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It is not just the corners that are cut in aesthetics befitting the legacy of the Twelve Colonies, the entire presentation is designed to mimic a holoband ( Like the ones used in pilot training BSG BLOOD AND CHROME) SO SAY WE ALL!! Quoted after Adm./Cmdr. William "Husker" Adama last Commanding Officer Battlestar Strike Group 75 Capital ship "GALACTICA"
Yeah, I thought about the ending a lot. It was writing genius to insert us into the story as descendants. I ‘pretended’ Laura Roslin had children, through whom we could link our genetic tree. I swooned over her character.
Romulus Numa I warning you, after mid season 3 the series becomes a shitshow of religious bullshit and retarded plots that go nowhere, and the series finale is as bad as the one from Lost.
I'm guessing you mean Ralph McQuarrie? aka the guy who created the look and feel that Lucas needed for Star Wars, since he was hired to create the base designs for the original BSG. They hired him because he had just had his falling out with Lucas and hence was free. Glen A. Larson, the actual creator of BSG, while he claims to have created the "Wagon Train to the stars" type of story since he claims Gene Roddenberry stole his pitch for Star Trek (claims that the pitch doc for BSG was meant to have been written in the late 50's/early 60's). While the truth of that claim is up in the air, what was clear is that Larson wanted to mix his Mormon beliefs into the creation of a project that was set in space. Mormonism and BSG was interlinked from the very first episode. Hell, they outright had the crew battle Satan while working with space angels (City of/Ship of Light). So religion has always been at the core of the series, regardless of which version.
Would love to see a series based on the Cylon perspective: how after the first war they left, where they went, what they did, how the Original 5 made the 8 models, how Daniel got boxed, the original 'earth', which was a nuked wasteland when the Galactica got there...
Great Video appreciate your avoidance of spoilers for the Nuggets. One point though, The 12 Colonies were not located in one solar system they were spread out across FOUR the systems Helios Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. Still patiently waiting on that Systems Commonwealth and Peacekeeper vids.
Though the 12 colonies orbited 4 different stars, they're referred to as 'Cyrannus' as a whole. It's unknown if each star is its own solar system or if it's just one system with four stars. I believe the latter is the most widely accepted one, though.
That's the Fiction in Science Fiction, it's actually way more probable than inventing Artificial Gravity which is a fantastical concept at best . Watch the whole series to the end and then we can talk about Far-Fetched aspects of the series lol
I wa just wondering: if all of this has happened before, then does that mean humanity is basically pulling a trail of worlds overtaken by their own creations behind in space. 'Cause if so, that is what one might call a fail of astronomical proportions.
3 dislikes.. So guess that's from Skynet, the Borg Queen and a random toaster.. Funny how someone remembered ancient Human zodiac and took it for new nation titles since they couldn't remember their origins.. apparently
@@yazanmowed i think, from what i can gather, as the saying in the show goes, "this story will happen time and time again. To some, it is beleived that the two Battlestar galactica shows are, in fact, not a reboot, but the same story. essentially, it happens over, and over again. Same names, but different people. Everytime Humanity advances, they create cylons, which rebel, destroy, causing humanity to restart on a new world. This could be a controlled experiment by the original Cylons to see how Humanity changes over time, as Cylons are always present no matter how many times the process repeats
It kinda said in a show that some higher entities, let's call them God and angels, are giving humanity opportunity to evolve time and time again... but each time Humanity destroys itself, mostly - in wars with enslaved AIs.
Leave to the Templin Institute to put a smile on my face after such a crappy day with a video about on the greatest Sci-fi shows of the first decade of the new Millennium hands down thanks 😁
This is one of those channels that I happen to stumble upon with the Turian video, and I've been a fan since. Even have my son watching them, pretty sure he's watched the C&C NOD video a dozen times at least.
I love your videos! This was one of your best! I know you have a Nod video and there are probably a lot of higher wanted ones but I would love a video about GDI aswell, your explanation of Nod gave me goosebumps from nostalgic hype, C&C is my childhood.
Awesome video! It makes me want to watch the series again. Again, great content! I do have two suggestions; 1) Andromeda Television Series: Commonwealth and High guard 2) Warhawk: Two leading factions, worlds, etc.
Dude... the true Sith Empire as Kreia described, was not that bullshit from TOR. We never got to see that empire as Obsidian envisioned it. It exists only in our imaginations.
Kreia was a traitor to the Jedi as well as a traitor to the Sith, I doubt she would have painted an objective picture of either the light or the dark side of the force even though it would have been interesting to follow her life as both as she was in some ways, similar to Revan. I would have loved to see a movie or a series of the Golden Age of the Sith under Marka Ragnos, Ludo Kressh, and Naga Sadow. Now those were true Sith! The original merging of the Dark Jedi after the Great Schism and the Sith species on Korriban. But nobody seems interested. Most want modern Rule of Two Sith like Palpatine and Vader, and are not interested in some of the more meaningful characters like Darth Marr, Darth Thanaton, or Darth Cognis (later Darth Nox). Look on UA-cam for the life of Darth Bane, it is an audiobook and actually a very good one.
