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Please upload the clip where Adama has to announce to the crew that Admiral Nagala is dead and all of the fleet's best ships are destroyed.

DUMB SHOW LOGIC OK THE MACHINE KILL HUMANS BECAUSE THEY HATE BEING THEIR SLAVE THEY ARE STEEL SLAVE TO OTHER MACHINE MACHINE ARE NOT FREE

I tried watching the opening episode several years back, but the pacing was too slow. I did very much enjoy this clip, though.

More would had been better more battles wouldn’t go a miss 👍🏻

Considering the ship would be rendered non-FTL by the end, I'd say so XD

@@randomlyentertaining8287 I remember tearing up a little when they said she broke her back.

@@mistaowickkuh6249 True, but she didn't need FTL anyway. All the ships including the Galactica weree going to be set on autopilot and flown into the sun. Tey wanted to avoid leaving an easy trail for the Cylons to follow and break the cycle. It remains to be seen if that will happen.

​@@drmayeda1930because as we all know the best way to break the cycle is to make sure everyone forgets the cycle and resetting mankind to the stone age in the process, so we make the forget all the mistakes we should have learned from. Always hated that ending.

This. So much this. Unlike Star Trek voyager, you could actually see the wear and tear the Galactica suffered.

One of the best scenes in SciFi EVER, and one scene described the entire series!!

Anyone figure out where they got all their ordnance...? Without infrastructure to resupply?

@@francisdavis1271 From the factory inside the nebula.

@@francisdavis1271 yep in this episode there is a resupply station they brought the fleet there because they needed to rearm they emptied it for themselves since there is no one else left. Thats why they had to fight their way out. You can imagine (though its not specifically stated) that with all those extra ships they could also use them to carry additional ammo and completely empty out the supply depot.

@@francisdavis1271 They went to Ragnar EXACTLY to resupply: it's a weapons depot. And if I remember correctly, they picked it up clean too.

that moment of pure mental silence, when that rocket headed to apollos viper and that moment when starbuck breaks the silence are pure moviemagic

It helps that all the CGI was just so well done

And we're just 7 years away from the 2004 reimagined series pilot being as old as the original 1978 pilot was, when the reimagined series first debuted :O

@@cykeok3525 omg. 😨

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... gripping until season 3.5 I'll give you. And then no grip and off the rails.

I can hear Saul's voice with contempt, everytime someone mentions toaster or skinjob.

Well, and plus he was a Cylon...lol. Easy for him to leave humans behind. Jk

@@jamesbutler8821 He didn't know at the time 😇

If Adama had, he would have lost command in in instant. He would be sacrificing his species for his crotch goblin, and everyone there knew it.

@@willdavis3802after rewatching the scene where bill tells everyone that they will leave their technology behind so that they can have a chance of avoiding another ai uprising crotch goblin hits on a new level.

that's a neat detail. Thank you for that :)

It seems the base stars were not built with capital ship slugfests in mind, but instead as just missile platforms to bombard planets

@@personzorzexactly, their entire plan was based around being able to completely disable colonial warships and hit them while they’re defenseless, leaving the colonies completely exposed and open to orbital bombardment

In the battle of the Resurrection ship, you can tell the Pegasus has ECM installed. As the Basestar is throwing salvos at it and some are veering to a different direction. This is something the Galactica doesnt have but in the battle of New Caprica, Adama kinda hints the Galactica could take on 2 basestars (Though with a very bloody nose).

@@williamalfonso1373keep in mind Galactica could handle two Basestars while under strength.

@@jamesxiaolong2199 True! punching above its weight with a skeleton crew

"All batteries, commence firing."

Okay. But what's up with the music? The original series used a full orchestra. All this one has are what sounds like jungle tribal drums.

@@jediknight38 I think the soundtracks are good, it has a recognition...👩‍🚀

SO SAY WE ALL !!!

@@jediknight38 The cost of hiring an orchestra vs the license fee for recorded music. Since this was only shown a couple of times at most license problems aren't as bad.

