Oh, yea, right. You try that without free-floating controls, no inertial control, and being shot at all at the same damned time. BSG's pilots were Lords at what they did.
@@BattlestarGalactica I can't remember which episode this is. I mean, I watched the series at least four times, but it was over a decade ago, so I'm due to have a BSG binge again soon.
@@JENDALL714 Bare in mind, BSG is almost twenty years old now. So its no surprise that the CGI looks a little dated. As for fireballs being just a puff of flame then nothing? That's actually realistic for what an explosion would look like in the vacuum.
It's incredible how well the writers were able to misdirect the audience as well as Starbuck, Adama, and Apollo were able to misdirect the Cylon Raiders
Seriously, I love how realistic the combat was. It wasn't like Star Wars where it was basically just current day dog fights in space, these fighters fought like they really were in zero g. Flipping around and firing behind them while still coasting forward... It really looked like a dance
@@allenharper2928 I'm going to disagree on the realism aspect. In reality, almost no space battle would ever occur with all the combatants within visual range of each other, and it's extremely unlikely that fighters would be used at all. If you want realism, The Expanse is really the only show that handles it semi-properly. Even then, the ships are really over-designed. Real space combat would probably look like a couple of metal tubes lobbing missiles at each other from opposite sides of an orbit, maybe with the odd high-power laser thrown in to knock out components.
@Jaffa Rebellion: You might want to check yourself. You, like every other human being, have zero experience with space combat. So, you actually have no clue what space combat will look like - especially with machinery as advanced as in the BSG universe. In case you missed it, missles are useless (hello ECM!). The show is fiction, but for you to say what is realistic in a future combat scenario, like this? Think about that for a second.
i used a physics game engine and created a 3d model... the mk 2 in space flies like a dream... in the atmosphere with 1.0 Gravity it flies pretty good too more like a dart but if u can extend the wings just a few feet... it alleiviates that issue so if it is ever built for real... the mk2 and 3 can fly in earths sky with no problem... to make her more agile like an f-16 all u need to do it make the wings extendable to increase surface friction allowing incredible response.... One day if i ever get a few hundred million... i wanna have one created for real... with real weapons... u strap a large booster rocket under its belly... u have an earth based space fighter already designed that really works with rcs thrusters for space combat.... rentry is the only issue i havent played with... but im sure it can be done as well with current tiles like we use on the shuttles and the air force re-entry vehicle X-35.
The greatest thing about BSG was there were always stakes and usually a price to pay. I was never complacement about how a major plot point would resolve itself.
@@babapambazuka2845 I came home from work and turned the t.v. on, and I saw a card game and a male and a female ready to fight. Then I hear the name 'Starbuck' and went, WTF? BSG? But this looks worthwhile and I was hooked. You couldn't shut me up about it. I hooked my (then) teenaged daughter into it as well. I was disappointed when Caprica didn't stack up. Or, the prequel series, which had real potential but _c'est la vie_
Top Gun: Apollo. Great action scenes. I hadn't noticed before, but the camera spins around on the Cylon markers on the strategy board... almost like a fighter maneuvering around them...
I always liked Adama at the very end takes the congratulations from a long time friend and comrade then turns for a moment of quiet contemplation wondering if he had to lose so many of his kids to do the job.
@@darkleome5409 In the end of Return of the Jedi, after the rebels on Endor shutdown the Shield, Lando Calrissian Takes the Millenium Falcon inside the Death Star just like Apollo did.
@chrisbiro1 "one of" I said. Not "the only and ultimate best" Also. As great as they were. Firefly and serenity were one season and a movie. This was a complete series, start to finish of amazing content. That counts for something
@@ryanmcewen415 100% agree that full run series that are well done like this does count for something. This is one of the reasons The Expanse is such a great show. Game of Thrones held everyone for years, until the last two episodes ruined the story for everyone with an unsatisfying ending.
Also it's not like Hot Dog and his team were incompetent, they just drew that assignment. With a healthy bit of well earned nepotism from Starbuck. And when the order to turn around came they spun and slagged those toasters no issue.
I was upset when I first heard they were doing a reboot. But they did such a great job, I was fan to the very end. Even jumped on board the spin off show. Caprica.