I was waiting for that memoment. When I saw your channel (Despite when I found about you, it was a video that I was not interested with) I knew you will create content from series/movies I like. Later you created videos about Klingong and Romulan and I knew that soon you will create a video regarding my favorite series of all times, Battlestar Galactica and you did it. Thank you for doing it and I look forward for more of your videos in the future. So say we all
@@ronjon7942 if i could find an eaglemoss-like model of a hammerhead i would die happy. and i have the whole series on my system too - we need to protect these treasures!!!
Could you guys do a video for the Earth Federation and its military forces (while also talking about sub-factions such as: The Titans, AEUG/Karaba, League Militaire, Londo Bell, and ECOAS) from the Universal Century series of Gundam?
Hey Templin... So, its been 20+ years since the show premiered... Could you do a video on the Jupiter class Battlestars or a special feature on Galactica?
0:08 There's some Aurebesh hidden in there, which is known from Star Wars. What's that doing in Battlestar Galactica? I've already watched some of the remake, but clearly not all of them. I hope to watch all of them at some point.
I would love to work for your channel, particularly to “clean-up,” improve and better organize your PLAYLIST section. I highly recommend you expand this section to literally create a playlist for each show, movie, book, etc. For example, create one for Battlestar Galactica and one for Dune, and so on and so forth. I’d LOVE to do this for you as I’m an independent contractor who manages clients social media or sometimes works as a substitute helper instead of total management. Your channel is amazing and I’ve been watching, recommending, have subscribed and get all alerts. Keep up the outstanding work and let me know if you want or need help improving your playlist section.
Thank you for the video, I'm a big fan of your presentation and the depth of your work. I'd like to politely request videos on: Decepticons (IDW Universe) Functionists (IDW Universe) Cybrids (Earthsiege/Starsiege)
please breakdown the Mistborn. Allomancy, Feruchemy and Hemalurgy and the uses of each allomantic metal. or the 10 orders of Knights Radiant from the Stormlight Archive. or anything about the nations of Roshar from Stormlight. Difficult for you guys to do books, I know, but it would be so epic!!
It should be noted that the Colonial fleet's might at the time of the Cylon invasion was far greater than that of the Cylons. Without the virus placed in the Colonial defense mainframe the it would have been the Cylons who suffered a total defeat.
Do you have any sources confirming this? For what I know, we have no clues regarding the strenght of the cylon fleet. It could have been hundred of baseships and endless fighters. Even without the virus, their attack would have packed a serious punch on the colonial defenses.
@@Stephen64138 The Battlestar Galactica Miniseries episode Night 1 stated that the Colonial Fleet boasted over 120 Battlestars and an unknown (but probably far greater) number of support ships, and during the battle of New Caprica later in the show one antiquated Battlestar that was being decommissioned at the start of the show, operating with a skeleton crew and no Viper support could hold off 2 fresh, fully armed and escorted Basestars with relative ease. It wasn't even in trouble until they were outflanked, surrounded and later overwhelmed by 4 Basestars. And even then it survived. 120 modern fully armed, properly crewed and escorted Battlestars with a full complement of Vipers would have completely obliterated the Cylon fleet in a straight up engagement. Sure, a few might've been lost but it would still have been a crushing and fatal defeat for the Cylons. Baltar's CNP backdoor virus was the lynchpin of their attack.
@@akiramasashi9317 Ok... I'm sorry but we will have to disagree on this. First of, during the miniserie, the Galactica did not hold off ''with relative ease'' against the cylons. It ran away from every engagements after few minutes of combat. Without being able to strike back directly at the enemy. They were nearly constantly on the defensive and the run during the show. In fact, the colonials in the show (up to mid season 3 when it got a little bit far fetched and really ''tv ish'') attacks the cyclons directly only 4 times that I know of at the moment (Cylon relay in Razor, Tylium refinery, Resurrection ship and Rescue on New Caprica). And even if we can count all these attacks as victories, they suffered heavy losses all the time. The Resurrection Ship battle is the most relevant example of a direct confrontation on equal grounds. 2 Battlestars vs 2 Baseships. And we know only for sure that they managed (not with ease) to destroy one baseship. I know there's some sources out there saying that the cylons are not match for the colonials and that 1 viper is worth 100 cylon raiders but allow me to laugh at this. It happens in all TV shows. At first, the ennemy is shown as super strong and it takes insane efforts to bring him down, and 2 season later they just die like flies to make more views and raise the hype. But this is crap and ridiculous. During the miniserie, Lee and Starbuck have a hard time against the cylons raiders. And later on, it's barely if they are a treat whatsoever. This is television... ^^ The cylon Baseships are designed to match the battlestars. And the battlestars are made (theoretically) to match their cylon's counterparts. And we know that the cylons have a lot of them. Also, even without the virus, you seem to forget that the cylons have infiltrated the colonial society at multiple levels. They know where are the colonies, how they work, what are their weeknesses, what to strike etc. They could have, even without the virus, launch the war, jumped into orbit, launched their missiles and jumped back. Even if 90% of the missiles had been intercepted, the colonies would have suffered tens if not perhaps hundreds of millions of deaths. In the first day. Moral would be down to the ground and that would have only be the start. And the cylons could have striked again any time while the colonials pretty much unable to strike back. (REMEMBER THAT THE CYLONS SHIPS CAN JUMP MUCH FARTHER THAN THE HUMAN ONES). This theoretical war could have last years or decades and left the colonies in a state of utter devastation. Yes, the colonials may have won this war. Humans are resourceful and with more ships, officers like Cain, a good leadership and some tech gap filler along the way to match the cylons on strategic level, the colonials may have won. But to say that it would have been easy, sorry but it's the same thing as people who say to me that the U.S. could defeat Russia easily... Nope. Not easily.
