It's a giant flying brick. Granted it can launch fighters, raptors for troop deployment, scouting, or support fire, and engage in ship-to-ship combat. When all other functions are no longer available, you are still a flying brick. Bricks are perfect for breaking shit.
Still quite curious why that thing was firing all guns as soon as it came out of FTL? After all, they had element of surprise and all. (Yeah Yeah they removed ordinance, but they had to have left some ammo in the ship. That just wouldn't make any sense) Should have blasted a hole in the colony and parked the whole ship in there.
Colonial: I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Toaster. Centurion: What about side by side with a friend? Colonial: Aye, I could do that.
one thing i always liked about the finale is how when lee has a few rogue centurions with him, he treats them the same way he does his marines - it's a very small but clever touch
I know right? hey were going to ram the ship with our ship. It's going to be a huge hit.. Ok mm lets just keep standing instead of bracing ourselves while the ship slams into the other one.
Very true and I'm just asking because I wasn't sure she wasn't the strongest because they found out that when she was built they took shortcuts and cut corners.
I'm pretty sure she's the strongest just because she lasted as long as she did, and fought as hard as she did, all while having cut corners in construction.
@@krullachief669 let's not forget she was stripped of most of her armor plating when they were decommissioning her to become a museum. So she is pretty tough.
Couldn't stop laughing. This turned up in my recommendations. Because the title is long, it read as follows: BSG The Final Battle: Ramming the Colon.....
@@jzenhenko Obviously none of you followed the series, and just decided making gay jokes was better than the actual show. Go back to watching intelligent television like "Love Island" please.
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That's mainly the balancing of the game. It would be quite unfair to the cylons if the Jupiter class Battlestars could take the amount of punishment they can in the lore.
I've seen this episode 4 or 5 times, but I never noticed until watching it just now, that before they attacked the colony, the crew had to have moved all of the raptors from the functioning launch/landing bay of the ship to the non-functional "museum wing" of the ship, and then had them FTL out of it despite the damage it would do to the ship, because it was more important to get their birds in the air as quickly as possible. And it echos the tactics used in the episode Exodus to launch the vipers as the ship is "at 100km and falling like a rock" before using a short jump to make it back into orbit.
@@peterz1647 How else would they get out in useful numbers under all that PD fire? They made a point of showing us both the larger guns on the colony, and smaller caliber, rapid firing quad-mounted guns. Assuming those were for taking out nukes and planes. It'd be suicide to launch normally under all that, not to mention the likelihood of just smashing into the colony itself after clearing the tube. Everyone knew it was Galactica's last fight, hell they were starting to strip the ship down and abandon it before Adama decided to do this shit. Might as well act accordingly and do all kinds of surprising, unconventional stuff
0:48 If that shared smirk between Tigh and Adama doesn't speak volumes about their relationship, I don't know what does. One of my favorite throwaway moments from the finale.
When you consider the facts that the Galactica was already considerably weakened structurally, combined with the fact that the base's guns were lighting it up like Christmas Eve in Bellingrath, the "manual docking" stunt the admiral pulled to launch the landing incursion, *and* it had a wing of raptors jumping directly out its single flight pod still functional, you come to the conclusion that it was practically a miracle that rust bucket held together at all during the battle, as if there was some unseen hand guiding them to victory.
Taking that much beating and still managing a Jump? I know she was already limping, but damn she took it all. Makes Pegasus look weak. Galactica would have won that battle.
Here’s to Galactica, the finest ship in all of Sci-Fi. A good ship, with a glorious history. Going out win a bang to save her crew and her people. Gods bless, Galactica.
After all this time I just now noticed that when the Raptors jumped out of the museum/hangar deck, they blew a hole in the side while they were at it. Definitely a one time only kind of tactic.
diogenesbear they asserted that they would need the raptors deployed as fast as possible. As such, they moved them into the museum, and made them use their Jump drive there. This was done so the ship would suffer the least damage from the jumps.
The best part are those early seconds where you really start to think that it's the end, and the endless weapons fire from the station is going to blast Galactica into dust.
This battle, the battle for the fuel on the asteroid, the pilot series at the end, Starbuck flying the Raider for the first time, the battle towards the end of Season 3 and beginning of Season 4, the battle of New Caprica, and (by far my favorite scene that had the most intense setup to a potential battle) the squaring off of the Pegasus and Galactica halfway through Season 2 at the end of episode 10. Those are the top favorites for the majority of the fans.
not really they didn't even shoot back. They went through the mess before the jump about being close range and guns only, bla bla bla and then jumped in, and didn't fire a shot as the enemy ship just blasted the heck out of them.
My most favourite thing about this scene was that it was all for a child. It didn't matter who she was or where she came from she was taken and the all bound together to being her home.