Capirca was a good show that was never given the time to develop. I enjoyed it a lot. I can't help but think if Caprica was made just a decade later it would have been fine via streaming. Standard network television has been the death of many good shows because of how they operate.
I grew up waiting for my weekly dose of Kirk and Spock, so I go back a little while. This series is easily the best sci-fi series I have ever seen in my life…… quite possibly the best series of any genre.
@@gusgrimm7533 Yeah, mate. BSG battles were brilliant, battle of New Caprica when Bill Adama drove Galactica down the atmosphere of the planet just to launch Viper fighters and then FTL out just before the crash, that was a hell of a something. At that time, when you compare it to Stargate, that was unseen. But now, The Expanse has the most realistic and sophisticated space battles one can ever watch. It's the attention to detail that you have to appreciate. I have watched almost all of the space battles in The Expanse numerous times and it's fking amazing. The last one, where Roci engaged Pella together with two belter ships was so far the best space battle I have ever seen in my life and I have watched all episodes of Star Trek (fk Discovery and Picard tho, it's a shame these shows are allowed to bare the name of Star Trek), Stargate, BSG, Firefly, Dark Matter, Lost in Space and all the major sci-fi series in the past 20 years. The Expanse is hands down the best sci-fi had to offer so far. I salute the duo of James S. A. Corey and the producers of this show. I just hope that there will be some TV continuation of this amazing story after this final sixth season. The tale of Laconian Empire and the rebellion sounds so amazing I can't even imagine that they will just drop the show and let this beatifully written and well thought of story go to waste. Sorry I was a little intoxicated when I wrote this 🤣
My favourite hard sci-fi series ever. So much to love about it, yet so hard for people to get into: subject matter too dark, outlook too bleak. Despite this the series still has exhilarating highs of ingenuity and unity such as this sequence. Kids are going to re-discover this series at some point I hope. They will be well rewarded for the investment of time and effort. Cheers 🍺
" subject matter too dark, outlook too bleak." This is WHY it's my #1 show of all time... Well, that and the notion of us being one race, the Human Race that was put across ...;)
@@johnkelly7757 I think the last season will have to be re-evaluated at some point. Everyone watching were expecting something other than what they got. They were building up the mythological universe already in the pilot and it was in full bloom during the second season. I loved that. The mixing of Greek, Roman and Christian mythology "with a twist" was fun. And the way they did it was quite elegant but it threw people of the rails in the end. I am planning to re-watch season 3 and 4 later this year. I watched the final two season under the influence of psychedelics and that skewed my perception quite a bit I suspect. It was one strange trip. I never thought of the ending as time travel, it was a cyclical universe in my eyes. "Everything that has happened before will happen again" .. I still hold BSG as a landmark achievement. Cheers 🍺
Kind of curious about the models of the ships used on the plotting table. Anyone know what happened to them and if they are still about so we could see?
@@smileydag I also went to the Seattle MOPOP and had the complete opposite reaction. I saw the models and thought how cool it was they could turn those little props into what we see on TV and in the movies with just the right lighting and digital effects. Either way, The Kurt Cobain and Hendrix exhibits were amazing.
Sadly I have to disagree, but then again I grew up with the original. This version seemed melodramatic, poorly written and poorly cast to me. Which is a shame cuz it's got some great actors and producers but everybody drops a turd now and then.
@@M167A1 I know everybody has their own taste but I've never understood this. The original literally seems like it was written for children and the reboot was the most gritty and adult sci-fi show to come along, matched only by The Expanse.
@@M167A1 I grew up with the original, too. The original is great if you think that the genocide of billions of people should be portrayed in the campiest possible way. Mass murder in the colorful Biff-Bam-Kapow style of Adam West's "Batman."
Somewhat reminiscent of the original Battle of Carrillon, in which Adama quietly moves the entire Viper complement and all the crews to the surface without the civilians knowing about it. (Edited from Caprica to Carrillon 2 Sep 22 after someone kindly pointed out my blunder.)
This was quite literally the first scene I ever saw of the new BSG and it hooked me! I loved the original series, but I will always enjoy this one as well!
3:03 It appears an unseen camera person doubles as an unseen viper pilot. Some slick camera work out there covering Apollo's team deploying. You actually hear viper thrust sounds on the zooms and flip. The camera person in the planning room was feeling a little envious being grounded and decided to flip their camera over the battle chart mimicking a viper in flight.
