Back when you actually had to wait and hold you breath cuz SYFY really was trying not to pick this show back up…. They were actually dead set on leaving it a cliffhanger 😂
Loved that look between Tigh and Tory. Both just realizing that they are effectively the second in command for both Military and Civilian governments, and both Cylons. Well played.
i feel like a very underappreciated part of this moment is the music, but more importantly the first ever spoken english lyrics in the show. it really helps drive home how important and pivotal this moment is
The fact that y'all took down the original video, which featured the epic pan-out from the Vipers, the Colonial and Cylon fleets, and the nebula, followed by the pan-in to "Earth," is downright criminal.
I've just re watched the whole frakin series from beginning to end for the first time since Galactica ended in 2009 including all the extra movies and webisodes... and by the Gods, this show has truly passed the test of time. If anything, I enjoyed it even more this time than originally. Definitely my favourite TV show of all time mostly because I loved the characters, so well played and inhabited by that wonderful cast. And having finished watching it all again made me realize how much I missed them. Silly I know but once in a while, something catches your heart and imagination and Galactica did it for me. The music still gives me chills.
@@geoffreyprior8931 100% agree! I’ve been watching B5 since it first aired in the 90’s. I was only a kid then, but the story and character development are almost unmatched. BSG was, as you say, a close second to B5. I wish we still had great shows like this. The Expanse is good, but just nowhere near this level.
One of the greatest surprises in the series! I remember jumping up and down and shouting “Yes!” Awhile punching my fist in the air. And I was 50 yrs old, lol!
And to think, this is the last battle that we ever get to see Lee in a Viper. Edit: And this is the last battle we ever see Apollo and Starbuck in Viper combat.
I remember the epicness of this series back in college. It was a reason for friends to gather and wait in anticipation. Now most of the soul of tv is gone today. I miss how things used to be
I think it's due to the fact that this channel is run by Peacock, which is where BSG is being streamed from and also one of the supporters for the newer series.
Don't know why but the shot of the vipers launching into the nebula is really eerie to me. The music definitely adds to it, so do all the events that are transpiring around this time. By this point it's pretty clear that something is orchestrating these events, and all the bloodshed, just messing with humanity (that includes Cylons) to try and achieve a questionable goal. Everyone is trapped, metaphysically speaking and most of the key players are living an extremely cruel and confusing existence
@@ignaciomartinez8501 fr I'm still wondering that who or what resurrected her I would say aliens but that's to far I would say God but we don't have evidence I would say the cylons but I don't think she was a cylon
Please upload the scene preceding this where the fleet jumps into the Ionian Nebula and loses power, followed by the realization that the cylons joined them. I seriously thought half the fleet was gonna get wiped out and the look on Adama and Roslin’s faces sold it. 😰
Another moment I wish I could forget so I could see again for the first time. Crossroads Part II was a masterpiece of an episode it just hitting you and hitting you.
In hindsight, the writing here is unintentionally ironic and a little funny. Due to changing season lengths and production issues, the story was unable to follow through with Kara's confident declaration of knowing where Earth is. The plot was forced to backpedal into Kara quickly becoming confused about what was happening to herself. And season 4 makes a self-aware joke about this when Starbuck literally goes on a mission to search for the missing plot of the whole show. This is not meant as a harsh criticism - the writers swerved as best they could to incorporate all this into character development and they did an admirable job of making new twists and turns seem planned out. You have to wonder though - what was the original intent? Was the Earth Kara remembered visiting always meant to be the ruined Cylon Earth with a crashed Viper and her own corpse? Or had it been the primitive, unspoiled Earth? You might assume it was the latter since Kara felt good about what she'd seen.
She did come up with the coordinates that took them to the primitive Earth. But that was after they had gone to the dead Earth. I think she had seen both, but at this moment the primitive Earth was shining brighter in her memory, hence her look of peace and joy.
In the Galactica verse, a "Bogey" is a parallel thing. Humphrey Bogart was known for playing ambiguous characters, maybe good, maybe bad. An unknown- hence unknown contacts are so designated.
You cut it off before the cinematic ending where the camera "pulls back" to show the entire battlefield and then pans to Earth. You do that a lot, cut just before the big ending scene.
*HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD* Gods dammit, Starbuck should've been the fifth. I don't say this because Ellen was a bad choice for the fifth, but because Starbuck was set up so well. Yes, it would've been obvious, but imagine how chilling the guitar cue at 2:40 would've been if it had been all but confirmed that she was a Cylon. The menacing, now decidedly Cylon nature of All Along the Watchtower contrasted with Kara just being Kara, but now also back from the dead is chilling in the most exquisite way.
When I watched the show I really thought she was one of the final five!! To me there were so many hints that set that up so well! I agree with you wholeheartedly. I was so convinced on her being a Cylon that I even started writing a fanfic where she is, just to make my own wishes come true hahaha
The Resurrection of Kara Thrace In Battlestar Galactica Season 3 episode "Maelstrom", Kara Thrace vanishes mysteriously along with her Viper within a violent maelstrom around a gas giant planet. In the final scene before Kara disappears into the maelstrom, it's clear that even if she were to somehow survive, her Viper is starting to break up and will not make it back to Galactica intact. When Kara miraculously returns to Galactica several months later, she is piloting an undamaged Viper and claims she has been to Earth, but has no recollection of the months during which she had been missing. In the cockpit of her Viper a homing beacon flashes, presumably indicating the location of Earth. Galactica tracks the signal to a dead planet that had been nuked 2000 years earlier, where Kara finds a wrecked Viper containing her own corpse. Galactica subsequently discovers a verdant planet identified as a prehistoric version of our own Earth, where Kara once again vanishes without a trace. Whether Kara was a human, a Cylon, a ghost, or an angel is one of numerous puzzles left unexplained in the series finale. Here is a theory that explains Kara Thrace's resurrection without resorting to supernatural intervention. It relies on relativistic time travel via wormhole, a not unreasonable conjecture in a universe where instantaneous Faster Than Light physics are employed for routine space travel. 1. After Kara vanishes into the maelstrom, she encounters a spacetime wormhole and blacks out as it transports her to a decaying orbit around nuked Earth. After recovering conciousness, she visually identifies the planet while her ship records its coordinates, activating its homing beacon. She then flies back through the wormhole, not realizing that months of time have relativistically elapsed during her return flight. 2. Galactica tracks down the nuked planet via the homing beacon, and there Kara discovers a wrecked Viper. In the Viper's cockpit she discovers a corpse and removes a charred copy of her own dogtags from around its neck. This is the corpse of her future self, who is destined to fly once more into the maelstrom. The wormhole will then hurl her back in time to crash on the nuked planet, a few months before it is tracked down by Galactica. 3. Kara gives her corpse's charred dogtags to Baltar on Galactica. Months later, Galactica discovers verdant Earth, and the colonists set about decomissioning their spacecraft. Kara realises that it is time for her to return to the maelstrom in her Viper and fulfill her destiny. 4. Kara uses the wormhole to travel back in time to rendevous with her past self in a decaying orbit around nuked Earth. At that point in time, her past self has blacked out, her Viper has suffered irreparable damage, and it is doomed to eventually crash into the planet. To prevent that fate from happening to past-Kara, future-Kara docks with the disabled Viper, drags unconscious past-Kara out of that ship and exchanges Vipers with her, leaving past-Kara to regain consciousness later in the undamaged Viper and discover nuked Earth. After past-Kara returns to Galactica through the wormhole, future-Kara rides the disabled Viper down to crash into the planet. It is only later that past-Kara will reconstruct what happened and recognize that she is destined to become her own guardian angel.
I like that theory very much. I hated the explanation given and her just vanishing which seemed very miracley and a copout by the writers. This retroactively, makes me like the finale way more. Thank you :)
So did we ever get an answer from the creators as to what and how she returned??? I remember when she vanished at the end still wondering what she was..
