When I was a kid, I couldn't wait for Sunday night. After the evening news was over, we descended into the basement of our home, dimmed the lights, and immersed ourselves in a new age of sci-fi television, thanks to the success of Star Wars, which was released a year earlier. I am so thankful that I experienced the original Star Wars in the movie theaters. I think we went about 3 times to see it. Then along came Battlestar Galactica, which carried on the tradition. What a great time in my life.
We could only go to the movies or watch the tv shows, unable to imagine being able to have them in our homes to watch whenever we wanted to. To imagine that would have driven us crazy...
From modern perspective, the original BSG looks like cheap copy of star wars and star trek. 2004's reboot looks so much better in terms of how it written and developed in general.
@@angeltensey The new Battlestar Galactica lacks the magic and charismatic actors like Lorne Green, John Colicos, ect... The story is not evenly remotely connected to Star Wars or Star Trek. That is simply your perception.
When you consider this was a weekly serial in the late 1970s, this show actually had very impressive special effects and the stories were typically quite good.
Yes, it did, I was alive then, and a Teenager, & this was one of my favorite shows, but what you spoke of was also it's doom, the special effects used then was so expensive that they couldn't afford to do it anymore, though fans were disappointed the series was cancelled, they tried a less expensive way through Galactica 1980 that didn't need nearly as much special effects but that series was a huge disappointment
Yeah, I loved this show as a kid. Even though they recycled so many shots, the lack of CGI made this a very expensive production and it kinda ran outta steam plot-wise. It's always fun to laugh at "Galactica 1980"! In some ways I appreciated the simplistic plot-lines and dialog when compared to the reboot. That one obviously had fantastic VFX and I loved the dark realism, but it became overly complex, and the resolution got too deep and weird. I guess that's what happens when you have sci-fi shows with vague story-arcs and producers don't know how many seasons it will last. Andromeda, B5, Westworld...
Larry Johnston True. The series was a huge hit, but the budget was too large and the show was cancelled. The ratings were very good, and the show had a large fan base but CGI didn't exist back then and the effects were expensive; that's why there was so much stock footage. Sadly, after one season they pulled the plug.
Wow. That is a lot of money, even by today's standards. I wish they could have kept it on the air for at least 1 or 2 more seasons. I loved the show from the start, but by the time The Hand Of God aired, you could really see the chemistry between the various characters starting to emerge. What might have been. Too bad, very regrettable
I cannot recall watching a televsion series that begins with the destuction of billions of people. BSG had its flaws but it had heart, mythology, great chemistry between the actors, majestic music & beautiful ships like the galactica & viper. It was a different time & we will never see the likes of her again.
Yeah. They really couldn't explore the more dark stuff on the show. The network let them do a little darker story telling in the early episodes but the network wanted to minimize violence. Hell the network made them switch the Cylons from aliens in suits to robots to minimize the killing :) Imagine if this show were rebooted on a pay network like Netflix but more true to the original concept.
@@331Grabber Did you ever try the reimagined series? I just finished it today and I have to say it was amazing. It deft is diff to the original but it may just be what you are looking for.
@@VengeanceN7 Yeah. I really enjoyed the reimagined BSG up until the final 5 plot started. I considered that one of the most spectacular shark jumpings a show has ever made. But the first 2 1/2 seasons were some of the best television ever produced. Ron Moore ruined the show trying to be unpredictable because fans kept figuring out the plot. The original had great roots but television wasn't ready for that kind of story told seriously. The network wanted a Star Wars knock off that was safe for the whole family:) Oh well. Maybe we'll get another reboot of the show.
I really don't like the 2004 rebooted series. I prefer "The Original Battlestar Galactica" TV Show from 1979. It's less dark and more kid/family friendly and has lasers instead of bullets. CenturionSerpentine Can you please upload more space battle clips from "The Original Battlestar Galactica" epic TV Show?
CKVU (a then independent Vancouver station, now part of City TV) would show this before 60 Minutes on those Sunday evenings. I would have been 4-5 back then. They probably just considered it filler, but for young me back then....
In the original pilot,as they escaped from a planet about to explode from burning underground Tylium deposits, Apollo & Starbuck lured a base star to low level by pretending to be far more fighters than were available (read your Sun Tzu,kids!)& destroyed it in the nick of time to allow the Colonial fleet to escape.
If you remember the original V, they did away with the modulated alien voices in the second season because it cost too much to do all the aliens' voices.
@@doughesson There are a couple of shorter documentaries about it.They used an "Arc or Ark 2500" produced from 1970-1981 and only 100 were ever produced;50 of them apparently still exist
The original series lost direction when the Cylons were gone, so I was glad at the time when this episode brought the Cylons back. It was also great seeing the Galactica go badass & take on a Base Star.
Yes I felt the same way as a kid when the original series was on. At the time I figured they lost viewers since the cylons were not on anymore in the later episodes, which led to the show’s cancellation. Dunno if that’s how it really went down but that’s what I thought back then.
The show didn’t have the budget for the cylon scenes beyond the first few episodes/pilot. It was extremely expensive at the time to produce. It lost a lot of money so that’s why it only made it one season
but how the hell did I like grow up without having any internet? LOL going to the public library.... using the *card catalog* and then the *microfiche*
That's the thing I least liked about the reboot, the death of hope by the end. The reboot started strong, but by the end, events had shattered hopes for the rag tag fleet's survivors repeatedly. While the finale was shot as if they had arrived at a safe harbor, the actual situation those survivors found themselves in was grim. They had: No real tech or ships, saber-tooth tigers (really)would be hiding in those tall grasses, and Cylons are still a potential threat. Very grim, I'd say.
I strongly agree it was more modern armed with awesome laser weapons than the 2004 version which looked too primitive being armed with just missiles and machine guns!
@NPCs-SJW destroyed Star Wars In some Sci-Fi shows such as "Stargate: SG1" and in also "Stargate: Atlantis" we see Railguns, Nuclear Warheads, Asgard shields, and Asgard Beam Weaponry being used by Earth ships such as the BC-304 Daedalus class battlecruiser and BC- 303/X-303 Prometheus class battlecruiser/battleship!