I love how they're in this high tech spaceship but the battle map is still using little mini models of freindly and enemy fighters as if it's a movie about the Battle of Britain...fantastic production design...
I love the little detail. When Adama says "everything is on the board already," Baltar reacts with dispair while Roslin immediately becomes steely-eyed, like she's thinking "wait a minute..."
best episode of the entire series imho. Everybody's unique and best talents on display to accomplish an impossible task with a backdrop of a great father and son and family tradition.
I remember asking my dad why Galactica needed a launch catapult if the fighters can just take off from a standstill on a freighter. "Because it looks cool."
If I were writing for the show and needed to come up with an explanation for that, I'd probably say it was due to combat statistics showing that traditionally launching into combat would be when the fighters were most vulnerable. This was a high risk move because the fighters were so vulnerable once revealed and before they got moving. A launch bay is a shooting gallery, launch catapults help markedly with pilot survival rates. That's what I would write at least.
The launch tubes allow the Vipers to get up to combat speed before reaching exposed space. The hangar deck is deep within the flight pod surrounded by armor and other mechanics to store fighters, fuel, and munitions. As well, using the flight deck elevators during combat would mean they’d be sitting ducks raising them to the flight deck. Plus the faster the Vipers are out of the way, the faster the AAA can start up.
@@JefferyAClark counter argument, if the goal is to get the fighter out faster. They could just fly out all together. There really isn't a need to catapult them one at a time. Or catapult them at all really, there is no stall speed. All that runway is wasted space requiring armor on 3 sides. Even for landing it doesn't make a ton of sense. I stand by my dad's answer. "Cause it looks cool"
@@Hierax415counter still, safer to launch one by one even if barely staggered for if the ship itself is maneuvering as to not cause collision or overlap fields of fire. That and of course for atmospheric launch especially having them start at strike speed is useful
It uses a huge amount of fuel for the fighters to launch like that. Makes more sense to keep the fuel and make the carrier to that work. Also a lot less jet wash damaging the carrier.
"Dated" simply because CG textures, lighting, etc., has improved over time. BSG is the best space TV show (in my world, barely edging out Firefly). @@Debbiebabe69
This really highlighted Lt. Kara Thrace as much more than just a snot nosed Viper pilot. To me, this did justice to the role of Starbuck (Both TOS and Reimagined) and showed the audience that despite their cocky attitudes and sometimes "boneheaded" words and decisions, that they truly were professionals who cared about their people, and their fellow pilots, and could be intelligent and thoughtful. This is what the Starbuck role truly needed. And while the Kara Thrace role enjoyed a controversial but overall satisfying conclusion, her male Starbuck counterpart endured a FAR worse fate. (Spoiler Alert) The original Starbucks played by Dirk Benedict had crash landed on a desolate and lonely planet. Galactica was too far to retrieve him, and Boomer carried the sad news of Starbuck's loss to Adama. I wished Glen Larson would have been given the resources to insure the male Starbuck had a much more positive outcome. He deserved better.
IDK if anyone will read this but with modern air-to-air/anti-radiation missiles/etc is it possible to disable guidance such as IR before firing? Not because it would ever be possible to hit another aircraft, but as a general function/option in the cockpit? Possibly for a reason I haven't contemplated or even exist? A dumb bomb.
Lee: *Flies into tunnel*
Ace Combat Players: Hey I've seen this one before, it's a classic.
X-Wing Alliance players - This feels like Deja Vu.
Lando and Chewie: been there, done that. Got the Death Star t-shirt.
@@RCAvhstape Actually, Chewie was on the ground with Luke, Han and Leia.. It was Lando and a bunch of rebels I don't know the names of.
_Nemo, Mobius 1, Galm 1, Blaze, Talisman, and Trigger: Not bad kid._
Oh, yea, right. You try that without free-floating controls, no inertial control, and being shot at all at the same damned time.
BSG's pilots were Lords at what they did.
Love the hard earned win in this episode. Well acted by the actors, excellent music choice and the special effects were top notch to.
yea, this scene is just a great one, so triumphant!
@@BattlestarGalactica
I can't remember which episode this is. I mean, I watched the series at least four times, but it was over a decade ago, so I'm due to have a BSG binge again soon.
