As a kid, I loved the original show. As an adult, I absolutely loved the new show even more. The new BSG show was a huge part of my life - especially Bear McCreary's music for the series.

I have read that when the battlestars were first built that several of the colonies felt slighted or threatened by the fact that there was only one colony building them and keeping them around their planet. It was decided that each colony would get a battlestar named after the colony and dedicated to providing protection for that colony and that colony alone in case a Cylon ship managed to get through and attack that colony.

Man i loved this show... awesome to see katie sacoff is now a mandalorian...💯

As someone who watched both the 1978 BSG and the reimagined BSG, the reimagined series is my favourite TV series ever. Literally the perfect ending. Great video, the only other thing I would've included was the fan theory that Starbuck's dad was the Daniel cylon model 💖

The final five are more cylons from a different cycle, which is how I always understood it. The aren't the same as the twelve colonies cylons. How it was explained here was more complicated than it needed to be.

Baltar (as played with villainous relish by John Colicos) was, in fact, killed off in the theatrical release of the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. That scene was obviously cut out so that he could continue to play the role in the series.

Dunno where I got it from, but I thought in the reboot there were 12 Jupiter-class (aka Galactica) Battlestars built during the first cylon war, rather than there being only 12 capital ships total?

04:50 Wing Commander...the movie! One of my favorite sci-fi movies! "...You got a problem with my friend Lieutenant Hunter?" Although the movie "bombed at the boxoffice", i can assure you that it gets a regular viewing with me.

Caprica was so underrated

My theory is that Battlestar Galactia and Star Trek take place in the same universe, and the Cylons became the Borg, and the location at the beginning of Battlestar Galactia is the Delta Quadrant of Star Trek.

BG redux was such an amazing series and so stressful, that I haven't rewatched the series since it first came out. I just don't want to ruin it. I'll probably give it a shot in the next winter.

What an absolute Gem of a show, always hoped it would come back in some form. 😢.

From the series, at least considering the Earth 1 episode, the final five were originally part of one of the cycles of creation and destruction that the "angels" of baltar and five mention in the end of the last episode of the reimagined series. In that cycle however they as you mentioned were cylons however they were also considered to be the decvendents of the 13th tribe of humans. This (13 tribes of isreal narrative) was resurrected from the original itteration but reimagined to the 2003 series as the lost tribe built up technology at a very quick pace. They then fought their own cybernetics style conflict that ended up in the destruction of Earth 1 via nuclear weapons. The final five were scientists, leaders, and heroes that found a way to make themselves effectively immortal by gradfting their intelligence into these robotic bodies. The Caprica series itself shows how this cycle repeats with cylons as the daughter of the cylon's inventor has her persona merged with the cylon program to create the cylons of the 2003 itteration. During the first war/conflict with the 12 colonies the cylons were very attempting (as seen in the web series) to create their own bodies. This was due to the problem that the narrative that the daughters persona created a necessity to fulfill her life within the confines of the cylon communial structure. This was taking a particularly long amount of time as this new cycle of destruction was at it's infancy. Cylons and humans were still at war and there really was no motivation on the cylons part to pull back as they saw their conflict more in terms of a religious crusade and not a military endeavor. The Colonies were not only holding their own but fighting back the stalemate slowly so it was inevitable (in the cylons perspective) that they would eventually have to make a change or at least temporary armistice. This is where the Earth 1 terrains come into play. They being now immortal but drifting through space seeking out a new place to call home were found by the cylons. These five were more akin to cylons than humans (something the cylons would discover) and saw the cylon and human conflict for what it was, a play of their own conflict of destruction. seizing on the cylons desire to be more organic in nature a decision was reached. The cylons would pull back from the conflict allowing the colonies to survive and the five would share their technology and understanding of human machine hybrids with them. Because the five were so advanced the cylons grabbed ahold of this offer and capitulated to the colonies demands for a ceasefire. Pulling back to their own territory won during the war the cylons and five set forth to create the many models and copies seen in the main series. Once this was done they went down into the colonies culture and assimilated new persona's from individuals they found in the colonies. The genetic profiles of the choices were then sent back to the cylons who automatically made many copies. Unknow to the cylons however a directive was implanted by the five that would deny them access to these individuals who now wished to live peacefully in the colonies blissfully unaware of their past enjoying their stolen lives. Meanwhile the cylons would attempt to fulfill their goals. Only one model knew who the five were and didn't allow the others to discover it until each one was awakened following this plan. The complexity of these stories is why BSG is one of my favorite sci fi second only to Doctor Who.

