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Quoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/387169/starbucks_jpg-2461167.JPG Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks having Starbucks. |
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Watch the whole series, and enjoy it, just when you get to the series finale, turn it off before the last five minutes.
You’ll thank me later |
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The remake, not the original with the stupid capes and robot dog and shit lol
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Quoted: Quoted: The remake, not the original with the stupid capes and robot dog and shit lol What do you have against dags? What do you have against capes! Mr. Fischoeder loves the way the fog feels under his cape! |
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The original BG on television back in the 70's was the most expensive TV show ever. You can buy the 3 hour pilot on DVD or Blu Ray and it was an amazing time to be in your early teens and have a show that came on each Sunday that took you to another world. The 70's was a great time for TV and the Battle of the Network Stars, Love Boat and BG had nips pointing way up high.
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Quoted: I would start with the miniseries. That gives you a good idea what you're in for. I think I look at the original series with rose colored glasses. I wonder if I rewatched it if I would like it as much as I did when I was a kid. The ending of the rebooted series is pretty insane, in many ways it's just... Click To View Spoiler View Quote This. Except I was not an OG fan and found the original series not for me. |
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Quoted: I've always thought that picture is cool View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/387169/starbucks_jpg-2461167.JPG Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks I've always thought that picture is cool Same here |
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The one thing I can wholeheartedly endorse from the rebooted series is the soundtrack.
Storming New Caprica (Live) I've yet to find a tune that seems better for slaughtering every sentient entity and machine in a planetary radius. |
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2.5 years of the best Sci-fi TV ever.
2 years of where are they going? 2 episodes of what the f#ck? and AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! |
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Quoted: The one thing I can wholeheartedly endorse from the rebooted series is the soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9GfhGwE6NM I've yet to find a tune that seems better for slaughtering every sentient entity and machine in a planetary radius. View Quote Tag |
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Quoted: It did not hold up at all... but when you're a 9 yr old and there's a tv show like Galactica, FUCK YEAH!!! New Galactica made a lot more sense in every way... Skin Job cylon females were hot. Whatever Starbuck was, new Starbuck was hot... I have a question for fans of new BSG: could raiders and centurions tell what Starbuck was??? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: OG BG Was awesome for a 9yr old in the 70s. But it was painfully shitty when you actually watch it now. Literally bad. It did not hold up at all... but when you're a 9 yr old and there's a tv show like Galactica, FUCK YEAH!!! New Galactica made a lot more sense in every way... Skin Job cylon females were hot. Whatever Starbuck was, new Starbuck was hot... I have a question for fans of new BSG: could raiders and centurions tell what Starbuck was??? Anyone got an idea what she was?... |
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One of the best parts of the series.
Minor spoilers. BSG: The Adama Maneuver (HD) |
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The remake series lost me when half the characters turned out to be cylons It was just some boring soap opera after that
The original series kicked ass AT THE TIME which can’t be said for the remake Oh, and don’t forget Battlestar galactica ‘80. That was truly stupid |
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Quoted: That was so cool back then. Anyone else remember watching the original movie when it was broadcast...and Carter interrupting it? I was one pissed kid. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If it does not have disco hair... it's not Battlestar Galactica. https://www.eightieskids.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10-1.jpg That was so cool back then. Anyone else remember watching the original movie when it was broadcast...and Carter interrupting it? I was one pissed kid. Yes it was. And democrats ruin everything. |
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Quoted: One of the best parts of the series. Minor spoilers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evodPpqb9H4 View Quote Kinda reminds me of... Starship | SN15 | Flight Test Recap If war breaks out with China in a few years we could see a Starship pulling a similar maneuver, launching missiles and/or drones then smashing headlong into a high value target. Detonating a nuclear weapon on impact. I wonder how the people here would feel about Elon Musk if he was able to pull something like that off. |
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Quoted: I only watched the first couple episodes of Caprica and then dropped it for some reason. Is it worth it? Does it end cleanly? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I forgot to add. Once you get addicted to Battlestar, look up Blood & Chrome. It's Adama's backstory. Also see if you can track down Caprica. Some people hated it, but i think it did a good job exposing the Cylon's origins. I only watched the first couple episodes of Caprica and then dropped it for some reason. Is it worth it? Does it end cleanly? I watched Season 1 and 2, it was a painful teeny-bopper series to get through ever episode. It took months a little at a time. |
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Quoted: 2.5 years of the best Sci-fi TV ever. 2 years of where are they going? 2 episodes of what the f#ck? and AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! View Quote This is what happens when the production team (writers & producers, in particular) don't think the series is going to last more than 2-3 seasons. They're not ready for an extended story arc and the ending, when it comes, winds up with a lot of WTF. Compare to, say, Babylon 5. Love it or hate it, but with a very few exceptions it was self-consistent and continuous from first episode to last. |
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Quoted: This is what happens when the production team (writers & producers, in particular) don't think the series is going to last more than 2-3 seasons. They're not ready for an extended story arc and the ending, when it comes, winds up with a lot of WTF. Compare to, say, Babylon 5. Love it or hate it, but with a very few exceptions it was self-consistent and continuous from first episode to last. View Quote Babylon 5 The long night ending |
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Watch the movie then seasons 1-3. Stop there and just imagine how it'll turn out instead of watching season 4. First 2 seasons are pretty great, season 3 is where it starts to be a let down but season 4 it just goes into the wtf is happening category.