@@Leadbetter500 I will never understand why on earth people act like seasons 3 and 4 suddenly became garbage. I enjoyed them as much as the first two seasons. and in answer to OP's question, it's a little ambiguous but I'm pretty sure she's intended as some kind of angel sent from the god or god-like higher power that had been interfering with the story all along. the visions of baltar and six which only the real baltar and caprica six can see have the same explanation I think
Assuming this isn't a joke question, it's Apollo. He states it in the next line with "Galactica, Apollo, I'm in Viper 3." Helo asked this since Apollo had resigned from the military during the Baltar case (hence why he was wearing a suit instead of his Colonial Fleet uniform), and therefore was no longer expected to sortie with the other Viper pilots.
Apollo wasn't regularly flying at this point his career, moving/moved to politics. He wanted to help where he could; hence move from suit to flight suit.
This is where this show jumped the shark for me. This show was at it's best when it was people running from killer robots. It was at it's worst when it was trying to be all preachy and philosophical. This is where they went full on into the philosophy bull sh--.
Les boy a hechar a perder la Serie x que hay 2verciones 1la historia hiper kilometrcamente larga de este cuento con 1 everest de relleno y que como la hicieron cansada y La otra versión que es la Ultra hiper + rápida que la velocidad de la luz de corta Tienen 2 opciones para seleccionar la que + agradable quieren que les siga pues alli les va pues resulta que todos estan hechos de la misma porqueria todos son cilon'so como se Escrivá Si tostadores de pan de caja Y lava platos y uno que otro triturador de basura y cafetera si en efecto todos son lo que son cilon's y eso es todo no hay + y xsu atención gracias ok
It was an entire year after this huge cliffhanger before the next episode was released. Oh, the wait back then, the rumors, the theories...
Not to mention the release of Razor in the interim where you get the tidbit that Kara is the harbinger of death... just to stir the pot
Back when you actually had to wait and hold you breath cuz SYFY really was trying not to pick this show back up…. They were actually dead set on leaving it a cliffhanger 😂
Don’t forget Battlestar Galactica razor which told us that Starbuck would be the end of everyone.
I WAS THERE! Excruciating lol.
It was a brutal wait.
Loved that look between Tigh and Tory. Both just realizing that they are effectively the second in command for both Military and Civilian governments, and both Cylons. Well played.
Tory not so much, I’m sure she’s somewhere in the line of succession, but Tom Zarek is next in line if Laura dies.
It's more like they're counselors and people in which both Military and Civilian leaders trust.
i feel like a very underappreciated part of this moment is the music, but more importantly the first ever spoken english lyrics in the show. it really helps drive home how important and pivotal this moment is
The fact that y'all took down the original video, which featured the epic pan-out from the Vipers, the Colonial and Cylon fleets, and the nebula, followed by the pan-in to "Earth," is downright criminal.
YT probably made them do it.
@@Skank_and_GutterboyThey own the content
I've just re watched the whole frakin series from beginning to end for the first time since Galactica ended in 2009 including all the extra movies and webisodes... and by the Gods, this show has truly passed the test of time. If anything, I enjoyed it even more this time than originally. Definitely my favourite TV show of all time mostly because I loved the characters, so well played and inhabited by that wonderful cast. And having finished watching it all again made me realize how much I missed them. Silly I know but once in a while, something catches your heart and imagination and Galactica did it for me.
The music still gives me chills.
This is one of the few shows that have stood the test of time. Second favorite sci fi series after Babylon 5.
I've watched the entire series 4 or 5 times!
@@geoffreyprior8931 100% agree! I’ve been watching B5 since it first aired in the 90’s. I was only a kid then, but the story and character development are almost unmatched. BSG was, as you say, a close second to B5. I wish we still had great shows like this. The Expanse is good, but just nowhere near this level.
Starbuck being a star is the stupidest thing of all time
too bad the last few seasons werent that good.
One of the greatest surprises in the series! I remember jumping up and down and shouting “Yes!” Awhile punching my fist in the air. And I was 50 yrs old, lol!
Me too! I'm a total sucker for this series. I just love every single minute of it.
1:29 - 1:42 Such a gorgeous shot of the viper flying through the nebula, the CGI really holds up well even today.
And to think, this is the last battle that we ever get to see Lee in a Viper.
Edit: And this is the last battle we ever see Apollo and Starbuck in Viper combat.
The chills everytime.
Hello there!