@@jamieolberding7731 missles and guns look better in my opinion lasers just don't have the punch a shell has and the new design for galactica and pegasus looks better I mean compare the flightpods
Yup, CAPRICA is awesome! Gotta get the DVD box-set. Glen Larson when he wrote the original BATTLESTAR back in the early 1970s (YES, BEFORE STAR WARS - after Star Wars became a Kaiju-sized hit 41 years ago, the network wanted a sci-fi show pronto, to cash-in, and they did!) he must have channeled a very strong Race-Memory. The spirit of a person is IMMORTAL, because its ENERGY, obeying the conservation of Energy law right down the line. There is no "death".
Just so you know, John Dykstra who did the effects for Star Wars did the effects on Galactica and he stated, the Galactica effects came out much better!
The lighting of the ships in space with their weapon fire and cockpits, and the bridge sounds. It was quite thoughtful! And I loved the characters and story line.
This episode was produced when word came down that the series was on the fence for a second season. Larson decided to introduce some closure but not enough in the event that ABC might change its mind. The Galactica ultimately escapes the Cylons, the fleet makes first contact with Earth, Larson left these elements in there to assure viewers that the worst was over for Adama and company.
There are a lot of the BSG cast gone. It might be easier to remember the ones still alive from main cast and the people that came over from the Pegasus before it disappeared. The Pegasus finally makes it to earth.
@@johniii8147 yeah, he died, I believe, last year of cancer. He was featured in a fan film for Star Trek called "Prelude to Axanar" He was Klingon. Did a dang good job
... hardly. From a writing standpoint it was well enough, but the entire thing was pieced together with stock footage and was near impossible to follow along with visually.
@@k1productions87 True. That was one of the biggest pet peeves I've had with this show since it first aired ie the constant reuse of stock space battle footage throughout the series run. I know the show was beyond expensive (1 million an episode apparently and that was a fortune back then) but it's still lame to see the same shots over and over again.
@@BrotherDerrick3X I don't know if they ever gave commander Adams's first name. His eldest son was NAMED Apollo, and his youngest son Lee was the first casualty when the cyclone violated the cease fire and blew the 12 colonies to pieces.
You knew how much those vintage computers would cost today? They wouldn't let the public on it any convention. Rebuilding the base structure easy, getting all the set dressing right is what is hard and going to break the bank. It was an impressive set for its day and the cast was wow'ed when they walked into see what they were going to be acting on. Which was mix of actors and few models that never acted before. Which shows badly in the first episodes.
This show was light years ahead of its time and definitely more entertaining than any of the crap we have today. Hollywood has run out of ideas. I always loved the shots of the cyclons flying - with the two in the front seat and the third guy in the back seat “mixing the drinks...”. I can always hear “what is love” playing by haddaway.
I watched this and Buck rogers 25th century with my Dad. I also basketball games and Cosby show with him as well. So glad to have those memories especially now he and our Mom passed away several years ago. I look forward to being with them again along with the rest of our family.
By attempting to be "Realistic", they introduced problems within the show. They showed the Vipers using rockets to maneuver. How could those thrusters have enough power to be used with the huge main engines, AND how could they carry enough liquid fuel to sustain a fighter during a battle? They apparently have jump drives, that can move them to another solar system, but they rely on gas propulsion otherwise. They are much smaller than the fighters we have now, yet EVERY maneuver uses fuel. That seems to be a bit impractical for that role. Where does the energy come from for the FTL drives? The FTL drives are never explained. Why not have an unexplained tech for normal operations as well?
@@jeremygeorgia4943 What really gets me is how the centurions can liberally hose around bullets like a particularly unpleasant snowstorm, but where do those bullets keep coming from? A fair amount of their insides would need to be completely hollow and devoted to storing ammunition, which just doesn’t seem plausible.
@@schmoobmcfroob2800 I suppose, they could be pulling them out of another dimension or transmuting the air around them into solid matter, but then... Often an unexplained "future tech" is the best solution. (shiny bolts of light, that make things explode) Sometimes, you have to make a choice between "Relatable to the present" and "Representing an advanced future" Centurions with unlimited bullets makes a good crime drama, but maybe not the best sci-fi. The fighters have the same problem. Where do they store all those bullets? They fire at an extremely rapid rate, so they must carry a lot of them.
I think a lot of people knocking the old battlestar galactica really need to consider a few other popular shows during that time period. Baa Baa Blacksheep about the WWII fighter squadron obviously had influence on Battlestar galactica and you can bet some of the old time fighter pilots got hooked on it for the similarities, my dad was an airforce mechanic and he loved BG original. The air to air / space to space combats pretty similar in both shows. It's almost 40 years old...
I hate to say it, but it seems that most of the hating on the original are from fans who didn't grow up in that era, and what it was like to be in that environment, of sci fi and all. Star Wars, Space 1999, and others, on top of the reality, that by now, the belief, that we be colonizing Mars already. There was a serious Sci Fi mania back then...we probably won't ever see one like it again. A good point on WW II, in that so many vets and stories were still around, most so than today.
There is a serious "sci-fi mania" going on since 1976, and its never been bigger. STAR TREK, STAR WAS, Superheroes, alien films, etc., have never been more popular, and the government has admitted UFOs exist, we have physical evidence, etc. and technology has never been greater in our society. We have a BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION, and Space-X has the lowest cost and highetst tech space hardware, enabling colonization of Mars and the Moon! We are in an New Age in 2018. I used to watch GALACTICA 1980 in college, and the "disclaimer" at the end of every episode. TODAY, instead of DISCLAIMERS, we are in DISCLOSURE, and free energyu and antigravity are being allowed to proliferate in our society. A New Age in 2018.
With the Success of Falcon Heavy, which has the lofting capability of the 58-year-old Saturn V, at a fraction of he cost, with reusable rockets that land themselves, Mars Colonies are a definite reality in the 2020s!
Russell Anderson yeah, no. Mars in the 2030s at least, (On September 24, 2007, Michael Griffin, then NASA Administrator, hinted that NASA may be able to launch a human mission to Mars by 2037) and no, the government hasn't admitted UFOs exist. Project Grudge, Sign and Project Blue Book were just busy work to placate the masses in the 1950s until their shutdown. Project Blue Book was ordered shut down in December 1969 and the Air Force continues to provide the following summary of its investigations: No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security; There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; andThere was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars
Unidentified objects that maneuver over sensitive sac missile bases and interfere with our nuclear weaponry looks like a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to our National Security. And we shal go interstellar with the TT Brown, Serrano (NASA) and Campbell (NASA) and the Searl patented work. Internal Combustion is DEAD. Phase One Disclosure last week from the Pentagon where they admitted a UFO study was in place where they refused to admit any interest in the past.