Effects top notch, really, they look cartoonish.
I have a CD of Bear McCreary, season 4. Love BSG's music.
@@JENDALL714 Bare in mind, BSG is almost twenty years old now. So its no surprise that the CGI looks a little dated. As for fireballs being just a puff of flame then nothing? That's actually realistic for what an explosion would look like in the vacuum.
Easily one of THE best tactical engagements of the entire series. Just amazing all around.
Yes, this series set a high watermark not easily matched.
It's incredible how well the writers were able to misdirect the audience as well as Starbuck, Adama, and Apollo were able to misdirect the Cylon Raiders
"Sometimes you have to roll the hard six." Indeed! 😁
This episode was one of the very few but greatest examples of just how maneuverable and agile the Viper Mark II was as a overall space fighter…
Seriously, I love how realistic the combat was. It wasn't like Star Wars where it was basically just current day dog fights in space, these fighters fought like they really were in zero g. Flipping around and firing behind them while still coasting forward... It really looked like a dance
@@allenharper2928 I'm going to disagree on the realism aspect. In reality, almost no space battle would ever occur with all the combatants within visual range of each other, and it's extremely unlikely that fighters would be used at all. If you want realism, The Expanse is really the only show that handles it semi-properly. Even then, the ships are really over-designed. Real space combat would probably look like a couple of metal tubes lobbing missiles at each other from opposite sides of an orbit, maybe with the odd high-power laser thrown in to knock out components.
@Jaffa Rebellion: You might want to check yourself. You, like every other human being, have zero experience with space combat. So, you actually have no clue what space combat will look like - especially with machinery as advanced as in the BSG universe. In case you missed it, missles are useless (hello ECM!). The show is fiction, but for you to say what is realistic in a future combat scenario, like this? Think about that for a second.
Love in BSG how the Vipers didn't fly like airplanes in the air!
i used a physics game engine and created a 3d model... the mk 2 in space flies like a dream... in the atmosphere with 1.0 Gravity it flies pretty good too more like a dart but if u can extend the wings just a few feet... it alleiviates that issue so if it is ever built for real... the mk2 and 3 can fly in earths sky with no problem... to make her more agile like an f-16 all u need to do it make the wings extendable to increase surface friction allowing incredible response.... One day if i ever get a few hundred million... i wanna have one created for real... with real weapons... u strap a large booster rocket under its belly... u have an earth based space fighter already designed that really works with rcs thrusters for space combat.... rentry is the only issue i havent played with... but im sure it can be done as well with current tiles like we use on the shuttles and the air force re-entry vehicle X-35.
Lee played a lot of Ace Combat to look at that tunnel and go "I've got this".
The greatest thing about BSG was there were always stakes and usually a price to pay. I was never complacement about how a major plot point would resolve itself.
Victory costs; each time, you pay a little more.
Every struggle Galactica + the fleet endured with, lives were lost in some form or another.. truly a crazy ride just to find Earth lol
I’m usually no fan of reboots but they sure proved me wrong with BSG. Man I miss this show.
BSG is the gold standard of remakes, helmed by the incomparable Ronald D Moore.
this one is the exception which proves the rule
@@babapambazuka2845
I came home from work and turned the t.v. on, and I saw a card game and a male and a female ready to fight. Then I hear the name 'Starbuck' and went, WTF? BSG? But this
looks worthwhile and I was hooked. You couldn't shut me up about it. I hooked my (then) teenaged daughter into it as well. I was disappointed when Caprica didn't stack up. Or, the prequel series, which had real potential but _c'est la vie_
Well look at it this way with all the advancements in ai and robots you might actually get to live it for real in the near future!
Huge VSG fan. Now hooked on "The Expanse."
As for this level of tech, we're likely to see some of it soon.
I still feel bad every time a pilot is lost.
true :'(
😢😢😢😭😭😭 :-‘(
Yeah a lot of the pilots in this episode are replacing the Viper Pilots that were lost in earlier engagements.
How many viper pilots do they even have?
@@amitkenan3878 good question.. i think Lee needed camera time to hit the fuel station lol.
"Now we play for all the marbles."
I love that line. I just love it. ^_^
too good 😬
Apollo, the back door is open...