Indeed lol
Master Kenobi, if you were Kara Thrace, you'd have said "Hello there".
Hello There, You have the high ground?
Hello there
Its a fraking masterpiece. There is None to close to this as perfection is drama, story driving, music harmony like in this artpiece.
That look between Tigh and Tory is one of my favourite moments in the whole series.
I remember the epicness of this series back in college. It was a reason for friends to gather and wait in anticipation. Now most of the soul of tv is gone today. I miss how things used to be
Come on, y'alls. There was only 20 or 30 seconds left in the scene.... finish it off, show the whole thing!
They keep doing that… cutting off the culmination of the scene when it reaches the crescendo.
that money shot of the Earth at the end.
Also the zooming in and out of the galaxy was cool
Ahh they left out the awesome zoom out from the fleet to the zoom in on Earth.
This ending must be one of the best season finales ever in the history of TV
crazy how after nearly 17 years someone is still posting bsg on youtube nearly daily
I think it's due to the fact that this channel is run by Peacock, which is where BSG is being streamed from and also one of the supporters for the newer series.
Yeah They are actively writing the new NEW series so this is likely why
Rewatching this series for the 5th time. Love it.
Top 10 TV cliffhangers
Don't know why but the shot of the vipers launching into the nebula is really eerie to me. The music definitely adds to it, so do all the events that are transpiring around this time. By this point it's pretty clear that something is orchestrating these events, and all the bloodshed, just messing with humanity (that includes Cylons) to try and achieve a questionable goal. Everyone is trapped, metaphysically speaking and most of the key players are living an extremely cruel and confusing existence
My interpretation after the very last episode where she just disappeared in front of Apollo is that she was an angel, like the #6 and Baltar angels.
I'm still waiting for an answer as to who built a brand new viper in the middle of no where, lol
The frackin gods
Fr I would guess the cylons did but how did she get resurrected if she wasn't a cylon or a Cylon model is my big question
I mean I would say it was God but at this point who knows anymore bsg is filled with misterys and other unsolved thing's
what about the brand new Starbuck?
@@ignaciomartinez8501 fr I'm still wondering that who or what resurrected her I would say aliens but that's to far I would say God but we don't have evidence I would say the cylons but I don't think she was a cylon
I just have to thank this channel you don’t post a scene from the Battlestar Galactica series that I love so much.
Please upload the scene preceding this where the fleet jumps into the Ionian Nebula and loses power, followed by the realization that the cylons joined them. I seriously thought half the fleet was gonna get wiped out and the look on Adama and Roslin’s faces sold it. 😰
Not half of it, the whole fleet, Galactica included. In fact they were preparing for a final stand as soon as they realised that they were ambushed.
Those two find each other in every space, and every time!!!
finally! I was waiting for this one :)
Another moment I wish I could forget so I could see again for the first time. Crossroads Part II was a masterpiece of an episode it just hitting you and hitting you.
Cut it a bit short didn't you? What about the epic zoom out and back in?
Best season finale ever.
The fraking music man! This season and season 4 was so deep!
In hindsight, the writing here is unintentionally ironic and a little funny. Due to changing season lengths and production issues, the story was unable to follow through with Kara's confident declaration of knowing where Earth is. The plot was forced to backpedal into Kara quickly becoming confused about what was happening to herself. And season 4 makes a self-aware joke about this when Starbuck literally goes on a mission to search for the missing plot of the whole show.
This is not meant as a harsh criticism - the writers swerved as best they could to incorporate all this into character development and they did an admirable job of making new twists and turns seem planned out. You have to wonder though - what was the original intent? Was the Earth Kara remembered visiting always meant to be the ruined Cylon Earth with a crashed Viper and her own corpse? Or had it been the primitive, unspoiled Earth? You might assume it was the latter since Kara felt good about what she'd seen.
She did come up with the coordinates that took them to the primitive Earth. But that was after they had gone to the dead Earth. I think she had seen both, but at this moment the primitive Earth was shining brighter in her memory, hence her look of peace and joy.
Wait, what? You mean the storyline we got wasn't the one the writers had intended for us?