“I’m tired of running!” “Adama, so am I!” Favourite episode of the original show, that scene with Adama and Tighe was so poignant. Some serious payback was dealt out here!
Yes. Not a relatively tiny, outdated piece of junk. Comparing the TOS Galactica to the new Galactica is akin to comparing a Corvette to an old VW Beetle. And TOS Galactica is no VW Beetle.
@@theslicefactor5326 in some sources (Like Saga of a star World and it's stock footage) shows that the Galactica has a minimal length of 1200 meters and a Max length of 6480 Meters (Fluctuates due to VFX Errors). While the RDM/TRS Version is 1438 Meters long.
@@classicgalactica5879 incorrect nbsg galactica was not a corvette in terms of power it was actually only slighty smaller than the mercury class and the ship was intentionally built with outdated tech and besides i consider nbsgs design a lot cooler especially around the flightpods
The Battle Star took some heavy hits from them pulsar canons of that Cylon Base Star, but managed. I like these kinds of scenes, in which two flag ships slug it out in final confrontation.
There's lots of arguable reasons why I love the 78 series over the re-imagining but nobody can deny the 1978 Galactica bridge is so much better than the re imagined one.
This was such an amazing story. The competing networks of the time came out to forced a delay until they had their own new shows because they had nothing to compete with it..
I liked the old Cylons much better than the new ones; they made a better explosion/shorting-out effect when you hit them with blaster fire, then they would often do a little dance before falling over. 🤣 Oh, yeah, and the Cylon raiders looked cool, too. The new ones simply remind me of the Vulture Droid starfighters from Star Wars. 😐
With a 70's show, funnily enough, that may be more likely than with a 90's show like DS9 or Voyager whos FX were created digitally for SD tv (480 lines interlaced). BSG'78 had 100% practical FX.
Got to love all Viper wings have launched and engaged the enemy, Galactica is charging into battle at normal status and only sounds battle stations once the base ship has been detected... not making sure that all hands are ready to engage
+Taz Well to be fair, the Basestar was practically blind to them until the Galactica got close enough, even then, the Basestar had a huge disadvantage, cause not all the centurions were at the guns or operating all battle subsystems at the time.
Still... you can see people scramble on the bridge with them knowing that they are on an attack vector with an enemy with superior firepower... the only shot the Galactica had was to get the first shot in to try to take out some flanking lasers... you would think that all weapon stations would be manned, damage control teams would be deployed, security teams moved to key locations and civilians placed in secured locations.
And if the colonies would have only had tons of ground based fighter defenses perhaps they wouldn't have been defenseless after their battlestars were destroyed.
I just do not have the words for how much I loved this show as a kid. Legendary! The battles were epic, the cast sensational, and the story's mythos was fantastic. I really feel privileged to have grown up in this era of BSG, Buck Rogers, Saturday Morning cartoons of the 80s and all the incredible toy lines and comics. I know there tends to be a critical gaze set back upon TV networks and studios all-out drive to create the next big thing ala Star Wars and it's toy line (the advertising directly to kids via TV shows etc). But for those of us who were kids in those days, it was an unprecedented era of riches; people were trying new things all the time, all sorts of whacky and crazy gimmicks, and even the most brazen rip-offs still had their charm. BSG Classic will always be dear to my heart.
The landing at 3:58 looked really rough! ;) Seriously though, some great special effects for the time (used again and again of course), and some great stories!
In the original series,the Pegasus had vanished after destroying 2 Cylon Base Stars. But it hasn't been revealed if she was destroyed or went into deep space as she did the night the Cylons invaded & attacked the Great Colonies.
No. That wasn't the Pegasus. There was a cloven hoofed body in the wreckage, presumably a demon, and yes, Count Iblis was supposed to be the Devil. They cut the scene, too scary for kids back then. That's what Apollo and Starbuck didn't want Sheba to see. It was not the wreckage of the Pegasus, but some other large ship that Iblis had visited, and wasn't as fortunate as the Galactica was in getting rid of him. The ships of light were occupied by benevolent beings, but they couldn't interfere without being asked, as that would have taken away the people of the Colonial fleets free will to choose between light and dark.
I just watched a video showing Pegasus taking on 2 Cylon Base Stars. But they just recycled shots from this video, so you only see them firing lasers against the 1 base star, and no sign of missiles after they leave the launchers. Sad.
@wigglywoman The Galactica survived because Adama suspected foul play and had his crew and squadrons go to battle ready before the invasion at the peace conference started. The other Battlestars left their defenses down in a gesture of good will, even though Adama urged them to do otherwise, and got owned pretty quick. As far as construction goes, it is established that construction on the Battlestars was fairly standard, and the Galactica was at least 500 yahren old by the time of the show.
I loved this episode. There were several episodes with the Eastern Alliance and other non-cylon stories. I understand now that there are only so many cylon-related story lines. So I remember being very excited to see an episode of rip-roaring Galactica vs. Cylons battle.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching the show as much as the new Battlestar Galactica was good in its own way this is the classic Galactica it's what we would say today this is the Galactica telling the base star you want some come get some
In Saga of a Star World the Battlestars were caught with their pants down by the Cylon raiders which were based in deep space and fuelled by tankers. By being set up like this, the baseships went out to the defenseless Colonies and launch their own raiders on the them.
Starbuck did come up with a good idea to let the Galactica know it's them in a Cylon fighter in case they lose an electronic device to attach to the Cylon fighter that will flash a red dot on the Galactica's & the Colonial Vipers screens by waggling their wings.
Command Cain and his crew aboard the Battlestar Pegasus,the only other battlestar that survived the attack on the Colonies,would've been proud of Adama for destroying a Cylon Base Star long after he destroyed 2 of them,but he'd be angry that Baltar gave Adama the information to help destroy the Base Star in return for his freedom. But Cain would've been glad to hear that Baltar got left behind on another planet with provisions,shelter and short-range communications so that someone would rescue him.
as an 8 year old Back in 78’ I had a mad crush on Lt. Sheba. It’s too bad it got canceled, the show could have had some serious legs to run for several seasons. Jolly my fav viper warrior. And the intro was fantastic..
The subtitles are pretty funny for this one. "Switch to attack computer frequency" = "Switch to attack a big machine". And "No sir, don't fire it's them." = "No sir, don't fire it's death."
