It's the best WW2 in space. It does the concept much better then SW. Especially the ship designs.

2003, CG wasn't too advanced back then, but still, they did an awesome job!

if you enjoy both of the kinda shows you should consider reading the book series The Frontiers Saga by Ryk Brown. Solid books with a lot of this kinda action.

@@Guywiththedimpples "you should consider reading the book series The Frontiers Saga by Ryk Brown" Is the storyline completed yet? I went to the web site, and they have allot of books in the series, and explanations for a release schedule, but it seemed a bit much to track/understand.

Expanse battles were mostly of smaller vessels and I much prefer capital ships being involved in my sci fi. Which means the Donnager battle in S1 of Expanse was completely epic and was one of the high points of the entire series.

Nice catch! Isn't there an episode later dealing with the Cylon virus?

@@stevk5181 Yes, when our newly found Cylon friend, who is supposedly absolutely undistinguishable from humans, bar super advanced testing developed by Baltar, turns out to have a USB port in her writst 😋

@@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm not really she opens her wrist and shove a cable inside.

@@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm I think it’s implied that she uses direct electrical connection via her blood stream to do it, a much more crude version of the puddles they stick their hands in on the basestars It’s all basically pseudoscience, but the cool thing is that we do something similar with iPads and stuff, they don’t detect touch, but instead they detect the slight electrical discharge we give off when we touch the screen, this is that concept taken wayyyyyyy further

@@3adgamd3r "It’s all basically pseudoscience" No, it's science fiction. That's a hallmark of the genre, that the suspension of disbelief when it comes to science might be required, because they're talking about things that either aren't possible or aren't possible with our currrent understanding (faster than light travel) or things that just don't exist in our world (a Stargate, for instance)

its flat tho space is fake.

Gives me that ww2 battleship esc feel but applied to a carrier

@@bencurran3204 The Bucket's a tough ol' b*tch.

@@bencurran3204 Galactica is basically a super battleship with two carriers bolted to the side. :P

@@k1productions87and Pegasus pushes that even further with even more guns and 4 carriers bolted to the sides

Dakka - Dakka

I can't believe I'm only slightly younger than the reboot

So true. Most space battles are just flashing lights, here they actually mean something, they are real.

Plus the music that goes with it really enhances it.

Not just feel it. As the show progressed, Galactica was looking more and more beaten-up. Here it looks pristine, while towards the end of the show's run it had multiple dents, missing armour plates, the hull was scorched and it was overall discoloured. Good attention to details like that added to the shows credibility.

@@kasegiyabu5030 The best part about that is that as the show went on tech improved to make those details easier and faster to render. They exploited that in a way we don't often get to see.

@@Tommykey07 This show made Taiko drums popular.

So say we all!

It just reminds me that I can NEVER get past the damned tutorial level in "Deadlock" 😅

Some of it does. But man, it really does not look that good retrospectively. And some of the writing is just awful...

@@mylesleggette7520 Awful, like your purist post. But thanks for trying.

Agreed, I was just as stressed out watching this now as I was then.

As a person who also works in networking modern network technologies and theories the cylons wouldn't have a hope. You can still network key systems just air gap anything that transmits in the wireless

They actually did want them. Turns out the robots that rebelled 50 years ago are so good at hacking networks, that you are better off back to analog ^^

@@SeizureGman Exactly. If the Galactica kept their networks only on the wire, they'd be unhackable by remote. Unless the Cyclons can break the laws of physics.

@@ricwalker6600 Again air gap critical systems from anything wireless and you can network with physical cabling in fact really a ship as big as galactica this has to be the case no way could you operate weapons or engines if the computers in CIC were not hard wired to the systems in each area

Too bad it's an almost dead concept these days. :(

The show completely changed after the writers strike. Also the ending didn't make sense. They threw away all their tech into the sun. More than half of the survivors would have died without medical supplies and shelter.

same here wants me to start rewatching it

This was the first episode I saw, and it was entirely by accident: I left the channel on after Stargate SG-1 was over. Within ten minutes, I was hooked.

I saw it when I was a kid in 1978... it was so awesome. I don't even know what this is.

@@juicebirdmedia1406 It's a reimagined version of Galactica. I loved the original as a kid too. But for once, this remake is a great one worth watching! Scifi at it's best, ethical dilemmas, drama and of course hot action. I believe series are watchable on Amazon Prime

So say we all...!!

How did they lose the fleet? It’s been so long since I saw It?

@@crowejoy after the attack on adama there was complete chaos, in the middle of which his deputy took command. let's just say he managed to make a series of embarrassing mistakes! he was an excellent number 2, but a failure as a leader.

