The zoom out of Galactica getting pummeled by the basestars with forlorn music, as if it was her dying moment... to the Pegasas coming in over the camera with all forward launchers firing to heavy drums was perfection.
@@ArnaldRimmer Almost all of the space scenes with action in them were intentionally filmed to look documentary style, like a person in another ship was filming it handheld and trying to capture everything. That's why there's snap zooms and hard panning. Ronald Moore talked about it in the commentary track. He wanted the series to look more raw than Star Trek or Star Wars' static camera battles.
@@swordmonkey6635 mybe so, but ive seen better "documentry" style vids and films but none of them have put me off as bad as this, it litterally hurt my eyes when they zoom in and out and then throw the camera around aswell which dont help! i mean, an episode in sg1 where the doctor got killed out in the field! That was a fantastic episode! thats the way to do it, it does my head in though because i really wanted to get into the new BSG because im a fan of the old stuff the old 80's version loved it!
Too much camera shake can make people nauseous etc but if you 'literally' felt pain in your eyes watching this you need to get your eyes checked to see if there's an underlying medical issue. Your eyes shouldn't 'hurt' because there's a bit of chop and shudder on a screen. That said, your description of your reaction to it is so intense that I think it may not just be your eyesight that's in play here.
The Adama Maneuver was so unexpected that my jaw hit the floor when it happened. It was simply amazing. Finally, after years and years of different space battles, something completely new and exciting.
Gotta give big props to Bear McCreary, composer of the BSG scores and soundtrack. His music, especially for the battle of New Caprica (the track is called Storming New Caprica) really adds an extra layer of WOW to these scenes, and in fact to the whole series. You know when the bagpipes and taiko drums start up that things are about to get real.
What made BSG so effective with its space combat was the fact that the weapons were ballistic instead of energy based like lasers. The most advanced weapon BSG showed were electromagnetic railguns. Everything else was analogous to what we have currently. Ron Moore took great pains in paralleling BSG tech with our own (even at times, making BSG slightly less advanced). After working for Star Trek, he wanted the story to take front and center rather than the technobabble and advanced tech of the Star Trek universe. It worked.
Apart from the space battles (which rightfully are among the very best ever seen on TV or at the cinema) the one thing that _really_ made this show 100% awesome is Edward James Olmos as Admiral Adama! "You need a cold day in hell, Admiral? Hand me a water bucket !"
I avoided it until the end of Season 2, then took a chance on it... and was hooked. I just wish "Blood & Chrome" had spawned a prequel series, like Caprica explained the creation of the Cylons.
@WhiteWolf65 Mr Robot was right up there with the best series I have seen so I hope the Sam Esmail new BSG turns out well, been quiet on new lately mind.
@@Angarsk100 I still need to see the expance. The 1st season was on Netfix uk and then it moved to prime so I just ordered a box set. Not into the modern thing of multiple subscriptions.
IMO, the New Caprica rescue episodes will go down as some of the best cinema-craft in Sci-Fi TV for many reasons, including the “Adama Maneuver”. But mainly because, when it first aired, I was watching it and for a few moments, as Galactica was getting absolutely pummeled by Basestars and Adama resigned himself the death… the sad music started playing and we saw the camera view pull back in the classic sci-fi wide view so the audience could see the full explosion that was imminent… I was sure the Galactica was a goner. In those few frames I was like, wow, I guess Edward James Olmos wanted off the show and so did the other actors still on the ship, so this is the glorious way they go. The Pegasus will be renamed the Galactica with Lee as the Admiral of the fleet and the show continue on from there. (Amazing how much the brain can process in a few microseconds). But they got me. The amazing writing, directing, and editing did exactly what it was designed to do. And when the Peg showed up and those missiles started firing… well, I will NEVER forget that feeling. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There has been very few times that I have yelled out loud at the television, but the Pegasus gliding into the fight over New Caprica with guns and missiles blazing was one of them. Such an awesome scene. I'd put it right up there with Han bringing the Falcon in out of the sun to blow the CAP off Luke's back so he could take his shot on the Death Star as far as best sci-fi battle scene.
That moment when Galactica's drives start to stutter and we know she's dead - and then the drums start and those missiles come out nowhere - followed by the bulk of Pegasus has to be one of the greatest moments in sci-fi history!
That Bear McCreary arrangement of All Along The Watchtower is something special - all through season 3 (I think) when it's riff is teased, and then the full thing plays in the season finale. My mind was blown. Love this series for so many reasons. Might have to rewatch, it's been a good while
I think one of the best decisions made in Battlestar Galactica was the muted noise of projectile weapons firing during the space battles. Essentially the reverberations through the hull and the muffled discharge of the the guns. Makes it feel so real. "What do you hear Starbuck?" "Nothing but the rain!"