IIRC there was a movie called, "The Plan". It showed the Cylon fleet about to attack the 12 colonies. There were many, many Basestars and thousands of Raiders, and the colony ship. It seems like Cavil would've committed the fleet even if (for some reason) the hacking plan didn't work. I think if that battle had happened, the Cylons would've been finished but the colonies would've been devastated and needed decades to recover.

@@Raider0075 The 70's version included an explanation. A fleet of Cylon fighters were being fueled from tankers while the basestars went to the colonies, and attacked them.

Japanese drums! Really cool to see them performed, too. Very much a combined visual and musical performance.

Moore and Eick figured that by introducing the artificiality of what seemed to be a human cameraman in space, it would paradoxically make things feel MORE realistic, not less. I think that was correct.

I agree with the space battles, as long as you can see and understand what's going on. But i hate (HATE!) shaky cam when people are just sitting at a table and having a mild conversation or do something completely mundane with no impact on anything. That's when it gets simply annyoing and childish.

great! now I cant Unsee it

Indeed, the new Cylon Basestars were nothing more than a hybrid of Carriers/Weapon platforms without point defense weapons or dedicated heavy batteries, only Dumb fire Anti-Ship missiles and Guided Nukes, they were designed to transport an absurd quantity of Cylon Raiders and Heavy Raiders, and deploy the Nuclear Arsenal to achieve the genocide of humanity. The Fate of the Tow Last Colonial Battlestars show you how useless were these new ships for anything other than their purpouse. I mean, Pegasus, was killed by Lee Adama, when he sacrificed it, on the Battle of New Caprica, and still The Pegasus took with her Two Basestars.... And Galactica, she literally died of Old Age, she wasted away, the Cylon didnt kill her, her age and "brittle bones" did, after all, "She broke her back, she will never jump again" after the Last Jump from The Colony to The New Earth. And was then lauched into the Sun of the system.

@@251spartan yeah, the basestars were only designed as mobile missile platforms/carriers, and just didn't have the chops to go toe to toe with a battlestar. Besides the performance of the crew of the Galactica, a major factor in the survival of humanity was the Cylons being glacially slow to adapt and just stubbornly sticking to their established technology instead of innovating.

@@nefariousgremlin7554 yes if they had even a little imagination they had some base star refitted with armour and missiles replaced with heavy mac guns, they had the luxury of being able to replace any losses while the colonials didn't, every bit of damage they inflicted on the Galactica would have doomed them

@@nefariousgremlin7554 I don't think the Cylons even expected to have to conduct major ship-to-ship operations. Everything I've seen in the show seems to imply that they honestly believed they would destroy every single battlestar and that none of them could possibly escape or fight their way out.

@@nefariousgremlin7554 Interesting commentary on man vs machine there. After all, of the 2, man is the innovator while AI has a tendency to repeat an existing idea to excellence.

SO SAY WE ALL.

- Nothing but the rain, sir!

I didn't catch what he said but if he is english I'm guessing maybe "Oi bloke, what's all this then? Hope we get home in time for tea and crumpets".

As to my knowledge, both Jupiters and Mercury had fabrication arrays built within them to produce Amunition for their own ammunition.. Whereas Galactica's were likely capable of producing enough Ammunition to sustain itself (at least in production runs of several weeks between Cylon attacks) Pegasus had the ability to produce Vipers and Raptors.. on top of being capable of Producing its own Ammunition

@@ylmazirdenyazc8393 the problem is they would have to constantly be stopping in various star systems to scan for minerals and conduct mining operations to find raw materials to manufacture ammunition, fighters, etc. This would not only slow them down but put them in a very vulnerable position. Plus, towards the end, it shows that they are running dangerously low on fuel. Indicating they have not been stopping to mine for fuel or anything else.

