> The sense of dread when watching battlestar galactica
No other kino has been able to replicate this for me. I don't know if I just grew old but this was a truly good series
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> The sense of dread when watching battlestar galactica
it really is top scifi kino. especially the first episodes that thrust you into the world
even the cyclon CGI holds up OK
The first season, or mini series, whatever it was, definitely had that sense of dread. It was a fun watch.
It got a little silly as time went on.
>guess who the cyclon is this week
>for 4 seasons
Been thinking about starting this series. Which one do I watch first, the 1978 series?
Mini series 2003 then go to Season 1 2004
1978 is considered a failed tv show by the people who made new bsg
THey changed things in bsg drastically to address what they considered made the original shitty, and they succeed tremenduously making one of the best tv shows ever by far
>1978 is considered a failed tv show by the people who made new bsg
And they were wrong.
> they succeed tremenduously making one of the best tv shows ever by far
You wish. The "modern" BSG is some of the most pretentious shit ever made. It was made by and for manbabies who want their space fantasy to be serious.
skip 1978 then go back to it maybe if you like Bonanza in space
The shows have nothing to do with each other aside from the name and general concept. 1978 is campy sci-fi, 2004 version is hard sci-fi drama. 1978 was essentially a network trying to capitalize on the success of star wars.
This scene is a core memory for me. I was on the edge of gaming chair.
is that when they fight against each other with the last 2 remaining capital ships? I dont remember the reason
Yes, it was very much a “turn your key sir” type of moment, or something akin to Crimson Tide.
The lead up to that moment is what made it great. Everything at stake and humans are still willing to kill each other because they believe in something. The Cylons detested humans for that very reason, our unwillingness to see the bigger picture.
i think because they had developed a new government under the assumption of being the only survivors and then the higher rank captain of the new ship insisted on military law
>Keep getting found by cylons
>Awake for days trying to find transponder
>Mfw it's the fricking smoke alarm glued to the DRADIS
BSG is great, but nothing close to threads
Watch threads - it is the supreme champion of dread feeling, surpasses anything ever made
pro tip: if you watch it, you'll never recover from it. You'll never be the same person again
For me peak tv dread was Season 3 of Deadwood waiting for the town to erupt in civil war and be destroyed by George Hearst.
I have never seen dead wood, but there is nothing I have seen yet in my entire life that I would say even remotely comes within a foot of Threads
Unlikely that Id think deadwood was that dreadful, but now im curious to watch. But a civil war? Sucks, but you can hide, fight back
Nuclear war, there is no fighting it, no running from it. It just erases civilization at the push of a button
Deadwood is kino of the highest order, probably GOAT of all GOAT television shows.
Civil war also isn't the best term; Hearst really was basically all-powerful and everyone tried to exist in his shadow.
do you mean this one? Sounds kino. will watch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
yes that. It will change your outlook in life
It is great. I liked watching Threads, Miracle Mile, and Red Dawn in one drunk weekend.
Just started rewatching this weekend and I'm already through 15 episodes. This show is unmatched in quality
the finale permanently ruined it for me and I've never re-watched it fully since. honestly it feels like it's been over a decade since I've ever bothered to try and re-watch the show.
at one time I was completely obsessed with this show along with LOST though. LOST has held up to the test of time much stronger than this has though. I've re-watched it several times since it ended and the finale is no where near as bad as battlestars.
Just thinking of that stupid fricking ending with Baltar / Six walking through NYC pisses me off, RDM is a fricking hack.
battlestar galactica has one of the best tv endings of anything Ive ever seen
My gf who reads a lot of sci books thought so as well
i dont know why you midwits keep saying the ending was bad - the time twist that permeated the entire show for all seasons was fricking genius
Sci-fi nerds get really, really upset about deus ex machina.
In their defense, at that point in the show RDM was just making it up as he went along and kind of wrote himself into a corner.
That's not what upsets me at all. There's nothing wrong with the religious and god themes that are present throughout the entire series, and god in battlestar can be whatever you want it to be, the floating light space ship for example doesn't have to be a human god but advanced aliens guiding on the survivors.
But whatever, that's beside the point. The issue is everything in the show builds up how disunified the colonials are, how there are 13 colonies with their own cultures and religions and they clash with each other on these ships in the fleet, and yet this plot line is just kind of abandoned and forgotten when they get to Earth and there's no scenes showing anyone disagreeing with Lee Adama's moronic plan. They just land, find monkey men and say let's frick them and then ditch all our ships into the sun.
To me, the entire point of the show was to learn from history and not repeat it, to learn from the cylons, to learn not to make the same mistakes, and they ditch all of that by flying their ships into the sun.
By the way I was so butthurt over the finale I've still yet to watch "The Plan." I bought the battlestar blu-ray of it years ago and still won't watch it and probably never will.