I remember watching Exodus part 2 as it aired. It was the most thrilling episode of ANY show I'd seen to that point. And now almost 20 years later it's still regarded as one of the best space battles ever seen on television.
During the Resurrection Ship battle, you can watch the Cylon missiles arc away from Pegasus at the last moment. And only Pegasus. The more advanced battlestar used active jamming which affects the missile systems. One of the more minute details that shows they knew tactics on this show.
Totally agree. The fleet battles are the closest realization on screen to the scale, tension, velocity, tactical deception and sheer mayhem to what I imagine from Iain M Banks's novels - Excession, and Consider Phlebas especially. Without BSG we wouldn't have had the eye-popping battles of The Expanse. Again, stunning stuff.
Damn! That's a hard choice between New Caprica and Resurrection ship battles. I gotta hand it to E.J. Olmos, that "It's been an honor" was so damn emontional and badass at the same time.
One thing to mention about number 3 - the attack on the Cylon Colony. The Raptor that launched the final missile strike was piloted by Racetrack - who had been killed earlier in the battle along with the rest of the crew. it was a chance movement of the Raptor that dropped her lifeless hand onto the launch control. This ties in with an earlier episode 'Final Cut' where she says her only wish is to take out as many Cylon's as possible as she dies - thus she posthumously has her wish fulfilled.
BSG was very slow for me. First viewing I only made it to the end of Series 1. Then got bored. I was use to Star Trek and all its niceties. Then few years later I saw part of series 3 and thought this looks worth another try. WOW I was totally blown away and binged watch the lot, amazed how the story unfolded and the bond you have with some of the characters. Never had this before or even after. If you ever what to know what people are capable of this is a great study of them. The battle scenes are truely amazing and still work today. Thanks for the video.
Starbucks, Lee, Adama, everyone was like family. I know it's corny but BSG had this forlorn feeling. The show starts with the human race being wiped out it always had this over riding feeling of loneliness that just clung to every event.
So proud to have worked on it. When I found out I was so giddy as a fan boy. First time walking onto The hangar deck and seeing a mark II and mark VII Viper was surreal
Congratulation's love the show, One of my Personal favorites along with Babylon 5 and The Expanse for the Realism it took for Space Combat and Physics.
@@gitofaber Yes during season four in the camera department. Fun fact, the launch tubes had a working hydraulic launcher so we could simulate them moving out of the Galactica
I'm just starting Number 3 and of course I already know which one is the first spot because that drop is one of, if not the most hellifically awesome ass moves in all of military science-fiction. Also shows just how good Colonial jump drives are that they will jump both small craft and capital ships in atmo if needed. Maybe not all the time, pretty rarely from what we see, but if needed they can.
Well shit, I forgot about them jumping Raptors from the starboard flight pod right off the deck no less. Yeah, that is just the best jump drive I have come across. Just damn, the things they do with it, and safely even. Wow.
They did a great job with realistic tactics and strategy while also fully embracing and creatively using the degrees of freedom that space has to offer. BSG rocks! Can't believe it's already 20 years old at this point ... almost as much as has passed between the original Battlestar Galactica and this show ...
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Nice to see that the guy that knocks out the models for the battle map survived the colonies destruction.
God 20 years and this show is still something else. Theres really very few things to compare it to. And the music to the show just set the whole thing ablaze, i havent seen anything as captivating since.
One neat little detail in the attack on the Resurrection shiip. There's a scene of vipers flying sideways as they fire on the ship... which makes sense for space combat.
Wow!!! Thank you so much for reminding me just how amazing this show was. I watched the original series when I was a teenager and the 2004 series with my son. Both were frackin awesome!!
Adama is the greatest starship captain in fiction. Picard and Kirk had starfleet. Adama had the remnants of humanity. No support. Everyone hated him for doing the things that needed to be done, but he did them none the less.
Pegasus took at least three basestars with her. The first one she annihilated with the concentrated salvo at the start, the second she rammed, and the third her flight pod took out. Not bad for a final charge.
The original was critically acclaimed? I was in engineering school and all I remember is a bunch of us congregated in the room of the one person who had a portable TV and ridiculing how bad the writing and (some of) the acting was. Whenever Boxey was onscreen there was a chant of "Kill the dagit! Kill the dagit!" The evangelical Christians derided it as "Mormons in space." When the 21st century version came out, it was astonishing how the basic source material could be taken in directions that actually made sense by intelligent writers and competent actors.
I noticed in the 2004 version, they had Boxy show up, a civilian kid in the fleet, and then you never heard from him again. Homage to the source material and yet treating it just like it deserved!