@@angellight495 for the Mining part.. i am guessing they've been putting themselves in this position a lot of the times.. although we saw it only once in a episode (that i remember) wich was where Scar the Cylon Raider were attacking them as Majahual was mining, so i am guessing they've been putting themselves in this vulnerable positions in Canon too, even though we saw it once... As for Tylium Fuel... i dont have much to say... it would have been easier if these ships had Nuclear Reactors similar to The Expanse ships.. however i'd like to think they are low on Fuel in spite of them mining for Fuel often at their own risks.. but still, i havent watched the show in a truly long time so i can very well missing lots of pieces as well.. So take these as a person trying to make sense of things through what he remembers from the Canon Lore

İf you mean the Glasses on one of Galactica's Hangars.. its because it was supposed to be a Museum and a Giftshop as Galactica was being decomissioned

@@ylmazirdenyazc8393 no I’m talking about the walls in CIC that are glass Pegasus had even more of them just seemed like a bad choice. But I guess the series needed something to break to show impact damage.

rewatch the part when all the vipers are flying towards the cylons, you can see multiple Mark VII's in the formation

It's mentioned briefly that they removed the updated computer system from the remaining Mk VII's, hence there are a few remaining ships along with the Mk. II's. You see them occasionally throughout seasons 1 and 2 well before Pegasus arrives with Mk VII's.

They don't exclusively fly in space, you need wings to fly in a planet's atmosphere.

Probably wingtip for added hardpoint and stuff.

Noot noot, buzzkill detected.

Exactly. She wasn't "female Starbuck", she was "Starbuck, who just happens to be female". She's just as tough, just as badass, just as rough around the edges with her own charm. She just happened to also be female on top of that.

First season was great, it was about fighting the survival and there were lot of nice details. Like in first fights you didn't have any sounds in space as there is no air. Then they changed it like in this scene that you hear stuff going.

I appreciate the direction they chose to take it with. It was bold, risky, and you would never see a show play it as unsafe as BSG did nowadays. I feel like the first 2 seasons were the best, but I still have a fondness for the later seasons.

MACHINES HATE HUMANS BECAUSE THEY ARE SLAVE BUT TRUTH THEY ARE FUCKIGN SLAVE TO HUMAN ROBOTS HUMAN FAKE

Agreed. I've seen this scene many times, but found myself quickly immersed in it until the logo appeared.

@@Xerkrosis I know that this isn't going to be a popular opinion but the timing was dragged out a bit too long IMO. The scenes might have been better reversed where she grabbed the Viper THEN the order for retracting the pods was given before they landed. This sequence made it look like there was a timestop until they got aboard.

Really?

Yup great series, just turn it off after season 3

It's actually a gas giant called Ragnar, and it's not a nebula

imagine having to do that during an online game ( it be a do right and survive or fail and die situation )

This scene is really good, no doubt. But the one where Galactica jumps into a planetary atmosphere and deploys its Vipers while plummeting to the surface, only to FTL out of there seconds before impacting the surface is the number one scene ever.

Miss the snazzy jackets and the sculpted flight helmets though lol.

Sackoff was Starbuck longer. I had seen her act in a SciFi survival movie before. She is an excellent actor. I knew she was going to do a great job.

Me too, I almost didn’t watch it because it seemed such a crazy move to make swapping the genders of Starbuck & Boomer.. but they got it right with the introduction of Chief & Agathon balancing it up so it didn’t become just another female reboot.. great show

This never gets old, Starbuck, what do U hear? Nothing but the rain!

Added a whole new dynamic to Starbuck/Apollo. Wasn't sure how I felt about it at first either, but so well done and true to... the human condition. I love everything about this show now. When I watched it again years later it hit me that I've had a relationship nearly identical to this one. Long history going back years, hypercharged connection with this girl, worked in a high stress job together and regularly got into fights (she even popped me once just like Starbuck did Apollo) to the point our managers would tell us to just get a room and get it over with. The strength of the writing is impressive, these are completely believable characters and situations

The look on her face following that really sells it.

@@KMCA779 - It really does! lol!

6:13!

Epic save. Epic face. Epic landing. Starbuck ftw.

Kara Thrace is so the Harley Quinn of this universe lol.

same, was intense

Same here man, same here. The build up, seeing them issuing orders, the ship getting ready for Battle and fireing its cannons is just thrilling every single time i see it.

Indeed, they are just as important as the Pilots imo.