@@kyorin6526 And that one!
The story, the acting, the directing and let's not forget the score. This show was a master class on high quality television programming.
Yup...no woke garbage too
RD Moore was amazing in Star Trek too... His stuff now tends to be kind of woke but back then he was top knotch.
Can you imagine Loser 45 in charge? His tactic.....cry like a baby and claim victory while everything collapses around us.
@@johnnylibtard5764the new caprica arc was made directly to comment on the iraqi occupation, but it was pretty subtle
Top Gun: Apollo. Great action scenes.
I hadn't noticed before, but the camera spins around on the Cylon markers on the strategy board... almost like a fighter maneuvering around them...
The non-linear, 3D thinking here was outstanding.
One of the best episodes in the series. Still has me cheering everytime I see it. The operation was brilliant!
sure is. seeing all the characters best abilities and talent being used to their potential is what makes it so good for me.
I'm happy to say that Chuckles got reincarnated as Dr Praxideke (Prax) Meng in the Expanse. 🙂
He’s not that guy.
Also got reincarnated in continuum
@@Henry-mk9dnTerry Chen was absolutely that guy. 👍🏻
That’s so awesome. Two great shows
This was some absolutely top notch sciences fiction. A credit to everyone involved.
I always liked Adama at the very end takes the congratulations from a long time friend and comrade then turns for a moment of quiet contemplation wondering if he had to lose so many of his kids to do the job.
One of my favourite episodes and by the way a great Star Wars hommage by Ronald D. Moore.
Star wars homage? Where?
@@darkleome5409 In the end of Return of the Jedi, after the rebels on Endor shutdown the Shield, Lando Calrissian Takes the Millenium Falcon inside the Death Star just like Apollo did.
loveeeeee that
It's just like Beggar's Canyon back home!
This scene and the Galactica FTL into New Caprica atmosphere are my two most favorite flight scenes.
🤣I've watched this episode many times over the years. The term is usually "Fracking" but @4:58 the actual F*bomb. How did I ever miss this?
Just noticed that, myself. I think we were so accustomed to hearing, "Frak !" that we missed actress Luciana Carro saying the actual expletive. Hmm …
Shes saying Fracking
No, she said frak. There's a bit in another episode where it sounds like Doc Cottle drops the bomb as well, but pretty sure he didn't.
The death of the Asian pilot "Chuckles" reminded me of Admiral Yamamoto's death in WWII. Same wound through the left shoulder.
This is one of the all time best sci Fi shows ever made.
I think the only thing that has ever come close to beating it would have to be The Expanse.
Agreed. Always thought The Expanse was the GOAT, but BSG is a close second.
What you are ignoring Firefly and Serenity? How dare you...
@chrisbiro1 "one of" I said. Not "the only and ultimate best"
Also. As great as they were. Firefly and serenity were one season and a movie.
This was a complete series, start to finish of amazing content.
That counts for something
@@ryanmcewen415 100% agree that full run series that are well done like this does count for something. This is one of the reasons The Expanse is such a great show. Game of Thrones held everyone for years, until the last two episodes ruined the story for everyone with an unsatisfying ending.
Sneaky Adama there: "Everything's on the board." Well, he wasn't *technically* lying... :)
It’s insane when you realise that Adama used Galactica and Strike Force 1 as bait to lure out all the Raiders so Lee would be clear to attack
Also it's not like Hot Dog and his team were incompetent, they just drew that assignment. With a healthy bit of well earned nepotism from Starbuck. And when the order to turn around came they spun and slagged those toasters no issue.
@Frank Brown That is actually a fvery good way to elaborate on the points above. Well done lol
It's not really insane if you have a basic grasp of tactics and strategy.
IT WAS A PLOY
It was actually Starbuck's plan.
This was one of the best episodes of this show.
Frakking genuis move. Great double bluff
Man loved this show! I miss being a Battlestar Galactica online Strike Viper pilot!
They should bring back that game. Even if its as BSG Offline with ai pilots.
BSG-O was fun flying between player warships as a viper, just being a teeny tiny fly compared to those masive hulks.
That flyby starting at 4:21...awesome.
"it's a good lighter.."
And a cracking score! SSWA!