"No flashing red dot..." is such a funny line. Just picturing some late 70s TV writers going, "ok what's a cool futuristic name for the flashing red dot on the targeting computer range finder thing? IDK happy hour already started, just call it the 'flashing red dot' and we'll turn this script in and hit the bar."
I wished the powers that be, could have made more eps of this series. I think it was on the ABC network, and that is the worst network in history of canceling shows. I always wished they made an ep about the reptilian race that created the cylons.
The OG Battlestar Galactica was one of the greatest Sci-Fi shows ever made. It's sad that they never made a Season 2 for this great show cause Galactica 1980 really sucked.
And Ron Moore's so-called 'reimagined' Galactica was an even bigger mistake! There should have been a legitimate continuation, while Ron Moore should have made something entirely different and NOT appropriate the Galactica name/title! 🤔🤨☹️👎
Those Cylon Fighters had some nice comfortable seating for the chairs for supposed robotic creations. Yep. Good to know such creatures will need comfortable padding on the chairs. And here I just noticed that after all these years lol.
Perhaps due to complete vaporization, whose energy generated an expanding cloud of energetic superheated evaporation of flourescing gas remnant molecules?
No budget for that. 1970s Star Wars and Trek were also limited, no debris fields. You didn't actually start seeing those until CGI got advanced enough in the mid 2000s.
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait for Sunday night. After the evening news was over, we descended into the basement of our home, dimmed the lights, and immersed ourselves in a new age of sci-fi television, thanks to the success of Star Wars, which was released a year earlier. I am so thankful that I experienced the original Star Wars in the movie theaters. I think we went about 3 times to see it. Then along came Battlestar Galactica, which carried on the tradition. What a great time in my life.
Oh yeah ...
We could only go to the movies or watch the tv shows, unable to imagine being able to have them in our homes to watch whenever we wanted to. To imagine that would have driven us crazy...
From modern perspective, the original BSG looks like cheap copy of star wars and star trek. 2004's reboot looks so much better in terms of how it written and developed in general.
we did the same thing.............it was a special time wasn't it.
@@angeltensey The new Battlestar Galactica lacks the magic and charismatic actors like Lorne Green, John Colicos, ect... The story is not evenly remotely connected to Star Wars or Star Trek. That is simply your perception.
When you consider this was a weekly serial in the late 1970s, this show actually had very impressive special effects and the stories were typically quite good.
Yes, it did, I was alive then, and a Teenager, & this was one of my favorite shows, but what you spoke of was also it's doom, the special effects used then was so expensive that they couldn't afford to do it anymore, though fans were disappointed the series was cancelled, they tried a less expensive way through Galactica 1980 that didn't need nearly as much special effects but that series was a huge disappointment
Yeah, I loved this show as a kid. Even though they recycled so many shots, the lack of CGI made this a very expensive production and it kinda ran outta steam plot-wise. It's always fun to laugh at "Galactica 1980"! In some ways I appreciated the simplistic plot-lines and dialog when compared to the reboot. That one obviously had fantastic VFX and I loved the dark realism, but it became overly complex, and the resolution got too deep and weird. I guess that's what happens when you have sci-fi shows with vague story-arcs and producers don't know how many seasons it will last. Andromeda, B5, Westworld...
Larry Johnston True. The series was a huge hit, but the budget was too large and the show was cancelled. The ratings were very good, and the show had a large fan base but CGI didn't exist back then and the effects were expensive; that's why there was so much stock footage. Sadly, after one season they pulled the plug.
One million dollars per episode. A staggering amount of money for a TV episode in 1978-79..
Wow. That is a lot of money, even by today's standards. I wish they could have kept it on the air for at least 1 or 2 more seasons. I loved the show from the start, but by the time The Hand Of God aired, you could really see the chemistry between the various characters starting to emerge. What might have been. Too bad, very regrettable
I cannot recall watching a televsion series that begins with the destuction of billions of people. BSG had its flaws but it had heart, mythology, great chemistry between the actors, majestic music & beautiful ships like the galactica & viper. It was a different time & we will never see the likes of her again.
Even the Cylon basestar and Raider had a certain beauty to them.
Yeah. They really couldn't explore the more dark stuff on the show. The network let them do a little darker story telling in the early episodes but the network wanted to minimize violence. Hell the network made them switch the Cylons from aliens in suits to robots to minimize the killing :)
Imagine if this show were rebooted on a pay network like Netflix but more true to the original concept.
@@331Grabber Did you ever try the reimagined series? I just finished it today and I have to say it was amazing. It deft is diff to the original but it may just be what you are looking for.
@@VengeanceN7
Yeah. I really enjoyed the reimagined BSG up until the final 5 plot started. I considered that one of the most spectacular shark jumpings a show has ever made. But the first 2 1/2 seasons were some of the best television ever produced. Ron Moore ruined the show trying to be unpredictable because fans kept figuring out the plot.
The original had great roots but television wasn't ready for that kind of story told seriously. The network wanted a Star Wars knock off that was safe for the whole family:)
Oh well. Maybe we'll get another reboot of the show.
331Grabber we are getting a new one
Yep. I'm a child of the 70's and 80's. I love the classic series!
Same here, great growing up in the '70s and '80s. Today's generation has missed it all.
Oh yeah. I was born on Sunday December 3rd, 1978. When the episode Living Legend parts 1 & 2 came out.
I really don't like the 2004 rebooted series. I prefer "The Original Battlestar Galactica" TV Show from 1979. It's less dark and more kid/family friendly and has lasers instead of bullets. CenturionSerpentine Can you please upload more space battle clips from "The Original Battlestar Galactica" epic TV Show?
Same. This and Buck Rogers were the most exciting TV shows.
@@firebladex8586 I strongly agree.
R.I.P., Lorne Greene,the Eternal Commander Adama and the Eternal Captain Apollo,Richard Hatch.
Rest in peace with the 12 Lords of Kobol
@@condellpinochet4766 Maybe, someday, we'll see them again on the Ship of Lights.
@@lindaoneil5085 agreed
So say we all...
They were AWESOME!
When Sunday evening TV was good
Ikr!?
CKVU (a then independent Vancouver station, now part of City TV) would show this before 60 Minutes on those Sunday evenings. I would have been 4-5 back then.
They probably just considered it filler, but for young me back then....
Yes
Yesss....7 PM Eastern Standard Time, all ABC stations (in my neck of the woods).
It was the olden days, when television was (we thought) our friend...