She was the shape of things to come. They didn't know what that meant, and would have gone to save her regardless, but Hera is our Mitochondrial Eve, the most recent common ancestor that every single human alive on Earth can trace their mitochondrial DNA to. We are all descendants of the Human/Cylon Hybrid. All of this has happened before and it will happen again.
You can see in the last episode, that almost nothing of the outer hull/armor remained. Its interior skeleton was barely holding on too. But the fact that she survived shows that Cain was insane when she thought Pegasus could take on Galactica one-on-one and win. Starbuck saved the entire crew of Pegasus from being battered to hell.
I know he won't be saving 15% or more on his insurance by switching to Geico. Kinda like the scene on the James Bond Movie: Tomorrow Never Dies when Q tells Bond about the Insurance Damage Waiver for his beautiful new car.
What I like are the superb acting skills of everyone. I am not ashamed to say I keep to myself in my older years at 51. I do have friends, but if I need too, escape, I can always submerge myself in the professional skills of these people who made it seem so real. I thank you. Scott
Eddie's portrayal of an excellent combat leader was so good, I took a lot of lessons from Adama and applied them to my time as a Marine rifle platoon leader.
There was a build by the show's writers leading to this endgame all or nothing battle. So I was totally expecting a climactic assault on the cylons. But when the admiral gave the command to jump and materialized a few football fields away from the command ship of the enemy I was on the edge of my seat. Galactica though small in comparison to the cylon ships had built up the persona of invincibility that made them their ultimate adversary. This episode by far gives the underdog story a new height when facing the enemy.
They just don't make em like they used too. Pegasus could dish out a LOT of pain but Galactica...she can take more pain than anything in that show could dish out. Even when falling apart and on her last leg. As rob said, she cant be conquered. Took our own sun to finally finish the job. lol
As Halo4Lyf said beware of old men in a profession where they tend to die young. Old men knows the ropes, knows the risk, and everything the enemy throws at them they likely had done the same thing in the past. Old men are willing to gamble on a life or death risk due to the fact they know they will die sooner or later and rather go out fighting. The Fact the Battlestar in the series is a old veteren herself of the cylon war means your even more royally screwed as her old captain practically knows how much she can take
@@TomOostenrijk Your comment wasn't necessary to the subject and I doubt that would always be the case. The issue is that socially humanity has taken a dive cause there are too many extremist on all sides causing problems
when they appear next to the colony after jumping, that scene was the first time a show has ever made me exclaim "oh shit" out loud. BEST freaking finale ever!
Well the thing is. Technically it is possible to hear explosion sounds in space. Explosion in space means particles exploding from a certain point at high speed. Those particles hitting the hull of a for example a viper would definitely cause some sound to be heard.
This whole scene was so ridiculously awesome and badass. It should be noted I grew up watching Babylon 5, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, a bit of DS9 and Voyager), and Star Wars, and this dwarfs those in terms of sheer awesome.
Actually, the Mercury class was better in every respect. The CNP backdoor was their only downfall, but besides that they had much bigger guns and more of them, twice as many flight decks, more main engines, viper production facilities, and more tonnage overall. Had the Colonials been given a fair chance, they'd have fought to a bloody stalemate at least.
Joseph Stassup From what we can see in the series, a Battlestar is better than a Cylon Baseship in almost every way. If it wasn't for that scumbag Gaius Baltar and his CNP, than the Colonial Fleet would have likely smashed the first Cylon attack force. They may have become overwhelmed later, and possibly have lost a few of the less important colonies, but i have no doubt that they would have been able to save Caprica.
mowtow90 yeah although the galactica Class ship where designed to be harder to hack in the first war and could also handle heavy attacks fully armored as if you would have seen in the movie blood and chrome the fully armored galactica during the first war. The mercury class like the Pegasus was sucpectable to hacking due to it's reliance to HI-TECH pretty much the ship wasn't analog. The reason why the Peggy survived in the first place was when they surprised attack the Scorpio ship yards the Peggy was offline
TheSilverwolf1001 hence if they Cylon's had came to a prepared fleet and gaius baltair didn't give them the colonial codes they Cylon's would have been destroyed by the flagship atlantia which was stationed at earth and was very new and was bigger than battlestar class
I like this series not only because it is the best show ever made, but because it as realistic as you can get it (its scifi, come on). If this were star trek, especially star trek voyager, adama would say "oh, it looks like we got hit by a few nukes, had our armor taken off, and rammed a space station. someone fix it." then in a few days, the ship would look brand new.
