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Battlestar Galactica (2003) Retrospective/Review - Battlestar Galactica Retrospective, Part 2

Rowan J Coleman

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In the late 1970s, the epic space opera Battlestar Galactica debuted to strong ratings and box office success. However it was largely dismissed at the time as a shallow Star Wars ripoff and was cancelled after a single season. However a cult fan base continued to celebrate the series and over the years they wishes for a continuation. Battlestar Galactica would eventually return in 2003, but not in the form anyone expected.

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00:00 Squarespace Ad
01:06 Intro
02:09 Origins
06:14 Development
08:21 Casting
14:38 Production
16:56 Fan Backlash
19:12 The Mini-Series
29:45 Season 1
32:01 The Hand of God
33:54 Adama and Roslin
37:25 Kobol's Last Gleaming
39:29 Season 2
43:25 Pegasus/Resurrection Ship
47:27 Weaker Episodes
47:50 Downloaded/Lay Down Your Burdens
50:45 New Caprica
55:28 Season 3
57:25 The Son Also Rises/Crossroads
1:02:54 Season 4
1:06:12 Daybreak
1:10:43 Conclusion
1:12:31 Outro

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@Johnny_Cameron 3 years ago

Tigh's "Not all of them" and Baltar's "I know about farming.." lines are delivered so perfectly.

@Gengh13 3 years ago

Hiring Edward James Olmos was one of the best casting decisions ever made.

@christheghostwriter 3 years ago

Edward James Olmos demonstrating how he would faint on camera if he saw a "four eyed" alien was hilarious

@5ubgenius 11 months ago

“There's a reason you separate the military from the police, one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves to protect the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemy of the state becomes the people.”

This hits hard in 2025.

@Kujakuseki01 3 years ago

Apollo’s speech on the witness stand is probably my favorite scene of the entire series. It’s so sobering and we’ll written.

@kildogery 3 years ago

It's ironic that this version of BSG ended up more mystical than the original.

@RafaelSantos-pi8py 3 years ago

To this day, that scene where starbuck starts playing the piano with the help of her father and "All along the watchtower" kicks in does not fail to raise the hairs on the back of my neck. The soundtrack was amazing.

@kathyastrom1315 3 years ago

Felix Gaeta’s character arc over the series’ run is one of my two favorite in all of the tv series I’ve watched in full. (My other favorite is in the Buffyverse.) They took a sweet, naïve young officer and utterly broke him over four seasons, and did so in a completely believable way. Alessandro Juliani was terrific in the part.

@rebeccawinter472 1 year ago (edited)

So say we all! Almost a quarter century later and this is still one of the best shows ever made. Not just one of the best sci-fi shows. Even the “filler” episodes help flesh out the broader life in the fleet, and help with world building. It’s so solid, from start to finish. I’ve watched it too many times. 😂

@RapidCityJM 3 years ago

The finale - Bill and Laura especially - never fails to make me weep like a child.

@ghost-in-the-ciel 3 years ago

I think James Callis might be the best actor on the planet and he doesn't get enough credit. The range of humanity that he perfectly played as Baltar is unmatched, from hysterical scenes like "I am not your plaything!" to gutwrenching ones like "I am not a murderer!". Fucking bravo dude

@craig.a.glesner 3 years ago

Can’t lie, I was sold hard when Col. Tigh lays the truth on Chief “There’s no rookies after today.”, and the vents the damaged compartments as you do in battling ship fires in space combat.

@AlwayzFresh 3 years ago (edited)

It was 2006 and I was leaving in 3 days for my first tour in Afghanistan. I wandered through the DVD section in Walmart desperately looking for a multi season sci fi series. Battlestar Galactica both intrigued me and made me laugh at the name.

By the end of the tour My family was sending me the remaining seasons in the mail.

Me and a few troops would get back from patrolling the streets of Kandahar and gather around a tiny potable DVD player in my bunk to watch a new episode. On my leave home, midway through the tour, I had a few shirts made that said "your mom's a Cylon" on the back. The boys loved them lol. Great memories in trying times.

@dhaucoin 3 years ago

I was at a small SF con in Massachusetts, with Richard Hatch as one of the Big Guests, just as Season 1 of the reboot was gathering interest.
I was wandering around, and bumped into Apollo himself. We chatted a few moments, and I'd told him I just couldn't pull the trigger on the new show. I'd heard of his fight for Second Coming, and the reboot seemed..... well, 'wrong'.
He sympathised, and agreed, to a point. But he explained that the reboot was as much a labor of love as his sequel. He'd just been cast as Zarek, and he really sold me on the new show.
I mean, hell. When Captain Apollo Adama tells you it's not only okay to like the show, but actively campaigns for it..... well, fuck yeah, you're gonna give it a shot.
Never looked back, man.

@HoldandModify 3 years ago

Of all those shows I worked on at Zoic. BSG was the most special and fun. Firefly was endearing and a bit “closer to home” for us as we cut our teeth on it, essentially. BSG mini and then the series was just an amazing experience. Thanks for this series sir!

@lolza-qh2xw 2 years ago

I think this is one of the few shows where the cast were all casted perfectly for the characters, I'm aware that Olmos did ask for some lines to be changed for the character that he thought fit better and I like to believe that a lot of this was the same for most characters. My personal favourite character is Saul Tigh, as someone that suffered for a long time with alcoholism he plays the horrible attitude you can have when you're not drinking so well it made me uncomfortable at first because it's something I felt once, he isn't just played as a drunk idiot, but a functional alcoholic.