sketch. It was really good, really addictive. I was bummed when it was over. I definitely need to sit down and re-watch it someday. I loved Katee Sackoff on it.

@CUniverse Месяц назад

10:35 a fandom upest about changes to characters? *IM SHOCKED! SHICKED, I SAY!*

@parvizdeamer 11 дней назад

That’s the real cycle that repeats itself 😂

@jamesdietz29 Месяц назад

Why is the thumbnail entitled "The controversy of Battlestar Galactica" but the video it's self is titled "The history of Battlestar Galactica"?

@SethMcFartlane Месяц назад

Meddling Cylon agents.

@SickLiq Месяц назад

Was also wondering. Very little controversy was discussed. It was like 1 minute of the video.

@dustinherk8124 Месяц назад

clickbait?

@jamesdietz29 Месяц назад

@@dustinherk8124 This channel is popular enough it doesn't need to do clickbait, so it's sad and disheartening that they've taken to doing it.

@stewartsmalls2024 Месяц назад

The title also says controversy in print. Only the nattator says "History". So now we have a controversy over the title. And in true nerd fashion we will debate it until the fall of man and eventual victory of the cylons. When they will declare...

@ActionfigureinsiderTV Месяц назад

I was VERY underwhelmed by the 4-hour miniseries when it was released, but I still gave the new show a chance when it went to series and I'm glad I did! The first episode of the series is named "33" and the premise is that the Cylons have found a way to track the Galactica and they show up and attack them EVERY 33 MINUTES! Once I saw that episode I said "I'll watch anything these guys make!" Dan, I will take issue with one line... you said that "Diamond Select Toys produced a full line of action figures." Only it WASN'T a FULL line as they never ended up releasing the 2 pack of President Rosilyn and Baltar, two main characters that were sculpted, and never produced leaving a huge hole in all of our collections!!! Enjoy your watch of the show. I really think you will dig it.

@poposterous236 Месяц назад

Finally watched it the whole way through last year after a lifetime of having it in the background. Fantastic television, great performances from a perfect cast giving career-best performances, incredible space combat and fulfilling character arcs. The only thing that holds it back for me is any mystery plot associated with the Cylons - it never really convinced me that there were satisfying answers to any of the questions they were asking (and it turns out I was right). That and the fact the series lands quite awkwardly in its last moments...

@protorhinocerator142 Месяц назад

For me the crux of the show was its willingness to "go there". Many other shows like Star Trek TNG would race back to the safety of the status quo. Not BSG, no sir. Like when they found that arrow and magically teleported to Earth. Wow. The Adama Maneuver, of course. One of the best maneuvers in all sci-fi history. I liked the thing where Starbuck was captive in that "house" and finally killed her Cylon captor. Only to have him re-emerge from the bedroom and call her up. And then he said, "Either way you'll be sleeping with me tonight." TWISTED! There was another point that really stood out for me, mainly because of the F-ed up situation and the strong acting. Baltar was sent to examine that Cylon ship with the disease that was killing Cylons. And that one model 6 started screaming at him, "You're the one who killed us! This is all your fault!" And so he shot her. Then he just stood there, trembling, and contemplating what he just did. Wow.

@JamesNoms Месяц назад

I really didn't like the ending when I was much younger, it did feel wrong to me and irked me. However I rewatched it through fresh eyes this year in a much shorter time frame it felt much more fitting and things I missed before as a kid, themes I didn't understand came through. Still won;t give it a 10/10 but its a solid 8 for me now.

@rozodru4790 Месяц назад

to me the BSG Epilogue (if that's what you're referring to) is just RDM "I need to finish this off with my trademark" schtick. if you've watched DS9 and some of his TNG episodes it's a lot of the same "is God real? or is it just some regular person with powers? are you a God? can this person be God? Religion is fun!" I don't think it needed to be there and when I originally saw it I rolled my eyes. It was just typical Ronald D Moore shit, he couldn't resist. I'd take that epilogue with a massive grain of salt. dont' get me wrong RDM is a talented guy and made some fantastic sci-fi but story wise, he's a one trick pony.