The bridge on the old Galactica is just so good, I'd say it's sense of scale and design puts it ahead of any other Starships Bridge.
A battle star slugging it out with a base star. So epic!
I always thought the original battlestars looked super gnarly, like bulldogs spoiling for a fight!
In the original pilot,as they escaped from a planet about to explode from burning underground Tylium deposits, Apollo & Starbuck lured a base star to low level by pretending to be far more fighters than were available (read your Sun Tzu,kids!)& destroyed it in the nick of time to allow the Colonial fleet to escape.
I wish "the second coming, " would have aired,that looked cool as hell.
The Cylon voices are an example of excellent sound engineering.
If you remember the original V, they did away with the modulated alien voices in the second season because it cost too much to do all the aliens' voices.
They used a synthesizer,expensive for its time
@@ethericboy In V,at least, I'm told that the voice tracks were doubled, giving the Saurians their distinctive voices.
@@doughesson There are a couple of shorter documentaries about it.They used an "Arc or Ark 2500" produced from 1970-1981 and only 100 were ever produced;50 of them apparently still exist
Cylon and Garfunkle.
"They're Waggeling!!" LOL. One of the greatest Sci Fi shows ever.
Kara waggled when she flew a cylon ship. A nice nod to this.
“Keep waggling buddy!”
@@tygerbyrn "I told 'ya ,we didn't need that electronic Felgercarb! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!"
"Just act h-u-m-a-n"
Abc ruined it.
Larson planned to do a tv film every three months.
A nice pace to build a strong fan base.
The day that the Cylons found out that making their base stars hulls out nitroglycerin was a bad idea.
Explodium
And that the Battlestars are made from Adamandium
Base stars were made of Explodium.
Battlestars were built from plot armour.
@@thanqualthehighseer not the Battlestar Atlantia.
I was 10 when this started I am so glad to have grown up in the 80s
Yessir
The original series lost direction when the Cylons were gone, so I was glad at the time when this episode brought the Cylons back. It was also great seeing the Galactica go badass & take on a Base Star.
Yes I felt the same way as a kid when the original series was on. At the time I figured they lost viewers since the cylons were not on anymore in the later episodes, which led to the show’s cancellation. Dunno if that’s how it really went down but that’s what I thought back then.
The show didn’t have the budget for the cylon scenes beyond the first few episodes/pilot. It was extremely expensive at the time to produce. It lost a lot of money so that’s why it only made it one season
@@johniii8147 and also lost a lot of money when one of their toys killed a kid
This may have been the final episode of the season, or close to it. I had missed the Cylons and the Raiders, was nice to see them back.
@@transitfan954 it was the final episode, period.
I so miss this show. When life was easier and more pure. Great memories!!!!
You said it! Being a kid in the 70s beats my life now!
but how the hell did I like grow up without having any internet? LOL going to the public library.... using the *card catalog* and then the *microfiche*
How the original Battlestar so much better than the remake. I can feel the hope and camaraderie.
That's the thing I least liked about the reboot, the death of hope by the end. The reboot started strong, but by the end, events had shattered hopes for the rag tag fleet's survivors repeatedly. While the finale was shot as if they had arrived at a safe harbor, the actual situation those survivors found themselves in was grim. They had: No real tech or ships, saber-tooth tigers (really)would be hiding in those tall grasses, and Cylons are still a potential threat. Very grim, I'd say.
The original battlestar design was awesome
I strongly agree it was more modern armed with awesome laser weapons than the 2004 version which looked too primitive being armed with just missiles and machine guns!
@NPCs-SJW destroyed Star Wars In some Sci-Fi shows such as "Stargate: SG1" and in also "Stargate: Atlantis" we see Railguns, Nuclear Warheads, Asgard shields, and Asgard Beam Weaponry being used by Earth ships such as the BC-304 Daedalus class battlecruiser and BC- 303/X-303 Prometheus class battlecruiser/battleship!
Trance State I like the new one too.
I love 1978 and 2004.
@@jamieolberding7731 missles and guns look better in my opinion lasers just don't have the punch a shell has and the new design for galactica and pegasus looks better I mean compare the flightpods
Nothing beats the original show, i love it, awesome!
Me too!
I like this and the 2004 battlestar galactica
Ya, I never cared for the new one. This will always be my favorite....except for that late one where they discovered Earth.
Caprica is better than this.
Yup, CAPRICA is awesome! Gotta get the DVD box-set. Glen Larson when he wrote the original BATTLESTAR back in the early 1970s (YES, BEFORE STAR WARS - after Star Wars became a Kaiju-sized hit 41 years ago, the network wanted a sci-fi show pronto, to cash-in, and they did!) he must have channeled a very strong Race-Memory. The spirit of a person is IMMORTAL, because its ENERGY, obeying the conservation of Energy law right down the line. There is no "death".
Just so you know, John Dykstra who did the effects for Star Wars did the effects on Galactica and he stated, the Galactica effects came out much better!
His work shows up in this television show.
Doesn't look like it here at least.
Of course star Wars sucks
@@McGowanForge the fuck?
The lighting of the ships in space with their weapon fire and cockpits, and the bridge sounds. It was quite thoughtful! And I loved the characters and story line.
The original and still the best by light years. RIP Lorne Greene and Richard Hatch.
The Base Stars in this series had the coolest sounding capital ship weapons of any series I can remember.
Sounds like the colonial laser sound effect in reverse now that I think about it.
This episode was produced when word came down that the series was on the fence for a second season. Larson decided to introduce some closure but not enough in the event that ABC might change its mind. The Galactica ultimately escapes the Cylons, the fleet makes first contact with Earth, Larson left these elements in there to assure viewers that the worst was over for Adama and company.
Rip Richard Hatch, star of the show.
He was also in episodes of the other b.s.g show
There are a lot of the BSG cast gone. It might be easier to remember the ones still alive from main cast and the people that came over from the Pegasus before it disappeared. The Pegasus finally makes it to earth.
Did he die?
@@johniii8147 yeah, he died, I believe, last year of cancer. He was featured in a fan film for Star Trek called "Prelude to Axanar" He was Klingon. Did a dang good job
No other actor could have played apollo as well as Richard did... He was born to play the part. RIP, Richard Hatch
Brilliant scene. Reminds me of the one-on-one between Enterprise and Reliant in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.
I totally agree that's a good comparison being a fan of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica
... hardly. From a writing standpoint it was well enough, but the entire thing was pieced together with stock footage and was near impossible to follow along with visually.