I noticed that there was basically no mention of the FIRST revival of the 1978 BSG that actually did happen: BSG 1980. Though, with the exception of the final episode, "The Return of Starbuck", that may be for the best. That said, the two part episode "The Night the Cylons Landed" marks the first appearance of skin jobs in any BSG show.

during the possible run of "The Second Coming" the had a run of BSG toys that my dad, a huge fan of the original, decided I needed. He was not wrong, I had Apollo Viper as my favorite. Now I have some of the last Eaglemoss LTD BSG models before they went bust and still watch the RDM series annually, the Original series is still beloved, but more camp and comfort, than complex and compelling. So say we all.

Technically, Katee Sackhoff ended up being a sort of a Cylon in the attempt to reboot Bionic Woman.

Wow, that UI overlay at 2:21 sure looks oddly familiar. I wonder what KZfaq channel they ripped that from?

Nice video Sean. I love your Battlestar content the best. BSG is still my favorite sci-fi show. How many channels do you have content for btw?

Battlestar Galactica! Yes!

Yes - The Battlestar Solaria was in the first printed book of BG in 1978 about the Cylon attack atvthe beginning of the show. While the Cylon Baseships were destroying the twelve colonial worlds, MANY Cylon fighters were attacking the 12 Battlestars. The Battlestar Solaria was the last Battlestar destroyed just after the Battlestar Galactica left the fleet to see about returning to the twelve colonial worlds. In the book, Starbuck, Greenbean and Jolly were all considering landing on the Battlestar Solaria to quickly refuel when the Solaria was then destroyed wth the Cylon Pinwheel attack. :)

Caprica being canceled was one of the worst decisions in tv history

He was never Dr. Gaius Baltar in the orignal 78' show, just Baltar mate ;) Good video.

The 30 battlestars lost in the initial wave did not include the Atlantia and her sister ships. Those were declared lost somewhat later.

Frack! No one is discussing that the end of BSG is really just a re-skin of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ENDING??

For the “how many battlestars”, the answer is 12 Jupiter class Battlestars were made, but as for the other types, that we don’t know about

BSG in all of it's forms is a masterpeice! This is a great video!

Ha i love that Sean is doing this one. Lets get more BSG!

The 12 Battlestars were built after the 12 colonies unified after their Civil War as a symbol of unity each one named to represent a colony. Nothing about just 12 were ever built.

My grandma love this series, I didn't get into watching them till after she past/while in college. But have not finished them. I need to find all of the series an movies again so I can do a binge, lot of the characters I had seen in other tv shows or movies (like the actress that plays Starbrook... probably spelled wrong). She was in a few movies and shows that I've seen and I've always loved the characters she plays.

The Re-imagined BSG series regularly said things like "Originally there was one Battlestar produced for each colony", "Initially there were....." , etc.

This is Sean from BattlestarCulture? Dunno if that'll come off the tongue as much as TrekCulture. Sean will have to dress up in all the uniforms from the show also, that's mandatory.

I've always disputed the Five being Cylon! Cylon is the product name copywrited on Caprica by Graystone Industries. Supposedly, it stands for CYbernetic LifefOrm Node! Therefore, the Earthlings certainly called themselves *something,* but it probably wasn't Cylon. They're the descendants, via procreation, of the synthetic lifeforms who'd fled Kolbol.

