The atmos jump was the greatest moment of the series. The way they build up to it, all of the fighters deploying out through fire, and the massive boom when the Galactica jumps felt like the thunder from a massive lightning strike to signify the sh*tstorm that was about to be unleashed. One of the best moments in TV SciFi, hands down.

I saw a BSG discussion with Ron Moore and the cast where Moore mentioned the "and they have a plan" was added just to add something to hook people in. People would ask them what's the plan? His answer "hell if I know."

BSG is my all-time favorite show. The reboot was a masterpiece.

I've always thought that the greek pantheon was actually from the 12 colonies and when they arrived on our earth, these ideas somehow survived and became the greek mythology we know today. Though, that rationale would work better if the Galactica crew somehow arrived later, near a proto-would-be-greek civilization instead of pre history like the series.

I loved Battlestar Galactica, but the thing I find hardest to believe isn't the space travel or the ancient aliens stuff, it's the fact that 40,000 people were perfectly fine with giving up their modern technology and essentially going camping for the rest of their lives. Not one person said "yeah I'm gonna go with the Cylons, they have microwaves and indoor plumbing."

Anyone else notice the production quality and funny little office esque camera switches man has been incorporating? I’m loving it!

Theory I read once: What if the 1978 and 2000's BSG were both canon to each other, in the form of the cycles?

Thanks Tyler, now I have to go watch BSG and Book of Mormon again. Those songs are so catchy.

The lore before the 12 colonies can be confusing. Also the Earth they find at the end isn't the Earth they first set out to find. They carried the name over from the wasteland Earth they did find. The final 5 even forgot about the original Earth and what happened on it. Tbh it was a great idea for the show.

Your production values are getting so much more entertaining. Great work.

It's very likely that the whole situation with Kara Thrace and the "Angels" at the series' finale means they are Beings of Light, an extraterrestrial species seen in the original Battlestar Galactica show. Kara even paints the Ship of Lights in one of her murals at some point.

4:53 #UmActually, the original Battlestar Galactica series only mentions "Light Speed" as the maximum velocity. The Galactica usually has to travel slower because most of the fleet doesn't have the capacity for Light Speed. Makes no sense, I know, but that's what they went with. 🤷

The reimagined series is my favorite TV series hands down. Plus Tricia Helfer. I'm old enough to have watched the original 70s series on TV as a kid. It was corny, but it was fun and entertaining.

Thanks for doing this deep dive into BSG OrangeRiver! Your videos are always interesting to watch.

Delighted to finally see you cover BSG. For me, it's right up there wuth SG-1 as ny all-time favourite series. II never realised there was an analogue for the Irish in the universe. That was fun to learn.

The high seas have a pretty good spread of BSG content. You can't 100% the full chronological binge watch there but the majority of the story is represented.

You must have had to rewatch the entire series again to take all these notes. What a sacrifice 😃

Now I've got to go play All Along the Watchtower.

Big fan of the asides to camera #2. Keep up the great work 😄

I know you're a Trek guy at heart but your videos on the Expense, Dune and BSG are some of the best detailed videos out there. I've watched them multiple times. Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!!

where's that Mycelial network? this has to be one of my favorite episodes you have done.

Battle star is underrated as heck!

I’ve been watching over all your videos again, it’s great to see everyone.

Awesome video Tyler. I've been a Battlestar Galactica fan since the original series. It was great to see you do a video about BSG. Thanks for your great work!

Man, I enjoyed this! ❤ Looking forward to watching your TNG videos once I complete re-watching that series (which you inspired me to do!). I didn't mind these spoilers because I've seen BSG more recently.

The arrangement of the colonial star system is new to me, thanks for sharing that resource/theory as it fills in a few gaps!

I still remember new episodes of the original BSG would come on at 8pm on weekends; sometimes we'd be coming home from my grandparents' house (over 2 hours away), and I would just be heartsick when we'd get home after it had already started, or when it was practically over, and then I'd have to wait until whenever it aired again. That deep trauma has probably shaped today's media landscape, (the media landscape I write for, lol).