Never realized this before but it looks like the Cylons are supposed to be using some kind of EM cannons (coilguns maybe, I don't see rails) here. At least that's what it looks like the VFX artists were trying to tell us. The Colonials were directly said earlier to still be using gunpowder or some other chemical propellant in their guns, so that's interesting if it was the intention
One of my friends in space D&D just pullee this to kill a station and it's jump inhibitor field, allowing a fleet of reinforcements we desperately needed to jump in.
A lesser Battlestar would've long given out , broken under the strain. But Galactica, Galactica kept on going. It wasn't the constant battles, the constant jumping, the long journey, or even her final battle that broke her. She could bend but would not break, not until her solemn duty was finally done, she didn't break until she got her crew, her passengers, her family to Earth. She weathered it all, from the surprise attacks on the 12 colonies, to the infamous "Adama maneuver" over New Caprica, even then she didn't bend. She didn't break when she rammed the colony.(coincidentally, it broke before she did) She carried on as the last of the Battlestars outlasting her descendants, The Pegasus, Mercury, and Atlanta to name a few. What finally broker her back, wasn't that final battle in the colony. No, it was her final jump, seeing her people to safety at Earth that finally broke her. Nay i daresay it didn't break her, I say she had completed her solemn duty and realized it was her time to rest. She got the funeral she deserved where she led her fleet, the fleet of survivors she had shepherded as her flock, into the sun on her last mission. As Admiral William Adama and Sual Tigh said in the end. "To Galactica, the finest ship in the fleet."
I always thought it was interesting that the Cylons point defense was so weak compared to Galactica. But the Cylon fleet was designed with one per purpose in mind - wiping out the Colonies. They never conceived that they should have to fight against individual Battlestars. I guess that was their weakness - failure of imagination.
This is great; but the best moment is 1 min. later, after the ramming, when human troops together with rebel cylon robots, storm inside the base. Whoa! Go! Go,
And kudos to the directors and the writers and Mr. Moore. God I sound like an Academy award nominee. But really, thanks guys because when I am feeling along , I can always plug this in.
"Sorry, did you mention the rules??? Tell me the truth if you think you know it, lay down the law if your feeling brave, but Daleks, NEVER EVER tell me THE RULES!!!"
I wonder why the Modern Basestars didn't have these Quad KEWs and Missile Turrets... Would be excellent against Fighters and Capital Ships in close range engagements...
After seeing Galactica slug it out here and seeing what she looked like in BSG: Blood and Chrome, (shivers)...I'll bring the popcorn to watch that fight!
Before the jump the Admiral gives a big speech about how he wants the gun captains to do their jobs and begin firing immediately and to keep firing until they run out of ammo and then to start throwing rocks. Yet when Galactica actually jumps in we never see her guns fire one single shot at the colony. They just sit there doing nothing until after Galactica rams the colony, the dorsal guns could have been taking out some of the colony weapons while the forward guns soften up the armour before they ram the colony.
@ Simeon Jankovic- Yes, that is very true. I think it withstood several nuclear hits to its hull in addition to long periods of hard space time without dry dock repairs and several prolonged and intense battles with Basestars. I'd stay you are quite correct in calling the Galactica a "...one tough fucking brick."
Cameron Baker I know! Besides the armor plating being stripped prior to the Cylon attack, the Galactica had its 8 other salvo guns on her top dismantled and hauled away. Let's also not forget the right flight pod was never used in the entire series until the Assault on the Colony. It housed the Raptor boarding party and they jumped inside the still somewhat intact right flight pod museum.
Fodxp hatesgoogle haha was intact until they jumped and blew the whole side out the frakking thing. I love the look of Galactica with the missing armour plates, visibly damaged ribs and the scorch marks she acquired over the course of the show you get such a good impression that she's an old dependable workhorse that will never let you down. Also you guys left out her jumping inside the atmosphere of new caprica something even when she was brand new she wasn't designed to do and was what excelerated the collapse of her structural beams and the eventual broken back she suffered in the last episode
john crate Not to mention the nukes she took throughout the years without the armoring. Remember, she was being stripped down to be turned into a museum. Really gotta give the old girl credit.
I love the auto cannon at 1:30 shoots then waits a second to cool off before firing again realistic maybe not for space of course but u gotta have a way to dissipate heat or u gonna blow up 🤣😁
I thought I noticed the large cannon recoil PRIOR TO firing, which is a mistake, plus: you don't need tracers when you're a machine-sentient, self-aware autocannon who's doing it all based on radar returns and math, not by eye.
I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GREAT THIS SHOW IS. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE. EAZY TOP FIVE SHOWS EVER MADE. O' MET EDWARDS JAMES ALMOS. A HELL OF A NICE GUY AND I MET KATIE SACKOFF VERY NICE AND CUTE IN PERSON. LUCKY ME. SO SAY WE ALL!