Sacrificing the Pegasus to save Galactica was the stupidest tactic in 4 seasons. Pegasus was new, bigger and could build its own fighters. Galactica was a museum piece. Obviously if they could only keep one, it should have been Pegasus.
That was a decision born of heart and definitely not mind. The Pegasus was clearly the better ship and that's why Adama left it in charge. Adama was a damn well written commander.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot I never regularly watched the RDM remake of Battlestar Galactica. I grew up with the Lorne Greene , Lloyd Bridges commander of the Pegasus version. Why was this Pegasus cursed?
@josephlobosco3647 spoilers: . . . . . The admiral in command of Pegasus abandoned civilians to die, executed her XO, tortured prisoners and planned to assassinate Adama. After her the next commander was killed yada yada. The third commander had to sacrifice himself to save the ship. That ship was bad news from the moment it jumped in. The episodes where it is introduced are the hardest to watch in the entire show. Trigger warnings galore. Not family friendly. Still recommend watching the whole thing from start to finish, it is a modern masterpiece.
Pegasus was also a lot less DURABLE given that it had massive frame damage on the front during the battle, that galactica only suffered when it intentionally rammed at full speed into the Colony, so YMMV
One of the reasons that the BSG reboot worked. Was because the special effects were incredible, and the zoom in and zoom out made the atmosphere more intense. The acting was more human emotional driven too.
Always thought this series was way underrated. Except for a numbing season under the cylons, it was great.I recommend it for top sense of atmosphere, feel of realism, how people under pressure really react (you never know) and a fascinating, if not anticipated conclusion.
I've come across a handful of your videos before and have also just watched your Babylon 5 battles. Great choices, I'll love to hear your views on some of the battles from The Expanse.
I was a kid during the original Galactica, and yes, I survived Galactica 1980. I loved the updated series, but I always imagined that space has to be pretty big because that series created debris everywhere.
Before I say this.. know I am truly enjoying this channel and it's content The best TV space battle was from "The Expanse" Rocinante Vs the Stealth ship Don't get it twisted, these were all great but I feel like the expanse did it better.
Am recalling an actor, who after receiving an award, did a call out for Starbuck. Many fans who were from entertainment and sports admitted they couldn’t wait for the next episode of BSG each week. Only Game of Thrones later had the same devotion of its fans.
Really was one of the best shows of all time. I feel that Ron Moore kinda lost the thread in the 4 th season and just couldn't pull all the strings back. It was still amazing though. Watching "for all mankind" years later I started to get the same feeling in season 4. But he learned a lot and that show pulled everything in and made a great showing. Both are just too notch. Now I guess I need to rewatch BSG. Good thing I bought all of the DVDs 15 years ago!
It was probably a mix of both. Also it was the 70s... so everything had an element of suckiness to it. BSG being as good as it was in the 70s is kind of a testament to how good an idea it was.
More the latter as it turns out. The show was expensive and the studio basically insisted that they needed to make the show cost less. They did what they could with what they had.
The Adama Maneuver looks sick however to a certain SCIFI fan base, it's a direct nod to their show. Basically, the Adama Maneuver is a direct nod to the Babylon 5 episode "Endgame" when Captain Sheridan's forces to liberate Mars and Earth from President Clark"s control. To attack the enemy base on Mars and using certain coordinates, a White Star jumped from hyperspace into the Mars atmosphere right on top of the enemy base which the WhiteStar disabled all weapons and shuttles. JMS should be smiling when his show "Babylon 5" had an influence on another future series as in crazy maneuver.
I am amazed that I have yet to find one person who agrees with me on this. The last jump was through time, right? They are all in a time loop. It will happen again. How would a far off, distant tribal people have similar dna as the BSG survivors? The earth they found at first was dead. But the earth they jump to was yet to start its end with the arrival of this group.
It's fun to watch this show and see how many things happen due to seemingly random chance, like the derelict raptor launching it's missiles because a rock happened to bump the ship and cause the deceased pilot's hand to hit the trigger, or the hangar bay of the destroyed Pegasus happening to be sent flying into one of the remaining Base Stars. Ties in with the show's whole religious thing with some characters believing in an omnipotent higher power driving events. Was this that higher power nudging dice rolls in the heroes' favor? Was it just random chance giving them a rare break? I don't think the show actually ever states one way or the other for those cases.
The writers strike came at such a horrendous time - I genuinely believe without that messing things up a bit, BSG would have been spoken of in the same sort of tier as the likes of the Wire, the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc. A fantastic show. Also love the Expanse, which feels like a spiritual successor to it. Their adherence to doing the physics 'properly' was incredible too.