I was upset when I first heard they were doing a reboot. But they did such a great job, I was fan to the very end. Even jumped on board the spin off show. Caprica.
Capirca was a good show that was never given the time to develop. I enjoyed it a lot. I can't help but think if Caprica was made just a decade later it would have been fine via streaming. Standard network television has been the death of many good shows because of how they operate.
5:07 gods, the innuendos just keep coming
I grew up waiting for my weekly dose of Kirk and Spock, so I go back a little while. This series is easily the best sci-fi series I have ever seen in my life……
quite possibly the best series of any genre.
Used to be. Now it's The Expanse.
@@rxueloenz: Agreed. Love BSG. "The Expanse," however, is next-level good 👍
@@gusgrimm7533 Yeah, mate. BSG battles were brilliant, battle of New Caprica when Bill Adama drove Galactica down the atmosphere of the planet just to launch Viper fighters and then FTL out just before the crash, that was a hell of a something. At that time, when you compare it to Stargate, that was unseen. But now, The Expanse has the most realistic and sophisticated space battles one can ever watch. It's the attention to detail that you have to appreciate. I have watched almost all of the space battles in The Expanse numerous times and it's fking amazing. The last one, where Roci engaged Pella together with two belter ships was so far the best space battle I have ever seen in my life and I have watched all episodes of Star Trek (fk Discovery and Picard tho, it's a shame these shows are allowed to bare the name of Star Trek), Stargate, BSG, Firefly, Dark Matter, Lost in Space and all the major sci-fi series in the past 20 years. The Expanse is hands down the best sci-fi had to offer so far. I salute the duo of James S. A. Corey and the producers of this show. I just hope that there will be some TV continuation of this amazing story after this final sixth season. The tale of Laconian Empire and the rebellion sounds so amazing I can't even imagine that they will just drop the show and let this beatifully written and well thought of story go to waste. Sorry I was a little intoxicated when I wrote this 🤣
@@rxueloenz: Let's just pray Hi-Quality Sci-fi keeps up after The Expanse 🙏
This show is EPIC and easily top 5 of best scifi show EVER!
What a production.......................what a frackin production. Nothing like it will ever be repeated!!!!
My favourite hard sci-fi series ever. So much to love about it, yet so hard for people to get into: subject matter too dark, outlook too bleak. Despite this the series still has exhilarating highs of ingenuity and unity such as this sequence. Kids are going to re-discover this series at some point I hope. They will be well rewarded for the investment of time and effort.
Cheers 🍺
" subject matter too dark, outlook too bleak." This is WHY it's my #1 show of all time... Well, that and the notion of us being one race, the Human Race that was put across ...;)
The series faltered near the end when the writers chose to bring time travel into the mix and the narrative became increasingly confused.
bad bad writing the further you get into the series
@@johnkelly7757 I think the last season will have to be re-evaluated at some point. Everyone watching were expecting something other than what they got. They were building up the mythological universe already in the pilot and it was in full bloom during the second season.
I loved that. The mixing of Greek, Roman and Christian mythology "with a twist" was fun. And the way they did it was quite elegant but it threw people of the rails in the end. I am planning to re-watch season 3 and 4 later this year. I watched the final two season under the influence of psychedelics and that skewed my perception quite a bit I suspect. It was one strange trip.
I never thought of the ending as time travel, it was a cyclical universe in my eyes. "Everything that has happened before will happen again" ..
I still hold BSG as a landmark achievement.
Cheers 🍺
@@johnkelly7757 Time travel?? Which episode was that (was only done in short lived sequel to original series Galactica 1980 pilot episide/movie)
Kind of curious about the models of the ships used on the plotting table. Anyone know what happened to them and if they are still about so we could see?
Seattle Sci-fi museum maybe. I went. It was actually disappointing, everything looks so fake.
@@smileydag I also went to the Seattle MOPOP and had the complete opposite reaction. I saw the models and thought how cool it was they could turn those little props into what we see on TV and in the movies with just the right lighting and digital effects.
Either way, The Kurt Cobain and Hendrix exhibits were amazing.
This show understood how to build suspense!
10/10
That vipers ride over the surface is certainly the homage to original BSG series :)
The best military sci-fi i've ever seen.
Everything about this show was top notch. So happy I got to thank Ronald D Moore for this in person🖤
Sadly I have to disagree, but then again I grew up with the original.