I love that there is no shielding with fake numbers for suspension, just a huge ass ship with thick plating taking a beating like a trooper.
It's a giant flying brick. Granted it can launch fighters, raptors for troop deployment, scouting, or support fire, and engage in ship-to-ship combat. When all other functions are no longer available, you are still a flying brick. Bricks are perfect for breaking shit.
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For a brick, she flew pretty good.
Still quite curious why that thing was firing all guns as soon as it came out of FTL? After all, they had element of surprise and all.
(Yeah Yeah they removed ordinance, but they had to have left some ammo in the ship. That just wouldn't make any sense)
Should have blasted a hole in the colony and parked the whole ship in there.
Ships are designed to withstand a tremendous head on collision.
Colonial: I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Toaster.
Centurion: What about side by side with a friend?
Colonial: Aye, I could do that.
Gimli reference with legolis lord of the rings
@@Groundbreaker300ironically. This was also somewhat done in an original Battlestar Galactica episode. I think it was called the return of Starbuck.
one thing i always liked about the finale is how when lee has a few rogue centurions with him, he treats them the same way he does his marines - it's a very small but clever touch
"All hands brace for impact!"
Medic: "Ok I guess I'll grab onto this wheeled table for support"
Roflmao
Helluva time for those inertial dampers to crap out.
That was Doctor Trump.
I know right? hey were going to ram the ship with our ship. It's going to be a huge hit.. Ok mm lets just keep standing instead of bracing ourselves while the ship slams into the other one.
@@VCYT DOCTOR WHO?????????????????????????????
Whether it be the Galactica, the Enterprise-E, or Space Battleship Yamato, it's spectacular to watch a great ship ram the bad guys.
Qapla!
UHgu_fBlSjk?t=1m44s sometimes the bad guys get good rams too.
You must have found Deep Space 9 at least entertaining, with all the ramming that was done in combat during the series.
Steven Cohen you should watch Clone Wars, or SG-A
steven cohen
It's also spectacular to watch a great ship ram the good guys the Eclipse.
galactica wasn't the strongest ship,or the fastest, but she had a soul
Very true and I'm just asking because I wasn't sure she wasn't the strongest because they found out that when she was built they took shortcuts and cut corners.
And a hell of crew.
I'm pretty sure she's the strongest just because she lasted as long as she did, and fought as hard as she did, all while having cut corners in construction.
@@krullachief669 let's not forget she was stripped of most of her armor plating when they were decommissioning her to become a museum. So she is pretty tough.
She’s definitely the strongest, Pegasus exploded on contact with a basestar. Galactica survived everything of both Cylon wars, plus this collision.
Couldn't stop laughing. This turned up in my recommendations. Because the title is long, it read as follows:
BSG The Final Battle: Ramming the Colon.....
Commanding Judge, Dredd i got the exact same thing in my recomended
You must have thought UA-cam was recommending gay porn.
ACTION STATIONS! WE'RE GOING IN DRY
@@jzenhenko Obviously none of you followed the series, and just decided making gay jokes was better than the actual show. Go back to watching intelligent television like "Love Island" please.
Flank speed, full a ahead (or behind I guess....)
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When playing BSG: Deadlock, I can't shake the feeling that my jupiter's can't take a fraction of the punishment Galactica endures in the series.
That's mainly the balancing of the game. It would be quite unfair to the cylons if the Jupiter class Battlestars could take the amount of punishment they can in the lore.
I've seen this episode 4 or 5 times, but I never noticed until watching it just now, that before they attacked the colony, the crew had to have moved all of the raptors from the functioning launch/landing bay of the ship to the non-functional "museum wing" of the ship, and then had them FTL out of it despite the damage it would do to the ship, because it was more important to get their birds in the air as quickly as possible. And it echos the tactics used in the episode Exodus to launch the vipers as the ship is "at 100km and falling like a rock" before using a short jump to make it back into orbit.
cammameil no those Raptors were always there just non functional until parts were added I think
Both old and new were used. I looked it up thinking the same thing about using old raptors. It came to a mix of both of you guys’ ideas
Wait they had to FTL out?
@@peterz1647 How else would they get out in useful numbers under all that PD fire? They made a point of showing us both the larger guns on the colony, and smaller caliber, rapid firing quad-mounted guns. Assuming those were for taking out nukes and planes. It'd be suicide to launch normally under all that, not to mention the likelihood of just smashing into the colony itself after clearing the tube. Everyone knew it was Galactica's last fight, hell they were starting to strip the ship down and abandon it before Adama decided to do this shit. Might as well act accordingly and do all kinds of surprising, unconventional stuff
I can see how much inspiration Mass Effect 2's Suicide Mission drew from this scene!