I would pay money for them to go back and redo the 2004 effects (shot for shot) with modern tools and textures. It's the only thing that dates it this many years later.
"All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. Jimi Hendrix released a cover of the song six months after Dylan released his version in 1968, and it's the Hendrix version that most people are going to think of when you mention this song. It was used as a recurring musical motif during the third and fourth seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" (2004). Lyrics from the song are even worked into dialogue throughout the series.
I LOVE BSG (both versions), but... The ONLY criticism I have about the later version is.... It was filmed in the height of the 'Shakey-Cam' era. It annoyed me immensely. MANY shows of that era I loved because of the premis, script, characters and more, just had that friggin annoying camera wobble that was supposedly to simulate the human view/perspective. I don't know about you, but, my vision CERTAINLY doesn't work like THAT! I turn, I look at something, It's STABLE! Anyway. Rant over. Lol. 😏 😎🇬🇧
The problem I had with the 2003 Reboot was it was to the Original what Starship Troopers the Movie was to the Book, it took names, a little of the setting and used the title to get people interested, but in truth was a much different story.
I hate it when that happens. I was infuriated by that same very thing when I went to go see that movie and feel that way when I watch most movies that are based off of books. They just never get it right.
not only did pegasus save galactica, she took out one base ship when she attacked, she also rammed one and one of her flight pods crashed into and destroyed a third. if you had to sacrifice the pegasus, what a way to go.
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The Adama maneuver was the hypest shit when it aired. My jaw dropped the first time I saw it when it debuted. BSG was such a great show.
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Every time I watch Videos about BSG I have the urge to watch it again.
Did it 5 times already... could be 6 times soon. The last run was 8 months ago
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@@damienthorne9328 It's genuinely a show that continues to get better with age.
The zoom out of Galactica getting pummeled by the basestars with forlorn music, as if it was her dying moment... to the Pegasas coming in over the camera with all forward launchers firing to heavy drums was perfection.
na not with the zooming in and out and all the camera shake it was wayyy to much for me! they really spoiled it with that!
@@ArnaldRimmer Almost all of the space scenes with action in them were intentionally filmed to look documentary style, like a person in another ship was filming it handheld and trying to capture everything. That's why there's snap zooms and hard panning. Ronald Moore talked about it in the commentary track. He wanted the series to look more raw than Star Trek or Star Wars' static camera battles.
@@swordmonkey6635 mybe so, but ive seen better "documentry" style vids and films but none of them have put me off as bad as this, it litterally hurt my eyes when they zoom in and out and then throw the camera around aswell which dont help! i mean, an episode in sg1 where the doctor got killed out in the field! That was a fantastic episode! thats the way to do it, it does my head in though because i really wanted to get into the new BSG because im a fan of the old stuff the old 80's version loved it!
Too much camera shake can make people nauseous etc but if you 'literally' felt pain in your eyes watching this you need to get your eyes checked to see if there's an underlying medical issue. Your eyes shouldn't 'hurt' because there's a bit of chop and shudder on a screen. That said, your description of your reaction to it is so intense that I think it may not just be your eyesight that's in play here.
16:23 time stamp of that scene for ya
Hotdog saying “Well, this oughta be different” while launching during the Adama Maneuver cracks me up every time.
The Adama Maneuver was so unexpected that my jaw hit the floor when it happened. It was simply amazing. Finally, after years and years of different space battles, something completely new and exciting.
It's hard to believe it's been 20 years.
and 45 for me for the original! yikes!
@@fuzzblightyear145 Time keeps slippin slippin slippin, into the futuuuuure.
I mean, 20 years ago was the 80s, right?
Gotta give big props to Bear McCreary, composer of the BSG scores and soundtrack. His music, especially for the battle of New Caprica (the track is called Storming New Caprica) really adds an extra layer of WOW to these scenes, and in fact to the whole series. You know when the bagpipes and taiko drums start up that things are about to get real.
*bagpipes tempo increases, Pegasus accelerates to ramming speed*
I'm seeing Bear and his band when they're on tour here in DC later this Spring!
What made BSG so effective with its space combat was the fact that the weapons were ballistic instead of energy based like lasers. The most advanced weapon BSG showed were electromagnetic railguns. Everything else was analogous to what we have currently. Ron Moore took great pains in paralleling BSG tech with our own (even at times, making BSG slightly less advanced). After working for Star Trek, he wanted the story to take front and center rather than the technobabble and advanced tech of the Star Trek universe. It worked.
Apart from the space battles (which rightfully are among the very best ever seen on TV or at the cinema) the one thing that _really_ made this show 100% awesome is Edward James Olmos as Admiral Adama!