@@Stephen64138 We'll just have to agree to disagree. The reason the Colonials ran in almost every engagement is because they initially only had 1 real warship and their objective was to find Earth, not to battle the Cylons, and any damage done to Galactica or later to Pegasus would have been irreparable without drydocks and infrastructure. Adama knew this and only fought the absolute bare minimum of necessary battles. Pegasus had the facilities to produce new Vipers and train new pilots but fixing Battlestars and replacing personnel on those takes a lot more. During The Battle of the Resurrection Ship the Pegasus and Galactica purposefully didn't come in guns blazing since they had to take out the Resurrection Ship's FTL first with the Stealth Viper. During the New Caprica battle the Pegasus' forward guns cut through a Basestar in one volley, and Galactica survived a minutes long pounding from 4 ships. If Lee Adama wasn't such a worthless commander he could have destroyed all 4 Basestars in short order, but he came into the battle fully committed to sacrificing his ship. And yes, colonial society was infiltrated at multiple levels, but all of those were with the sole purpose of finding a weakness in the Colonial defenses, which the CNP backdoor virus became, and they'd still be stuck on the Colonies. And I seriously doubt the Cylons could just jump in, do their thing and jump out again. It takes time to prime nukes and to charge up their FTL again, even if they could jump further. Maybe if they suicide crashed into the planets themselves they could do some serious damage but otherwise planetary defenses would intercept everything. Even *IF* a handful of nukes actually landed and destroyed a couple of cities on less defended words it would just stoke the Colonials' fury even further. They produced 120+ capital ships in peacetime, with older model ships being decommissioned to serve as Museums. With a war economy and thirst for vengeance they would utterly overwhelm the Cylons. Just how many ships could the Colonial Navy bring out of Mothballs on short notice if even the legendary Galactica was being decommissioned? How many more would be built in the months that followed? Even if the Cylon Colony was never found every Cylon battlegroup would be outnumbered and outgunned. The roles would essentially be reversed, with Cylons running halfway across the universe. Humanity managed to win during the 1st Cylon War when they were outnumbered and outgunned and were hit with a surprise rebellion from within. They only had a small handful of Battlestars to defend 12 worlds with back then. With the Colonies fully armed and defended against an outside threat with *120* Battlestars the Cylon attack would have been completely eradicated and the vast bulk if not the entirety of their military would've been lost in one fell swoop. It would not only be easy for the colonials, it would have been an overwhelming, crushing victory.
I listened to another Templin analysis that indicated the Cylons either didn’t think they’d be successful, or didn’t think they’d survive, a protracted conflict with the Colonials. Their strategy involved…well, we know what their strategy was. There’s no way it would be easy to defeat the Cylons, but given what we know of the fleet strength of the Colonies and what we learned of the Cylons from the series, it’s pretty clear the Colonials would have eventually crushed the Cylons. But it’s irrelevant, because the Cylons would never attack in that fashion unless they amassed overwhelming superiority first. They’re machines; they can do the math. Plus they’re patient. And with Resurrection technology, they’ll always have the ability to survive the casualty count. Great conversation. Even though I’ve watched the series four times, I’m still learning so much lore that every series binge still has newness about the storyline to me. For example, I didn’t know there were 120 BattleStars, nor that 30 were wiped out in hours. Comments like these are awesome for looking into details that heighten the taste of the story.
Makes you wonder. When Lee makes the idea of getting rid of all the technology and ships and to essentially go to a pre iron age setting to break the cycle. He is simply doing exactly what the original colonies did when they arrived on the 12 planets. So really, The cycle wasn't broken....It was simply restarted.
I know this is a year later but I just finished re watching the series. In BSG there are a few episodes that flash back to some of the survivors lives before the attack, there’s one episode in season four that takes place almost entirely on Caprica before the fall
As side note, how much I liked twist it didn't really make sense in case of Kobol symbolism. It isn't a secret that Colonies were inspired by Zodiac, what was obvious hint toward localization of Earth. Except it was different Earth...
I wished the colonies were flushed out more. Everyone is pretty much from Caprica, Tauron, and Picon. It be great to see folks from Libran. I imagine Libran being a mash up between Washington DC Los Angeles. So a mix of lawyer & legislator types with celebrities & hollywood types. It would also been interesting if they introduced that one of the colonies was still run by a monoarchy. Maybe a story for the Galactica reboot.
