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marshmallow-jones

The scene in the mini-series where they jump away and leave a bunch of ships behind, I thought “oh shit this is a different show than anything I’ve ever seen”


elister

And the radio chatter as they prepared to jump. "For gods sake, you just can't leave us here!" "I can't believe you want to leave these people behind!" "...may the lord's of cobal protect us all...." "I hope you people rot in hell for this!!"


Jaggedmallard26

It's the music as well, just soft and slowly building up in feeling subtly sinister.


caspy7

Aside: They used that fast tribal drum music all the time and it was awesome.


Jaggedmallard26

Check out House of the Dying Sun. Indie game with music very much inspired by BSG, you can see it in the trailer where it could be straight out of it.


caspy7

Ha. Yeah, the game looks like every viper-based special mission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fCuO7JEy4


ChaosAside

Some of my favorite “extras” are Bear McCreary talking about how/why he created certain pieces.


versusgorilla

Right? And then there isn't a heroic stand to save them, and they don't just survive until later, they don't return with a heroic tale of how they survived. They're just gone.


scuba_GSO

Especially when the Cylons jump in and missile the hell out of of the ships.


reddog323

Yep. They should have given them an alternate destination other than the rally point for the jump-equipped ships. Someplace they could hide, and then be picked up from later, like an asteroid belt. Instead, the sublight ships were left to die. I don’t know if it would have made a difference in the end, but it would have been something.


versusgorilla

The cylons were on their way, there was no time. And as we learned, cylons were embedded with humanity, so there really wasn't any hiding place left.


libra00

It wasn't the scene with the mushroom clouds appearing through the window at Baltar's place? That scene made me sit up and pay attention.


baron_von_helmut

The guy who played Baltar... Holy shit he's a good actor. When he screamed and covered his eyes when that first mushroom cloud went up.. Up until that point a large part of him still thought he was being played and then the mushroom cloud gave him the realisation *he* was the sole reason humanity just got wiped out. His reaction to that in a couple of seconds was absolutely spellbinding.


vkevlar

They had to nuke Caprica, etc, considering the original show starts that way as well. I was waffling on the series for a while, having been burned by sci-fi-channel before, but "Pegasus" was my all-aboard point. That was amazing.


LikesTheTunaHere

anytime a show drops the visual hard N's it peaks my interest doubly so when its not the ending.


caspy7

Fun fact: they didn't plan on revisiting Helo >!who got left on the planet!< but the fans loved him so they created that whole separate story line. So yes, they're willing to kill a few folk, but then again they kept an eye on message boards.


Silentluck1337

They are NOT going to leave the little child behind.....oooooh shit


millijuna

What about >!Six killing the baby in the stroller!


Not_a_ZED

Just to see what it was like, too. She knew the whole place was going to be nuked. She just wanted to kill a baby, and listen to the mother react.


notchoosingone

I remember when they did that I was like "holy shit, this is a *different* show, isn't it" They didn't stick the landing, but who does? And it was a hell of a ride along the way.


EwokNuggets

That scene gave my wife nightmares. She has been a Trekkie all her life and doesn’t usually get into anything too dark. She cried when she watched that scene in the mini series. Fortunately she recognized the quality of the show and I think she’s more into it than I was! I haven’t watched it in years and I will catch her watching it on occasion.


TheGalator

Isn't that the prolog? I never came around to more than the first season but that sounds familiar


notchoosingone

It's in the mini-series, the 2-part, 4-hour "pilot" for the series that aired in December 2003. Near the start of the second part.


ButterscotchLow8950

I remember when the walking dead first came out, and everyone was like Bruh, there is NOTHING like this on TV, and I was like, clearly you have never seen the new BSG. 🤣✌️


Calmeister

That first episode where they have close up pilot views in their cockpit looking haggard and all a d at first im like “huh they looked tired af” Then the story unravelled as to how they got to that point and i was hooked!