"You need a cold day in hell, Admiral? Hand me a water bucket !"
Agreed. I will always respect and admire Edward James Olmos for his role as Adama. For me, he will always remain: THE Admiral.
BSG and The Expanse kinda sit in the same vein with how emotional and tense the battles feel
Nothing beats BSG 2004, I can hardly contain myself just watching clips.
I avoided it until the end of Season 2, then took a chance on it... and was hooked.
I just wish "Blood & Chrome" had spawned a prequel series, like Caprica explained the creation of the Cylons.
@WhiteWolf65 Mr Robot was right up there with the best series I have seen so I hope the Sam Esmail new BSG turns out well, been quiet on new lately mind.
it was awful...all about that lippy bloinde
As much as I was awed and I loved The Expanse, Still, BSG 2004 is #1, and by the looks of it, will be for a very long time.
@@Angarsk100 I still need to see the expance. The 1st season was on Netfix uk and then it moved to prime so I just ordered a box set. Not into the modern thing of multiple subscriptions.
IMO, the New Caprica rescue episodes will go down as some of the best cinema-craft in Sci-Fi TV for many reasons, including the “Adama Maneuver”.
But mainly because, when it first aired, I was watching it and for a few moments, as Galactica was getting absolutely pummeled by Basestars and Adama resigned himself the death… the sad music started playing and we saw the camera view pull back in the classic sci-fi wide view so the audience could see the full explosion that was imminent… I was sure the Galactica was a goner. In those few frames I was like, wow, I guess Edward James Olmos wanted off the show and so did the other actors still on the ship, so this is the glorious way they go. The Pegasus will be renamed the Galactica with Lee as the Admiral of the fleet and the show continue on from there. (Amazing how much the brain can process in a few microseconds). But they got me. The amazing writing, directing, and editing did exactly what it was designed to do. And when the Peg showed up and those missiles started firing… well, I will NEVER forget that feeling. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There has been very few times that I have yelled out loud at the television, but the Pegasus gliding into the fight over New Caprica with guns and missiles blazing was one of them. Such an awesome scene.
I'd put it right up there with Han bringing the Falcon in out of the sun to blow the CAP off Luke's back so he could take his shot on the Death Star as far as best sci-fi battle scene.
That moment when Galactica's drives start to stutter and we know she's dead - and then the drums start and those missiles come out nowhere - followed by the bulk of Pegasus has to be one of the greatest moments in sci-fi history!
Chills. Chills over a show. Just amazing.
Pegasus exploding a base star on the way in to help Galactica.
and it pays homage to a similar pegasus sacrifice in the classic bsg
Goosebumps! Every time!
That Bear McCreary arrangement of All Along The Watchtower is something special - all through season 3 (I think) when it's riff is teased, and then the full thing plays in the season finale. My mind was blown. Love this series for so many reasons. Might have to rewatch, it's been a good while
I think one of the best decisions made in Battlestar Galactica was the muted noise of projectile weapons firing during the space battles. Essentially the reverberations through the hull and the muffled discharge of the the guns. Makes it feel so real. "What do you hear Starbuck?" "Nothing but the rain!"
I remember watching Exodus part 2 as it aired. It was the most thrilling episode of ANY show I'd seen to that point. And now almost 20 years later it's still regarded as one of the best space battles ever seen on television.
During the Resurrection Ship battle, you can watch the Cylon missiles arc away from Pegasus at the last moment. And only Pegasus. The more advanced battlestar used active jamming which affects the missile systems. One of the more minute details that shows they knew tactics on this show.
Totally agree. The fleet battles are the closest realization on screen to the scale, tension, velocity, tactical deception and sheer mayhem to what I imagine from Iain M Banks's novels - Excession, and Consider Phlebas especially.
Without BSG we wouldn't have had the eye-popping battles of The Expanse. Again, stunning stuff.
Pegasus’s middle finger energy during the battle New Caprica was epic!
Yup. Especially when you realize she took out 3 of the 4 Basestars.
@ Hell yeah! That was satisfying to watch giant chunks of Pegasus take them down!
@ Hell yeah! That was satisfying to watch giant chunks of Pegasus take them down!
This show set the tone for all current SciFi - Especially The Expanse. Tone. Character development, plot, Revelation - BSG had it all
Damn! That's a hard choice between New Caprica and Resurrection ship battles. I gotta hand it to E.J. Olmos, that "It's been an honor" was so damn emontional and badass at the same time.
Babylon 5 had some epic battles too.