I would honestly love to see a video about the Systems Alliance from Mass Effect! I mean you already did the Turians. Might as well show some favor for Earth 😉
There are things in Galactica canon and even deadlock that were never explained with any clarity that I had always wondered about... particularly locations... For example: - where is Djerba located in relation to the 12 colonies double binary solar system, and is it a planet or moon... - where is the Armistice station and armistice line in relation to the 12 colonies double binary solar system... spinward? anti-spinward? elsewhere? - locations and even names of the so called 'frontier' colonies in deadlock anabasis in relation to the 12 colonies double binary solar system.
In reference to your "Naming your interstellar empire" video. What are your thoughts on Imperial Federation of (insert place of origin)? Territory is taken by force or threat of force, but to unburden any central government, every system/region/whatever has political autonomy. The only central body is the military force that created the union, under a single leader. The leader is a Warlord (no noble birth, took power on own merits) but accepted the title Emperor in lieu of the more obvious aggressive title.
My theory is that kobol wasn't the planet humans evolved on. I think it's like the 12 colonies. And that the gods kobol of were the cylons from their war with humans before. As they say it's happened before it'll happen again 🤷🏻♀️
@The Templin Institute - I know the reason how the Cylons got access: they worked with Dr. Baldar on the navigation software which contained malware , both was installed on fleet system which are all interconnected ( = fatal flaw that granted total access incl. powering down the reactors) except the Galactica that still has NO networking due to the Cylon war era ... the Pegasus which was in the dock just in time recognized the malware & escaped.
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DO ONE ON NEO ZEON!
More 40k pls. Thanks.
make a video of the principality of belka
+Antonio NO THE PRINCIPALITY OF ZEON NEXT!
hell no Principality Of Belka
NO MORE MISTER NICE GAIUS!
Nice touch with the corners.
Thank you! I've been waiting for someone to mention this.
I didn't notice this till I read your post, but yes, VERY COOL! 😆😀☺
So say we all!
Still cutting them ;-)
It is not just the corners that are cut in aesthetics befitting the legacy of the Twelve Colonies, the entire presentation is designed to mimic a holoband ( Like the ones used in pilot training BSG BLOOD AND CHROME)
SO SAY WE ALL!!
Quoted after Adm./Cmdr. William "Husker" Adama last Commanding Officer Battlestar Strike Group 75 Capital ship "GALACTICA"
The depth of this story is beyond epic. It could easily be humanity's forgotten past.
Spoilers*
My dog punched me out of the universe
Yeah, I thought about the ending a lot. It was writing genius to insert us into the story as descendants. I ‘pretended’ Laura Roslin had children, through whom we could link our genetic tree. I swooned over her character.
I knew what Battlestar Galactica was about but some how I didn't think it would be this dark.
It's a great show but it's dogged in politics and religious goings on that in the end answer absolutely no questions.
oh this doesn't even do justice to how dark it was.
Romulus Numa I warning you, after mid season 3 the series becomes a shitshow of religious bullshit and retarded plots that go nowhere, and the series finale is as bad as the one from Lost.
SpockBorg5 what are you talking about? The original series was a shameful Star Wars clone mixed with LDS bullcrap.
I'm guessing you mean Ralph McQuarrie? aka the guy who created the look and feel that Lucas needed for Star Wars, since he was hired to create the base designs for the original BSG. They hired him because he had just had his falling out with Lucas and hence was free.
Glen A. Larson, the actual creator of BSG, while he claims to have created the "Wagon Train to the stars" type of story since he claims Gene Roddenberry stole his pitch for Star Trek (claims that the pitch doc for BSG was meant to have been written in the late 50's/early 60's). While the truth of that claim is up in the air, what was clear is that Larson wanted to mix his Mormon beliefs into the creation of a project that was set in space. Mormonism and BSG was interlinked from the very first episode. Hell, they outright had the crew battle Satan while working with space angels (City of/Ship of Light). So religion has always been at the core of the series, regardless of which version.
"Sometimes, you have to roll a hard six."
Mmhmmm
Would love to see a series based on the Cylon perspective: how after the first war they left, where they went, what they did, how the Original 5 made the 8 models, how Daniel got boxed, the original 'earth', which was a nuked wasteland when the Galactica got there...
Yes
I’d like to see a prequel on Kobol
I never watched Battlestar Galactica, the original or the remake…
…But now I want to.
Same
I think the entire series is up on Hulu. It's a fantastic show
The reimagined series was just fraking awesome. Some of the Cylons were really hot!
The remake is really amazing tbh
the remake is just GARBAGE! The Original IS Battlestar Galactica!
There is always a epic feel to these presentations.
A professional feel and style are always present.
So Say We All !
SO SAY WE ALL !!!
Great Video appreciate your avoidance of spoilers for the Nuggets. One point though, The 12 Colonies were not located in one solar system they were spread out across FOUR the systems Helios Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. Still patiently waiting on that Systems Commonwealth and Peacekeeper vids.
Though the 12 colonies orbited 4 different stars, they're referred to as 'Cyrannus' as a whole. It's unknown if each star is its own solar system or if it's just one system with four stars. I believe the latter is the most widely accepted one, though.
Sultan it is, there was a official cannon map made by QMx that shows each in detail.
I love the map but still four ultra-habitable systems orbiting each other seems a little bit far-fetched.