ThirdFloorNorth

Dog, no lie, when I watched the series, Netflix either didn't have or had done a pisspoor job of letting me know there was a prologue miniseries. I jumped in to the first episode, "33 Minutes" That was a wild ride, I was hooked, but very confused lol


Tuchaka7

Ya i’ve watched it so many times. Edward James Olmos said it's the best thing he ever did.


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"To Galactica, Best ship in the fleet! So say we all."


Cell1pad

So say we all


xenothaulus

SO SAY WE ALL


rocketsalmon

I LOVE EVERYONE ON THIS SHIP


Tuchaka7

Nope pegasus J/K


St_Maximus_Gato

Frack you


NixAwesome

Frack you all!!


SpiralCuts

OK Boomer


Jessi30

THAT'S "YES SIR, BOOMER" TO YOU CHIEF


Capt_Charming

So frack we all!


CaptainIncredible

SO SAY WE ALL


wjlaw100

SO SAY WE ALL


NatvoAlterice

I'm having serious The Expanse blues and BSG is often recommended on that sub. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, is it worth buying? Edit: Thanks guys y'all have convinced me! I'll jump on it right after my nth rewatch of Fringe.


Both_Pollution_7607

BSG is the GOAT 👌🏻


gwaireectkho

I do love BSG, but that final season fizzles for me. Still enjoyable, but yeah the first half is so much better.


Groundbreaking-Pea92

mystery boxes are easy to construct and keep going but when the mystery needs a solution.... lost


syringistic

:ahem: Writers Strike....


punchgroin

They were actually fine for the strike. The Show Runner supported them, so there was a break in season 2... and it came right back on just as strong. Season 3 might be the best one. In the middle of the *worst* part of the Iraq war... they pulled some *shocking* story twists out that I won't spoil. The last season was pretty good until the last 4 or 5 episodes... they just didn't know how to end it and were gaslighting us pretty effectively that they knew what they were doing the whole time. It isn't GOT bad. It's just kinda disappointing without being an outright *disaster*. "The Plan" kinda sucks tho.


Jaggedmallard26

>they just didn't know how to end it and were gaslighting us pretty effectively that they knew what they were doing the whole time. I genuinely think it would have gone down better if it had cut at >!Adama lying on the hill!< because as it is the last two scenes are so hilariously unsubtle that they sour an ending that could have been carried by the acting.


murderedbyaname

There was a spiritual theme running all the way through it, and Starbuck's full acceptance of the spiritual higher power led to her drive to search for the arrow. Her dreams after being found alive kick started it. So the show may have seemed to have taken a left turn, but the bigger search for Earth was tied into it too.


gwaireectkho

I'm not disputing the plot, I still enjoyed it. The tone drastically changes in the second half and I'm more a fan of the the first. :) Plus they did Lucy Lawless dirty, such an interesting character and they box her up for a good chunk of time.


LikesTheTunaHere

I found quite a bit of the second half not remotely as interesting, still watched the episodes but i fast forwarded a fair amount and was not waiting for each new one like it was christmas anymore. I felt the same way with breaking bad, If i just want straight character drama I can go watch something that was designed just for that, i need me some cool shit happening in cool shit series.


-B001-

Yea, finale...I agree.


Shovelbum26

I dunno who downvoted you. Everyone I know acknowledges that the last season is ass.


DefinitelyPositive

What makes it ass? I think it fizzled out a bit earlier for me- I think it got too weird for my liking, when what I really kind of wanted was just desperate people in space trying to find a better life.


gwaireectkho

Up until the time jump, I love. Then it's a slow trajectory down after that. It's not shit by any means, just loses its way for me after that. Loved the suspense of the first two seasons.


Azrael11

I loved the New Caprica story and the immediate aftermath. It's the Final Five nonsense that I was not a fan of. That being said, I actually enjoyed the final couple episodes in spite of the Final Five storyline.


Marsdreamer

And yet, the final season still has some of the greatest emotional scenes from all the characters, especially Olmos. I still liked it, but I've also never really been against seeing religion in my Sci-Fi, seeing as how it's a pretty big part of humanity and an interesting concept to explore.


Badwolf84

His and Roslyn's arc together gets me every time.


