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 👍🏻

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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. 😨

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

Awesome stuff

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.

"All batteries, commence firing."

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

Oh yeah. this is just only the first one.l

Or Amazon Prime!

Most of this CGI doesn’t have a real human in shot. It’s why the prequels establishing shots look great, but once a human is there it starts looking fake.

Yep!

I'd still give top honors to The Expanse, but the BSG reboot is definitely a contender.

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.

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.

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.

SO SAY WE ALL.

- Nothing but the rain, sir!

The way they did battle in this show was masterful. I have never seen space battle done better.

Check out the effects of that fire: It is VERY DAMNED suppressive! The raiders finally decided to be somewhere else. Not for nothing did Apollo say 'stay out of Galactica's firing solution'.

@@nickmitsialis like 1:08 and Kara, “Roger that Apollo.”

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.

The cylons don't really care about material losses. They can make more basestars and the raiders just download into new bodies each time they die. The colonials, on the other hand...

@@nefariousgremlin7554 Yeah I get that the Cylons don't need to have such concerns. I mean after Galactica runs and runs they can even just hoover the quadrant for scrap if they just wanna waste the time on efficiency. The Colonials, though, omgggg. How they made it as long as they did, I have no idea.

@@NightRunner417 I expect they probably transferred some crew and passengers on civilian ships so they could scrap ships they didn't need for parts. Also, there were probably foundry ships in the civilian fleet for manufacturing munitions and such.

@@nefariousgremlin7554 I don't ever remember them specifically mentioning hardship due to material losses but there was always so much going on it would have been just another mote in a storm of richness of detail. Whatever they ever specifically grumbled about, it was ALWAYS clear that they were withering badly, especially during that epic part where they kept getting hit every time they'd exit a hyper jump. LOVED that show. Wasn't sure about it at first but man did it grow on me.

I was always under the impression that the Galactica either had *extremely* large stores of ammunition (given how often it had to use it's flak barriers) or had a means of producing more (probably a civilian ship much like the refinery ship that was with them). And with the arrival of the Pegasus, material losses became a non-issue to the point where they were even manufacturing new Vipers and Raptors.

great! now I cant Unsee it

I know l right??

There is a lore reason: it was their first engagement and using outdated fighters their pilots were not used to. Their tactics and skills got refined afterwards and their losses minimized as the series progresses. There is also the situation that not all fighters were used, since many were still in repairs and/or were not taken from the unused landing bay made museum.

@@rafaelfarias4359 I would also like to add that in later seasons, when the Pegasus appeared. That Battlestar had viper manufacturing capabilities and Starbuck trained new pilots such as Hotdog.

I always found that interesting about them. I figured since they had resurrection, they didn't have to worry as much about defense. So, they built their capital ships based solely on offense. Which, ended up kicking them in the ass throughout the series. Battlestars seemed to be built with more of a balance in mind. Their main guns could quickly be retasked as heavy flak batteries if needed.

Not like that. There is a reason why Galactica and Pegasus jumped into point-blank range when attacking the Resurrection Ship. At long range, they could either defend themselves or attack, but not both.

A lot of ammo was on Ragnar, but yes they did eventually have machines to make bullets, you see them later on when the shells start to be tampered with. Pegasus also had manufacturing facilities.

The Gallactica itself has an ammo manufacturing facility. This was in one of the episodes where a worker, who was a peace activist, was purposely making defective ammo. They had mining ships in the fleet, so I assume they were mining raw materials as they find them.

Fair point, but I think it was more a case of Galactica, being moments from retirement, having little ammo at the time. Ragnar gave them the opportunity to fill their considerable magazines (a Battlestar being a capital ship presumably meant to operate independently with minimal resupply for long periods), making it easier for what manufacturing they had to slowly restore later expenditures. Other shortages had direct causes beyond simple consumption, too (eg water), so it wasn't like ammo was the only system where Galactica seemed to be designed to be relatively self-sufficient.

Pegasus was so self sufficient that it could replace it's Mark VII's as long as they had enough raw materials.

Technically these are the Mk2 Vipers. The 1s would be the original show's style, the 2s are the white ones used in this show, and the 7s are the newer more modern ones modeled after the F-16