That's the Fiction in Science Fiction, it's actually way more probable than inventing Artificial Gravity which is a fantastical concept at best . Watch the whole series to the end and then we can talk about Far-Fetched aspects of the series lol
+Matt Mercer I'm sure it's possible. There are million of stars out there.
Fraking Cylons.
chancellorjake and the moment you get to know their motivations... It gets much worse/petty
Remember the term toaster is racist
@@brianlindee588 Racist, or Specist? The Cylons aren't humans, even though they look like us.
@Maria Kelly OK. Fraking, Toasters!
They are still out there
and I wonder how their Evolution panned out
I wa just wondering: if all of this has happened before, then does that mean humanity is basically pulling a trail of worlds overtaken by their own creations behind in space. 'Cause if so, that is what one might call a fail of astronomical proportions.
Love the narration. Better than the robotic voices I've heard on other channels.
Your narrator is bloody marvellous.
She has the perfect voice for this.
Excellent tone and pitch.
Reminds me of the First Officer Cadet on the Valiant in DS9's episode 'Valiant'. A great authoritative voice.
Agreed
3 dislikes.. So guess that's from Skynet, the Borg Queen and a random toaster..
Funny how someone remembered ancient Human zodiac and took it for new nation titles since they couldn't remember their origins.. apparently
If Kobol was a controlled experiment then it's plausible.
@@mattmercer8269 Can you please elaborate?
@@mattmercer8269 it isn't
@@yazanmowed i think, from what i can gather, as the saying in the show goes, "this story will happen time and time again. To some, it is beleived that the two Battlestar galactica shows are, in fact, not a reboot, but the same story. essentially, it happens over, and over again. Same names, but different people. Everytime Humanity advances, they create cylons, which rebel, destroy, causing humanity to restart on a new world. This could be a controlled experiment by the original Cylons to see how Humanity changes over time, as Cylons are always present no matter how many times the process repeats
It kinda said in a show that some higher entities, let's call them God and angels, are giving humanity opportunity to evolve time and time again... but each time Humanity destroys itself, mostly - in wars with enslaved AIs.
This is a fantastic video! Really superbly explained and discussed, very enjoyable. Fans and newbies alike will enjoy this video. Very well done!
One of my all time favorite series. Thank you!
Leave to the Templin Institute to put a smile on my face after such a crappy day with a video about on the greatest Sci-fi shows of the first decade of the new Millennium hands down thanks 😁
This is one of those channels that I happen to stumble upon with the Turian video, and I've been a fan since. Even have my son watching them, pretty sure he's watched the C&C NOD video a dozen times at least.
Thank ya kindly!
I love your videos! This was one of your best!
I know you have a Nod video and there are probably a lot of higher wanted ones but I would love a video about GDI aswell, your explanation of Nod gave me goosebumps from nostalgic hype, C&C is my childhood.
Yes. GDI please!
GDI would be nice indeed :)
Awesome video! It makes me want to watch the series again. Again, great content!
I do have two suggestions;
1) Andromeda Television Series: Commonwealth and High guard
2) Warhawk: Two leading factions, worlds, etc.
Do the Kushan/Hiigarans from Homeworld! That kind of story in your formatting would be amazing.
S31Syntax fun fact. Homeworld originally was gonna be a classic bsg game
@@yamiblade Actually really glad it wasn't. The same game but with the skin of the original BSG would have ruined it a bit imo.
True Sith Empire from Star Wars The Old Republic, please.
Dude... the true Sith Empire as Kreia described, was not that bullshit from TOR. We never got to see that empire as Obsidian envisioned it. It exists only in our imaginations.
Kreia was a traitor to the Jedi as well as a traitor to the Sith, I doubt she would have painted an objective picture of either the light or the dark side of the force even though it would have been interesting to follow her life as both as she was in some ways, similar to Revan. I would have loved to see a movie or a series of the Golden Age of the Sith under Marka Ragnos, Ludo Kressh, and Naga Sadow. Now those were true Sith! The original merging of the Dark Jedi after the Great Schism and the Sith species on Korriban. But nobody seems interested. Most want modern Rule of Two Sith like Palpatine and Vader, and are not interested in some of the more meaningful characters like Darth Marr, Darth Thanaton, or Darth Cognis (later Darth Nox). Look on UA-cam for the life of Darth Bane, it is an audiobook and actually a very good one.
Got to love that bell :) Good one as always love a bit of battlestar :)
This is pretty incredible. Great job!
Short, sweet and to the point. Another great video.
Again, and again, and again, and again... like my rewatching of the series :)
Love the channel and all of your videos. Keep up the good work!! :D
I really like this series. I would like to see an episode on the faction of the Allied States of America from the TV series Jericho.
I was waiting for that memoment. When I saw your channel (Despite when I found about you, it was a video that I was not interested with) I knew you will create content from series/movies I like. Later you created videos about Klingong and Romulan and I knew that soon you will create a video regarding my favorite series of all times, Battlestar Galactica and you did it. Thank you for doing it and I look forward for more of your videos in the future. So say we all
Now everything Spacedock has been saying makes sense.
Excellent positivity excellent expounding on what happen to the 12 tribes. More pleaseeee
I'd love to see an episode on Space: Above and Beyond - one of my favorite series!!