One thing to mention about number 3 - the attack on the Cylon Colony. The Raptor that launched the final missile strike was piloted by Racetrack - who had been killed earlier in the battle along with the rest of the crew. it was a chance movement of the Raptor that dropped her lifeless hand onto the launch control. This ties in with an earlier episode 'Final Cut' where she says her only wish is to take out as many Cylon's as possible as she dies - thus she posthumously has her wish fulfilled.
BSG was very slow for me. First viewing I only made it to the end of Series 1. Then got bored. I was use to Star Trek and all its niceties. Then few years later I saw part of series 3 and thought this looks worth another try. WOW I was totally blown away and binged watch the lot, amazed how the story unfolded and the bond you have with some of the characters. Never had this before or even after. If you ever what to know what people are capable of this is a great study of them. The battle scenes are truely amazing and still work today. Thanks for the video.
Starbucks, Lee, Adama, everyone was like family. I know it's corny but BSG had this forlorn feeling. The show starts with the human race being wiped out it always had this over riding feeling of loneliness that just clung to every event.
@@jermiahduddleston4695That's one of the things I didn't like about it.
It was just too depressing.
So proud to have worked on it. When I found out I was so giddy as a fan boy. First time walking onto
The hangar deck and seeing a mark II and mark VII Viper was surreal
Congratulation's love the show, One of my Personal favorites along with Babylon 5 and The Expanse for the Realism it took for Space Combat and Physics.
You worked on BSG?
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@@gitofaber Yes during season four in the camera department. Fun fact, the launch tubes had a working hydraulic launcher so we could simulate them moving out of the Galactica
I'm just starting Number 3 and of course I already know which one is the first spot because that drop is one of, if not the most hellifically awesome ass moves in all of military science-fiction. Also shows just how good Colonial jump drives are that they will jump both small craft and capital ships in atmo if needed. Maybe not all the time, pretty rarely from what we see, but if needed they can.
Well shit, I forgot about them jumping Raptors from the starboard flight pod right off the deck no less. Yeah, that is just the best jump drive I have come across. Just damn, the things they do with it, and safely even. Wow.
They did a great job with realistic tactics and strategy while also fully embracing and creatively using the degrees of freedom that space has to offer. BSG rocks! Can't believe it's already 20 years old at this point ... almost as much as has passed between the original Battlestar Galactica and this show ...
Nice to see that the guy that knocks out the models for the battle map survived the colonies destruction.
God 20 years and this show is still something else. Theres really very few things to compare it to. And the music to the show just set the whole thing ablaze, i havent seen anything as captivating since.
Babylon5 battles were epic as well. Arguable which was best.
Like the one where the Centauri dreadnought attacked The Babylon 5, station.
That was one of the best space battles, ever.
One neat little detail in the attack on the Resurrection shiip. There's a scene of vipers flying sideways as they fire on the ship... which makes sense for space combat.
Also several instances in the show of Vipers flying backward.
These battles choke me up every time I see them. As a long time Star Trek fan The Galactica is the finest ship ever .
Wow!!!
Thank you so much for reminding me just how amazing this show was.
I watched the original series when I was a teenager and the 2004 series with my son.
Both were frackin awesome!!
Well, ..... it looks like I will be re-watching BSG again!!!
I’m about to start the last season…. Again…. Enjoy!
Always a good call
So say we all........
awful..stupid ending.
Battlestar Galactica was without peer. The Expanse is another brilliant sci-fi show with some epic space battles.
I liked the Expanse.
Adama is the greatest starship captain in fiction. Picard and Kirk had starfleet. Adama had the remnants of humanity. No support. Everyone hated him for doing the things that needed to be done, but he did them none the less.
"He dives into a canyon..." That feels eerily familiar.
100% it was a great homage to Red Five.
This will forever be my favorite TV show. Great plot with great characters.
Pegasus took at least three basestars with her. The first one she annihilated with the concentrated salvo at the start, the second she rammed, and the third her flight pod took out. Not bad for a final charge.
“All hands, brace for turbulence”.
Bear McCreary's music just adds the chiefs kiss to this show! Too this day I still listen to the sound tracks from all 4 seasons.
A something trying to dip her feet into writting Sci-fi, these vids are pretty helpful and very cool! :>
Glad they help! Inspiration was definitely one of the goals. It gets me hyped too.
The original was critically acclaimed? I was in engineering school and all I remember is a bunch of us congregated in the room of the one person who had a portable TV and ridiculing how bad the writing and (some of) the acting was. Whenever Boxey was onscreen there was a chant of "Kill the dagit! Kill the dagit!" The evangelical Christians derided it as "Mormons in space." When the 21st century version came out, it was astonishing how the basic source material could be taken in directions that actually made sense by intelligent writers and competent actors.