Yaaaaay I was SO excited for this one!!

Bruh all that LDS stuff I never knew about lol. Thanks for the vid, solid recap!

I really enjoy your content. Keep it up.

I enjoyed BSG when it came out but the heavy “spiritual” aspects Ronald Moore put into it left me somewhat disappointed. I wanted more of what the expanse was sans aliens and just a more grounded man vs machine story. Still it was fun and considering what we have now it was a golden era for TV sci-fi. I was one of the few who liked Caprica and wished it had gotten a couple more seasons. It had some interesting angles the main show didn’t pursue.

Thanks Tyler, great subject! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the series finale. I absolutely loved it, but it blew my mind and some of your theories I hadn't considered. We came from Earth, then Kobal. It makes the most "sense" to me. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦✌️

Cool video, I found this on accident and enjoyed it. Never gets old nerding out on some Battlestar. Take my sub sir

I've never watched the show and only understand like 14% of the video but i watched the whole thing and still enjoyed it

Love the Vols coaster Orange River!

Very cool explanation of the series which was one of my favorites in the late 70’s and I adored the reboot in the 2000’s. Personally I go with the explanation that they were correct in that everything has happened before in a cyclical history, not a time loop but rather repeating patterns. It’s something we can see in our own past.

The story line also reflects Hegelian philosophy, at least as I understand it. The thesis (humans) create the antithesis (Cylon) which eventually leads to synthesis (human-cylon hybrid). I always was amused by the name of Kobol. It sounds and is spelt similar to an early programming language called Cobol. There really isn't the a connection between the two, it looks to be a coincidence. A very nice review of the newer series. I prefer the new one over the original because it did seem more realistic in many ways.

The Kat said "I'll take it as I didn't listen Tyler"😅✊

Been waiting on this one. Thanks!

Another great video!

I always found the concept of cybernetic superintelligence finding religion to be hilarious.

BSG-Reimagined to me has a lot of paraells with Liu Cixin's "Remembrance of Earth's Past" or known as (The Three-Body Trilogy). The theme of "This is all happened before and this will all happened again," is heavily suggested in the trilogy and more in the spin-off 4th book: The Redemption of Time (written by Baoshu). There are few differences between the 2 series but if you know them both pretty good; it could potentially answer questions about BSG-Reimagined and Three-Body. I almost feel like these could be in the same Universe or Universes that happen in paraell with each other. Perhaps even side by side, where things happen in both perspectives but have different causes, effects, meanings. Who or what is the force that brings back Starbuck from a literal death that seems to be pushing the surviving Humans of BSG to safe harbor. Starbuck's New fighter that they cannot trace the parts for, etc, etc? Where in Three-Body; this force that effects this Universe is more flushed out in the 3rd and 4th books of Three-Body. There are aliens in Three-Body where none exist in the BSG-Reimagined continuity. This is all for fun people. Just a thought experiment in science fiction that are not directly connected but share a great many concepts within one another. If you have only read or seen one I'd recommend the latter. If anything its just cool to think about. Three-Body started making the rounds in 2006 and up. BSG-Reimagined started in 2004. I doubt either one leeched off the other but there are many paraells to both series. One is more adventurous and ends on a happy note where the other is more existential terror when we realize the God that Humans look up to, look at humanity as reality-fodder for its war against "the Lurker." Each series has its great attibutes and letdowns.

Wow, wasnt expecting a mention of the casimir effect.

I am one who does truly favor the line "all of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again" so for in universe it could be a timeloop kind of effect, but if that's the case than we should keep in mind who's telling the story details at the end.... those two are tricky little imps and can keep their meddling fingers out of my understanding of history. Loved this one!!

whats really funny about glen a larson is that he was so bias that of course the hub of everything is caprica, cuz he was a capricorn

Kobol / Kolob *does* link to Earth. Bear in mind the theme of technology and AI becoming sentient, Kobol is a corruption of COBOL. COBOL was one of the very early computer programming languages, but not the first. It's another indication that all this has happened before and will hapoen again. I don't think I've seen the link to the COBOL programming language before. But as an older software developer, who did indeed write software in COBOL at the start of my career, it jumped out at me immediately.