Yes! I have it somewhere on one of my computers. I really liked that show - even though it’s been at least ten years, I had thought it aged very well.
@@ronjon7942 if i could find an eaglemoss-like model of a hammerhead i would die happy. and i have the whole series on my system too - we need to protect these treasures!!!
Excellent episode, about the Best series of all time!
Could you guys do a video for the Earth Federation and its military forces (while also talking about sub-factions such as: The Titans, AEUG/Karaba, League Militaire, Londo Bell, and ECOAS) from the Universal Century series of Gundam?
I cant belive i've never heard of this channel before, absolutely fantastic content!!
Starbuck, what do you hear?
Nothing but the rain.
Nothin' but the rain.
Lord Nox Boom, Boom, Boom!
@@SapphireCrusader1988 Then grab you gun and bring the cat in!
6:45 Woah they have Chrysler 300s on Caprica too!
Very well put together. Love it!
OMG I just discovered this channel and I’m so happy I wish I could kiss you guys this is the coolest channel I’ve ever found
Hey Templin... So, its been 20+ years since the show premiered... Could you do a video on the Jupiter class Battlestars or a special feature on Galactica?
Can you guys PLEASE do the starship troopers federation ! Keep the vids coming, love the content
Oh frak yes.
Sultan mother fracking Right
You should cover the various Republics that form after The Blackout in NBC's "Revolution" .
0:08 There's some Aurebesh hidden in there, which is known from Star Wars. What's that doing in Battlestar Galactica?
I've already watched some of the remake, but clearly not all of them. I hope to watch all of them at some point.
Please do the Peacekeepers from Farscape.
Yes please
I would love to work for your channel, particularly to “clean-up,” improve and better organize your PLAYLIST section. I highly recommend you expand this section to literally create a playlist for each show, movie, book, etc. For example, create one for Battlestar Galactica and one for Dune, and so on and so forth. I’d LOVE to do this for you as I’m an independent contractor who manages clients social media or sometimes works as a substitute helper instead of total management.
Your channel is amazing and I’ve been watching, recommending, have subscribed and get all alerts. Keep up the outstanding work and let me know if you want or need help improving your playlist section.
Thank you for the video, I'm a big fan of your presentation and the depth of your work.
I'd like to politely request videos on:
Decepticons (IDW Universe)
Functionists (IDW Universe)
Cybrids (Earthsiege/Starsiege)
toasters are a threat !
...welp, we're toast.
gives a whole new meaning to "the brave little toaster".....
Gianni Pinotto I make my toast and unplug them as soon as I’m done
Toaster Lives Matter
Yeaaaaaah and does skinjobs to
My absolute favorite! Thanks!
This was cool, keep up the great work!! I'd have to agree with other users hoping to see the races in Freelancer video.
I'm so glad I found this channel
Thanks so much for another awesome video! I would love to see videos for any of the Wheel of Time factions. Thanks!
please breakdown the Mistborn. Allomancy, Feruchemy and Hemalurgy and the uses of each allomantic metal. or the 10 orders of Knights Radiant from the Stormlight Archive. or anything about the nations of Roshar from Stormlight. Difficult for you guys to do books, I know, but it would be so epic!!
Sanjo The Mango I would love that
The Great Houses of the Landsraad (Dune).
A very well crafted video, I applaud you!
So say we all!
So say we all!
Suggestion: The Terran Empire (Star Trek, The original series, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Discovery).
It should be noted that the Colonial fleet's might at the time of the Cylon invasion was far greater than that of the Cylons. Without the virus placed in the Colonial defense mainframe the it would have been the Cylons who suffered a total defeat.
Do you have any sources confirming this?
For what I know, we have no clues regarding the strenght of the cylon fleet. It could have been hundred of baseships and endless fighters. Even without the virus, their attack would have packed a serious punch on the colonial defenses.
@@Stephen64138 The Battlestar Galactica Miniseries episode Night 1 stated that the Colonial Fleet boasted over 120 Battlestars and an unknown (but probably far greater) number of support ships, and during the battle of New Caprica later in the show one antiquated Battlestar that was being decommissioned at the start of the show, operating with a skeleton crew and no Viper support could hold off 2 fresh, fully armed and escorted Basestars with relative ease. It wasn't even in trouble until they were outflanked, surrounded and later overwhelmed by 4 Basestars. And even then it survived. 120 modern fully armed, properly crewed and escorted Battlestars with a full complement of Vipers would have completely obliterated the Cylon fleet in a straight up engagement. Sure, a few might've been lost but it would still have been a crushing and fatal defeat for the Cylons. Baltar's CNP backdoor virus was the lynchpin of their attack.
@@akiramasashi9317 Ok... I'm sorry but we will have to disagree on this. First of, during the miniserie, the Galactica did not hold off ''with relative ease'' against the cylons. It ran away from every engagements after few minutes of combat. Without being able to strike back directly at the enemy. They were nearly constantly on the defensive and the run during the show.
In fact, the colonials in the show (up to mid season 3 when it got a little bit far fetched and really ''tv ish'') attacks the cyclons directly only 4 times that I know of at the moment (Cylon relay in Razor, Tylium refinery, Resurrection ship and Rescue on New Caprica). And even if we can count all these attacks as victories, they suffered heavy losses all the time.