Agree one of the best SF series. Interesting discussion on the web by the writers about Kara.
In the Galactica verse, a "Bogey" is a parallel thing. Humphrey Bogart was known for playing ambiguous characters, maybe good, maybe bad. An unknown- hence unknown contacts are so designated.
What a show. I hear they're making another remake. Lets hope its just as good🤞
So say we all.
Unbelievable perfection!
It's in the fracking ship!
BBC iPlayer has every episode currently playing, you're welcome
Beautiful track and episode🌠🌌
Note to self to avoid future disappointment: This clip does not contain The Galaxy Level Zoom.
I'll never think of this song the same.
You cut it off before the cinematic ending where the camera "pulls back" to show the entire battlefield and then pans to Earth.
You do that a lot, cut just before the big ending scene.
Oh come one, how do you upload this clip and then end it before the zoom out - zoom in reveal.
Please, bring back the Admiral Adama mourning Kara death video
It is no longer on Peacock…😢
I love the taking a leaf out of the original series book with this one.
You couldn’t leave the last 15 seconds in 😩 I was 🥲
Best fracking show there ever was in my opinion.
First recorded case of Cylon goosebumps..
I honestly thought "Scar" was back until I saw the Raptor shape
STILL can't figure out What Thrace was to this day.
An angel.
Like Six and Gaius, she was an Angel.
@@BDaMonkey Blazing with the light of god
what is the name of the song?
Bear McCreary(Battlestar Galactica Original Series soundtarck) - All Along the Watchtower
You did not just cut this clip off before the best part...
*HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD*
Gods dammit, Starbuck should've been the fifth. I don't say this because Ellen was a bad choice for the fifth, but because Starbuck was set up so well. Yes, it would've been obvious, but imagine how chilling the guitar cue at 2:40 would've been if it had been all but confirmed that she was a Cylon. The menacing, now decidedly Cylon nature of All Along the Watchtower contrasted with Kara just being Kara, but now also back from the dead is chilling in the most exquisite way.
When I watched the show I really thought she was one of the final five!! To me there were so many hints that set that up so well! I agree with you wholeheartedly. I was so convinced on her being a Cylon that I even started writing a fanfic where she is, just to make my own wishes come true hahaha
She - is - Back , Cara (Trace) is Back !!! ☁✈
Same vidéo with the end ? 😥
Welcome back Starbuck!
Love the music what Song ist that
All Along the Watchtower.
@@skippertheeyechild6621 found it myself 2 weeks ago
The Resurrection of Kara Thrace
In Battlestar Galactica Season 3 episode "Maelstrom", Kara Thrace vanishes mysteriously along with her Viper within a violent maelstrom around a gas giant planet. In the final scene before Kara disappears into the maelstrom, it's clear that even if she were to somehow survive, her Viper is starting to break up and will not make it back to Galactica intact.
When Kara miraculously returns to Galactica several months later, she is piloting an undamaged Viper and claims she has been to Earth, but has no recollection of the months during which she had been missing. In the cockpit of her Viper a homing beacon flashes, presumably indicating the location of Earth. Galactica tracks the signal to a dead planet that had been nuked 2000 years earlier, where Kara finds a wrecked Viper containing her own corpse.
Galactica subsequently discovers a verdant planet identified as a prehistoric version of our own Earth, where Kara once again vanishes without a trace. Whether Kara was a human, a Cylon, a ghost, or an angel is one of numerous puzzles left unexplained in the series finale.
Here is a theory that explains Kara Thrace's resurrection without resorting to supernatural intervention. It relies on relativistic time travel via wormhole, a not unreasonable conjecture in a universe where instantaneous Faster Than Light physics are employed for routine space travel.
1. After Kara vanishes into the maelstrom, she encounters a spacetime wormhole and blacks out as it transports her to a decaying orbit around nuked Earth. After recovering conciousness, she visually identifies the planet while her ship records its coordinates, activating its homing beacon. She then flies back through the wormhole, not realizing that months of time have relativistically elapsed during her return flight.