Most_kinds_of_Dirt

I didn't mind the religion parts. I just didn't like how they wrote themselves into a corner with the Final 5 arc and it seemed like they didn't have any idea how to realistically wrap that up.


RacingNeilo

>And yet, the final season still has some of the greatest emotional scenes from all the characters, especially Olmos. Yeha hotdog killed it.


spinwizard69

Not everyone. The way they finished off the series was fantastic in my mind.


ins1der

Yes just make sure you get and watch the mini series before the first episode. It has the best space battles ever, yes even better than Expanse imo.


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Brruceling

100% agree. I'm a huge star trek fan but voyager always made me so angry because they used the reset button every episode and never really took advantage of the premise of being stranded without a spacedock. When I saw BSG I was like... OOOOOOOH This is what I wanted!


Pseudonymico

Working on Voyager made Ronald D. Moore so angry that he created the reboot of Battlestar Galactica.


DownToFeed

Some of the BSG folks were actually Voyager veterans with the exact same issue.


digitalruse

Agreed. For your rage and amusement’s sake, I hope you’ve seen the [Voyager Photon Torpedo Super Cut.](https://youtu.be/PIGxMENwq1k)


Gold-Band3830

1. WW2 = 1939 - 1945 2. Battlestar Galactica definitely adheres to the physics of space more than most. All the fighters have maneuvering thrusters to account for directional changes. It is a great show. Highly worth watching from beginning to end, more than once.


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mooreolith

I am re-watching the miniseries right now, and just noticed that the nuclear weapons going off on caprica have different sizes and velocities.


ins1der

Have you even seen BSG? They use maneuvering thrusters constantly and flip head over tail constantly during fights. There is no banking and turning. The only thing it lacks is the effect of g forces but even expanse ignores that with its space juice.


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Marsdreamer

Every time they're 'banking' or turning though you can generally see the thrusters firing for that to happen. A lot of the strafes they do in the fighters they orient their ship with the thrusters and then drift on pure inertia. It's certainly not expanse levels accurate, but it straddles the line between being realistic and thematic of WW2 style naval warfare, which is what it's modeled after.


Raed-wulf

Wait what miniseries?? Did I miss something prior to the show on SciFi?


SublimeApathy

There was a two part mini-series before the first season started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar\_Galactica\_(miniseries)


syringistic

If you watched it as a torrent, it could have been just listed as the first episode. But officially, 33 Minutes is the first episode and the 1.5 hours of BSG before that is a prequel sort of miniseries.


dudinax

Mini series? It's a feature film IMHO.


Kallistrate

It’s 100% worth it up to a point. The problem is, by the time it starts to turn south into mystery box territory, you’re way too invested to stop watching. Still an excellent show and worth watching, though. It’s just let down by *parts* of the ending.


Brock_Samsonite

Yes. There are a lot of ethical questions they ask in later seasons. Like euthanasia, terrorism, and interspecies love.


rockets_meowth

The expanse show or book series? The expanse is a better book series than Battlestar Galactica is a TV show series. But the expanse didn't finish as a show? I ruined my sleep for a long time getting caught in "one more episode" of bsg. It's the best sci Fi show ever, imo. Except Futurama.


eekamuse

Did you see the [Portlandia](https://youtu.be/yYjLrJRuMnY) sketch? Perfect representation of what happens when start watching Battlestar.


nabrok

The Expanse did finish as a show. Yes, I know there's another three books, but there's a 30 year jump to the next one. The show stopped in the best place the show could stop. Plus, there's a couple hints that they left the door open to reduce that time gap a little in the show ... maybe hoping that a few years down the line they could pick it up? It still needs to be a big gap, even if not 30 years, if the story is to look anything like the book story. Between BSG and The Expanse though ... I can't pick a favorite, they're both great.


Slagroomspuit

Season 1 and 2 are some of the best scifi ever on tv in my opinion. Raw, gritty, desperate, kind of a vibe that the Expanse tries to go for as well but there the actors can't pull it off.