@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw Месяц назад

For all his skills Ron D Moore is like Jar Jar Abrams. He plays with mystery boxes (the Cylon plan), but as he makes the show up as he went along he did not have a coherent satisfying ending planned out. So the Cylon plan was never answered or addressed, it was all just deus ex machina, and it all revolved around getting some human/cylon hybrid DNA into our ancestors. The story and history of the Colonies snuffed out. They might as well have all been obliterated in the pilot. Now RDM is WAY better at it then Jar Jar Abrams, but that is still no substitute for planning a story with such big mysteries out from start to finish before you begin. Like Straczynski had done with Babylon 5. Now the ending of Galactica proved as divisive as the Star Wars Prequels, as we fought bitter online debates about it at the time. And unlike the SW Prequels time has not been kind to the BSG reboot, as while most SW fans have come to terms with the Prequels, no small thanks to Disney, half of the then BSG fandom walked away at the time and never looked back, leaving a much diminished fandom to carry the torch against cultural forgetfulness. At the time I religiously watched every episode as soon as it became available. I have not seen a single episode since. I just can't be arsed. Still love Bear McCreary's music though.

@shaider1982 Месяц назад

Tricia Helfer is also the voice of Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft 2.

@Hadgerz 21 день назад

And Dare in Halo 3 ODST (I prefer the original Kerrigan tbh)

@Harpoquondrax Месяц назад

My now ex-husband was always trying to get me to watch new shows, I always vehemently refused, until I gave in. I'm glad I did because I fell in love with the show and binged it all much like the Portlandia characters. Same with Farscape.

@TitularHeroine Месяц назад

Leaving a Like for the Farscape reference :)

@spitt0110 Месяц назад

paper without corners man... My friend and I were addicted to that show. 2009ish. We were exactly what that portlandia skit was. every moment we had off together we would be watching that show. he was just like, hey, i heard this show is good, lets watch it.

@DerekScottBland Месяц назад

They did a collectible card game of BSG, and the cards were cut just like their paper was. It was really weird holding them.

@GromMolotok Месяц назад

I watched the original and 1980, loved them both. I didn't have cable when this reboot came on. I see it's on Tubi now, so . . .

@brianlarsen9952 Месяц назад

Glen A Larson (no relation) was the creator of many of my favorite shows in my childhood. Glad you covered this

@KennethDPedersen Месяц назад

Watched all, loved all, 2004 is still one of my favorite shows of all time

@archlich4489 Месяц назад

I liked the beginning and the end. Some in the middle dragged for me.

@Alucard-A-La-Carte Месяц назад

The fact that the alleged tech genius got literally honeypotted by technology might be the most trenchant insight of the entire show. I do love that looking back at every "controversial" classic reveals: humans aren't getting worse, the worse ones are getting louder.

@ketchupcommander Месяц назад

So refreshing to see a bit of love for a quality show with a quality cast and quality writing with a quality review. kudos

@KenoshiAkai Месяц назад

I grew up with the '78 version and loved it, loved the science fiction and the mystical religious themes. Battlestar Galactica 1980 was largely a waste except for the final episode, which was so good that I misremembered it as being part of the original series. I was one of those who was skeptical of the reboot and all of the changes but man, when I started watching it, I was hooked. It was my favorite TV series at the time and I loved the cast. I loved the space ships, and I have a collection of a bunch of the die cast vehicles that came out. The Galactica is to this day one of my all time favorite spaceships. An absolute brick of practical design. And the space combat was up there with Babylon 5 as being the best in science fiction (sorry, Star Wars). The ending of the reboot was hard to watch because of how emotional it made me, but I loved it for how beautiful it was. I have the soundtrack and those final pieces of music transitioning from the past to the present still makes my eyes water. "So much life."

@lifedragon99 Месяц назад

I just watched a clip the other day and was thinking I could go for a rewatch of this. I think you've just confirmed that's what I need to do.

@gabegerszewski3755 Месяц назад

Really enjoyed the 03 version for the most part; had an absolutely amazing cast. Felt like the story got a bit weird in season three (I believe), but it was still worth the watch.