Great video as always Tyler

Since you've done Battlestar you should do babylon 5 next. I fucking love bablyon 5

One thought I always had. The people who settled Earth from the colonies passed their stories and knowledge down. The original documents have been lost over time or were never written until decades later. This information was used to give birth to many of the ancient civilizations.

Peacock removing it from their service makes me glad that I recorded it to DVDR when I had the chance. Too bad I procrastinated on Warehouse 13. Services removing programs that they own makes my head spin. Keeping them on costs them nothing.

One other explanation of the similarities of the BSG world with ours- While it is not physically impossible for almost the exact same patterns to evolve as they did both then and now, it is literally right next to impossible. But one could take an artistic license and say that this was a universe where this remote possibility actually happened. Again, cyclical evolution. I have always viewed the show in this light.

Missed a perfect opportunity to end it with a "So say we all!!"

Great show, kinda of floundered coming down to the end but still solid story overall

just starting this video and i hope you mention how BSG reimagined is actually a reimagining of the 1962 scifi film, Creation of the Humanoids.

I loved this show so much back in the day EXCEPT when they split a season into two parts and then sold two over priced DVD sets. Uh the 20zeros! What a time to be alive.

One interesting thought is that the meaning of, "all this has happened before and all this will happen again," could refer to the fundamental forces of the universe that have singular constants that are woven into the universe. Gravity, Planck, electric, speed of light in vacuum, etc. It is said that turn the dial on one of these and the formation of some elements is impossible and therefore planets and consequently life. Carrying that in the other direction these forces made it possible for life to occur here on Earth. Since the laws of nature seem to be consistent, then the same circumstances that created life here also can occur elsewhere and has already. I can't think of the cosmological theory off hand but it has to do with the infinitude of space and the idea that another earth exists with another version of you that simply turned left when you turned right. Not a parallel world but a duplicate world that made all the same everything, almost, because it made a you that did something different once as a variation. Kinda of like a repeating pattern that begins at a "big bang" and goes on forever while internally creating another "big bang" that starts anew and goes on and on with each variation a consequence of a minor or insignificant coin flip. Meaning that the entirety of anyone piece of the repeating whole isn't actually repeating but just another part of a unique entirety. This doesn't mean that if everything repeats then it should repeat exactly without a difference. But the repetition similarity is itself the entirety a single unique whole. Summary: The unique forces that allow for life in the universe here also make for exactly the same circumstances to occur identically elsewhere in the universe. However, because of this it allows for minute variation, this makes any variation just a piece of a unique whole without exact repetition.

Why did everyone leave Kobol? If the planet still supported life, wouldn't there still be people on it?

The inconsistencies with human cultural history in BSG are one of the reasons I headcanon it to be a Westworld sequel. If all of BSG is the culmination of Dolores's last Sublime game, a lot of those questions kinda answer themselves

I loved how they did not evolve from earth. I thought that made the lore more interesting.

Bruh, I got the Blu-Rays too 😂😂. Things have changed but I've been ready!

Man was that good.. Getin to work now to give you some blingi.

So say we all.

Oh yeah we making it to the frak this time!

Absolutely brilliant retrospective and take on the hustiry and lore of this show. The 00's take was exceptional. Scripts that were well written and great VFX also there was, like the original, many repeats of the same VFX, but it didn't damage the show.