Love Miranda class ships!
I can still hear the music lol...
"Ahh... There she is... Not would wounded as we were let to believe..."
@@k1productions87 True. That was one of the biggest pet peeves I've had with this show since it first aired ie the constant reuse of stock space battle footage throughout the series run. I know the show was beyond expensive (1 million an episode apparently and that was a fortune back then) but it's still lame to see the same shots over and over again.
2:10 I always loved it when Galactica repaid the Cylons. Never mess with Adama.
Which one?
Ben Cartwright.
Remember that the Cylons killed his wife, and youngest son.
@@BrotherDerrick3X
I don't know if they ever gave commander Adams's first name. His eldest son was NAMED Apollo, and his youngest son Lee was the first casualty when the cyclone violated the cease fire and blew the 12 colonies to pieces.
@@drmayeda1930 the youngest son was named Zac (played by rock musician Rick Springfield).
Greatest sci fi concept ever.
Still get chills watching battlestar.
Should have been a mega franchise.
I always loved the design of the original bridge. It would be incredible for it to someday be rebuilt for conventions or such.
I was laughing at the last video I saw where the top deck was rotating.
You knew how much those vintage computers would cost today? They wouldn't let the public on it any convention. Rebuilding the base structure easy, getting all the set dressing right is what is hard and going to break the bank. It was an impressive set for its day and the cast was wow'ed when they walked into see what they were going to be acting on. Which was mix of actors and few models that never acted before. Which shows badly in the first episodes.
This show was light years ahead of its time and definitely more entertaining than any of the crap we have today. Hollywood has run out of ideas. I always loved the shots of the cyclons flying - with the two in the front seat and the third guy in the back seat “mixing the drinks...”. I can always hear “what is love” playing by haddaway.
Now that's a kamikazi party!
I watched this and Buck rogers 25th century with my Dad. I also basketball games and Cosby show with him as well. So glad to have those memories especially now he and our Mom passed away several years ago. I look forward to being with them again along with the rest of our family.
Cyclons love that comfy suede.
Gotta keep all that chrome polished somehow!
Can't scratch it up with pleather or unpadded plastic
You found the big mistake ! ;-)
And pressurized crew areas.
Though that could be explained by considering organic allies like the Ovions.
Back when Battlestars and Vipers fired lasers instead of bullets...
And Cylon Centurious talked...
@Dennis Menace same lol
That was one part of the new show I never understood as where the lasers go
By attempting to be "Realistic", they introduced problems within the show. They showed the Vipers using rockets to maneuver. How could those thrusters have enough power to be used with the huge main engines, AND how could they carry enough liquid fuel to sustain a fighter during a battle? They apparently have jump drives, that can move them to another solar system, but they rely on gas propulsion otherwise. They are much smaller than the fighters we have now, yet EVERY maneuver uses fuel. That seems to be a bit impractical for that role. Where does the energy come from for the FTL drives? The FTL drives are never explained. Why not have an unexplained tech for normal operations as well?
@@jeremygeorgia4943 What really gets me is how the centurions can liberally hose around bullets like a particularly unpleasant snowstorm, but where do those bullets keep coming from? A fair amount of their insides would need to be completely hollow and devoted to storing ammunition, which just doesn’t seem plausible.
@@schmoobmcfroob2800 I suppose, they could be pulling them out of another dimension or transmuting the air around them into solid matter, but then...
Often an unexplained "future tech" is the best solution. (shiny bolts of light, that make things explode) Sometimes, you have to make a choice between "Relatable to the present" and "Representing an advanced future" Centurions with unlimited bullets makes a good crime drama, but maybe not the best sci-fi.
The fighters have the same problem. Where do they store all those bullets? They fire at an extremely rapid rate, so they must carry a lot of them.
By the Gods of Kobol it is great to see a Battlestar doing what she was designed to do, wipe out base stars.
Those blasted Cylons must have really been soilingbthemselves knowing Galactica's kill tally. That joke at the end really cracked me up...
I was 10 years old when this series came out, I loved it.
I think a lot of people knocking the old battlestar galactica really need to consider a few other popular shows during that time period. Baa Baa Blacksheep about the WWII fighter squadron obviously had influence on Battlestar galactica and you can bet some of the old time fighter pilots got hooked on it for the similarities, my dad was an airforce mechanic and he loved BG original. The air to air / space to space combats pretty similar in both shows. It's almost 40 years old...
I hate to say it, but it seems that most of the hating on the original are from fans who didn't grow up in that era, and what it was like to be in that environment, of sci fi and all. Star Wars, Space 1999, and others, on top of the reality, that by now, the belief, that we be colonizing Mars already. There was a serious Sci Fi mania back then...we probably won't ever see one like it again. A good point on WW II, in that so many vets and stories were still around, most so than today.
There is a serious "sci-fi mania" going on since 1976, and its never been bigger. STAR TREK, STAR WAS, Superheroes, alien films, etc., have never been more popular, and the government has admitted UFOs exist, we have physical evidence, etc. and technology has never been greater in our society. We have a BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION, and Space-X has the lowest cost and highetst tech space hardware, enabling colonization of Mars and the Moon! We are in an New Age in 2018. I used to watch GALACTICA 1980 in college, and the "disclaimer" at the end of every episode. TODAY, instead of DISCLAIMERS, we are in DISCLOSURE, and free energyu and antigravity are being allowed to proliferate in our society. A New Age in 2018.
With the Success of Falcon Heavy, which has the lofting capability of the 58-year-old Saturn V, at a fraction of he cost, with reusable rockets that land themselves, Mars Colonies are a definite reality in the 2020s!
Russell Anderson yeah, no. Mars in the 2030s at least, (On September 24, 2007, Michael Griffin, then NASA Administrator, hinted that NASA may be able to launch a human mission to Mars by 2037) and no, the government hasn't admitted UFOs exist. Project Grudge, Sign and Project Blue Book were just busy work to placate the masses in the 1950s until their shutdown.
Project Blue Book was ordered shut down in December 1969 and the Air Force continues to provide the following summary of its investigations:
No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security; There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; andThere was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars
Unidentified objects that maneuver over sensitive sac missile bases and interfere with our nuclear weaponry looks like a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to our National Security. And we shal go interstellar with the TT Brown, Serrano (NASA) and Campbell (NASA) and the Searl patented work. Internal Combustion is DEAD. Phase One Disclosure last week from the Pentagon where they admitted a UFO study was in place where they refused to admit any interest in the past.