@The_Brainsturgeon Месяц назад

The Space Dock RU-vid Channel constantly praises BSG for how realistic the space battles are and how grounded the sci-fi tech-level.

@redwingcharlie1 Месяц назад

I just finished another run through the BSG re-boot... Wrapped it up maybe 2 weeks ago. Fortuitous timing.

@specter7-1977 Месяц назад

Thank you for talking about this show, this show really inspired me when it originally aired.

@mahatmarandy5977 Месяц назад

Something I took issue with at the time was the way *some* fans of the RDM show would rag all over the original BSG. I’m fully aware of the problems and embarrassing bits of the original, hell, I’ve made fun of it myself from time to time, but the good outweighs the bad and it was spectacularly ambitious at the time, with it large ensemble cast, VFX, occasional arc-driven stories, etc. So it naturally bothered me when some of the fans of the new show would shit on the old when it became extremely obvious that they had never even seen it. I remember talking to this one guy and said, “well the original show couldn’t have been without some good qualities or else they wouldn’t be remaking it” to which he responded, “this isn’t a remake. They’re going back to the original source material, not the goofy show with the robot dog and the disco haircuts.” I pointed out that the show was the source material, that it’s not based on the series of books or whatever, he did not take that bottle. Insisted I was wrong. I really hate those kinds of exchanges. If people don’t like something that’s fine, that’s a matter of taste, bothers me when people tear things apart without even knowing what they’re talking about

@DarkSide2377 Месяц назад

One of my favorite sci-fi shows of all time.

@MatSpeedle Месяц назад

I watched pretty much all of this BSG reboot, but when they got really close to the end, for whatever reason I just stopped. Never did finish season 4... Probably should go back and watch it all again. 🤔

@stein1919 Месяц назад

@MatSpeedle Месяц назад

@@stein1919 oh

@mysteriiis Месяц назад

The ending's a bit controversial. Personally, I dug it.

@johnharris6655 Месяц назад

Dirk Benedict called the new Starbuck "Stardoe"

@CoreyKearney Месяц назад

Dirk Benedict was ass that was butt hurt that he didn't get tapped for the role and furious that they gender swapped it. They decided to do something that wasn't camp. And it worked. They told a story built around the mormen believe structure and got away with it. No ever talks about that part.

@Freakazoid12345 Месяц назад

Get it?!

@Shryce 3 дня назад

"Stardoe" never made any sense though.. deus ex machina plot device.

@stratometal 6 дней назад

I'll be honest, the scene with Caprica riding Balthar only to bring death to entire worlds afterwards set the tone and had me hooked. That and for me the relationships felt "real", and the in your face documentary style camera, perfection. Though sometimes I wished for some less shaking and constant wobbling.

@Formakiwi Месяц назад

I was slightly disappointed that Cylon Centruions never spoke in this version. Their distinctive electronic monotones always gave me a chill as a kid, a bit like the Daleks from Dr Who but less strident and less obviously intended to echo the vocal character of Goebbles.

@natelecarde962 Месяц назад

So glad my dad got me into this show, it’s a breath of fresh air from all the non stop Star Wars lately!

@mem1701movies Месяц назад

Don’t you find it funny that the special effects were a lot better than the prequels?

@BrettSauve 5 дней назад

Very good show. Own all DVD'S. What I love the most is there is no background music in the scenes unless they are actually playing it ona device during recording. No distractions. And it's more realistic to how we would truly fight in space. Just like how some anime like PLANETES & INFINITE RYVIUS do similar.

@HappyBirthdayRoboto Месяц назад

I watched the first season and gave up because it was too depressing, but I keep thinking I should go back and give the series another shot because I've heard so many good things.

@DigiRangerScott Месяц назад

There must be some kind of way out of here. Said the Joker to Dafief

@markh995 Месяц назад

That was moment they FTL jumped the shark.

@stewforwords Месяц назад

Earth:Final Conflict or Space:Above and Beyond are two hidden gems.

@seibervideo Месяц назад

Space: Above and Beyond is one of my all time favorites.

