Time To Take Out Some Cylons | Battlestar Galactica 

X-Wing Alliance players - This feels like Deja Vu.

Lando and Chewie: been there, done that. Got the Death Star t-shirt.

@@RCAvhstape Actually, Chewie was on the ground with Luke, Han and Leia.. It was Lando and a bunch of rebels I don't know the names of.

_Nemo, Mobius 1, Galm 1, Blaze, Talisman, and Trigger: Not bad kid._

Oh, yea, right. You try that without free-floating controls, no inertial control, and being shot at all at the same damned time. BSG's pilots were Lords at what they did.

true :'(

😢😢😢😭😭😭 :-‘(

Yeah a lot of the pilots in this episode are replacing the Viper Pilots that were lost in earlier engagements.

How many viper pilots do they even have?

@@amitkenan3878 good question.. i think Lee needed camera time to hit the fuel station lol.

Seriously, I love how realistic the combat was. It wasn't like Star Wars where it was basically just current day dog fights in space, these fighters fought like they really were in zero g. Flipping around and firing behind them while still coasting forward... It really looked like a dance

@@allenharper2928 I'm going to disagree on the realism aspect. In reality, almost no space battle would ever occur with all the combatants within visual range of each other, and it's extremely unlikely that fighters would be used at all. If you want realism, The Expanse is really the only show that handles it semi-properly. Even then, the ships are really over-designed. Real space combat would probably look like a couple of metal tubes lobbing missiles at each other from opposite sides of an orbit, maybe with the odd high-power laser thrown in to knock out components.

@Jaffa Rebellion: You might want to check yourself. You, like every other human being, have zero experience with space combat. So, you actually have no clue what space combat will look like - especially with machinery as advanced as in the BSG universe. In case you missed it, missles are useless (hello ECM!). The show is fiction, but for you to say what is realistic in a future combat scenario, like this? Think about that for a second.

Love in BSG how the Vipers didn't fly like airplanes in the air!

i used a physics game engine and created a 3d model... the mk 2 in space flies like a dream... in the atmosphere with 1.0 Gravity it flies pretty good too more like a dart but if u can extend the wings just a few feet... it alleiviates that issue so if it is ever built for real... the mk2 and 3 can fly in earths sky with no problem... to make her more agile like an f-16 all u need to do it make the wings extendable to increase surface friction allowing incredible response.... One day if i ever get a few hundred million... i wanna have one created for real... with real weapons... u strap a large booster rocket under its belly... u have an earth based space fighter already designed that really works with rcs thrusters for space combat.... rentry is the only issue i havent played with... but im sure it can be done as well with current tiles like we use on the shuttles and the air force re-entry vehicle X-35.

Yes, this series set a high watermark not easily matched.

It's incredible how well the writers were able to misdirect the audience as well as Starbuck, Adama, and Apollo were able to misdirect the Cylon Raiders

BSG is the gold standard of remakes, helmed by the incomparable Ronald D Moore.

this one is the exception which proves the rule

@@babapambazuka2845 I came home from work and turned the t.v. on, and I saw a card game and a male and a female ready to fight. Then I hear the name 'Starbuck' and went, WTF? BSG? But this looks worthwhile and I was hooked. You couldn't shut me up about it. I hooked my (then) teenaged daughter into it as well. I was disappointed when Caprica didn't stack up. Or, the prequel series, which had real potential but _c'est la vie_

Well look at it this way with all the advancements in ai and robots you might actually get to live it for real in the near future!

Huge VSG fan. Now hooked on "The Expanse." As for this level of tech, we're likely to see some of it soon.

yea, this scene is just a great one, so triumphant!

@@BattlestarGalactica I can't remember which episode this is. I mean, I watched the series at least four times, but it was over a decade ago, so I'm due to have a BSG binge again soon.

Effects top notch, really, they look cartoonish.

I have a CD of Bear McCreary, season 4. Love BSG's music.

@@JENDALL714 Bare in mind, BSG is almost twenty years old now. So its no surprise that the CGI looks a little dated. As for fireballs being just a puff of flame then nothing? That's actually realistic for what an explosion would look like in the vacuum.

Victory costs; each time, you pay a little more.

Also it's not like Hot Dog and his team were incompetent, they just drew that assignment. With a healthy bit of well earned nepotism from Starbuck. And when the order to turn around came they spun and slagged those toasters no issue.

@Frank Brown That is actually a fvery good way to elaborate on the points above. Well done lol

It's not really insane if you have a basic grasp of tactics and strategy.

IT WAS A PLOY

It was actually Starbuck's plan.

too good 😬

Apollo, the back door is open...

@@kyorin6526 And that one!

Yup...no woke garbage too

RD Moore was amazing in Star Trek too... His stuff now tends to be kind of woke but back then he was top knotch.

sure is. seeing all the characters best abilities and talent being used to their potential is what makes it so good for me.

He’s not that guy.

Also got reincarnated in continuum

@@Henry-mk9dnTerry Chen was absolutely that guy. 👍🏻

If I were writing for the show and needed to come up with an explanation for that, I'd probably say it was due to combat statistics showing that traditionally launching into combat would be when the fighters were most vulnerable. This was a high risk move because the fighters were so vulnerable once revealed and before they got moving. A launch bay is a shooting gallery, launch catapults help markedly with pilot survival rates. That's what I would write at least.

The launch tubes allow the Vipers to get up to combat speed before reaching exposed space. The hangar deck is deep within the flight pod surrounded by armor and other mechanics to store fighters, fuel, and munitions. As well, using the flight deck elevators during combat would mean they’d be sitting ducks raising them to the flight deck. Plus the faster the Vipers are out of the way, the faster the AAA can start up.