This version seemed melodramatic, poorly written and poorly cast to me. Which is a shame cuz it's got some great actors and producers but everybody drops a turd now and then.
@@M167A1 I know everybody has their own taste but I've never understood this. The original literally seems like it was written for children and the reboot was the most gritty and adult sci-fi show to come along, matched only by The Expanse.
that's awesome!
@@M167A1 I grew up with the original, too. The original is great if you think that the genocide of billions of people should be portrayed in the campiest possible way. Mass murder in the colorful Biff-Bam-Kapow style of Adam West's "Batman."
@@M167A1 Your taste is a joke. The reboot was better in every way.
I really liked the WW II - style plotting board 😂. At least they used plastic models instead of wooden blocks to represent the units 😉.
I loved this episode. Great frakking plan.
Great flying 3 strikes....I mean Apollo!
One of my many favorite scenes in this outstanding series.
agreed omg 🤗
Second only to the combat launch on New Caprica. Nothing beats that for sheer audacity and adrenaline
I dare say the best episode of the entire series
Well look at this, that is some Ace Combat level tunnel flying.
One of the best sci fi shows ever....
Lee, you've been hanging around Starbuck for too long.
I was thinking the same thing. "Am I going crazy? No, I'm just channeling my esteemed colleague's terrible ideas."
Masterfully executed on all levels.
BSG was one of the greatest sci-fi shows ever.
I sure think Apollo enjoyed hearing that from Dee
🤣🤣🤣
Best episode of the entire series.
1st time watching: This Baltar is one lucky bstrd!
2nd time watching: what an interesting spectaculas these angels play...
I was brought up with the original BSG and always avoided this thinking it was gonna be a bit meh! How wrong I was it's frakin awesome!
One of the best episodes of the series imo🤘
The strategy she came up with was freaking genius.. Always have an extra round in the chamber:)
This is better than any death star attack run.
Somewhat reminiscent of the original Battle of Carrillon, in which Adama quietly moves the entire Viper complement and all the crews to the surface without the civilians knowing about it.
(Edited from Caprica to Carrillon 2 Sep 22 after someone kindly pointed out my blunder.)
That was Carillon.
@@TommygunNG OOPS brainfart. Thank you. Corrected.
This was quite literally the first scene I ever saw of the new BSG and it hooked me! I loved the original series, but I will always enjoy this one as well!
Thr writing of this show is equal to only Babylon 5 in my eyes. LOVE IT!!
In my top three si-fi show BSG, The Expanse, Firefly/Serenity, in no particular order. Honorable mention is the first season of West World.
2:36 that's what she said? what an invitation!
LOL
Love the special effects 👍🪐
not bad, ay? 🙌
Great episode
Let's hope the Babylon 5 reboot turns out just as good.
Re-watching for the 3rd time. Such an epic show. I used to be young...
The visuals were amazing.
Lot of back door action right there 👍
Show writers must have been playing some Ace Combat while writing this one
3:03 It appears an unseen camera person doubles as an unseen viper pilot. Some slick camera work out there covering Apollo's team deploying. You actually hear viper thrust sounds on the zooms and flip. The camera person in the planning room was feeling a little envious being grounded and decided to flip their camera over the battle chart mimicking a viper in flight.
I love how they're in this high tech spaceship but the battle map is still using little mini models of freindly and enemy fighters as if it's a movie about the Battle of Britain...fantastic production design...
Set battlestar galactica in youtube all seasons and movie and monetize it, everybody should watch it.
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I remember watching this episode when it first aired back in the day. I remember as if it was yesterday
When he flew through the tunnel...did anyone else had massive Unreal Tournament 2004 AS-Mothership flashbacks? ._.
Great show. I loved watching it.
At 4:15 the guy leaning over the tactical board is lipping Apollo's and Starbucks lines. Ooops.
I love the little detail. When Adama says "everything is on the board already," Baltar reacts with dispair while Roslin immediately becomes steely-eyed, like she's thinking "wait a minute..."
Gaeta is so happy here. It makes me sad when I think what the future holds for him.
Amazing show. Going to have to rewatch it again now. If only i could remember the order !
RIP Chuckles, Fireball, and Stepchild.