"Kill the daggit!" nearly killed me. Appropriate.
I noticed in the 2004 version, they had Boxy show up, a civilian kid in the fleet, and then you never heard from him again. Homage to the source material and yet treating it just like it deserved!
The camerawork on the effects shots in this show...I still bore people to death with talking about it. It was so special.
I loved this show. Didn't want it to end. NO reboots.
I was hoping Caprica would have had legs to run a bit.
But it was a reboot... So if things worked how you wanted you would have never gotten it.
Great summary, I'm really gonna have to add this to my watchlist now.
Sacrificing the Pegasus to save Galactica was the stupidest tactic in 4 seasons. Pegasus was new, bigger and could build its own fighters. Galactica was a museum piece. Obviously if they could only keep one, it should have been Pegasus.
That was a decision born of heart and definitely not mind. The Pegasus was clearly the better ship and that's why Adama left it in charge. Adama was a damn well written commander.
Dramatically Pegasus had to die, that ship was cursed.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot I never regularly watched the RDM remake of Battlestar Galactica. I grew up with the Lorne Greene , Lloyd Bridges commander of the Pegasus version. Why was this Pegasus cursed?
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The admiral in command of Pegasus abandoned civilians to die, executed her XO, tortured prisoners and planned to assassinate Adama. After her the next commander was killed yada yada. The third commander had to sacrifice himself to save the ship.
That ship was bad news from the moment it jumped in.
The episodes where it is introduced are the hardest to watch in the entire show. Trigger warnings galore. Not family friendly.
Still recommend watching the whole thing from start to finish, it is a modern masterpiece.
Pegasus was also a lot less DURABLE given that it had massive frame damage on the front during the battle, that galactica only suffered when it intentionally rammed at full speed into the Colony, so YMMV
Absolute favorite sci-fi series. Makes me want to go back and rewatch it
Magnificent Video! SSWA!👏
Excellent video!!!
I need to watch this series again.
One of the reasons that the BSG reboot worked. Was because the special effects were incredible, and the zoom in and zoom out made the atmosphere more intense. The acting was more human emotional driven too.
BSG besides its story provided some of the best space visuals we ever saw on TV , amazing what they pulled off.
Honestly, I loved the premise of the 1970s one, and the 2004 series was just glorious
Great work!!!
Always thought this series was way underrated. Except for a numbing season under the cylons, it was great.I recommend it for top sense of atmosphere, feel of realism, how people under pressure really react (you never know) and a fascinating, if not anticipated conclusion.
I would put in a vote for the final battle in the pilot of Space: Above and Beyond.
Very well narrated!
SO SAY WE ALL !!!
I've come across a handful of your videos before and have also just watched your Babylon 5 battles. Great choices, I'll love to hear your views on some of the battles from The Expanse.
great video. thanks
The absolute best space battles;stellar best ✨️
when I first saw these... they were all a big number. so this collection is all...
GiantFreakinRobot, what do yo think about Hello Humans comedy series? i had a hard time tuning in at first, but I realised it wasn't written for kids.
When I saw the title of this video...I knew (quote aside) it would be BSG. I love this series. A rare reboot that was better than the original.
It's nice to talk to other BSG fans. Thank you for commenting.
The He Who Beliveth in Me battle was pretty tight too.
My only complaint with the re-imagined series was the massively overextensive use of the constant bouncy-bouncy camera.
I was a kid during the original Galactica, and yes, I survived Galactica 1980.
I loved the updated series, but I always imagined that space has to be pretty big because that series created debris everywhere.
those guys knew how to make a tv show. i feel grateful to the actors, writers and all.
Anybody else think the run in the canyon in Top Gun Maverick looked familiar to the assault on asteroid? LOL
Before I say this.. know I am truly enjoying this channel and it's content
The best TV space battle was from "The Expanse"
Rocinante Vs the Stealth ship
Don't get it twisted, these were all great but I feel like the expanse did it better.
Great show!
Am recalling an actor, who after receiving an award, did a call out for Starbuck. Many fans who were from entertainment and sports admitted they couldn’t wait for the next episode of BSG each week. Only Game of Thrones later had the same devotion of its fans.
Nicely done.
Thanks!
Hot Dog wasn't a long time pilot, he was a one of the first replacement nuggets.
100% agree with this list.
Loved them both but the newer one is one of the top 5 sci-fi shows ever made IMO.
Really was one of the best shows of all time. I feel that Ron Moore kinda lost the thread in the 4 th season and just couldn't pull all the strings back. It was still amazing though. Watching "for all mankind" years later I started to get the same feeling in season 4. But he learned a lot and that show pulled everything in and made a great showing. Both are just too notch. Now I guess I need to rewatch BSG. Good thing I bought all of the DVDs 15 years ago!