0:48 If that shared smirk between Tigh and Adama doesn't speak volumes about their relationship, I don't know what does. One of my favorite throwaway moments from the finale.
Two guys who have seen it all, from different perspectives, and who both know what has to be done.
So damn fantastic. Damn I love the scenes of preparation for the last attack.
Those two were brothers in arms.
Holy crap that shot of the raiders and vipers dogfighting under Galacticas flak barrier is gorgeous! Bsg is the best tv show ever
When you consider the facts that the Galactica was already considerably weakened structurally, combined with the fact that the base's guns were lighting it up like Christmas Eve in Bellingrath, the "manual docking" stunt the admiral pulled to launch the landing incursion, *and* it had a wing of raptors jumping directly out its single flight pod still functional, you come to the conclusion that it was practically a miracle that rust bucket held together at all during the battle, as if there was some unseen hand guiding them to victory.
Taking that much beating and still managing a Jump? I know she was already limping, but damn she took it all. Makes Pegasus look weak. Galactica would have won that battle.
That was the starboard pod, the one that had been decommissioned.
Galactica was built like a Toyota Hylux. She wasn't ever going down easy.
Quote from Spacedock: "...held together by sheer middle-finger energy..."
10 years later and I still get an ASMR response from the entire scene.
Here’s to Galactica, the finest ship in all of Sci-Fi. A good ship, with a glorious history. Going out win a bang to save her crew and her people. Gods bless, Galactica.
so say we all
So say we all!
though the enterprise is a beauty, and a fine ship, no vessel served better, and fought harder than she, the bucket, the galactica
After all this time I just now noticed that when the Raptors jumped out of the museum/hangar deck, they blew a hole in the side while they were at it. Definitely a one time only kind of tactic.
Well the attack was all or nothing and all for everything.
diogenesbear they asserted that they would need the raptors deployed as fast as possible. As such, they moved them into the museum, and made them use their Jump drive there. This was done so the ship would suffer the least damage from the jumps.
The best part are those early seconds where you really start to think that it's the end, and the endless weapons fire from the station is going to blast Galactica into dust.
Best. Series. Ever.
Brindle Chase absolutely 👍🏻
Indeed.
So say we all
So say we all
This is the most epic of battle sequences in the BSG history.
This battle, the battle for the fuel on the asteroid, the pilot series at the end, Starbuck flying the Raider for the first time, the battle towards the end of Season 3 and beginning of Season 4, the battle of New Caprica, and (by far my favorite scene that had the most intense setup to a potential battle) the squaring off of the Pegasus and Galactica halfway through Season 2 at the end of episode 10. Those are the top favorites for the majority of the fans.
not really they didn't even shoot back. They went through the mess before the jump about being close range and guns only, bla bla bla and then jumped in, and didn't fire a shot as the enemy ship just blasted the heck out of them.
Toughest damn starship in all of Sci-Fi.
Ever heard of the Vengeful Spirit?
@ZonTheDon Or Gullimens ship?
@@voin5371or better yet the conqueror under lotara sarrin
My most favourite thing about this scene was that it was all for a child. It didn't matter who she was or where she came from she was taken and the all bound together to being her home.
She was the shape of things to come. They didn't know what that meant, and would have gone to save her regardless, but Hera is our Mitochondrial Eve, the most recent common ancestor that every single human alive on Earth can trace their mitochondrial DNA to. We are all descendants of the Human/Cylon Hybrid.
All of this has happened before and it will happen again.
This was truly one of the best sci-fi series ever written from start to finish!!!
So say we all!
1:12 That really is one heavily armored brick to maintain hull integrity after all that. Typical scifi ships are like tissue paper compared.
I feel like with all the damage she took throughout the series, she definitely had a layer of plot armor on for the final battle ;)
You can see in the last episode, that almost nothing of the outer hull/armor remained. Its interior skeleton was barely holding on too.
But the fact that she survived shows that Cain was insane when she thought Pegasus could take on Galactica one-on-one and win.
Starbuck saved the entire crew of Pegasus from being battered to hell.
his insurance is gonna go through the roof now
LMAO.
Accident forgiveness from Allstate are you in good hands?
lol :)
The insurance is only one of many things now going through the roof.
I know he won't be saving 15% or more on his insurance by switching to Geico. Kinda like the scene on the James Bond Movie: Tomorrow Never Dies when Q tells Bond about the Insurance Damage Waiver for his beautiful new car.
PERHAPS TO TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE! PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!!!!
Yes, commander Worf!!!!!
"Hold my ambrosia, puny Klingon"
Admiral Adama
4:05 Always gets me.
DRADUS: it's a s***show out there
Hotdog: Here them come!
