I am 60. I grew up waiting for my weekly dose of Kirk and Spock. That being said, Battlestar Galactica… THIS Battlestar Galactica… Is the best science-fiction series and possibly the best television series of my life.

"No aliens" was one of many great calls. It kept the focus on the evolution of the main story and characters.

Number six was the most alluring character. The part was so well played.

The decision to outlaw networked computers in the Galactica world was brilliant, and I think that a real-life lesson of that very sort is in the future for all of us. It was also a great design choice. I love how the low-tech look of the ship interiors contrasted with the high-tech vision of the Cylons.

Although I never noticed that the Enterprise makes a cameo appearance as part of the fleet, I did notice that, in the scene early on where Roslin in getting the bad news from her doctor on Caprica, Serenity from "Firefly" appears as one of the shops flying over head outside the window.

One of the most underrated shows ever.

THE best television show ever for me. So many fantastic moments, things that bring tears to my eyes, even on re-watches. I wish it could have gone on a few more seasons.

I already knew that Tricia Helfer is an angel 😉😉

Here's a genuine little known fact. In the first episode of the mini-series, when Laura Roslin is in her office, a Firefly class spaceship flies past in the background. 😉

I just introduced my GF to this show 3 months ago. I had re-watched the whole thing at least twice since it aired and figured once more would be fun. She reluctantly agreed to give the miniseries a try, and by the time the fleet left the ammunition facility, she was addicted. We finished the entire series last week. It's SO dense in terms of moving parts and well-crafted characters that it feels like it moves at a thousand miles an hour. So many shows plod and creep along, but with BSG there's a major plot advancement every episode. I think that's part of why it is so compelling. As an aside, watching it knowing all the "secrets" with someone who has no idea what's about to happen next was a lot of fun. Seeing her reactions to the twists was a real treat.

Loved the original in my childhood. Love the remake as an adult

One of best sci fi series ever ,it was good from the begginng to end

The deepest meaning of the show, to me, lies in one phrase by Gaius, in the last episode : "things men do for love" While the show basic premise is that humanity got wiped out because of a sin (gaius wanting to get laid), it reveals Gaius actually acted out of love. The show then, becomes not about destruction based on sin, but rebirth based on love.

Still one of the best shows with characters I still miss two decades later.

The best sci-fi show! The script, actors, sound, special effects, music creat a perfect show ever!!

One of the greatest Sci-fi shows i've ever watched, rewatch it all at least once a year. The gender swap for Starbuck was brilliant & felt natural unlike many these days.

Can't believe that no-one has mentioned the mind-blowing, hypnotic theme music. Genius.

Just a classic. The show was an emotional roller coaster. I felt nervous and fear because you couldn’t predict what was going to happen. I wanted Starbuck and Apollo to get together, was upset that they didn’t, then they do get together but now Apollo was cheating and I felt bad for Dualla because she really loved him. The show was really gritty and dealt with real human situations and their consequences. Just an amazing show.

Regardless of genre, the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica was one of the best television shows of all time.

Edward James Olmos was one of the best actors/roles in the new BSG. his relationship with saul was a trainwreck to watch. sooooo many awesome scenes between them 2. sackov was top notch too

I first watched this show when I was 15, I watched it with my dad. I'm watching it for the second time at 27 with me wife. What an amazing show. I was a boy the first time, now I'm a man; I feel so differently about the difficult decisions made in the show now. My wife absolutely loves the show. It really is perfect.

The crew of the Galactica...the OG ancient aliens!

"Ronald D. Moore called them messengers instead." Maybe few people know this, but the Hebrew word that is translated as Angel actually means Messenger and does not necessarily refer to a supernatural being.

I think of BSG as a very long movie. One of the best ever made for TV.

There was a short lived prequel to the show called Caprica.

I am glad that Crashdown gets a mention. She was one of my favorite side/small time characters. All the pilots that get more than a passive mention and some screen time were cool.

One of the best series I've ever seen.

This version of BSG was the greatest retellings of a Sci-fi show I've ever seen. I really loved how everything got fleshed out and gritty tone of the show.

Back in 2008 I ended up in the hospital, due to having a gall stone get lodged. Ended up having my gall bladder removed. The week before I ended up in there, season 3 had released on DVD. The week leading up to season 4 starting they played the entire series on Scifi channel. I would drift in and out of consciousness and have the show playing in the room. My mom spent most of the days in the room watching the series. I saw the first episode of season four in the hospital room and I was so happy to see it. I said to my mom, I can't wait to see the next season. She replied, I can see why it was a great show. Got to rewatch the entire series again. Always liked to stop the series around that one episode and then watch the movie Razor, which took place between two of the episodes in season 3. Last time I watched them, I started with Caprica and went on from there. I just wish there was more movies set in that Universe.

