haha that was great! Loved it.

Good to know how it ended. I had given up after the third season.

Niiiiiiice....

Stuff like this makes me glad I skipped on that fraking series.

Loved the switching to "debates in spaceships" mode... as it reminded me of all the times I tried to watch it and found myself feeling like dry heaving after 5 minutes of over-dramatic whining.

Elvis_Bogart: So why did they use the music from the 70's show i.e. the "bad one"?

You mean the Colonial Anthem? The one that plays when they are in their dress blues and having a unifying moment?

Elvis_Bogart: So why did they use the music from the 70's show i.e. the "bad one"?

The only original series music was the Colonial Anthem, which, to be fair, was also used in the re-imaged series. Everything else was pure Bear McCreary (and Bob Dylan, of course).

Two people that saved the show: Baltar and Bear McCreary.

What, no Galactica 1980? I am dissapoint.

This was funny, but I disagree with some of their points about the show.

I don't care what the haters say, I loved that show! I mean you had a show that while critiquing the War on Terror, asking philosophical questions about identity and the responsibilities we owe our creations, debating the idea of a "god"... it was a frakkin' show about Robots in Space! That's what made it super interesting!

Where else can you get a show that references Mario Savio's "throw your bodies on the gears" speech?
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This show kept me going after the disappointment of Lost began to settle in.

Not gonna lie...that was pretty awesome.
/Frak off, haters!

so is 8-bit gaming so old it's no longer retro?

Okay that rivals if not surpasses their Final Fantasy/Game of Thrones things from a few months back.

Mikey1969: Yeah, the happy-go-lucky Mormons In Space theme of the first series was SO much better than realistic plots that actually echoed the very military vs. Diplomacy debates that we were having at the time. Bring back more mindless, less dramatic television!!

o.O




_{/at least the original series was fun to watch, some drama, but they could lighten up at times}

16? That's twice as many bits as we needed for that type of game in my day!

Tralfamador: Two people that saved the show: Baltar and Bear McCreary.

IMHO, McCreary's music was what took the show from "really good TV series" to "a great fracking 45-minute movie every week".

/soundtrack geek

Gordon Bennett: What, no Galactica 1980? I am dissapoint.



Try MegaForce on the Atari 2600. It's got flying motorcycles and everything!

Lando Lincoln: The show was a lie. The cylons didn't have a plan. Mostly because the writers didn't have one.

True story: The "And they have a plan" line in the credits was put there by the network producers. Originally the escape of the Galactica was an unplanned development of the Cylon's genocide. The writers were then pressured to come up with something.

I don't understand people who biatch about that. That's what the art of storytelling for entertainment is and has been even before the written word - making shiat up on the fly,

Better than the original anyways, which was as boring as a Western and as campy as Star Trek.

/This Count Iblis guy, despite having the Islamic name for the Devil, sure seems like a nice guy
//Until his sudden but inevitable betrayal and reaping of souls!
///And Adama had psychic powers
////So yeah, as corny as the remake got at times it was better by far

One word:

Shakeycam.

Any time a show forces me to 'get' emotion by wiggling the camera around and racking the focus as punctuation - instant turnoff. It's autotune for actors.

The whole show was like watching MTV's Real Life in space, but with more banality.

tboucher: so is 8-bit gaming so old it's no longer retro?

No, but most people who put out retro-style games are irritatingly lazy about it. They draw a few blocky graphics and call it a day. The few who actually model the resolution and palette off a real 8-bit micro or console are the ones getting it right.

/pet peeve.

Mikey1969: Yeah, but I need some serious dark drama in at least one show. Right now, I have Sons of Anarchy and Game of Thrones, which are both on break. A few years ago, it was BSG. I get my fun shows from other sources. Any time I think I need the original BSG, I remember the 'flying motorcycles' they had when they finally made it to Earth, and then I remember that the 70's were, how shall I put it?, 'special'.... ;-)

Well.. the "Galactica 80" was just a sad attempt to give some sort of "ending" to the series. So the flying bikes (and super powers) shouldn't be associated with the original series.

It's like the Airwolf season that used a new team and only had old footage to work around....

Stuff like that, most of the main actors from the original series go and run away... as most would probably prefer putting a shotgun in their mouths than be forced to be part of these type of "sequels".

Other example: Team Knight Rider

I hate it when a series gets cancelled without resolution, but as one of my favourite quotes from a movie: "sometimes, dead is better"....

BEER_ME_in_CT: Battlestar Galactica- 3 part movie = good; the part where Galactica dropped into the atmoshpere and jumped out = awesome.

every other part = SUCKED. big waste of time.


I enjoyed the effects, and open to the new approach to the story, but even with the 3-part pilot... I was finding that they were really pushing for over-drama, over-complicated crap....

Once it started (the series), I tried watching it... first thing I notices was the lack of action, effects, etc... reminded me of those old Saturday morning low-budget shows but with everyone having a chip on their shoulders, and a terrible, just terrible story... if I wanted to watch such things, I'd watch Jerry Springer or soap operas..

At least Jerry has boobies sometimes.

That made me care even less about that crap series.

//was a big fan of the show in the 80's.

I like Baltar adding +1 to hair gel. Made me LOL.

BSG was probably the best SciFi of the last 10 years

/haters gonna hate

I can't fap to that version of Battlestar.

Lando Lincoln: MusicMakeMyHeadPound: True story: The "And they have a plan" line in the credits was put there by the network producers. Originally the escape of the Galactica was an unplanned development of the Cylon's genocide. The writers were then pressured to come up with something.