I think it’s either Gaeta or hoshi that give the wrong jump coordinates to half the fleet. Drunk gets pissed. But yeh all because of the chaos of adama getting shot

I would like to think that the Anders Hybrid, at the last moment, just before the fleet went into the Sun, yelled, 'Jump'. This would make a perfect launching point for the new Peacock series by Sam Esmail, if that ever comes about.

Hated that aspect too about giving up their tech. It's not like the Cylons aren't prone to changing their minds.

Nor does it make any sense for advanced, space-faring civilizations to cling to such primitive beliefs as religion. Take that out, and the show is a masterpiece.

@@anthonyobryan3485 Primitive belief? And yet thousands of years later, and all this technology and fancy gizmos... we still have faith. Imagine that!!!

accidentally "warping" straight into an ambush

If I remember correctly this was an ambush but one they expected to jump into. Prior to this Galactica and the fleet jumped after a cylon ship detected them, but Galactica got its jump wrong so had to return to the original location and to calculate the jump again (hence the networked computers to do it faster). What makes it interesting is that they never used some of the more advanced tactics they developed later using their jump capable Raptors to deploy decoys before they arrived, force the cyclons to spead out and buying them more time.

​@@cgi2002 wasnt an ambush. they new the cylons would be there. ambush means the cylons caught galactica of guard but galactica went in knowing they would be there. also galatic didn't get the jump wrong. Tigh got the jump wrong because he didn't update the emergency coordinates with the fleet. (was the captains responsibility) who was Tigh at the time

@@RN-19924 knowing your walking into a trap doesn't negate that it's a trap, hence it's still arguably an ambush. It's like the old adage "you know it's a trap right, so next step, spring the trap". Admittedly its questionable why it would be one, the cylons had no reason we are aware of to suspect that Galactica would return (unless they had a human form telling them it would that we never get told about, we know there were a handful spread throughout the fleet still at this point). It honestly makes you wonder why the base ship was still there unless that was part of how they were tracking the fleet, lots of fancy sensor analysis and computing to figure out were they went (only way I can imagine without spies they'd be able to track the fleet, since their FTL doesn't seem to be limited in its direction, range or anything of the sort, it's never really explained). As for getting the jump wrong, they did, that it was because Tigh screwed up doesn't change that they got it wrong. Ok technically Galactica got it right, the rest of the fleet got it wrong as he never sent them the new data, but that is a plot hole if it's that way around when you think about it. If the fleet jumped using old data, which Galactica would have already had, then why would they need to return to the original location to follow the fleet, since they'd already know were the fleet went and could have just followed them directly. With it been the other way around it makes more sense but is still a big stupid plot hole as either way your just working out were the fleet went from the location, a location you already have all the data for, you don't need to be there follow the fleet. You started at A, you went to B, fleet to C, there is no logical reason you can't go to C from B when you know how to workout how to go from A to C already, just modify your math to start at B instead, it's just geometry.

@@cgi2002 so every watch they update their emergency jump calculations with new star fixes to compensate with inertia drift. how evre they didnt send it to the fleet. my hypothesis is these calculations are completey random from the point you calculate. meaning they coundt calculate from point B to C as they would be different, so they had to go to A to redo the calculations. then gator devises to use th FTL computer nav DC and fire control computers to redo and finish the previous calculation in 10m another hypothesis is the calculations are scrubbed after every watch meaning they had to redo them from point A. those are my 2 theory's trying to explain it after that could be a plot hole with the first part. i just presume that base star was staying their just in case they back track or they were doing calculations predicting the fleet movements

There's a new galactica reboot on the way apparently...

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 How much do you want to bet they completely ruin it.. like EVERY reboot they've done in the last couple of years.

@@natedaniels3655 We'll see. BSG is hard to trump.

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 I would've thought Lord of the Rings would be impossible to screw up.. but look how that one turned out.

@@natedaniels3655 Depends on how you think they screwed it up.

The sound effects ruin everything. It was bullcrap in the 1930s and it's bullcrap in our advanced digital era. But okay, series like Battlestar Galactica are Pulp.

@@willemvandeursen3105you are so wrong on so many levels 💀 bsg is anything but pulp. the complete opposite, even more. Bsg is literally ranked as the top 5 objectively best sci fi series ever: many rank it as #1.

As the series went on you can see the episodes where they blew their budget and had to spend the next few episodes on tiny sound stages. lol. It did give a nice mix of epic space opera with the tighter, more human aspects though.

So say we all!

Don't you think it's kind of wild their limited tech base somehow figured out space folding?

@@XH1927I don’t think we could build anything even remotely close to a battlestar if we tried.

Along with the Adama manoeuvre...