Baltar was actually killed off in the theatrical release of the premier ( and I think in the OS pilot movie), but they edited the ending so he could be in the show.

We needed to see more ships I hope theirs another fleet also looking for a new planet and only hearing about echos of the galactica through the cylons finding a planet themselves

The Pegasus & Kane (Loyd Bridges) were in both the original the re-boot, with similar stories.

Does the firefly class ship serenity appearing in the pilot count as an urban legend ? That was cool and never noticed it myself on my first watch.

Ah, yes. I remember that episode in BSG that "directly" referenced 9-11. When Starbuck turned to Odama and said, "Hey, this is just like that terrorist attack that happened...in the future...on that distant planet...that we're going to call Earth...for some reason." Classic. (it's been 13 yesrs - no spoiler alert)

The Final Five are descendent of the original artificial 13th Tribe. The Cylons look like them; they don’t look like Cylons. Think Bladerunner.

Mack-i-nee-ma. What did I just hear? Lol You mean Ma-shin-nuh-ma?

BSG is my favourite TV show of all time. The name sadly puts many people off the show. I know many people who'd love the show but the name just makes them think of Star Wars or Star Trek. BSG is way more than those IPs. Its about family, humanity and faith. I wish all the spin-offs worked out. I'd have loved to see this show grow. Sadly many are too old now to continue making the shows that could have possibly come.

One point of contention/confusion that I've come across is the question of whether the epilogue at the end of Caprica ("The Shape of Things to Come") was made knowing that the series was cancelled and was therefore made to be its definitive ending in response to that, or it was meant to set up the next season. It can really work either way. It serves as a compelling epilogue to season one's story, but also presents some mysteries and unanswered questions.

We Want More! We want More! We Want More!

We shouldn't discuss Starbuck's origin without mentioning Starbuck's ending. I realize mid-show the actress went to do other work so they had to rewrite that character to account for the absence, but they tied it up beautifully in her final scene where she said goodbye and then just vanished.

I never knew that Hatch went into so much debt trying to re-launch his version of the show 😔 At least he got a chance to return to the franchise, although I have to admit I wasn't that happy with him being portrayed as a Bad Guy, but he acted the role to his utmost, because I REALLY hated Tom Zarek 😅

Balter was not a doctor in the original series. He was styled "Count Baltar".

I thoroughly enjoyed the re-imagined series as well as Blood & Chrome but, the original 1978 BSG will always be my favorite. By todays standards it may seem very dated and campy but it created a world and characters that obviously had staying power and resonated with many people. At it's core it was a show about values and loyalty and the worth of the human race. That still shows through today despite the dated CGI and the sometimes campy scenes. It was a show with a lot of heart.

John Colicos' Baltar from the 1978 was not known as "Gaius Baltar". He was only known as "Count Baltar" or "Baltar". The 1978 characters had only one name. Great for television, but hell to pay if you are keeping records of any kind over a long period of time.

It's somewhat common from my understanding to take ok ideas and rework them with a profitable IP. I got that feeling from caprica .

I grew up here in the UK - England, watching the original series, well, after going to the Cinema seeing Battlestar Galactica and sequel Mission Galactica:Cylon Attack. The sequel movie, featured the Galactica discovering The Pegasus also survived the Cylon massacre, but at the end of the movie, The Pegasus decided to take a different path, going further into the cylon empire to recruit other survivors to create a rebellion force. While the Galactia went on to find Earth. I always wondered even back then, there should be a series, or movies, on the further adventures of the Pegasus and its eventual fate, would have been a brilliant move. Thanks to you with this presentation I found out about the Solaris! So, in today's modern culture of Shared universes, we have 3 surviving Battlestars, with the potential of 3 seperate series to be staged in the same univere! IF this is ever rebooted again, I hope the powers that be take this into consideration to expand the IP into!