Great analysis Tyler. I LOVED the reboot and watched every single episode when it originally aired but I think they screwed the pooch with that ending. I could suspend belief about them worshipping Greek deities, the use of US Navy slang, etc, but, Starbuck figuring out the route to Earth by transcribing the musical notation of a Bob Dylan tune? WHAT?!? That was a bridge too far, lol. I guess we all have Bob Dylan DNA in our cell nuclei! 😂

This was great. Thanks! B5 next? :D

14:03 as a Leo i see this as an absolute win 🎉

Nice on Tyler. Can some one answerer a question for me? On the re imagined BSG the Galactica herself looks like she is missing plaiting from her forward hull is this so and why?

Love just the intro. Fracking hell are you kidding me? Btw nice home/studio. You are way richer than I. & I do apologize for my withdrawal of membership. X I proper get your questions about BSG lore but look.... It is all based on Issac Asimof book. The best sci-fi is written based on 1 book. The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire. Dunno if you read Issac, but if you do check out also Simmons Hyperion. Btw (Tyler.) I never use your name?? Btw OR I love your content. Keep up the good work in 2024 & a Merry Christmas x

I always thought that our earth would become something like Kobol with 13 ships flying out to the 12 colonies and "Earth" starting the cycle again

Funny story, i watched the final episode of caprica (i think) it was recapping and basically spoiling all of BSG. Thinking what a weird BSG show, i later learned about BSG when i started watching it.

"Casimir Effect!" yay, I said it!

Excellent discussion

Good work by you!!!

Oh my gosh there are SO MANY SPOILERS IN THIS VIDEO! kidding. I took heed of your warning.

Hello, really enjoy your vids. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do a Vid or 2 on either Robotech ( an anime ) or possibly Babylon 5.

Thank you

Awesome video is pretty entertaining

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The BSG remake and Firefly are pretty much the last good Sci-Fi shows I actually watched. Nothing has captivated me like those two shows, ever since.

Awesome.

In the original series, the development of the Cylons was a little different. It's only covered in a very short conversation between Apollo and Boxy, in which Boxy is asking why the Cylons attack them and he's told that the origianal Cylons were a reptilian species, they developed the Cylons we know and those Cylons rebelled against them.

I love Battlestar and the remake was sublime but to younger or less experienced fans I would say, if you go around bonking each other on the head with spanners and guns like they do in the remake whenever they need to put their friends to sleep? You’re going to terribly injure or kill each other. So don’t do that. But do shoot Cylons.

This is one of those channels where, every single time you upload, I think to myself "How is this guy so small?" Like. There are dozens, if not HUNDREDS of channels that put out such lower quality content. It's almost frustrating.

The Origin of Species section is one reason I like xover fanfics of BSG better than the solo series. You get a insider look at the various ways to explain the 'Lords of Kobol' to various degrees of success. Including many a space battle xover.

What an awesome story,i never seen the show but i love the lore videos

Awesome video dudr

Great video

12 colonies are in a quaternary system i believe. With 12 habitable planets.

Great content

All this FTL stuff is so cool imagine one day if it was like that

BSG reboot is the best!

My theory has always been DNA just does that in this universe. You get sufficiently advanced life and humans will come out sooner or later, and intelligent life will always want to build evil robots to kill themselves. This way you can grandfather in both series. There must be something special about Earth, because why does it act as a magnet for these different alternate versions of humanity?

I know I don't have any evidence for this because the original creator never told anyone what his actual intentions were. But I think that the original series was meant to take place in the far future. He deliberately left hints that the show takes place in the past, the future and modern day because he didn't know what ABC would go for. Likely he actually intended was that the cylons were created by humanity and the story we're given of their origins in false. The cylons rebelled, like in Caprica, and humanity was forced to find a new home on Kobol. The cylons followed and that's when humans created the 13 colonies. In the remake they were going to follow this plan but Si Fi forced them to make another season and that's how it ended up in the past.

3:38 Cyclons is an even better name lol

Im surprised no one has ever made a huge rts game or open world game based on this lore

We have seen this before, and we will see it again.

Mormons in space!! Love this series.

my bad he goes into it pretty deep

why the papers on BSG has cutted corners?