I don't understand people who biatch about that. That's what the art of storytelling for entertainment is and has been even before the written word - making shiat up on the fly,

Well, even if the producers threw them that curve ball, the writers could have come up with some sort of ultimate plan for the Cylons from day one. "Impregnate a human with cylon DNA, make a new human / cylon hybrid, and then use that human / cylon hybrid to gain information on how to infuse humans with cylon replicating technology, so that humans and cylons would be indistinguishable from each other, effectively ending the divide between the two species." See? How hard is that? They were going that way with the whole baby thing, and then...that side plot just fizzled out.

Better than the original anyways, which was as boring as a Western and as campy as Star Trek.

Comparing a show from the late 70's to a modern day show isn't really fair. They were doing a hell of a lot of drugs back then.

I will have to say that watching the standalone episode "The Plan" did kill BSG for me when all the plan was Cavil being a little whiny biatch.

Mawson of the Antarctic:
I will have to say that watching the standalone episode "The Plan" did kill BSG for me when all the plan was Cavil being a little whiny biatch.

Honestly, I enjoyed that part.
IMO, seeing that Cavil (and the rest of the Cylons, really) had all the same flaws as the humans that they claimed to be so much superior to was deeply satisfying. And you have to admit, even though the "plan" wasn't as grandiose as the show originally led us to believe (it was really just nuke humans until they are dead, profit), Cavil was pretty good at pulling backup plans out of his ass and keeping the wool pulled over the eyes of the other Cylons.

myery: Mawson of the Antarctic:
I will have to say that watching the standalone episode "The Plan" did kill BSG for me when all the plan was Cavil being a little whiny biatch.

Honestly, I enjoyed that part.
IMO, seeing that Cavil (and the rest of the Cylons, really) had all the same flaws as the humans that they claimed to be so much superior to was deeply satisfying. And you have to admit, even though the "plan" wasn't as grandiose as the show originally led us to believe (it was really just nuke humans until they are dead, profit), Cavil was pretty good at pulling backup plans out of his ass and keeping the wool pulled over the eyes of the other Cylons.

True. Cavil's speech about the limitations of his bodily form is one of the best I've heard. And you can't go wrong with Dean Stockwell, anyway. When he shot himself after Resurrection was moot, that was so perfect and made so much sense. Fitting illustration of Frak This.

But, as "The Plan" was revealed behind all the other scenes in the show, it just kinda cheapened the show for me a little bit. Kind of like seeing that the Emperor has no clothes on.

Lack of hot Racetrack.

That was probably the best thing College Humor has produced... ever? Or the only funny thing it's ever produced?

Lando Lincoln: The show was a lie. The cylons didn't have a plan. Mostly because the writers didn't have one.


If you watch The Plan, you'd realise what was meant by "plan" was not what you think it was.

Well that was more compelling than the campy '80s Galactica or the emo naughties Galatica.

TyrantII: BSG was probably the best SciFi of the last 10 years

/haters gonna hate

No, it wasn't.

Why would someone who obviously disliked the show bother to watch all of it and then make this video about it?

Haters, go airlock yourselves.

Bungles: If you watch The Plan, you'd realise what was meant by "plan" was not what you think it was.

Ugh. No. The Plan is awful. Don't recommend people watch that, man!

Ok, don't watch The Plan.

The "they" in "and they have a plan" isn't referring to the Cylons, but the agents of the divine. "God's plan", as often referred to by Head Six.

People who freaked out about the excellent monotheistic vs polytheism stuff obviously aren't going to like that.

Bungles: Ok, don't watch The Plan.

The "they" in "and they have a plan" isn't referring to the Cylons, but the agents of the divine. "God's plan", as often referred to by Head Six.

People who freaked out about the excellent monotheistic vs polytheism stuff obviously aren't going to like that.

Funny thing is... the original series (plus the books) have a very definitive link to Egypt and the Egyptian legends and gods (look at their helmets for the easiest examples)...

But this remake goes with the Christian God approach... pretty sad.

imfallen_angel: Bungles: Ok, don't watch The Plan.

The "they" in "and they have a plan" isn't referring to the Cylons, but the agents of the divine. "God's plan", as often referred to by Head Six.

People who freaked out about the excellent monotheistic vs polytheism stuff obviously aren't going to like that.

Funny thing is... the original series (plus the books) have a very definitive link to Egypt and the Egyptian legends and gods (look at their helmets for the easiest examples)...

But this remake goes with the Christian God approach... pretty sad.



It's not really Christian, more the early pre-Abrahamic religions rising during early Greek/Roman polytheism.

Bungles: Ok, don't watch The Plan.

The "they" in "and they have a plan" isn't referring to the Cylons, but the agents of the divine. "God's plan", as often referred to by Head Six.

People who freaked out about the excellent monotheistic vs polytheism stuff obviously aren't going to like that.

Eh.

"The cylons were created by man
They rebelled
They evolved
There are many copies
And they have a plan"

The plan only referenced to the mini series, really. THAT was the plan. The whole first half of that scroll didn't even happen in this series, but was talking about previous events up to "they evolved". "The plan" showed us that the original plan was Cavils, and it was a little more ambiguous than "kill all humans". Cavils sin's and his flaws are explored, and his pettiness towards humans and the Five alike.

As for people freaking out about the metaphysical stuff, it's quaint. They were on board for 3.5 seasons about a show that treated bodily resurrection and beaming consciousness across a few light years as normal day occurrences. Nope, no "god" can be in a world where sentient toasters regularly preform acts of Jesus.

If anything, it's easier to believe in that world in Starbuck. Head Baltar and Six still rub me, because something knew something about the past and future; but wouldn't or couldn't get involved besides being a guide.

Also, they stopped the "the plan" scroll in season 3. Which is right about New Caprica, where Cavil was outvoted and the cylons went with occupation.