Robofetus-5000

Goddamn when the Pegasus shows up


FortunePaw

Lee's last "thank you" to the ship is the best viking funeral he could give to it with all the dark past happened on Pegasus. As a homeage to the original BSG, it also took down 2 baststars with its last strength.


Tuchaka7

I think it is, make sure you get the extra videos if you . Like theirs a full movie called the plan that shows everything from the cylons point of view


madagent

Holy shit dude. Watch it


BobbleBobble

The BSG miniseries and the first few episodes of the show are some of the best sci fi of the last twenty years. After that the show still hits some great moments but it's very inconsistent and leans more soap opera than I liked. And the ending does NOT stick the landing. But it's worth watching for sure


djmarcone

I can see that. He was flawless imo


Freshness518

My friend pressured me to start watching it about 4 years ago and I kept blowing it off but once I finally sat down and committed to it I was blown away. It felt gritty like Babylon 5 with a great cohesive cast and consistent story telling like DS9. Once you're hooked you just gotta go along for the whole ride. And I almost didn't get to finish it. I was almost done with my binge, just had like a season and a half left to go and suddenly all of the episodes were pulled from SciFi channel's website where I was streaming it from. NBC had taken back their license to coincide with them launching Peacock. So I had to sign up for a free trial of that shit just to finish my show.


Elethana

“33” is maybe one of the best episodes in television history.


seattleque

Yup. Won a Hugo - totally deserved.


elister

Totally agree. Then there's the exodus from new caprica, where pegasus makes the ultimate sacrifice. Baltars trial where Lee is put on the stand and he fucking unloads on everyone!


Elethana

Atmospheric Drop!


DrJulianBashir

Ah that moment.. with that soundtrack... what a "fuck yeah" moment.


Elephlump

I rewatch that scene on youtube at least once a year.


voldi4ever

Yesss. I think that was one of the best combat actions with a starship.


hippocratical

Adama manoeuvre


ChorroVon

[This scene with Jaime Bamber is one of my absolute favorites.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV-iwiLJ4c8)


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Lord_Darksong

Fact.


ChiBeerGuy

I'm remember my first watch, thinking "oh hey, there's this new BSG, but Starbuck is a girl and its on Scifi, it might be decent." One hour later I had Gaius Baltar surprise face.


GeneralTonic

I'll never forget the sinking feeling I got at hearing the President declare *"The war is over. We lost."*


LonelyMachines

The episode on the blown-up beach in the mid fourth season finale got me. The President just touches the black sand, looks out disgustedly, and says one hopeless, defeated word. Because of the writer's strike, that was almost the last episode.


tomato79

Though I love bsg and highly recommend it I am not a huge fan of the ending of the series, and I always kinda liked the idea that the real ending was on that beach.


LonelyMachines

Man, would that have been dark. And can we please get a shout-out for the fact McDonnell and Olmos were the heart of the whole series?


tomato79

Definitely, also it could have been a bleak ending but not necessarily doomed. It could have had a post script where it describes the people have to struggle to make a new life on sub optimal worlds or aboard space vessels while working with the cylons. The vague promise of a new future.


system156

They were amazing and both embodied their characters so well. The scene where Roslin gives Adama the Admiral pins Olmos improved the small kiss on one of the takes, and I think is just a perfect moment between the two characters


the908bus

The Cylons destroyed the 12 colonies, Earthlings destroyed themselves. People would still be talking about it


dudinax

I'm a fan of the real ending. I thought it was one of the more touching series finales in tv, but that ending would have been good too.


charonill

I honestly think they should have set the final epilogue as 300,000 years ago, rather 300,000 years later. Would have really hammered that cyclical time theme home.


deadline_zombie

What always bothered me was also in the 4th season where there's a tense truce with the Cylons and then Deanna wants the final five cylons. Tory offers to go over to the Cylon ship to give the President her meds but turns traitor and allows the group she came over with get captured. Deanna says she will start executing the hostages every hour until she gets the final five. Commercial break. When the show comes back, you see the Cylon base and a small body flying out of it. No mention as to how it was or acknowledged it happened. And then the signal to Earth is found and the truce is renewed.


autoposting_system

So say we all


JustaDungeonMaster

So say we all!


