Greetings!

After finishing Deadwood Boc and I wanted to watch another classic show "together". Candidates included The Americans and The Sopranos but we went with.......Battlestar Galactica!

We're gonna try to stay on pace with each other more or less and chip away at it. First the miniseries, then the four seasons and those two mini movies or whatever that they did

Disclaimer, my dad loved this show so I caught a handful of episodes as they were airing but I forget the details, I do know the broader strokes of the series though unfortunately. I also watched the first season and posted my thoughts somewhere on FE years ago but then abandoned my watch cause I got busy or something. Excited to finally binge through it properly

Okay that's all goodbye. Thoughts to come

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going into this almost entirely blind besides the fact that I know the general concept of the cylons, which is revealed almost right away anyway. So should be FUN!

miniseries pt. 1

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the early 00s SURE SHINES THROUGH with this show (: The shoddy special effects aren't a big deal to me though. The acting...ehh! Hope that gets better as the show goes on, although I guess the Asian girl is the only one that stuck out to me as being especially rough (p sure that actress ended up joining the NXIVM cult irl later on, hmmm!) anyway the setup is p good so far, I liked the concept of BSG being in the process of turning into a museum since it'd been so long since cylons were an actual threat Best scenes were with the blonde cylon, the opening and the bombing scene. Got a lil bit of MELANCHOLIA vibes during the latter actually (although I wish they would've sold the weightiness of it a bit more like that movie did). More of that kinda stuff, less space battles plz. I have a feeling that'll be the case from the little I know tho

Miniseries pt1

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I loooove the setup. The opening scene with the cylons finally showing up is such a great way to start a show. It was immediately super intriguing. The title card that said something like the day finally came where they overthrew their masters etc was really good. I love the whole premise of the show in general with their old antique ship making it through and having to really step it up since they're all some of very few survivors, good stuff They do this very specific kinda shot where you see a ship flying through space from a distance and then they do a very quick punch in on it, I really like whenever they do that And yeah the sfx haven't held up super well but eh! What can you do, it was great at the time iirc. Some of it still looks p good sometimes. The sets look good too Also the music is great, I like it a lot Baltar and Number Six are both immediately very intriguing. And Edward James Olmos is p great. Excited for more

What no podcast?

With my dad I used to watch Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and BSG back to back to back when they were first airing on the Sci-Fi/SyFy channel. Mostly was watching for Stargate, but BSG was great, too.

Stargate @ 2/1/2021 0:14

With my dad I used to watch Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and BSG back to back to back when they were first airing on the Sci-Fi/SyFy channel. Mostly was watching for Stargate, but BSG was great, too.

This is exactly what I did with my dad but I would only see eps here and there. I never cared for the other two but BSG always interested me

I’ve always wanted to watch this but I couldn’t even figure out where to start and so I have up

think it's just prequel mini-series / main series that matter?

This is one of my fav shows. It's really good.

Miniseries pt2

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Good stuff. Good twist at the end with Boomer which I already knew ofc. I remember the main plot points from my first s1 watch years ago but not a ton of details Love the twelve cylon model setup, its great. And I love the fact that some are sleeper models and don't know they're cylons. The group shot of multiple versions of each of them at the end was great Wont be able to get enough out of the Gaius/Number Six theme. Gaius is the most intriguing character for me Time to get into the main show

1x01: 33

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You’re right Cart, Boomer is a brutally bad actress Sam Witwer! I always like him iirc the intro changes after this ep going forward and it’s for the best, I didn’t like this intro at all but I like the regular intro that they start doing. I like the music they play while they’re showing upcoming clips. And I like how fast the clips go by so you aren’t really spoiled on anything Good ep! I liked the 33 minutes/no sleep concept. They were making ME tired! Intriguing ending with AltBoomer and Helo

1x02: Water

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Hellll yawww there’s that intro. Love the title cards. “Some of them are programmed to think they are human” is great. And in red! How ominous. “And they have a plan” to end it is also great Oh I see there’s the title cards and then the recap and THEN the intro and THENNNN the upcoming clips. Woweeeee I like that Gaius goes to this lake house sometimes in his mind. Nice change of scenery lol Captain and Boomer just openly talking about her finding the explosives with everyone walking by them Maybe it makes sense that they made the most wooden actress into a robot Fine ep overall

1x03: Bastille Day

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I do like how the show feels episodic so far. First ep about no sleep, second about finding water, third about the prisoners. I forget if the rest of s1 is like that This lead prisoner played Apollo in the OG show. Richard Hatch! Died a few years ago rip I don’t like Callie very much They do a good job shooting Caprica scenes, feels so eerie and empty there. And feels weird after being on just ships for so long, kinda like Gaius’ lake house scenes I really hate that little kid who got into the Galactica. A lot Fine ep. I liked Richard Hatch’s character in it, even tho the standoff was solved a lil too quickly. I do like the politics/election angle though and Apollo holding Roslin to her term I kinda love Tigh, what a hardass curmudgeon