The Resurrection Ship battle is the most relevant example of a direct confrontation on equal grounds. 2 Battlestars vs 2 Baseships. And we know only for sure that they managed (not with ease) to destroy one baseship.
I know there's some sources out there saying that the cylons are not match for the colonials and that 1 viper is worth 100 cylon raiders but allow me to laugh at this. It happens in all TV shows. At first, the ennemy is shown as super strong and it takes insane efforts to bring him down, and 2 season later they just die like flies to make more views and raise the hype.
But this is crap and ridiculous. During the miniserie, Lee and Starbuck have a hard time against the cylons raiders. And later on, it's barely if they are a treat whatsoever. This is television... ^^
The cylon Baseships are designed to match the battlestars. And the battlestars are made (theoretically) to match their cylon's counterparts. And we know that the cylons have a lot of them.
Also, even without the virus, you seem to forget that the cylons have infiltrated the colonial society at multiple levels. They know where are the colonies, how they work, what are their weeknesses, what to strike etc. They could have, even without the virus, launch the war, jumped into orbit, launched their missiles and jumped back. Even if 90% of the missiles had been intercepted, the colonies would have suffered tens if not perhaps hundreds of millions of deaths. In the first day. Moral would be down to the ground and that would have only be the start. And the cylons could have striked again any time while the colonials pretty much unable to strike back. (REMEMBER THAT THE CYLONS SHIPS CAN JUMP MUCH FARTHER THAN THE HUMAN ONES). This theoretical war could have last years or decades and left the colonies in a state of utter devastation.
Yes, the colonials may have won this war. Humans are resourceful and with more ships, officers like Cain, a good leadership and some tech gap filler along the way to match the cylons on strategic level, the colonials may have won.
But to say that it would have been easy, sorry but it's the same thing as people who say to me that the U.S. could defeat Russia easily... Nope. Not easily.
@@Stephen64138 We'll just have to agree to disagree. The reason the Colonials ran in almost every engagement is because they initially only had 1 real warship and their objective was to find Earth, not to battle the Cylons, and any damage done to Galactica or later to Pegasus would have been irreparable without drydocks and infrastructure. Adama knew this and only fought the absolute bare minimum of necessary battles. Pegasus had the facilities to produce new Vipers and train new pilots but fixing Battlestars and replacing personnel on those takes a lot more. During The Battle of the Resurrection Ship the Pegasus and Galactica purposefully didn't come in guns blazing since they had to take out the Resurrection Ship's FTL first with the Stealth Viper. During the New Caprica battle the Pegasus' forward guns cut through a Basestar in one volley, and Galactica survived a minutes long pounding from 4 ships. If Lee Adama wasn't such a worthless commander he could have destroyed all 4 Basestars in short order, but he came into the battle fully committed to sacrificing his ship.
And yes, colonial society was infiltrated at multiple levels, but all of those were with the sole purpose of finding a weakness in the Colonial defenses, which the CNP backdoor virus became, and they'd still be stuck on the Colonies. And I seriously doubt the Cylons could just jump in, do their thing and jump out again. It takes time to prime nukes and to charge up their FTL again, even if they could jump further. Maybe if they suicide crashed into the planets themselves they could do some serious damage but otherwise planetary defenses would intercept everything. Even *IF* a handful of nukes actually landed and destroyed a couple of cities on less defended words it would just stoke the Colonials' fury even further. They produced 120+ capital ships in peacetime, with older model ships being decommissioned to serve as Museums. With a war economy and thirst for vengeance they would utterly overwhelm the Cylons. Just how many ships could the Colonial Navy bring out of Mothballs on short notice if even the legendary Galactica was being decommissioned? How many more would be built in the months that followed? Even if the Cylon Colony was never found every Cylon battlegroup would be outnumbered and outgunned. The roles would essentially be reversed, with Cylons running halfway across the universe.
Humanity managed to win during the 1st Cylon War when they were outnumbered and outgunned and were hit with a surprise rebellion from within. They only had a small handful of Battlestars to defend 12 worlds with back then. With the Colonies fully armed and defended against an outside threat with *120* Battlestars the Cylon attack would have been completely eradicated and the vast bulk if not the entirety of their military would've been lost in one fell swoop.
It would not only be easy for the colonials, it would have been an overwhelming, crushing victory.
I listened to another Templin analysis that indicated the Cylons either didn’t think they’d be successful, or didn’t think they’d survive, a protracted conflict with the Colonials. Their strategy involved…well, we know what their strategy was.
There’s no way it would be easy to defeat the Cylons, but given what we know of the fleet strength of the Colonies and what we learned of the Cylons from the series, it’s pretty clear the Colonials would have eventually crushed the Cylons.
But it’s irrelevant, because the Cylons would never attack in that fashion unless they amassed overwhelming superiority first. They’re machines; they can do the math. Plus they’re patient. And with Resurrection technology, they’ll always have the ability to survive the casualty count.