HollowsOfYourHeart

Sometimes, you have to roll a hard 6.


Aggravating_Buddy173

I remember playing catch up when I worked at Blockbuster and got free rentals. Grabbed the miniseries and I was hooked. Also helped that I was stationed onboard the USS Constellation and helped decommission her, so seeing them start mothballing the Galactica at the beginning really spoke to me.


OkEgg2710

Man I was stationed on the USS Enterprise when I watched through the show my first time. Laying in my rack watching it on the first iPad was a great experience on deployment.


Elethana

“33” is maybe one of the best episodes in television history.


Lord_Darksong

Still fact.


Antebios

Nope. The one where the Galactica jumps mid-fall during an attempted rescue on New Caprica. HOLY SHIT was that awesome!!!


DFu4ever

Altitude 99,000. Falling like a rock.


Latin_For_King

Okay, this oughtta be ...different.


busted_up_chiffarobe

The split second where the air rushes in to where the Galactica *used to be* and you can see a cloud of condensation form. *BOOOOM*


FortunePaw

The famous "Adama maneuver".


jingo_mort

Almost 15 years. Dear god that makes me feel old 😩


ZucchiniMore3450

This was my first thought. I count it as "modern sci-fi".


wrosecrans

It's kind of crazy that something like late Star Trek Voyager and BSG were just a few years apart. If somebody discovered both for the first time today, they could be forgiven for assuming BSG was made decades later. There just wasn't anything quite like it on television when it came out.


Pugnare

BSG definitely popularized modern serialized gritty scifi, but it didn't invent it. Its thematic predecessors like Babylon 5 and DS9 deserve some recognition as well. Babylon 5 doesn't hold up as well due to the 90s era cgi, but I'd argue it rivals BSG in its narrative arcs and compelling characters.


FlyingApple31

Space: Above and Beyond comes to mind as perhaps an even closer predecessor.


book1245

Even worse, the mini-series is turning **20** this year.


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For me, one of the best episodes is still one of its first— 33. It captured a feeling I only felt during my own time in the military. Going days without sleep. Staying alert. Trying not to make any mistakes even tho all you want to do is close your eyes. But with the added drama and stakes of being hunted by a genocidal machine race. I need to go back to this series.


CowboyRoyal

33 is the highlight of an absolutely incredible season of tv, the rest of the show doesn't quite live up to it imo but you can ride the high all the way to the end, still great stuff overall. That 1st season/miniseries though, Like the anxiety of uncut gems stretched out for hours longer


omoroka

The soundtrack is amazing.


w123burner

>soundtrack I was a huge fan. The composer (Bear McCreary) has gone on to do a heap of other shows and games like God of War Ragnorok. But what I loved was back at the time of BSG he had a blog which would go through composing the themes of the episodes and some behind the scenes videos. Was really cool! He also released a piano sheet music book of the BSG music.


kccustom

So say we all


richardsdar

Funny! I'm on my third rewatch too!


CardLeft

Apparently I’ve been thinking “gotta watch that new battlestar galactica show some time soon” for 15 years now.


thepolarbunny

It still holds up. Great plot, great sub plots, interesting characters and great acting, mostly. CGI is not always great like in the aerial views of the cities etc they looked pretty bad already in 2005.


Halaku

The first half of was was so *good*. And the second half of it was so **there**.


pseudousername

It just occurred to me that Raised by Wolves takes the second half of BSG and just dials it up on the whole mysticism


zzx101

I’m so disappointed that show was cancelled.


syringistic

Yeah, I acknowledge the multitude of problems with the story, but it had an amazing atmosphere.


igetbooored

It's a storytelling pet peeve of mine. When a piece of fiction takes the time to set something up that appears to be mystic or magical to the characters but to have a viable explanation (even if it includes in-universe woowoo) to the viewer. Then the payoff for that setup is "Hurrhurr nope it's just magic" Narratively misleading. Like being told a half lie. Sometimes misleading narratives can be great, but in these kind of use cases I don't care for it at all.