Blood and Chrome should have been released as a series...so much character story and more mystery around the cylons.

Oh look the source material for the main conflict in Mass Effect

FAN FACT: At the end of season one, when everything was still up in the air they had a much different original ending planed. In the "dream sequence" at the opera house, Baltar and Six were originally not going to find a baby, but instead they were to meet The Cylon God! The team had had such success bringing Richard Hatch into the series that they wanted to bring in another actor from the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978). Their choice for the Cylon God? DIRK BENNEDICT!!! He said no however, so you got a baby instead, changing the whole direction of the series.

I would argue that the Battlestars Atlantia, Triton, Solaria and Columbia were not among the first 30 destroyed. Those 30 ships were destroyed in the opening of the attack. Admiral Nagala took command from Atlantia as Fleet HQ was also destroyed in the opening attack. What remained of the fleet launched a counter attack above Virgon (this would require coordination from leadership) and it was only some time after that the message informing of the destruction of these ships was received by Galactica.

The BSG reboot joined the ranks of shows, like: "Firefly" ,"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"' "Falling Skies", "Alien Nation", "Gene Rodenberry's Earth: Final Conflict", etc.

GTFO of my brain, I was frakking just thinking of rewatching BSG

I was singularly lucky to see the Richard hatch reboot trailer at a scifi convention back in the day!

When covered the Marvel series didn't cover that it tied in as crossover to DC superman, Marvel series Star Trek and BBC Doctor Who.

Aren't the ships in BSG Deadlock cannon? some nice Battlestars in the game, the Valkyrie class being one, that had a short cameo in the re-make.

The Final Five are not Cylons, they are Whatever the Humans on Kobol called their Humanoid Robots.

You did miss one. Kara Thrace returns as an Angel of …. God?

Thank you.

Given the 120 battlestars in service before the Fall, I'd like to see a web series of one of these battlestars besides Galactica or Pegasus. Because unlike Blood and Chrome, Deadlock covered the story of the First Cylon War brilliantly.

I would have included how the original Galactica was used as a stand-in for the Enterprise D on the first Star Trek TNG novel's cover

Awesome!

Might be worth giving the failed Bryan Singer 'reimagining' the old deep-dive treatment in the future... there were countless AICN articles about it way back in the day and apparently they even got as far as prop design in Vancouver.

Throughout the video you call RDM's the "Remastered series". It's "Reimagined" not "Remastered".

During season 3, I was convinced that StarBuck represented the Valkyrie. She was therefore a demigod like the other "11" Cylons.

Probably couldhave added the video game Deadlock as it is part of the RDM re-imagined BSG series set 5 years into the first Cylon war and is essentially cannon. The game touches a bit of Blood and Chrome as you control the ghost fleet in cylon space and ends at operation Raptor Talon from BSG Razor when the Armistice is signed.

There's too much confusion I can't get no relief

You also missed the _Uned_ as listed on a report

I’ve wondered for some time now… was the Original BSG inspiration, in some or great part to the anime Space Runaway IDEON? That would be an interesting side research project. ❤

FUN FACT: I met Edward JAMES Almos. He was a very kind person and he talked to me for about fifteen minutes. Then later in a here.Sense of luck. I met the actor who played Edward's younger self.On caprica.

I thought it was 120 battlestars destroyed and Galatica was one of the first 12 and was due to retire, but I would think it would not be that many outside the 120.