I HAVE TO ADMIT. THE SET DESIGNS WERE AMAZING FOR A TV SHOW FOR THE 70'S.
“I’m tired of running!”
“Adama, so am I!”
Favourite episode of the original show, that scene with Adama and Tighe was so poignant.
Some serious payback was dealt out here!
The Galactica is the standard bearer for what a Capital ship is supposed to be!
Yes. Not a relatively tiny, outdated piece of junk. Comparing the TOS Galactica to the new Galactica is akin to comparing a Corvette to an old VW Beetle. And TOS Galactica is no VW Beetle.
Aren't they meant to be similar size? I read that the TOS Galactica is 1200m while the reimagined version is 1100m
@@theslicefactor5326 in some sources (Like Saga of a star World and it's stock footage) shows that the Galactica has a minimal length of 1200 meters and a Max length of 6480 Meters (Fluctuates due to VFX Errors). While the RDM/TRS Version is 1438 Meters long.
@@richardched6085 I see
@@classicgalactica5879 incorrect nbsg galactica was not a corvette in terms of power it was actually only slighty smaller than the mercury class and the ship was intentionally built with outdated tech and besides i consider nbsgs design a lot cooler especially around the flightpods
This was my favorite sci fi series
The Battle Star took some heavy hits from them pulsar canons of that Cylon Base Star, but managed. I like these kinds of scenes, in which two flag ships slug it out in final confrontation.
There's lots of arguable reasons why I love the 78 series over the re-imagining but nobody can deny the 1978 Galactica bridge is so much better than the re imagined one.
That bridge was notable for one missing item - no captain's chair!
Can't beat the original Battlestar, awesome ship..
Used to love watching this as a kid...still do.
This was such an amazing story.
The competing networks of the time came out to forced a delay until they had their own new shows because they had nothing to compete with it..
I liked the old Cylons much better than the new ones; they made a better explosion/shorting-out effect when you hit them with blaster fire, then they would often do a little dance before falling over. 🤣 Oh, yeah, and the Cylon raiders looked cool, too. The new ones simply remind me of the Vulture Droid starfighters from Star Wars. 😐
Damned straight! (right!)
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hehe, I guess that's one of the advantages of having actors/extras in costumes rather than CGI cylons haha
I would like to see the show done in HD like they did Star Trek.
With a 70's show, funnily enough, that may be more likely than with a 90's show like DS9 or Voyager whos FX were created digitally for SD tv (480 lines interlaced). BSG'78 had 100% practical FX.
Id just love to see the complete series again
When actors in shows had great chemistry together.
So fond of this fine show.
I love this. Rip Richard Hatch may you fly always in the Stars
I loved the special effects
"Feldercarb!" Ah it has been too long gone from my vocabulary...
Scott Clinton I used Micron on a buddy back in the 80's he had no idea what I was talking about
Scott Clinton ... Felgercarb!
@@mikedavis8872 I had to wait a centon to reply then I forgot what it was
you must brush up on your Galactic vocabulary, it's been too many yarns!
Wtf = What the Frack
Got to love all Viper wings have launched and engaged the enemy, Galactica is charging into battle at normal status and only sounds battle stations once the base ship has been detected... not making sure that all hands are ready to engage
+Taz Well to be fair, the Basestar was practically blind to them until the Galactica got close enough, even then, the Basestar had a huge disadvantage, cause not all the centurions were at the guns or operating all battle subsystems at the time.
Still... you can see people scramble on the bridge with them knowing that they are on an attack vector with an enemy with superior firepower... the only shot the Galactica had was to get the first shot in to try to take out some flanking lasers... you would think that all weapon stations would be manned, damage control teams would be deployed, security teams moved to key locations and civilians placed in secured locations.
Taz True, also wouldn't it be more useful to fire the forward lasers first? Because they are an anti-capital weapon.
And if the colonies would have only had tons of ground based fighter defenses perhaps they wouldn't have been defenseless after their battlestars were destroyed.
...it's almost as if the original series was poorly written rubbish.
I just do not have the words for how much I loved this show as a kid. Legendary! The battles were epic, the cast sensational, and the story's mythos was fantastic. I really feel privileged to have grown up in this era of BSG, Buck Rogers, Saturday Morning cartoons of the 80s and all the incredible toy lines and comics. I know there tends to be a critical gaze set back upon TV networks and studios all-out drive to create the next big thing ala Star Wars and it's toy line (the advertising directly to kids via TV shows etc). But for those of us who were kids in those days, it was an unprecedented era of riches; people were trying new things all the time, all sorts of whacky and crazy gimmicks, and even the most brazen rip-offs still had their charm. BSG Classic will always be dear to my heart.
Now THAT was the real Battlestar Galactica!
❤
Both the series and the ship itself
OMG these show were so epic just like Star Trek I would commandeer the TV just to watch them!!
Remember the lunchbox?
The landing at 3:58 looked really rough! ;) Seriously though, some great special effects for the time (used again and again of course), and some great stories!
Face, I love it when a plan comes together.
Can't believe this is from 1978. Timeless classic.
Adama and Tigh were superb.
In the original series,the Pegasus had vanished after destroying 2 Cylon Base Stars. But it hasn't been revealed if she was destroyed or went into deep space as she did the night the Cylons invaded & attacked the Great Colonies.
azure rainbow didn't they bring back the destroyed hull in the episode with the devil?
No. That wasn't the Pegasus. There was a cloven hoofed body in the wreckage, presumably a demon, and yes, Count Iblis was supposed to be the Devil. They cut the scene, too scary for kids back then. That's what Apollo and Starbuck didn't want Sheba to see. It was not the wreckage of the Pegasus, but some other large ship that Iblis had visited, and wasn't as fortunate as the Galactica was in getting rid of him. The ships of light were occupied by benevolent beings, but they couldn't interfere without being asked, as that would have taken away the people of the Colonial fleets free will to choose between light and dark.
There was a comic that showed Pegasus surviving and establishing Cain's resistance
I just watched a video showing Pegasus taking on 2 Cylon Base Stars. But they just recycled shots from this video, so you only see them firing lasers against the 1 base star, and no sign of missiles after they leave the launchers. Sad.