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Do not start with OG BSG.
It will give you premises that aren't in 2000's BSG. Start with miniseries and 4 year run. OG BSG was off it's time, do not correlate with 00 BSG. And do not watch Galactica 1980, it's like the star wars holiday special..... ETA: If you've seen 70's BSG, then start with Blood and Chrome. Merges old into new timeline. |
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Quoted: 0. Battlestar Galactica the original series and or TV movies (1978-1980) 1. Battlestar Galactica (2003) - Mini-Series 2. Battlestar Galactica - Season 1, Episodes 1-13 3. Battlestar Galactica - Season 2, Episodes 1-20 4. Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance - 10 Webisodes 5. Battlestar Galactica - Season 3, Episodes 1-20 6. Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks - 7 Webisodes 7. Battlestar Galactica: Razor - TV Movie 8. Battlestar Galactica - Season 4, Episodes 1-11 9. Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy - 10 Webisodes 10. Battlestar Galactica - Season 4, Episodes 12-15 11. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan - TV Movie 12. Battlestar Galactica - Season 4, Episodes 16-20 13. Caprica - Season 1, Episodes 1-18 14. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome - 10 Webisodes View Quote After that it takes a serious dive and the only real similarities are a few names of the some of the Colonial Fleet and some of their enemies.. JMHO... |
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One thing I always wondered is that if each battlestar could only carry about 80 vipers, how in the heck did they repair and maintain all of those squadrons battle after battle with thousands of cylon raiders? They'd have been crushed after one or two engagements at best.
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Quoted: One thing I always wondered is that if each battlestar could only carry about 80 vipers, how in the heck did they repair and maintain all of those squadrons battle after battle with thousands of cylon raiders? They'd have been crushed after one or two engagements at best. View Quote Pegasus had extensive automated onboard factory facilities that could manufacture new vipers from raw materials. As soon as they met up, Pegasus started supplying replacement parts for Galactica. Before they met up Galactica was just barely scraping by. Can't remember if this is something they addressed in the original series, probably not. Pegasus's capabilities were incredible. Even the United Federation of Planets probably would have considered a Mercury Class Battlestar to be overkill for deep space exploration missions. But if it didn't have those onboard factories it would have been impossible to maintain squadrons of vipers so far away from any colonial logistics support. Battlestar Galactica: Mercury Class Battlestar - Ship Breakdown |
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Quoted: I don’t really know anything about it, I saw online that I should start with the episode “33” but the episode started with a recap so that can’t be right. View Quote Watch the Miniseries, then the first four seasons of the show. Don’t watch any of season 5 and invent your own head canon for how the series ends….you’ll enjoy the show a lot more. |
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Quoted: This is what happens when the production team (writers & producers, in particular) don't think the series is going to last more than 2-3 seasons. They're not ready for an extended story arc and the ending, when it comes, winds up with a lot of WTF. Compare to, say, Babylon 5. Love it or hate it, but with a very few exceptions it was self-consistent and continuous from first episode to last. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 2.5 years of the best Sci-fi TV ever. 2 years of where are they going? 2 episodes of what the f#ck? and AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! This is what happens when the production team (writers & producers, in particular) don't think the series is going to last more than 2-3 seasons. They're not ready for an extended story arc and the ending, when it comes, winds up with a lot of WTF. Compare to, say, Babylon 5. Love it or hate it, but with a very few exceptions it was self-consistent and continuous from first episode to last. Correct. In a Director’s commentary, Ronald Moore thought the series was going to end when they found the dead Earth, then it got renewed again… |
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The problem with Caprica is that you already know how it all ends and how pointless it is to get attached to any character in it because of that.