Great conversation. Even though I’ve watched the series four times, I’m still learning so much lore that every series binge still has newness about the storyline to me. For example, I didn’t know there were 120 BattleStars, nor that 30 were wiped out in hours. Comments like these are awesome for looking into details that heighten the taste of the story.
Beautifully Told...
Wonderful, magnificent video! Thanks!!!
Makes you wonder.
When Lee makes the idea of getting rid of all the technology and ships and to essentially go to a pre iron age setting to break the cycle. He is simply doing exactly what the original colonies did when they arrived on the 12 planets.
So really, The cycle wasn't broken....It was simply restarted.
Hey where did you get the the post “Caprica” pre BSG clips? Was there a movie / mini series of the colon wars???
I know this is a year later but I just finished re watching the series. In BSG there are a few episodes that flash back to some of the survivors lives before the attack, there’s one episode in season four that takes place almost entirely on Caprica before the fall
That was the serie "Caprica".
Only 2 seassons, sadly.
Regards
As side note, how much I liked twist it didn't really make sense in case of Kobol symbolism. It isn't a secret that Colonies were inspired by Zodiac, what was obvious hint toward localization of Earth. Except it was different Earth...
So comforting to see the battlestars ablaze!
would love to see something about The Resistance and Enlightened factions from the Online Game Ingress
I'd like to request the ShinRa Electrical Company from Final Fantasy VII.
Also, love your videos and the channel in general! Keep up the good work.
Nicely done. Great work!!!
Thanks for your work.
It would be appreciated if you produce more analogy regarding the Battlestar Galactica.
Nia
Wow this is awesome. I love this. Instant subscribe.
Wow, this is awesome! Thank you!
Wait, wait, wait........... are they space Trojans?
Nanomachines Son! More like space Greeks with a dash of Jeasus
OMG....
It was Rome.
So Space Romans
Space Mormons
Hell yeah. Sign me up! I just hope it's not regurgitating all thats gone before and leaves room for new characters and new stuff.
I have been waiting for this!!!
At 3:22 there is pre cylon war valkyrie class battlestar in the bottom left
This video earned you a subscription.
Do something on the Terrain Dominion from StarCraft.
Mari McGee heh I was just about to comment this.
That would be great. But I'm more interested to see how much hate it would get from Warhammer 40k fans.
The Daelaam imho would make a better video
Any chance you guys could do an episode on one or more nations for the Ace Combat series of games?
Fantastic!!!!
Would love to see you tackle classic BSG!!!!
I don't think enough is known about that, for such an episode.
An intense history of infighting when it happens.
Wow...amazing!!! Keep up the good work!!!
Could you do The Fondation from the Foundation series of Asimov? I don't know if you will find pictures though. ^^
I wished the colonies were flushed out more. Everyone is pretty much from Caprica, Tauron, and Picon. It be great to see folks from Libran. I imagine Libran being a mash up between Washington DC Los Angeles. So a mix of lawyer & legislator types with celebrities & hollywood types. It would also been interesting if they introduced that one of the colonies was still run by a monoarchy. Maybe a story for the Galactica reboot.
I would honestly love to see a video about the Systems Alliance from Mass Effect! I mean you already did the Turians. Might as well show some favor for Earth 😉
There are things in Galactica canon and even deadlock that were never explained with any clarity that I had always wondered about... particularly locations... For example:
- where is Djerba located in relation to the 12 colonies double binary solar system, and is it a planet or moon...
- where is the Armistice station and armistice line in relation to the 12 colonies double binary solar system... spinward? anti-spinward? elsewhere?
- locations and even names of the so called 'frontier' colonies in deadlock anabasis in relation to the 12 colonies double binary solar system.
So say we all... that was beautiful. 👍🏻👍🏻
Hello The Templin Institute! Can you please do a video about the history of the Wraith in stargate atlantis??
thanks for putting everything in a row.
In reference to your "Naming your interstellar empire" video.
What are your thoughts on Imperial Federation of (insert place of origin)? Territory is taken by force or threat of force, but to unburden any central government, every system/region/whatever has political autonomy. The only central body is the military force that created the union, under a single leader. The leader is a Warlord (no noble birth, took power on own merits) but accepted the title Emperor in lieu of the more obvious aggressive title.
I was so waiting for this... Awesome
I've watched everything related to BSG out there (except for caprica) and i don't recognize a l lot of these scenes
Truly well done.
I never knew the story that was top-notch thank you
My theory is that kobol wasn't the planet humans evolved on. I think it's like the 12 colonies. And that the gods kobol of were the cylons from their war with humans before. As they say it's happened before it'll happen again 🤷🏻♀️
Flashback "by your command"
Beautiful video.
Why weren't a counter cylons robot series made to fight the cylons?
Huh. Interesting question.
@The Templin Institute -
I know the reason how the Cylons got access: they worked with Dr. Baldar on the navigation software which contained malware , both was installed on fleet system which are all interconnected ( = fatal flaw that granted total access incl. powering down the reactors) except the Galactica that still has NO networking due to the Cylon war era ... the Pegasus which was in the dock just in time recognized the malware & escaped.
Empire of the Isles from Dishonored, please?
Could we get a report on the Brotherhood of Steel? That would be most interesting to see
Houses, Cults and Guilds of Dune would be great videos.