LET'S TAKE EM!
Epic music:
If I ever get a ship I'm gonna have a tub installed on the bridge and command from my bath.
underrated comment lol
this is the one video of this battle in HD on youtube. you sir are incredible.
the nucas i completley agree with this statment. uploading clips should be fine. but episodes should not be. ideally they both would (for me atleast)
What I like are the superb acting skills of everyone. I am not ashamed to say I keep to myself in my older years at 51. I do have friends, but if I need too, escape, I can always submerge myself in the professional skills of these people who made it seem so real. I thank you. Scott
Eddie's portrayal of an excellent combat leader was so good, I took a lot of lessons from Adama and applied them to my time as a Marine rifle platoon leader.
Sometimes you gotta roll the hard 6...
No... You use a d20.
@@thejohnhopkinscompany9599 From watching the scene, I feel like he did use d20 . "You roll a d20 6 and go through with it - visualized"
There was a build by the show's writers leading to this endgame all or nothing battle. So I was totally expecting a climactic assault on the cylons. But when the admiral gave the command to jump and materialized a few football fields away from the command ship of the enemy I was on the edge of my seat. Galactica though small in comparison to the cylon ships had built up the persona of invincibility that made them their ultimate adversary. This episode by far gives the underdog story a new height when facing the enemy.
Galactica: battered, burnt, falling apart, yet she can never be conquered!
They just don't make em like they used too. Pegasus could dish out a LOT of pain but Galactica...she can take more pain than anything in that show could dish out. Even when falling apart and on her last leg. As rob said, she cant be conquered. Took our own sun to finally finish the job. lol
and thats with like 3/4 of her armor being gone.. imagined if they didn't strip most of the armor when they were turning it into a museum
And this is why Battlestar Galactica is awesome.
When the Five and the Cylons built this place they really fortified it against any possibility of aggression from the Twelve Colonies.
I love how they have just two cranky old men in charge of a battlestar.
Beware old men in a profession where they tend to die young.
As Halo4Lyf said beware of old men in a profession where they tend to die young. Old men knows the ropes, knows the risk, and everything the enemy throws at them they likely had done the same thing in the past. Old men are willing to gamble on a life or death risk due to the fact they know they will die sooner or later and rather go out fighting. The Fact the Battlestar in the series is a old veteren herself of the cylon war means your even more royally screwed as her old captain practically knows how much she can take
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent This, as your comment was years ago. Nowadays it will be 2 trans peoplepersons in a relationship running a loveboat
@@TomOostenrijk Your comment wasn't necessary to the subject and I doubt that would always be the case. The issue is that socially humanity has taken a dive cause there are too many extremist on all sides causing problems
@@Halo4Lyf yehbwel it's two 9ld Ken whom kniwbthre going to die innthe end if they dint succeed
What a hospitable environment to build a colony in.
Their Cylons, and they can live in inhospitable environments
Ok, it's time to re-watch this masterpiece.
when they appear next to the colony after jumping, that scene was the first time a show has ever made me exclaim "oh shit" out loud. BEST freaking finale ever!
My god this show was amazing!!! I need to rewatch it again
I like how they have sound in the space shots, but it's muffled.
Well the thing is. Technically it is possible to hear explosion sounds in space. Explosion in space means particles exploding from a certain point at high speed. Those particles hitting the hull of a for example a viper would definitely cause some sound to be heard.
but only inside the viper because for sound to travel it needs air
Freya Valentine A lot of the battles camerawork is tries to look like an actual camera being in space, like drone.
Picard did the same thing when he rammed the Enterprise. My the look on Shinzon was priceless.
See, that's what happens when you let old people drive.
***** He probably didn't even have his blinker on, either!
Not on this ship, certainly. He doesn't even have a brake light! Disgraceful.
***** See - you get it! But there's always gotta be "That Guy" LOL!
except gailin tyrel was at the helm..kind of ironic they let a cylon fly galactica on her last mission
Probably weren't wearing his seatbelts either!
THIS WAS EPIC THE FIRST TIME AROUND, thanks for making this video cap
Still after all this time I get chills watching this
Admiral Adama doesn't fuck around.
This whole scene was so ridiculously awesome and badass. It should be noted I grew up watching Babylon 5, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, a bit of DS9 and Voyager), and Star Wars, and this dwarfs those in terms of sheer awesome.
If the Colonial Admiralty could see Galactica now, I bet they would regret decommissioning the Galactica Type Battlestar Series
Actually, the Mercury class was better in every respect. The CNP backdoor was their only downfall, but besides that they had much bigger guns and more of them, twice as many flight decks, more main engines, viper production facilities, and more tonnage overall. Had the Colonials been given a fair chance, they'd have fought to a bloody stalemate at least.
wll1500 It'd be worse than Stalingrad.