That show, has left a hole in me that still hurts when the wind blows. 😢

Teilhard de Chardin's concept of an Omega Point civilization in the future that achieves transcendence of space and time and then reaches back in the past to make sure the events that created it happen. A version of this idea is reflected in the movie Interstellar.

Galactic a was such an awesome show. I would love to see another show in the same universe. I loved the battle scenes in this.

That Edward J Olmos quote was epic! He is awesomw!

Yes, I remember learning the reality of who Baltar's invisible friend. She told Baltar outright in the 3rd Season, and it is confirmed near the end of the Series, when both invisible personages appear before Baltar & #6

The reimagined BSG is best docu-drama ever!

Alright, time for a re-watch. 🧐

I enjoy Star Wars, I'm nostalgic about Star Trek, I really Really liked The Expanse, Movies like the Aliens Series are also amazing... but I absolutely LOVE the Re-imagined BSG! The slew of memorable gritty characters and the story with its intricacies was incredible.

Beats, Bears, Battlestart Galactica

Best show on TV, just so engrossing and deep and questions questions questions - amazingly written

unbelievable, but true: both then and now, the series remains extremely unusual and original, without attempts to be copied. I adore him!

I feel like a lot of the people involved in the whole GINO campaign were going off of their faded memories of the original series, rather than the actual content of the original series. Sure, by today's standards, the show seems pretty light, but for its time, it was dealing with some dark themes that definitely carried over into the new series. A couple of years ago I binged the original series immediately followed by the new series, and it was both shocking and impressive how many ideas Ron Moore carried over, from different models of Cylons, the class warfare within the fleet, "angels," politics vs religion -- it's all there in the original series.

Well done, Sean. Great list. I was addicted to the show, and had no idea about any of this.

According to Edward James Olmos , Gaff from Blade Runner is a descendant of William Adama. The Blade Runner influence is heavy throughout. Even one of the pilots sidearms is based after Rick Deckard’s police pistol. Olmos also went on to say that BSG ended where Blade Runner began. My favorite sci fi show ever. “ All this has happened before. All this will happen again.”

This show is so amazing on so many levels. It dealt with many current social and military issues, without being woke, or feeling like they were cramming a narrative down your throat. When you approach issues with actual underlying truth, it resonates.

Ragnar is just a common male name here in the Nordic countries. It doesn't necessarily refer to Ragnarok.

THE best remake of a show. The new Battlestar Galactica it rang more true than the first. In the original, the colonists were gallavanting and happily skipping about, from one adventure to the next, no worries, no stress. In the remake the colonists were like "Holy Crap!!, We gotta go, We Gotta Go Now!!. Being hunted , as opposed to being looked for.

Excellent analysis. I love this show, just rewatched entire series again for the 3rd time. I thought that when it came out in the aftermath of 9/11 and the US 'war on terror' there was a lot of commentary in the show related to all that entailed. Also thought the cast was stellar. The relationship between Adama and Rosland was incredibly well done and extremely touching. But all were excellent. I think one of best series ever made, regardless of genre. However, I tried to watch the original versions of BSG, and just found unwatchable.

Battledstar Galactica - Hands down the best show(not only Sci-Fi) I've ever seen. No contest really.

In addition to the mention of Norse and Roman gods the theme song of the series is sung in Hindi.

This is, by far, the best SciFi show ever. I wish they would have made one more season. I bet the actors would have signed on and there were plenty of story lines and plots still available.

A friend talked me into watching this last year and after a couple of episodes I felt silly for sleeping on it for so long. Interesting characters played by a brilliant cast, guided by really good writing.

So... if you are a fan you knew most of these already and hardly anything in here was mind blowing... but it's nice to revisit BSG after all this time :)

Of all of this, I classify Edward James Olmos destroying the valuable ship model in an unscripted move, the juiciest tidbit in there :)

One of the first sort of ‘grown up’ series i watched at 14. Most others i knew were watching lost, i watched battle star galactica

This show was going to have a much darker ending but was cut for budget reasons. The 6 original ideas are mentioned in the commentary on the last 2 episode on the Blue Ray set.

The BEST series ever.

So say we all...apart from Trek, this is the second best ever series on the small screen, it's a shame they placed it with a hard end to series although I can see, it had really nowhere to go but love love loved this show, defo a dark series, felt real, just wasn't enough of it

Great timing on this video We just finished the series 2 days before this video!

I loved this BSG series.. sooo gooood.