@largepurplemonkey Месяц назад

Hey Internet, have we got to the stage where we can appreciate the Battlestar finale yet? Or do I need to wait longer...?

@mysteriiis Месяц назад

I loved it.

@bobzelley5100 10 дней назад

I received the mini series DVD set for a secret santa at work . I would have never havd watched it . I did and was hooked , watching the entire series three times . That secret santa was influential

@jefffalks1519 Месяц назад

10:36 lost their FRAKING minds…missed an opportunity there

@dendostar5436 Месяц назад

Damn Cylons.

@texasbeast239 Месяц назад

🤖🦾🍞

@TheSuf Месяц назад

GASP you’re a Cylon 🫵🤣 Everyone was a cylon turns out Great show ❤️

@Thunderflare99 26 дней назад

I grew up with the original series as a kid and it had quite an impact on me. When I watched the mini-series I thought it was awful; it was so different and low budget. Years later some guys convinced me to give the show a chance (then in third season). When I watched "33" I became hooked and I accepted the show for what it was. Watched it all the way to the end including through the very long breaks. I still rewatch the series every couple years and it has become one of my all time favorites.

@jenniferanderson7010 Месяц назад

This was one of my favorite shows, ever. Right up there with DS9 and Babylon 5.

@garrykanter5773 Месяц назад

I watched the original. That big budget that got them cancelled wasn't spent on the episodes I watched.

@the_once-and-future_king. Месяц назад

Every episode was a minimum 33% reused shots. I imagine a lot of the money found its way into the coffers of the Mormon cult.

@makasete30 Месяц назад

go back to the 70s and compare it with other sci fi shows - it looked great. They had the special effects guy from Star Wars John Dykstr. It was the most expensive show on tv at the time.

@OrinThomas Месяц назад

I had a friend who was big into the original BSG fandom - her objection to new BSG was that she had young kids and she felt fine sharing the the goofy first one with them, but she couldn't share this one with them (and that she'd lose the fandom that was passionate enough to want the Richard Hatch reboot). I much prefer the first few seasons of RDM (until about New Caprica) but I can see what she felt she was losing and I still think about it more than 2 decades later.

@freakinflax 25 дней назад

Battlestar Galactica and Lost are my favorite shows of all time. Even the finale of this is still holds up. The arch’s and storylines of this show are incredible .

@flaircraft 16 дней назад

20 years ago fans were saying "So say we all." Nowadays, it's "This is the way." I can't believe this and Enterprise are 20 years old!

@chiefs300 Месяц назад

My dad, who turned 34 in 1978, had the opposite problem. He remembered watching some of the episodes from the original Battlestar Galactica and thought they were cheesy and dumb. He figured that the 2003 iteration would be the same. I kept trying to convince him that a show could not get more far away from cheesy and dumb than the new BSG but he never has watched it. Maybe someday. To me it is the best show ever.

@guybates111 Месяц назад

Me too. At the top with GoT and Lost. The close of the series was beautiful, unlike the fall off of the other two.

@Yuushiboy Месяц назад

One of the best tv-shows

@eatsmylifeYT Месяц назад

In the Philippines, there is a residential area called "Grace Park".

@davestationuk7374 Месяц назад

I would like to live in Grace Park 😂

@TheMichaelStott Месяц назад

I guess, for me, both concepts of the show appealed at the right age and right time. I was kid in the 80s when I watched the replayed episodes and in 2004 I was 10 years into a career in the Australian Army. The remake didn't "Destroy my childhood" It showed me I had one.

@thebadgamer1967 Месяц назад

Loved the OG back '78, yes I'm ancient, but the reimagined is my favourite show of all time especially the miniseries and razor movie just absolute perfection

@tannerdowney2802 Месяц назад

What was the Dogs name, Daggit?

@Sephiroth144 Месяц назад

@@tannerdowney2802 Daggit II; Daggit actually died in the Cylon attack on Caprica in the '78 pilot

@tannerdowney2802 Месяц назад

@@Sephiroth144 you're awesome

@protorhinocerator142 Месяц назад

Dis you also see "The Plan"? It was pretty much the entire BSG series, condensed, and told from the Cylon point of view.