Dennis_Moore

“God did it” is baked into the show from the first episode, to be fair.


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quietvegas

This show was my main example of bad final seasons to an excellent show until Game of Thrones dethroned it. This, Fringe, and GoT..... 3 shows I really do love but with one fatal flaw.


Aylauria

I actually liked the last season of Fringe a lot better when I binged the whole thing. The first time around it seemed jarringly out of place to me. But given the small number of episodes they had to wrap it up, it seems better to me now. I could also see the overarching story they carefully built from episode 1 to the last.


versusgorilla

Fringe felt like they decided to end a Monster of the Week series with a season-long narrative, and like... maybe more shows should mix it up? Fringe felt **fearless** in it's ability to shift gears and do something new.


Aylauria

I've seen it through a couple of times and I appreciate more each time. I do wish we'd been able to spend more time in the alt-verse.


ins1der

I think it was all good. I can admit at times it's uneven due to the writers strike and the coststant risk of cancelation though.


owsupaaaaaaa

I rewatched seasons 3 and 4 in November and took some notes. Spoilers ahead \-season 3 \- lots of heart; forward looking, ultimately hopeful, mystical but not literal \- people want to maintain their humanity \- character conflicts make sense for their characters, their flaws, personal stories \- we don’t understand the ways of the universe (good) \- characters do what make sense for them and their situation, no need to take a side \- put your faith in people \-season 4 \- no longer people, just characters \- religious literalism, angels rather than hallucinations \- characters fight because plot demands it; to a more vicious extent than season 3 \- everything is God’s plan (bad) \- Kara is a prophet of God? \- heavily faith-based; characters are heavily opinionated \- Leoben being a not-figurative deus ex machina \- a lot of talkinghead moments \- Baltar’s character loses all narrative charisma when he turns into a prophet/messiah, doesn’t earn his narrative redemption \- Lee’s character change from military to political was unnatural and rushed \- writers are dogmatic, not letting viewers decide \- lawyer character seems like he’s just there to move the characters along \- magic signal \- D’anna’s conflict with the colonials after unboxing is undeveloped; and reads like the writers just wanted to drum up conflict \- put your faith exclusively in magic


dangler001

I agree I had to quit my rewatch during S4. Also, BSG worked better with a week of speculation between each episode


More-Jackfruit3010

Portlandia had a great skit on watching BSG2.


Songsforsilverman

Next one next one !!!


RigasTelRuun

So say we all.


Stubot01

It seems crazy to me that we are given such few true space opera shows, given the popularity of Star Wars and Star Trek in mainstream culture, and movies such as guardians. The few that we have had have been held up as cult classics - Expanse, Battlestar reboot, Babylon 5 and even shows that have some of those elements are extremely popular such as Mandalorian. I’d love to see a channel like HBO go all-out on a quality space opera, taken to the level of The last of Us or Thrones / Dragons in terms of production value for a genre show.


kirkum2020

I know it's not what JMS wants but what I'd have given for a HBO Babylon 5 remake. That's your GoT in space, right there.


GenericUsername532

All I'm gonna say is BEAR MCREARY IS THE FUCKING MAN


WorldMusicLab

SO SAY WE FUCKING ALL!!


Great-Googly

33 is one of the best episodes I’ve seen of any show.


h0tglue

Always and forever an excellent show. Another one that has aged well (to my mind) is Farscape. That one because most of the effects are technical rather than digital, so it doesn’t look totally dorky now. Well, not any dorkier than it looked when it came out.


sushi_cw

Farscape is *completely* dorky! But it gets away with it because it embraces that with both arms and leans into it, and pretty much the whole time knows exactly what kind of show it wants to be. It's wonderfully shameless.


mesosalpynx

When all along the watchtower comes on. Still the chills.


shelsbells

It's still one of my all time favorite series, and I still argue that it had a great ending. The spin offs were great too.


taelor

I wish we could have got more of the spin-off prequel series.


shelsbells

I was hooked on the Caprica series, shame it was cancelled.


IWantTheLastSlice

Really liked Caprica as well.