@@craigpattenden Also ranks among my favourite shots in the show. Bonus points for Tigh looking up at the sky *before* it happens, like he'd already worked out Adama's next step.

Starbuck always appear to be the crazy genius pilot (and most of time she is), but a couple of times, Appollo can be even worse than her...

Old / Lazy sci-fi shows uses Shields cuz they didnt want damage their physicals models. Galactica wasn't lazy. You can see every scar that Galactica took until the final episodes. Shields systems are kinda lazy way to do things. Other excelent show don't use shields is The Expanse.

@@TRONvix Agreed, though probably a lot of the time it's as much budget and man-hours as actual laziness.

Top 5 for sure.

Mormons in space was the OG Battlestar Galactica. The reboot went hard on Greek mythology instead.

i presumed thats what galatica time was based on. our time but we developed space faring. BSG is supposed a fictional prequal to us now hence the story. so everything you we have just not space fareing.

I think the basic idea was that but for a few technological breakthroughs (FTL drive, artificial gravity, the AI that gave us Cylons, etc.), the colonies weren't that far ahead of where we are now. Also, the Galactica itself was an old ship slated for retirement and not necessarily stocked with the best material. From a narrative perspective, it allowed the showrunners/writers to create a more familiar world the viewer could relate to. Out-of-universe, it also saved money as a lot of the props could be just bought off the shelf rather than crafted specifically for the show.

No scifi shows really extrapolates technology that realistically what they do is make a choice for the show they want. Even Star Wars in some ways is oddly futuristic and anachronistic at the same time as its a style. BSG went for a technology is mostly the same as ours but for the odd need where it isn't - spaceships, an FTL the Cylons. But even those ships largely work as modern aircraft carriers.

It may be a result of the severe resource shortages but basic surgeries are still basic surgeries. The colonies clearly have a "If it ain't broke don't give the Cylons a chance to hack it" mentality.

They basically _are_ early 21st Century Americans, so yeah. The weird part of the show is that they're in spaceships, when (IMO) it would have made more sense as a series about an American aircraft carrier battlegroup with some civilian ships it's trying to protect going through a robot apocalypse. Like _The Last Ship,_ but with more fighter dogfights. Having the Colonials be Americans of the exact era the show aired in broke my suspension of belief from the start. _The Last Ship_ did it better.

What's scary is that Galactica didn't even have all of the armor plating it had during the first Cylon war. Most of the outer layer was removed during the armistice period, presumably to save on mass - and thus energy costs.

It's probably in arcminutes or in milliradians.

Even in real life there is an established alternate system the GON with 400 Gon to a full circle.

Look up "milliradians" sometime. Alternatives to 360 degress in a circle do exist.

Circle is 2d, in space you are 3d, have to have a 3rd coordinate....

@@rustyjohnson9558 Bearings in space use two circles perpendicular to each other.

They absolutely would ruin it.

Apparently his news is a reboot is in progress

They have the perfect opportunity of making a show set in the First Cylon War with the Galactica serving alongside other battlestars, but as you said, it's a current trend to disrespect the canon that came before and hiring writers who hate their job.

You are right, but if they did make a new show, it could be as good. If the show sucked, this version would still be around.

The loading bar was calculating the fleets position. The graphic was how fast they were being hacked in real time. Two different things happening, easy to confuse

It's very difficult to do a realistic representation of cyberwarfare from a visually interesting standpoint as almost everything that happens is by definition invisible programs in cyberspace. It does add a extra layer of tension and threat to the Cylons as they have multiple vectors of attack

The Cold Death .

There was quite a schism within the ranks of the Cylons. Some wanted eradication. Others felt that humans were their “parents“ and were part of a sacred path for them both. If they ran into one of the base-stars that was (relatively) pro-human, that base-star would probably prefer to subdue rather than eliminate this special group of humans.

I believe that it was stated in one of the Episodes/Movies from the Cylon perspective that they actually exhausted most of their nuclear stockpile annihilating the colonies and had to resort to using conventional anti-ship missiles.

@@astronomybrainiac Nah, it's cos the story couldn't happen if they were using nukes.

Same. It's a brilliant piece of cinema; just wish it couldn't have been undermined by them turning off Galactica's radio

How does it work on your starship? I saw the FTL drive in one episode and realized my 1969 Buick had one just like it....

@@rustyjohnson9558 it's not the FTL drive; firewalls don't work like that, and as I said the whole problem could be circumvented by setting Galactica's computers to either ignore incoming communications or turning off its radio receivers.

@@Tarotb 2 different subjects addressed in one comment. Asking you about your subject, and making an observation about another piece of fictional technology.....and its clumsy portrayal....

@@rustyjohnson9558 ...I really don't understand what you mean by "subject"?

L O L. I feel you bro.