Joseph Stassup From what we can see in the series, a Battlestar is better than a Cylon Baseship in almost every way. If it wasn't for that scumbag Gaius Baltar and his CNP, than the Colonial Fleet would have likely smashed the first Cylon attack force. They may have become overwhelmed later, and possibly have lost a few of the less important colonies, but i have no doubt that they would have been able to save Caprica.
mowtow90 yeah although the galactica Class ship where designed to be harder to hack in the first war and could also handle heavy attacks fully armored as if you would have seen in the movie blood and chrome the fully armored galactica during the first war. The mercury class like the Pegasus was sucpectable to hacking due to it's reliance to HI-TECH pretty much the ship wasn't analog. The reason why the Peggy survived in the first place was when they surprised attack the Scorpio ship yards the Peggy was offline
TheSilverwolf1001 hence if they Cylon's had came to a prepared fleet and gaius baltair didn't give them the colonial codes they Cylon's would have been destroyed by the flagship atlantia which was stationed at earth and was very new and was bigger than battlestar class
Saul "knows" they are going on a one way trip to hell
And he just smiles, be as bad ass as Saul.......
I like this series not only because it is the best show ever made, but because it as realistic as you can get it (its scifi, come on). If this were star trek, especially star trek voyager, adama would say "oh, it looks like we got hit by a few nukes, had our armor taken off, and rammed a space station. someone fix it." then in a few days, the ship would look brand new.
I agree, BSG is the show that Voyager should have been but the reset button kept being pressed at the end of every episode
Marc Sharp yeah but voyager had replicators they could make as much new parts as they wanted
So did the Equinox and that's the road the show should have gone down
"Realistic"? Man they got sound in space!
B20C0 Would you prefer that it be a silent TV show? :P
Still the best TV Show. Damn I miss this.
The Last Great Battle In Space.....150,000 Years Ago,...On The Long Road...To EARTH.
Galactica is the one John Wick of all space ships. She is all about focus, commitment and sheer will.
Never realized this before but it looks like the Cylons are supposed to be using some kind of EM cannons (coilguns maybe, I don't see rails) here. At least that's what it looks like the VFX artists were trying to tell us. The Colonials were directly said earlier to still be using gunpowder or some other chemical propellant in their guns, so that's interesting if it was the intention
One of my friends in space D&D just pullee this to kill a station and it's jump inhibitor field, allowing a fleet of reinforcements we desperately needed to jump in.
I love that speech at the beginning!!! The only one on the show that matches it is the one before the Battle of New Caprica.
The look on Saul's face before the jump is priceless.
Love when people fall from things and hit the deck with energy...
3:10 Batterred, scarred, burned, falling apart at the seams....but she was never conquered!
Those damn Battlestars were awesome..
Nothing ever compares to the raw epic of Battlestar Galactica.
A lesser Battlestar would've long given out , broken under the strain. But Galactica, Galactica kept on going. It wasn't the constant battles, the constant jumping, the long journey, or even her final battle that broke her. She could bend but would not break, not until her solemn duty was finally done, she didn't break until she got her crew, her passengers, her family to Earth. She weathered it all, from the surprise attacks on the 12 colonies, to the infamous "Adama maneuver" over New Caprica, even then she didn't bend. She didn't break when she rammed the colony.(coincidentally, it broke before she did) She carried on as the last of the Battlestars outlasting her descendants, The Pegasus, Mercury, and Atlanta to name a few. What finally broker her back, wasn't that final battle in the colony. No, it was her final jump, seeing her people to safety at Earth that finally broke her. Nay i daresay it didn't break her, I say she had completed her solemn duty and realized it was her time to rest. She got the funeral she deserved where she led her fleet, the fleet of survivors she had shepherded as her flock, into the sun on her last mission.
As Admiral William Adama and Sual Tigh said in the end.
"To Galactica, the finest ship in the fleet."
Damn tough ship, the Enterprise would have had a warp core breach within the first salvo
I always thought it was interesting that the Cylons point defense was so weak compared to Galactica. But the Cylon fleet was designed with one per purpose in mind - wiping out the Colonies. They never conceived that they should have to fight against individual Battlestars. I guess that was their weakness - failure of imagination.
When Adama said all ahead flank speed, my first thought when I watched this was: “Holy crap he’s gonna ram the ship!”
THIS was so great, and sad at the same time
I forgot how amazing this mini series was
You can almost hear that old ship screaming at the Colony, "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT??" Truly one of the greatest hero ships in sci-fi.
she was fraking good ship damn
The Galactica is a f.. bad ass ship
This is great; but the best moment is 1 min. later, after the ramming, when human troops together with rebel cylon robots, storm inside the base. Whoa! Go! Go,
And kudos to the directors and the writers and Mr. Moore. God I sound like an Academy award nominee. But really, thanks guys because when I am feeling along , I can always plug this in.