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Quoted: Watch the movie then seasons 1-3. Stop there and just imagine how it'll turn out instead of watching season 4. First 2 seasons are pretty great, season 3 is where it starts to be a let down but season 4 it just goes into the wtf is happening category. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: The one thing I can wholeheartedly endorse from the rebooted series is the soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9GfhGwE6NM I've yet to find a tune that seems better for slaughtering every sentient entity and machine in a planetary radius. View Quote The originals theme by John Williams is epic. Battlestar Galactica Opening Theme from 1978 |
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Quoted: Correct. In a Director's commentary, Ronald Moore thought the series was going to end when they found the dead Earth, then it got renewed again View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 2.5 years of the best Sci-fi TV ever. 2 years of where are they going? 2 episodes of what the f#ck? and AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! This is what happens when the production team (writers & producers, in particular) don't think the series is going to last more than 2-3 seasons. They're not ready for an extended story arc and the ending, when it comes, winds up with a lot of WTF. Compare to, say, Babylon 5. Love it or hate it, but with a very few exceptions it was self-consistent and continuous from first episode to last. Correct. In a Director's commentary, Ronald Moore thought the series was going to end when they found the dead Earth, then it got renewed again IIRC, there was also an industry-wide writer's strike that screwed things up as well. |
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IMHO, the mini-series has the best space combat footage content ever put to film.
"33" is great. There are some other episodes that are really good, but for me nothing quite as good as that, except maybe the one mentioned on page 1 where Galactica does a series of hyperspace jumps. AFAIK, some of the showrunners previously had worked on ST:TNG. |
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Quoted: IMHO, the mini-series has the best space combat footage content ever put to film. "33" is great. There are some other episodes that are really good, but for me nothing quite as good as that, except maybe the one mentioned on page 1 where Galactica does a series of hyperspace jumps. AFAIK, some of the showrunners previously had worked on ST:TNG. View Quote Correct. Ronald Moore, the executive producer, was a writer and producer for ST:TNG. They sneak ST Easter eggs onto BSG here and there. For example, check out the compartment number of the room where the Final Four held their meetings, 1701D. |
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Quoted: One of the best parts of the series. Minor spoilers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evodPpqb9H4 View Quote extreme spoilers Battlestar Galactica | Rallying The Troops Battlestar Galactica | Battle of The Colony |
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Quoted: Pegasus had extensive automated onboard factory facilities that could manufacture new vipers from raw materials. As soon as they met up, Pegasus started supplying replacement parts for Galactica. Before they met up Galactica was just barely scraping by. Can't remember if this is something they addressed in the original series, probably not. Pegasus's capabilities were incredible. Even the United Federation of Planets probably would have considered a Mercury Class Battlestar to be overkill for deep space exploration missions. But if it didn't have those onboard factories it would have been impossible to maintain squadrons of vipers so far away from any colonial logistics support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE8DwUGdKRM View Quote Having a fighter production line on a carrier never made any sense to me. Great, you can replace lost hardware near indefinitely, but so what? You're not replacing pilots on that time scale, so what difference does it make? Besides, battlestars are huge. Larger then a Nimitz, and those can embark around 80 aircraft all much larger then vipers and raptors. Just bring more vipers. If they've got room for a production line they've got the space for storage, even if they're in parts and need assembly. Even the idea of mining raw materials is nuts; either the warship is lugging around mining equipment/ships or a support mining vessel is normally attached to it. If that's the case, then just do unreps of fresh birds from the same support vessel. It only makes sense if the Battlestar can roll into a star system, wreck house then adeploy von Neumann level drones that can bootstrap up to full industrial capacity to replace losses, then move on. But given the colonials experience with the Cylons you would think that'd be a no-no. |
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