"Fireball" is a really bad luck callsign.
My girlfriend once told me, "The backdoor is open, repeat, the backdoor is open". I was very happy 😆😆😆
best episode of the entire series imho. Everybody's unique and best talents on display to accomplish an impossible task with a backdrop of a great father and son and family tradition.
After everything the fleet had been through by that point, taking loss after loss, this victory felt so good.
possibly the best moment of the entire series was this episode. for me at least.
Man I loved this show
I remember asking my dad why Galactica needed a launch catapult if the fighters can just take off from a standstill on a freighter. "Because it looks cool."
If I were writing for the show and needed to come up with an explanation for that, I'd probably say it was due to combat statistics showing that traditionally launching into combat would be when the fighters were most vulnerable. This was a high risk move because the fighters were so vulnerable once revealed and before they got moving.
A launch bay is a shooting gallery, launch catapults help markedly with pilot survival rates.
That's what I would write at least.
The launch tubes allow the Vipers to get up to combat speed before reaching exposed space. The hangar deck is deep within the flight pod surrounded by armor and other mechanics to store fighters, fuel, and munitions. As well, using the flight deck elevators during combat would mean they’d be sitting ducks raising them to the flight deck.
Plus the faster the Vipers are out of the way, the faster the AAA can start up.
@@JefferyAClark counter argument, if the goal is to get the fighter out faster. They could just fly out all together. There really isn't a need to catapult them one at a time. Or catapult them at all really, there is no stall speed.
All that runway is wasted space requiring armor on 3 sides. Even for landing it doesn't make a ton of sense. I stand by my dad's answer. "Cause it looks cool"
@@Hierax415counter still, safer to launch one by one even if barely staggered for if the ship itself is maneuvering as to not cause collision or overlap fields of fire.
That and of course for atmospheric launch especially having them start at strike speed is useful
It uses a huge amount of fuel for the fighters to launch like that. Makes more sense to keep the fuel and make the carrier to that work. Also a lot less jet wash damaging the carrier.
They have tech for FTL travels and their war room has miniatures on a table like the RAF Command & Control Center in the WW2 / Battle of Britain! 😁
4:06 well hello there, Praxidike!
Even though the CG is dated, Galactica did the best job to date of showing the use of retro rockets to change the speed and attitude of their ships.
Eh, I've seen much more modern productions with much worse CG
Naaah Babylon 5 did it in the 90s. So much so that NASA engineers loved the design (Star fury)
'cg is dated'???
Name a modern show that did it better? The Expanse probably yes, but BSG still beats all the big-budget sci fi shows........
"Dated" simply because CG textures, lighting, etc., has improved over time. BSG is the best space TV show (in my world, barely edging out Firefly). @@Debbiebabe69
Baltar was guided by god, this episode proved it
Apollo had it easy. He could literally stop mid-air! Us Ace Combat pilot's would have to do that 90° turn while moving lol
Very ace combat of him
Cylons can jamm missile guiding system, but no radio com :-D
That was fracking tense
This really highlighted Lt. Kara Thrace as much more than just a snot nosed Viper pilot. To me, this did justice to the role of Starbuck (Both TOS and Reimagined) and showed the audience that despite their cocky attitudes and sometimes "boneheaded" words and decisions, that they truly were professionals who cared about their people, and their fellow pilots, and could be intelligent and thoughtful. This is what the Starbuck role truly needed. And while the Kara Thrace role enjoyed a controversial but overall satisfying conclusion, her male Starbuck counterpart endured a FAR worse fate.
(Spoiler Alert) The original Starbucks played by Dirk Benedict had crash landed on a desolate and lonely planet. Galactica was too far to retrieve him, and Boomer carried the sad news of Starbuck's loss to Adama. I wished Glen Larson would have been given the resources to insure the male Starbuck had a much more positive outcome. He deserved better.
I love the Vipers RCS ports
I’m a fan of the original. I watched it with my son with an open mind. It slowly grew on me proving to be one hell of a reboot.
IDK if anyone will read this but with modern air-to-air/anti-radiation missiles/etc is it possible to disable guidance such as IR before firing? Not because it would ever be possible to hit another aircraft, but as a general function/option in the cockpit? Possibly for a reason I haven't contemplated or even exist? A dumb bomb.