Give S4 another chance. It has aged well.
Liked for the soundtrack alone.
Nice selection. 😁
Best series ever
Good One!
The 1970s BSG seemed to have run out of ideas for episodes immediately. Or the powers that be just didn’t listen to the people with good ideas.
It was probably a mix of both. Also it was the 70s... so everything had an element of suckiness to it. BSG being as good as it was in the 70s is kind of a testament to how good an idea it was.
They ran out of money. Almost the entire season budget was in the pilot and the first couple episodes.
They never should have done the robot dog
@@GiantFreakinRobot seems like everything had to have a comedy relief back then.
More the latter as it turns out. The show was expensive and the studio basically insisted that they needed to make the show cost less. They did what they could with what they had.
BSG was the greatest scifi show ever put to the small screen.
So say we Frakkin all
The Adama Maneuver looks sick however to a certain SCIFI fan base, it's a direct nod to their show. Basically, the Adama Maneuver is a direct nod to the Babylon 5 episode "Endgame" when Captain Sheridan's forces to liberate Mars and Earth from President Clark"s control. To attack the enemy base on Mars and using certain coordinates, a White Star jumped from hyperspace into the Mars atmosphere right on top of the enemy base which the WhiteStar disabled all weapons and shuttles.
JMS should be smiling when his show "Babylon 5" had an influence on another future series as in crazy maneuver.
Everybody survived the disaster, but saving the Galactica at the cost of the Pegasus is call for a court-martial.
I am amazed that I have yet to find one person who agrees with me on this. The last jump was through time, right? They are all in a time loop. It will happen again. How would a far off, distant tribal people have similar dna as the BSG survivors? The earth they found at first was dead. But the earth they jump to was yet to start its end with the arrival of this group.
Fun fact. The "shaky cam" of the battle scenes were inspired by the terrific Firefly.
The Pegasus might not have one through what the Galactica did but god damn that beast was near unstoppable in a fight
It's fun to watch this show and see how many things happen due to seemingly random chance, like the derelict raptor launching it's missiles because a rock happened to bump the ship and cause the deceased pilot's hand to hit the trigger, or the hangar bay of the destroyed Pegasus happening to be sent flying into one of the remaining Base Stars. Ties in with the show's whole religious thing with some characters believing in an omnipotent higher power driving events. Was this that higher power nudging dice rolls in the heroes' favor? Was it just random chance giving them a rare break? I don't think the show actually ever states one way or the other for those cases.
You gotta do Stargate battles now.
The writers strike came at such a horrendous time - I genuinely believe without that messing things up a bit, BSG would have been spoken of in the same sort of tier as the likes of the Wire, the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc.
A fantastic show.
Also love the Expanse, which feels like a spiritual successor to it. Their adherence to doing the physics 'properly' was incredible too.
I would pay money for them to go back and redo the 2004 effects (shot for shot) with modern tools and textures. It's the only thing that dates it this many years later.
I don't remember the first one at all!!! Well I guess I need to rewatch the show. ...oh no...
I do wish that this series had not chosen to use crash zooms and "handheld" camera work. It makes me feel motion sick.
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That’s RAF fighter command from WW2 era!
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What's the song name @ 1:13
Pls help
"All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. Jimi Hendrix released a cover of the song six months after Dylan released his version in 1968, and it's the Hendrix version that most people are going to think of when you mention this song. It was used as a recurring musical motif during the third and fourth seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" (2004). Lyrics from the song are even worked into dialogue throughout the series.
I really need an alternate story where the colonials make the jump to earth and find Star Fleet.
I LOVE BSG (both versions), but... The ONLY criticism I have about the later version is.... It was filmed in the height of the 'Shakey-Cam' era. It annoyed me immensely. MANY shows of that era I loved because of the premis, script, characters and more, just had that friggin annoying camera wobble that was supposedly to simulate the human view/perspective. I don't know about you, but, my vision CERTAINLY doesn't work like THAT! I turn, I look at something, It's STABLE! Anyway. Rant over. Lol. 😏 😎🇬🇧
The problem I had with the 2003 Reboot was it was to the Original what Starship Troopers the Movie was to the Book, it took names, a little of the setting and used the title to get people interested, but in truth was a much different story.
I hate it when that happens. I was infuriated by that same very thing when I went to go see that movie and feel that way when I watch most movies that are based off of books. They just never get it right.
not only did pegasus save galactica, she took out one base ship when she attacked, she also rammed one and one of her flight pods crashed into and destroyed a third. if you had to sacrifice the pegasus, what a way to go.