2. Galactica tracks down the nuked planet via the homing beacon, and there Kara discovers a wrecked Viper. In the Viper's cockpit she discovers a corpse and removes a charred copy of her own dogtags from around its neck. This is the corpse of her future self, who is destined to fly once more into the maelstrom. The wormhole will then hurl her back in time to crash on the nuked planet, a few months before it is tracked down by Galactica.
3. Kara gives her corpse's charred dogtags to Baltar on Galactica. Months later, Galactica discovers verdant Earth, and the colonists set about decomissioning their spacecraft. Kara realises that it is time for her to return to the maelstrom in her Viper and fulfill her destiny.
4. Kara uses the wormhole to travel back in time to rendevous with her past self in a decaying orbit around nuked Earth. At that point in time, her past self has blacked out, her Viper has suffered irreparable damage, and it is doomed to eventually crash into the planet. To prevent that fate from happening to past-Kara, future-Kara docks with the disabled Viper, drags unconscious past-Kara out of that ship and exchanges Vipers with her, leaving past-Kara to regain consciousness later in the undamaged Viper and discover nuked Earth. After past-Kara returns to Galactica through the wormhole, future-Kara rides the disabled Viper down to crash into the planet. It is only later that past-Kara will reconstruct what happened and recognize that she is destined to become her own guardian angel.
I like that theory very much. I hated the explanation given and her just vanishing which seemed very miracley and a copout by the writers. This retroactively, makes me like the finale way more. Thank you :)
Was this the moment BSG jumped the shark?
"I never doubted it"
That was huge backdays
Surprised she returned
So did we ever get an answer from the creators as to what and how she returned??? I remember when she vanished at the end still wondering what she was..
We never. After season two, the quality of writing evaporated. It really was as if they fired everyone and hired noobs
@@Leadbetter500 I will never understand why on earth people act like seasons 3 and 4 suddenly became garbage. I enjoyed them as much as the first two seasons.
and in answer to OP's question, it's a little ambiguous but I'm pretty sure she's intended as some kind of angel sent from the god or god-like higher power that had been interfering with the story all along. the visions of baltar and six which only the real baltar and caprica six can see have the same explanation I think
Mind: [Bleeped]
Nice
The last guy who did that was Jesus
Who's in Viper 3?
Assuming this isn't a joke question, it's Apollo. He states it in the next line with "Galactica, Apollo, I'm in Viper 3." Helo asked this since Apollo had resigned from the military during the Baltar case (hence why he was wearing a suit instead of his Colonial Fleet uniform), and therefore was no longer expected to sortie with the other Viper pilots.
ASMR episode.
Why did he ask who viper 3 was? Is that significant in any way?
Apollo wasn't regularly flying at this point his career, moving/moved to politics. He wanted to help where he could; hence move from suit to flight suit.
@@JonathanCirillo It's subtle, but I still contend that his tugging at the tie of his formal suit when danger calls is totally a Superman reference.
Good...
*spoilers* Oof. One of the biggest reveals of the show is now a UA-cam clip.
süper
This is where this show jumped the shark for me. This show was at it's best when it was people running from killer robots. It was at it's worst when it was trying to be all preachy and philosophical. This is where they went full on into the philosophy bull sh--.
Mama Roslin and Papa Adama
I want see this chapter of Battlestar Galactica, and now you send to UA-cam this video, thanks @BattlestrarGalactica.
Eu ri, eu chorei
Juss something about a girl in uniform... and flying fighters ;-)
Les boy a hechar a perder la
Serie x que hay 2verciones
1la historia hiper kilometrcamente larga de este cuento con 1 everest de relleno y que como la hicieron cansada y
La otra versión que es la
Ultra hiper + rápida que la velocidad de la luz de corta
Tienen 2 opciones para seleccionar la que + agradable quieren que les siga pues alli les va pues resulta que todos estan hechos de la misma porqueria todos son cilon'so como se Escrivá
Si tostadores de pan de caja
Y lava platos y uno que otro triturador de basura y cafetera si en efecto todos son lo que son cilon's y eso es todo no hay + y xsu atención gracias ok
I love everything about this show except the music in these scenes. That's a really bad cover of a really good song.
Seriously lose the music...
Never!
One of the biggest flaws of Season 4.
She is so wooden