@protorhinocerator142 Месяц назад

@@Sephiroth144 That was pretty lame, because "daggit" just means dog. They had some conveniently swapped out words, like "centon" meaning minute. A daggit is a dog.

@jinpei05 Месяц назад

Frakking awesome

@darkhierophant4914 Месяц назад

Frak yeah!

@whodafeak Месяц назад

They really should have cut the corners off every image they put on screen and said frak a few dozen times.

@btetschner Месяц назад

I graduated the same year in high school as Katee Sackoff. She is one of my favorite actors.

@TexasRy Месяц назад

the New BSG is a TOP 5 of All Time, the topics, characters, all the twists and turns, I watch the ENTIRE SERIES at least once every few years, DAMN GREAT SHOW! I also do this for Farscape 🙂

@btetschner Месяц назад

Battlestar Galactica (2003) is one of my favorite tv series of all time.

@MungkaeX Месяц назад

Controversy? Was it controversial for being too awesome? I’ll find out more over the next 18 minutes🍿.

@CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb Месяц назад

Just finished a rewatch of this last week. Still holds up

@robroymccandless8495 Месяц назад

I was in grade school when the original was airing. It was ALL we talked about after each episode. I was so desperate for a Colonial warrior's jacket (and sidearm) that I tried to make my own out of a brown cardigan . . . which failed miserably. My parents got me the Starbuck Halloween costume, those PVC things that ripped all over the place and the mask that made your face sweat. I was really invested in the series, and pretty crushed when it didn't return. I was SUPER skeptical of the new series, but was a part of a fandom forum, and we all agreed to give it a shot. It was NOT the original, which sucked. It WAS it's own thing, which was awesome. I'm glad that I watched throughout the series, and even if the finale was less than satisfying, it was all very good, and well worth the effort. Would watch again. I'd also watch a new series if it was offered. The show now lends itself to pretty much any current set of obstacles and issues we are facing.

@alecjones7299 Месяц назад

!!!FRACK!!!

@CastironWhisky Месяц назад

This show is one of the best ones to play the "where in Vancouver was this shot" game

@Mr.Jarbles Месяц назад

LOL! A: somewhere in or near the library.

@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 Месяц назад

I didn't even realize this show existed back then.

@creepycraiyons3519 Месяц назад

Sir. You’re missing out if you haven’t watched this. It’s riveting.

@alfonsorodriguez799 Месяц назад

Never liked the original show much, did not look real enough, the 2003 reboot was superb as well as the stand alone tv films that came out later. Favorite character? No. 6 of course, cannot get any better than Tricia Helfer.

@Reinshark Месяц назад

But... what was "the" controversy? I was expecting a video discussing a specific controversy, not just an overall history of the show.

@906087 Месяц назад

I'd say the controversy was letting this kind of junk on TV

@mikepalmer2219 Месяц назад

@@906087I guess you prefer things like the Kardashians.

@philsowers Месяц назад

It was quick but it was character gender swaps, tale as old as time...

@KomarBrolan 12 дней назад

The ending certainly was controversial, people were expecting more than “God did it”.

@neoblakkrstal9865 23 дня назад

I am a SciFi nut. I watched the Original BSG when it originally aired, watched the Sequel show, and couldn't wait to watch the reboot. I thought it was amazing, and better than the original. The darkness of the themes, and the quality of the actors far surpassed the original series. And as for Katie Sackhoff as Starbuck, Dirk Benedict's version was my favorite character from the original series, I always played Starbuck when we would play BSG in the backyard, but, Katie was amazing, I loved her in the role, her sassy nature was a perfect fit for the character, absolutely amazing. I was unaware that razor was a prequel, nor was I aware of the web series. Thanks for the info, I shall now make it a point to watch those as well.

@jordangottlieb4566 Месяц назад

But if you didn't watch the show when it aired... You missed out on SciFi channel's message board where Ron D. Moore (and his wife, who had the handle "Mrs. Ron") would interact with the fans. There was also the mp3 downloadable commentary that Moore released, which included a 4hr writers' room recording. Fascinating stuff, as I remember.