Every time I see that ramming I go "KNOCK KNOCK MOTHERFUCKERS!!!" No joke, I've done that ever since I saw this on the premier night.
+WarGrowlmon18
Rule of obiedience number 14: No jokes!
"Sorry, did you mention the rules??? Tell me the truth if you think you know it, lay down the law if your feeling brave, but Daleks, NEVER EVER tell me THE RULES!!!"
WarGrowlmon18 Rules of acquisition number 34: War is good for business.
"I don't understand that reference."
WarGrowlmon18
'maybe you need to watch star trek'.
BSG İs such a show ! my favorite character is gaius baltar and starbucks..i'll never forget them
Galactica was the ultimate Battlestar...she rode the tide and survived.
1:15 Those turrets gotta be retired Centurions with the crazyass way they're spraying fire.
They went all out for this last season it was a hell of a ride
Damn I love the build up before the battle
beyond awesome show!
Best Series ..... EVER !!!
I wonder why the Modern Basestars didn't have these Quad KEWs and Missile Turrets... Would be excellent against Fighters and Capital Ships in close range engagements...
After seeing Galactica slug it out here and seeing what she looked like in BSG: Blood and Chrome, (shivers)...I'll bring the popcorn to watch that fight!
Awesome and heartbreaking at the same time
Before the jump the Admiral gives a big speech about how he wants the gun captains to do their jobs and begin firing immediately and to keep firing until they run out of ammo and then to start throwing rocks. Yet when Galactica actually jumps in we never see her guns fire one single shot at the colony. They just sit there doing nothing until after Galactica rams the colony, the dorsal guns could have been taking out some of the colony weapons while the forward guns soften up the armour before they ram the colony.
Such a brilliant scifi series.
ACTION STATIONS!
start the clock
@@HellsFortune Jump on my mark
Now I finally know from where did Mass Effect 2 Suicide Mission come from. Damn it BioWare.
the best scene in the whole series for me... 321 HIT IT.... totally epic
Sometimes you've got to roll the hard six.
Did the colony remind anyone else of the Shadow ships from Babylon 5?
Now that you mention it...yeah.
@ Simeon Jankovic- Yes, that is very true. I think it withstood several nuclear hits to its hull in addition to long periods of hard space time without dry dock repairs and several prolonged and intense battles with Basestars. I'd stay you are quite correct in calling the Galactica a "...one tough fucking brick."
Add to the fact that her armor was being stripped before all of this happened
Cameron Baker I know! Besides the armor plating being stripped prior to the Cylon attack, the Galactica had its 8 other salvo guns on her top dismantled and hauled away. Let's also not forget the right flight pod was never used in the entire series until the Assault on the Colony. It housed the Raptor boarding party and they jumped inside the still somewhat intact right flight pod museum.
Fodxp hatesgoogle haha was intact until they jumped and blew the whole side out the frakking thing.
I love the look of Galactica with the missing armour plates, visibly damaged ribs and the scorch marks she acquired over the course of the show you get such a good impression that she's an old dependable workhorse that will never let you down. Also you guys left out her jumping inside the atmosphere of new caprica something even when she was brand new she wasn't designed to do and was what excelerated the collapse of her structural beams and the eventual broken back she suffered in the last episode
john crate Not to mention the nukes she took throughout the years without the armoring. Remember, she was being stripped down to be turned into a museum. Really gotta give the old girl credit.
Damn right. Best ship in the fleet.
Love me some colony ramming.
I love the auto cannon at 1:30 shoots then waits a second to cool off before firing again realistic maybe not for space of course but u gotta have a way to dissipate heat or u gonna blow up 🤣😁
I thought I noticed the large cannon recoil PRIOR TO firing, which is a mistake, plus: you don't need tracers when you're a machine-sentient, self-aware autocannon who's doing it all based on radar returns and math, not by eye.
I watch this scene every day before a final exam. Lol
GOOSEBUMPS!!!!!
best sci fi series ever.
All this was to rescue one little girl and they all volunteered.
Watching this for the first time and releasing the ship was broken I was yelling " ram it ram it"! And they did!
I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GREAT THIS SHOW IS. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE. EAZY TOP FIVE SHOWS EVER MADE. O' MET EDWARDS JAMES ALMOS. A HELL OF A NICE GUY AND I MET KATIE SACKOFF VERY NICE AND CUTE IN PERSON. LUCKY ME. SO SAY WE ALL!
The mass raptor jump off the museum
Was awesome