I agree with you the ending was great. The last 2-3 episodes leading up to the finale were not great, but the ending itself was fine. People got bent out of shape at it at the time because the majority of people watching a fringe sci-fi show hated the concept of God, and the 'God did it' ending upset them. But the show as up front about God as a force in the universe since the first season episode when the humans blew up the Cylon fuel depository on whatever asteroid because Baltar pointed to a random dot on a map, and then was told that God led him to do that.
RDM, that you?
>Muh let's just send all our technology and ships into muh sun because reasons
>muh let's just frick these ape people
>muh let's give up all our medicine and civilization and all die off from disease in a few months
>muh everyone unanamously agrees on everything because reasons we will never explain
>RDM having no fricking clue what a mitochondrial eve is
I'm not angry about "le god did it" I'm angry about the poor writing and how conveniently everyone just agrees to make the most moronic decisions imaginable after everything they've been through. Yes, throw away all your history, your culture, your lessons learned from building Cylons in the first place so history is doomed to repeat itself. Have everyone die and frick a bunch of primitive ape people and lose everything you fought and died for to get there. I'm sure every single one of those 38,000 or whatever was left people that made it to Earth all would agree to live like baboons on an unknown planet and not try to hold onto anything, right? Lee Adama is now their leader because reasons and he doesn't want cities anymore so who is to object?
The only and I mean only good part of the finale was Roslin and Adama. Everything else was an unmitigated disaster.
I dont remember. What did god do anyway? The only supernatural thing from the finale i remember is starbuck alluded to being an angel and vanishing
Starbuck was an angel ever since the Maelstrom episode.
There's tons of stuff with Baltar and God / Six. All their visions in the opera house for example (another example of poor execution of a concept by RDM with the opera house being the Galactica)
All the stuff on Kobol as well. The temple they find that has a star map to Earth.
There's tons of religious overtones in the show, it's been so long since I re-watched so I probably forgot most of them by now.
the part of the ending I don't like is giving up their technology and separating.
the higher power side to it, was through the entire series, you see this on a rewatch which makes the ending and coda work.
shit I forgot about the part of the ending where they decide to split up and live in different places lol "no more cities" and tyrol going off to live on his own in scotland. fricking stupid bullshit, makes me seethe.
like I said, the worst part of it is how just suddenly every single person in the fleet agrees to lees moronic plan and no one objects to sending their homes they have lived in for the last several years into the sun with all their technology, all that's left of their lives on the colonies. You're telling me there weren't like a couple thousand people that would be like, frick no, we will just stay on the ships and make our own lives frick you.
I think there werent even many left? Didnt most of them die in the attack on cylon base?
there's still like 35k left by the time the show ends, the attack on the cylon base was just the galactica and people who volunteered to go on it so not even the full crew.
didnt realize there were 35k left when i watched it. I thought like 50 of them were left and everyone else died. lel
what else do you like
Pretty bad series that the ending is so bad that is shits the bad wholesale.
I don't even mean the god shit, just the protagonist becoming moronic and what they decide on is so fricking braindead it's not even possible to have written something that bad.
As well as the protagonist being a apparent piece of shit the entire time, man I just don't even want to talk about this shit, it's all moronic as frick
I will say how dead the series is now because of how bad they fricked up the ending, you can literally find the whole series on their reddit page in a dropbox link with every season and shit lmao
>Picked up this ludo to play with friends, 9/10 bg and is now worth several hundred dollars
>friends are a bunch of fricking normies and don’t want to go further than playing Terraforming Mars every week.
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The soundtrack was pure kino
been a while since i listened to this. maybe a decade
Agreed. I haven't re-watched the series in literally a decade, since it finished on tv yet I still listen to the soundtracks all the time.
season 2's soundtrack is just perfection.
Bear arguably has the best post BSG ending career. Constantly in demand.
Katee Sackhoff also.
>ywn pack into a raptor with a group of marines to make a multi-jump suicide mission across the known universe in the hopes of saving a small bit of humanity
there's never been a sci--fi show that really gripped my like battlestar did
it was the first show i bought on dvd just to rewatch anytime i wanted
I'M GETTING MY MEN
>the sense of dread as a kid when watching syfy go from a channel where you could watch a whole assortment of horror movies to a channel that only plays a generic Star Trek clone 24 hours a day.
Was gauis baltar the original literally me character
I watched this series for the first time in its entirety during the pandemic. Syfy made the series available for free. BSG had its ups and its (very low) downs. But overall I enjoyed the run. I'm not sure I'll ever watch the entire series again. BSG gets too infuriating and/or depressing at times. I hope they never remake it in my lifetime (I heard they were trying to remake it).