@wigglywoman The Galactica survived because Adama suspected foul play and had his crew and squadrons go to battle ready before the invasion at the peace conference started. The other Battlestars left their defenses down in a gesture of good will, even though Adama urged them to do otherwise, and got owned pretty quick.
As far as construction goes, it is established that construction on the Battlestars was fairly standard, and the Galactica was at least 500 yahren old by the time of the show.
Movie props are so much better than CGI. You can't replace this kind of quality
Love this scene and episode, great childhood memories :) Also, "Fire aft mega lasers" is my new notification sound! 😹😹😹
I loved this episode. There were several episodes with the Eastern Alliance and other non-cylon stories. I understand now that there are only so many cylon-related story lines. So I remember being very excited to see an episode of rip-roaring Galactica vs. Cylons battle.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching the show as much as the new Battlestar Galactica was good in its own way this is the classic Galactica it's what we would say today this is the Galactica telling the base star you want some come get some
That base Star looks more realistic and pragmatic than most starships invented nowadays
(Cough) Star Trek Picard's USS Copy-paste (Cough)
In Saga of a Star World the Battlestars were caught with their pants down by the Cylon raiders which were based in deep space and fuelled by tankers. By being set up like this, the baseships went out to the defenseless Colonies and launch their own raiders on the them.
Starbuck did come up with a good idea to let the Galactica know it's them in a Cylon fighter in case they lose an electronic device to attach to the Cylon fighter that will flash a red dot on the Galactica's & the Colonial Vipers screens by waggling their wings.
Mirrored by the Starbuck of the 2003 reboot who had to pilot a salvaged Raider back and avoided getting blown away by Galactica's CAP.
A red dot on a GREEN monochrome screen is impossible.
Told ya we didn't need any of that electronic felgercarb!
Miss the good old days
Command Cain and his crew aboard the Battlestar Pegasus,the only other battlestar that survived the attack on the Colonies,would've been proud of Adama for destroying a Cylon Base Star long after he destroyed 2 of them,but he'd be angry that Baltar gave Adama the information to help destroy the Base Star in return for his freedom. But Cain would've been glad to hear that Baltar got left behind on another planet with provisions,shelter and short-range communications so that someone would rescue him.
Not meaning to be rude but the Pegasus wasn't at the Peace Conference. Caine was already believed lost before the Colonies fell.
Best episode of the series!! Amazing!!
best one is the one with the pegasus! i'll give this a solid second!
The Hand of God
@@ketsugofightingarts, mine and Richard Hatch's favourite! Living Legend is a close second for me.
as an 8 year old Back in 78’ I had a mad crush on Lt. Sheba. It’s too bad it got canceled, the show could have had some serious legs to run for several seasons. Jolly my fav viper warrior. And the intro was fantastic..
I wonder why the bridge lights didn’t turn red when Adama and Tigh ordered battle stations like they always do?
I was not sure I remembered this, until the "waggling" comment. Wow this brings back memories. Haven't seen this in 41 years lol. Great stuff
I love the original Battlestar Galactica
Happy 76th Birthday to Richard Hatch! Forever Apollo! (May 21, 2021).
AMEN!!!!!!!!! I love the original series!!!!!!!!
The subtitles are pretty funny for this one. "Switch to attack computer frequency" = "Switch to attack a big machine". And "No sir, don't fire it's them." = "No sir, don't fire it's death."
I see epicness in every battle, including this one. Excellent video. :)
"THEY'RE WAGGLING!!"..😂😂
Adama's wife & their son Zac would've been proud of him for destroying a Cylon Base Star if they survived the Cylon Invasion of the Great Colonies.
The hand of God was my favourite episode of the saga..
Much better than the re-imagined, "we are all terrorists, er, Cylons" crap.
Nice shootin’, Tex. 😎
One of the coolest shows ever....right?
"No flashing red dot..." is such a funny line. Just picturing some late 70s TV writers going, "ok what's a cool futuristic name for the flashing red dot on the targeting computer range finder thing? IDK happy hour already started, just call it the 'flashing red dot' and we'll turn this script in and hit the bar."
One of the rare, rare times that a remake was better than the original. But I still liked the original when I was a kid.
one of best battles of the series
Watched the new series through, this should be rerun, some best moments of the cylons just here. Who cares about the humans!
I wished the powers that be, could have made more eps of this series. I think it was on the ABC network, and that is the worst network in history of canceling shows. I always wished they made an ep about the reptilian race that created the cylons.
I liked how the senior Cylon "OFFICERS" were GOLD, not silver, and that their voices were of a lower pitch...
Please give us a Battlestar Galactica movie based of the original tv series.
Yes please! 👍😎 Along with some sort of prequel(s) focusing on the earlier 'millenniums of time' on other Star Worlds perhaps predating Kobol? 🤔☺️
A movie set during the 1st cylon war? I like the way you think friend
And the new Peacock series to be mainly based on the original series
Without the original cast? I won't go see it and I won't consider it Galactica cannon.
One of my favorite series still watch the episodes. One question though Why when turning did the Galactica always turn left never right
Epic series, Loved it so much.
I love how Tigh takes Adama’s order for battle stations and gets the ball rolling.
The OG Battlestar Galactica was one of the greatest Sci-Fi shows ever made. It's sad that they never made a Season 2 for this great show cause Galactica 1980 really sucked.
I agree that it was an error to revive BSG as Galactica 1980. It didn't have the drama, action and suspense the original had.
And Ron Moore's so-called 'reimagined' Galactica was an even bigger mistake! There should have been a legitimate continuation, while Ron Moore should have made something entirely different and NOT appropriate the Galactica name/title! 🤔🤨☹️👎
Those Cylon Fighters had some nice comfortable seating for the chairs for supposed robotic creations. Yep. Good to know such creatures will need comfortable padding on the chairs. And here I just noticed that after all these years lol.
It's a shame they had to deal with such a small special effects budget.
Loved this show as a kid!
I like how when the base star explodes there is no debris or wreckage left. very tidy
Probably didn't want to destroy an expensive model for one episode.
Iirc the one in the pilot left no debris either.
Perhaps due to complete vaporization, whose energy generated an expanding cloud of energetic superheated evaporation of flourescing gas remnant molecules?
No budget for that. 1970s Star Wars and Trek were also limited, no debris fields. You didn't actually start seeing those until CGI got advanced enough in the mid 2000s.
When I was a child this was the high point of the week American innocence Doritos a Coca-Cola and enjoying Battlestar Galactica all at the same time
They really did a lot with very little.