Mine is Babylon 5 but this is cool too

@@TheKingTywinLannister There were other series on different forms of media that used this. Wing Commander, Buck Rogers used a variant of this and one of my Favorite series BattleTech..

I feel like if FTL becomes possible it'll be like this. Maybe there will be trace amounts of time travel that somehow don't violate causality because of some hidden probability constraint.

​@@FrancisGo. Technically though, there are an FTL method that don't broke the law of physics and universe, and it's called curvature propulsion

yeah, when they did adamas "were going to earth" speech, apparently that was right after 9/11, and the speech olmos did was also kind of for them.

" I remember the pilot mini-series had a very post-9/11 vibe to it; humanity reeling from profound loss." Not everyone on earth is an US-American and keep this trauma in his mind.

@@Cpl._Dwayne_Hicks its a show made by us americans for us americans. normally id agree with you, but its just clearly not the case here. also, this wasnt just traumatic for americans. i live in germany, was born 2 months before it happened, and my mom told me she caught it on german tv as the news broke. couldnt believe it at first, because it felt so surreal. this had ripples across the entire west, and all the western allies invaded afghanistan with the us too. wouldnt have happened if it was just a thing us-americans cared about.

@@Cpl._Dwayne_Hicks I don't recall suggesting that I was speaking for all of humanity.

@@jenshep1720 Well, i guess the series is made to reach an audience as big as possible to maximize profits.

Two of their best pilots if not their best

@@cesarcueto1995 I'm not sure if he meant "Viper pilot" or "series pilot" but I suspect he meant the latter.

The expanse is probably the closest thing to this honestly.

@@PlaneBoy2520 agreed Expanse has this really cool sense of realism going on

@@BlaneNostalgia that and the world is just so fleshed out! It’s one of the few sci fi shows where everything feels lived in.

Look up the Expanse very similar show

Nah that wasn't Olympic Carrier. Different colours. The ship is actually called the Caprica Clipper.

Thry do it more than once they let any missile inbound to fleet be shot down but take their own hirs to protect others. They take a beating but save their fleet.

It makes sense from a design philosophy: the Colonials were always on the defensive. They were the established civilization that the Cylons were attacking. As such, their ships couldn't retreat or strike and fade like the Cylons are clearly designed to do. The Battlestars NEEDED to sit and soak shots and to be the wall between the Cylons and the civilians on the planet's behind them. As such, they serve as points to anchor the battle: Massive heavily armored behemoths that can soak fire and intercept hostile ordinance with their weapons, while having the firepower to either engage the Cylons directly, support their fighters while they handle the heavy lifting, or provide a fleet command ship for other Colonial warships.

@@astronomybrainiac But that guy's saying Enterprise does what you're talking about

@@Onigirli - It depends _which Enterprise_ we're talking about here, let alone who was in command of her at the time. - Defensive shields in _Star Trek_ (which is different from "deflectors", mind you; different application) soak-up and moderate damage _before_ it hits the hull, which gives any ship a tremendous advantage. In _Star Trek,_ shields only give so much protection against physical damage like torpedoes, and are meant more for energy-based attacks. But after shield generators are either overwhelmed from the shear amount of incoming fire, or are themselves damaged, those ships will get anxious and jumpy _very_ quickly. The doctrines of most species in _Star Trek_ is to back-off until shields can be restored, or else you take the risk of being wrecked. If we remove those doctrines, no single Starfleet ship (including your choice of _Enterprise_ ) would _ever_ be able to do what the _Galactica_ did here. (And if you're thinking of hull polarization from _ENT,_ well... there's a reason no sane species uses that laughably-inadequate technology after that time period.) Now, some species, like the Klingons, _do_ have thicker hulls for their ships, and can soak-it-up, but even then they too would not be able to take-on the shear amount of damage that the _Galactica_ demonstrated here (or for the rest of its run).

Nope, it would not - see battle of Mutara Nebula in Wrath of Khan, Best of Both Worlds.

@@astronomybrainiac Except while thoroughly enjoyable, it doesn't make sense for Cylons to build ships of the line that can't stand toe to toe with Battlestars.

Awesome stuff