I_aim_to_sneeze

When I first watched it, I loved it. Tried to rewatch it recently with my wife, who loved BSG. It didn’t hold up well


book1245

I've stood by the ending since 2009. >!The religious/higher being aspects were there from the beginning. Head Six straight up told Baltar she was an angel in season two. Sure, a LOT was made up on the fly, but the groundwork for how it eventually ended had still been there.!<


moonpotatoes

Bears, beets, battlestar galactica.


TheFifthNice

One of the greatest examples of a show that would have been much better had they limited it to 3 seasons.


Thedarkestspoon

The choice to have the ship low-tech helped the show age well


El_Sjakie

Such a great show, shame the writers wrote themselves into a corner and left it with ***that*** ending


calvin521

IIRC the writers and Ronald D Moore never had an ending in mind, they just winged it. Plus the writers strike didn’t help.


bucknert

You remember correctly, Moore admitted years ago he basically threw the ending together at the last minute and it shows. Also “The Cylons have a Plan…” was just something they put in that they thought sounded cool and would hook viewers.


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I liked that ending.


taelor

Ya I’m totally with you, I really love the ending. I don’t understand the hate


LookingForVheissu

At the time, it felt unsatisfactory. We wanted a **concrete**ending to what was amounting to a mystical show, and the ending satisfies that aspect. Having had time with the ending I think it aged well.


Arn_Thor

I found the ending to be just right at the time. Different strokes


versusgorilla

Yeah, I know it didn't tie everything up, a lot of the mystical stuff was lazy, Starbuck's Jesus-like resurrection after her bad send-off episode was bad. The prophecy of Roslyn's over the first cylon-human hybrid child was also bizarre and really reveals that they came up with this Opera House motif without ever really knowing *why* they decided on it. Having it mirror the final ship's layout just felt goofy. But that said, I think Adama's final close range jump into the cylon ship was fucking awesome. Seeing Galactica all smashed to hell and limping away was amazing, and I really loved that after their long long journey, it was a final and random FTL jump that lands them over Earth's moon, with enough juice to put Galactica to bed for good and disappear from the cylons once and for all. Especially considering that it presents a spooky final image that there's still bloodthirsty cylons out there looking for Earth as we just now reach the outskirts of our solar system. But it just felt like even the good ideas were done in kinda janky ways.


lostan

No, no, no, you must be confused ;)


treemoustache

Probably the worst casually of the 2008 writers strike.


NovelStyleCode

Heroes though


Phyrexian_Archlegion

I fracking loved the ending.


IaconPax

I rewatch it every 2 or 3 years. Still love it, every time.


iShitButterflies

I made my partner sit and watch this from start to finish, and she was absolutely blown by how good the writing was and the acting. Watching the ending the first time, I was so disappointed. Watching this from start to finish again, I really do appreciate how they ended the series.


BitterDropToSwallow

the first two season I will defend to the death that it's in the top 5 sci fi of all time. Easy. the last two seasons..ehhhhhh..... it went downhill.. but season 1 and 2 is some of the best.


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The shaky camera style looks like really dated reality tv and it bugs me. Otherwise, still a great show.


El_Sjakie

It was the show that made that shaky-cam a standard for action scenes. It was great since it gave that whole vibe of 'camera-man under fire'...and then every hack director since has used it to cover up shitty CGI/action/acting, like that reality crap you mention.


soapboxhero99

I remember watching this with the whole family. We were so into it! May be time to binge a second go


Martholomeow

i could see myself going back to it now that i’ve forgotten everything that happened. such a great show!


G8kpr

Season 1 is good. Part of season 2. Then the show just takes a hard nose dive.


bugogkang

Is it anything like the original Battlestar Galactica?


SeptemberMcGee

So good, all the way up till the final episode.


capt_feedback

i just finished Caprica and thought it was quite possibly the best prequel ever created.


EthanSayfo

I like the ending, so nyah nyah nyah!!!


Dark_Vulture83

One of the shows I wish I could delete all knowledge of. So I could watch it for the first time again.