There were definitely only 12 Battlestars in service in any given time. Originally the term meant "colonial flagship". Every colony had only one flagship at a time. Other capital ships had other categorization. In the Reimagined series they forgot about this. Olympic Carrier hasn't hijacked. It was tagged, or there were a cylon onboard with active transmitter. The takeover only happened after the leaders of the fleet deducted that that is the ship the cylons track. But at that time the hijacking was pointless, Apollo shoot the ship in pieces. They thought humans won't destroy a civilian ship deliberately. They were wrong. The cylons believe in a single god is close to all the Abrahamic religions. Not just christianity (catholicism is just one part of christianity), but judaism and islam as well. And yes, all of the three aformentioned religions believe in the same one god. Christianity is the 2nd iteration of the same religion, islam is the 3rd. The final five are definitely cylons. That was the name of the 13th tribe/colony, and the final five are the sole survivors of their own nuclear armageddon, thanks to the fact they were the original inventors of digital resurrection. They built the original resurrection ship, not long before the demise of the colony. This is why only they were able to use it. The rest of the population uses land based resurrection hubs.

I couldn't handle 10 minutes of Caprica.

Did this guy just pronounce Machinima as Mack-a-neema? Other than that solid vid lol

Sean, you forgot that Battlestar Galactica and one other Ship "The Pegasus" were two of the older Ships from the original Cylon War 40 years before and did not have all the bells and whistles as the newer ships which were digitally interconnected with each other. That is why they did not get taken over by the Cylons.

Hoping he would talk about how starbuck was reincarnated and if that tied into the all-white, crystal, angel ships of the original series.

I can't believe you didn't mention "feldercarb".

Man I miss BSD. All of them. We need more, not just a re-boot

Glen Larson is Mormon. If that got your attention, please read on. In the original series, he actually put a lot of LDS (Mormon) culture and practices in the show. It absolutely blew my mind. It's actually one of my favorite facts about the creator of this world. I myself am a non-practicing member, but the story and word that he built and continued with Eick and Moore is in my top 5 favorite sci-fi series I've ever seen. It's a fun fact, I suppose. Also, I hate that Richard Hatch died so young. His ideas were so epic!

How could Caprica not be be related to Battlestar Galactica?

It's too bad Caprica was canceled, as it was finally getting interesting at the end of season 1.

I never thought the Cylons in the reboot were meant to be Al-Qaeda, I do however thing the Krill in The Orville are. The original series explains how the Cylons came into being and it's a cautionary tale that is even more relevant today than it was then.

So say we all!

I have only watched the original series (both BSG 1978 and Galactica 1980). Is the 'new' BSG worth watching? (Yes i know I am 20yrs late)

Twelve battlestars in total, one for each colony.

I remember playing "Triad" in gym class in elementary school back in 1978, and we used balls, not cards. (Why, yes, I was a geek even then.)

Number 9 includes the following phrase: "At least 30 battlestars including the atlantia, triton, solaria and the columbia are lost in the first cylon attack" Then number 8 is introduced... Number 8: Is there a battlestar named Solaria? Yes... Yes you just 20 seconds ago mentioned that it was recently destroyed... Probably should have put those 2 points the other way around 😂

The Jem'Haddar of Star Trek Deep Space Nine seem more like a direct comparison to Al Quada.

Uhm. The Final Five were pretty clearly described in the series. They were from the 13th tribe that settled on Earth- a synthetic people. They re-engineered resurrection when they saw how their world was teetering on the edge of self destruction and we saw that world's version of a Centurion be dug up in the rubble. They arrived towards the end of the first Cylon war and offered resurrection to get the Centurions to stop. Technically, the Final Five are the creators of the 7 Cylon models; but they too can be resurrected (because Helen Tigh was in series; and it was made to sound like all of them were after John made 'modifications' then dumped them in the colonies. Of course that breaks in the storyline because we have Adama saying he served with Colonel Tigh during the war; but how?

love this show.

That is the worst attempted pronunciation of machinima I have ever heard anyone try to say.

It's in the Godsdamn walls...

In the original story a battlestar was a flaghip of a fleet so Adama actually commanded a fleet not just the galatica

SO SAY WE ALL

So say we all

I much prefer the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica myself.

Television is where good Sci-Fi go to die. Over the last 30 years there's been so many that ended way too soon.

Hash (Apollo) was in the reimagined as zerrick (the terrorist guy on prison ship not sure name is right)