This mythology needs to be revisited in a huge way, not in Earth's present or future, but in its past. The set up is perfect, in that the survivors of the 12 Colonies and survivors of the Cylon Civil War unite to settle a prehistoric Earth populated by primitive humans. They've already laid the groundwork for this with the the various real life _human_ religions we know about. More importantly, they could meld the lore and _miracles_ of these real life religions with the knowledge and abilities of these human/Cylon colonists who surely would become god-like to the primitive humans already populating Earth... Sure, it will probably piss of the faithful of current religions as things, such as Moses parting the Red Sea, are given some kind of technological explanation, but for the vast majority of people not offended by such things, it would serve as a deep exploration of Earth's theologies and their lore.

Battlestar Galactica was an exceptional drama with amazing writing, acting, directing and production value, and it was fantastic allegory for what was happening in the real world at the time (and still is happening). It was one of the best shows ever to air on television. It just happened to be science fiction.

You should have mentioned Caprica - the mini-series also

This is the absolutely BEST TV series EVER made.

Many have a favorite movie they re-watch frequently. I have _Battlestar Galactica_ . Every few years, I return to The Fleet.

The best bit about this show is that someone unironicaly said 'OK Boomer'.

Ragnar was a Norse PERSON and not to be confused with the end of days referred to in this video.

One of the best sci-fi shows I have EVER seen

Brilliant series. I like that they used a lot of the origional fleet ships from the first show.

This was one of the best shows I have ever seen.

I didn't see, at a glance, if anyone mentioned it but you forgot an awesome hidden fact: Serenity, from Firefly, can be seen landing during the mini series when Roslin is being told she has cancer. Its cameo was an inside joke between 2 digital artist that both worked on Firefly & BSG.

the messengers are basically the beings of light. this series has a lot more in common with the original series than most would care to admit

in the mini series, the captian of Coloial Heavy 1701, says, strike that, this is Colonial 1, massive homage to trek!

i'm rewatching from the start now on bluray; it's better even that I remember

"Messengers" (angels) is a direct nod to TOS "Beings of Light" (angels), a brilliant way to tie in some of the lore of TOS.

I remember the back and forth with Ron on the forums at Skiffy at the time, unusual times. He was more than happy to bounce words with you no problem.

True fans already knew most if not all of these facts -- but your summary is excellent, I have to say. Very nicely put together. Thank you

Thank you for the analysis.

Great video. I like your mature tone in this one, What Culture. Growing up, nice.

Well done, some stuff I didn’t know about my favourite series.

Question : did the CGI Team also worked on Firefly? Coz there is a small apearence of the Serenity in the pilot

Awesome. One of the best shows ever.

Firefly was in the mini series when Roslin is in the Docs office.

What an amazing show that was. What a gift.

Fact #11, The Serenity from the show Firefly is shown through the window in the doctor's office where Laura Roslin is learning about her cancer before the cyclone destroy everything.

I met Edward James Almos he was a really nice person. We talked for fifteen minutes and he wrote me a note. And I still have it to this day. It says: "Welcome aboard battle star Galactica Commander Adama." That's before his admiral rank change.

That was great! Thanks.

What I know for certain is I never get tired of this show. I can watch it over and over and it’s never boring to me. Also Tricia Helfer may be the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

Some of the best telly ever made

The only time I was really disappointed by the show was also one of the many times I was absolutely blown away by the show...Pegasus' final charge. I get that the show was Battlestar *Galactica*, but the way they destroyed Pegasus was an insult to the characters' intelligence who commanded them.

If you watched the original, you knew Starbuck would return in the reboot.

brilliant loved that series:):)

loved the show big time i binged it all in very short time with very little sleep. love the ending bigggg time. one of my all time fav show. watched it once more at later time. not as great when you know whats going to happen but still great watch second time. you should also watch caprica if you have not. great series showing time line prior to bsg. the events that lead to cylons.

Hello from Amsterdam the BSG is timeless,,,, Thank you for sharing This Great footage..much love from the netherlands

Excellent Sean

Well done!

Loved that show!

The best thing to come out of covid lockdown for me in the UK was the BBC showed the entire of BSG from the start, at about 2 episodes per week, plus Razor, with no inter season gaps, in HD with 5.1 surround sound. It was way better than watching the first run on low rent Sci Fi channel with poor picture quality and sound in the UK.

I used to love this show. My wife loves Moore because he made "Outlander", which i can't get into. Having said that, she can't get into BSG. That's how you know Moore is good at what he does.

Wow very nice thank you

Moore’s quote about the Cylon Homeworld was from years earlier, which obviously changed because the Colony was referred to as their Homeworld on screen. The Colony is their “homeworld.” I quote it because it’s a fake Homeworld, we all know they’re from Caprica, I mean Earth, I mean Kobal.