@@JefferyAClark counter argument, if the goal is to get the fighter out faster. They could just fly out all together. There really isn't a need to catapult them one at a time. Or catapult them at all really, there is no stall speed. All that runway is wasted space requiring armor on 3 sides. Even for landing it doesn't make a ton of sense. I stand by my dad's answer. "Cause it looks cool"

​@@Hierax415counter still, safer to launch one by one even if barely staggered for if the ship itself is maneuvering as to not cause collision or overlap fields of fire. That and of course for atmospheric launch especially having them start at strike speed is useful

Star wars homage? Where?

@@darkleome5409 In the end of Return of the Jedi, after the rebels on Endor shutdown the Shield, Lando Calrissian Takes the Millenium Falcon inside the Death Star just like Apollo did.

loveeeeee that

They should bring back that game. Even if its as BSG Offline with ai pilots.

Just noticed that, myself. I think we were so accustomed to hearing, "Frak !" that we missed actress Luciana Carro saying the actual expletive. Hmm …

Shes saying Fracking

No, she said frak. There's a bit in another episode where it sounds like Doc Cottle drops the bomb as well, but pretty sure he didn't.

Used to be. Now it's The Expanse.

@@rxueloenz: Agreed. Love BSG. "The Expanse," however, is next-level good 👍

@@gusgrimm7533 Yeah, mate. BSG battles were brilliant, battle of New Caprica when Bill Adama drove Galactica down the atmosphere of the planet just to launch Viper fighters and then FTL out just before the crash, that was a hell of a something. At that time, when you compare it to Stargate, that was unseen. But now, The Expanse has the most realistic and sophisticated space battles one can ever watch. It's the attention to detail that you have to appreciate. I have watched almost all of the space battles in The Expanse numerous times and it's fking amazing. The last one, where Roci engaged Pella together with two belter ships was so far the best space battle I have ever seen in my life and I have watched all episodes of Star Trek (fk Discovery and Picard tho, it's a shame these shows are allowed to bare the name of Star Trek), Stargate, BSG, Firefly, Dark Matter, Lost in Space and all the major sci-fi series in the past 20 years. The Expanse is hands down the best sci-fi had to offer so far. I salute the duo of James S. A. Corey and the producers of this show. I just hope that there will be some TV continuation of this amazing story after this final sixth season. The tale of Laconian Empire and the rebellion sounds so amazing I can't even imagine that they will just drop the show and let this beatifully written and well thought of story go to waste. Sorry I was a little intoxicated when I wrote this 🤣

@@rxueloenz: Let's just pray Hi-Quality Sci-fi keeps up after The Expanse 🙏

Capirca was a good show that was never given the time to develop. I enjoyed it a lot. I can't help but think if Caprica was made just a decade later it would have been fine via streaming. Standard network television has been the death of many good shows because of how they operate.

agreed omg 🤗

Second only to the combat launch on New Caprica. Nothing beats that for sheer audacity and adrenaline

" subject matter too dark, outlook too bleak." This is WHY it's my #1 show of all time... Well, that and the notion of us being one race, the Human Race that was put across ...;)

The series faltered near the end when the writers chose to bring time travel into the mix and the narrative became increasingly confused.

bad bad writing the further you get into the series

@@johnkelly7757 I think the last season will have to be re-evaluated at some point. Everyone watching were expecting something other than what they got. They were building up the mythological universe already in the pilot and it was in full bloom during the second season. I loved that. The mixing of Greek, Roman and Christian mythology "with a twist" was fun. And the way they did it was quite elegant but it threw people of the rails in the end. I am planning to re-watch season 3 and 4 later this year. I watched the final two season under the influence of psychedelics and that skewed my perception quite a bit I suspect. It was one strange trip. I never thought of the ending as time travel, it was a cyclical universe in my eyes. "Everything that has happened before will happen again" .. I still hold BSG as a landmark achievement. Cheers 🍺

@@johnkelly7757 Time travel?? Which episode was that (was only done in short lived sequel to original series Galactica 1980 pilot episide/movie)

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not bad, ay? 🙌

I was thinking the same thing. "Am I going crazy? No, I'm just channeling my esteemed colleague's terrible ideas."

Sadly I have to disagree, but then again I grew up with the original. This version seemed melodramatic, poorly written and poorly cast to me. Which is a shame cuz it's got some great actors and producers but everybody drops a turd now and then.

@@M167A1 I know everybody has their own taste but I've never understood this. The original literally seems like it was written for children and the reboot was the most gritty and adult sci-fi show to come along, matched only by The Expanse.

that's awesome!

@@M167A1 I grew up with the original, too. The original is great if you think that the genocide of billions of people should be portrayed in the campiest possible way. Mass murder in the colorful Biff-Bam-Kapow style of Adam West's "Batman."

@@M167A1 Your taste is a joke. The reboot was better in every way.

Trojan horse.

Seattle Sci-fi museum maybe. I went. It was actually disappointing, everything looks so fake.

@@smileydag I also went to the Seattle MOPOP and had the complete opposite reaction. I saw the models and thought how cool it was they could turn those little props into what we see on TV and in the movies with just the right lighting and digital effects. Either way, The Kurt Cobain and Hendrix exhibits were amazing.

That was Carillon.

@@TommygunNG OOPS brainfart. Thank you. Corrected.

Eh, I've seen much more modern productions with much worse CG

Naaah Babylon 5 did it in the 90s. So much so that NASA engineers loved the design (Star fury)

'cg is dated'??? Name a modern show that did it better? The Expanse probably yes, but BSG still beats all the big-budget sci fi shows........

"Dated" simply because CG textures, lighting, etc., has improved over time. BSG is the best space TV show (in my world, barely edging out Firefly). @@Debbiebabe69

say more 😚