BSG '78 Fans Watch Battlestar Galactica The Miniseries for the FIRST TIME

Is there gonna be a uncut version of this reaction somewhere?

If you two have fun watching it, you should keep watching it. Metrics aside, over time when the people creating the content are enjoying themselves, that's what brings people in and keeps them around. I watched BSG (this version) as it aired, and I mostly liked it. There's some amazing acting that happens. Rich character development, interesting twists and turns. I love your no-spoilers policy, and I'll adhere to it. For me, I felt like they dropped a few of the story balls they were juggling, but I don't regret for one moment the time I put into watching it. Rewatching it with you could be fun. Also, I came to really love the score. Bear McCreary is good at what he does. All that said, I came here for the Trek, and that's what I'll stick around for. Thank you for what you're doing; you're both great company. Cheers!

interesting thing to consider with killing of the baby, that it a much quicker and less painful way to die then a nuke, so was it a act of mercy to spare the baby

Funny you said you were not impressed by the fight scenes in space. Back in the day it was exactly those which blew our minds. There was nothing like it on TV before. And for my friends and me who had watched the original show it was a shock how dark and realistic the new BSG was. It's not really a spoiler to say that Ronald D. Moore did everything here he was not allowed to do on VOY.

Great reaction, glad you guys are overall quite positive with what you saw, I do hope the video gets lots of views and likes over on YouTube and you feel it's worth it to carry on into the series proper!

I’m one of those old people who grew up watching the original show. I came into the remake as it released in my 20s very sceptical of it, and all the changes being made (gender swapping Starbuck? How dare you!), and may I say that I was blown away at how good the mini-series was. All my scepticism disappeared pretty much immediately, especially when Katee came onto the screen as Kara/Starbuck. She charmed the pants off me, so much so that if Katee Sackhoff is in a show or movie, I will watch it regardless of quality, purely because I know she will give a stellar performance. Thankfully the quality continues through to the rest of the series, and all the actors (Eddie Olmos, Mary McDonnell, and Micheal Hogan are absolute highlights) get some fantastic moments to show their acting skills, and the character development overall is spot on. I do have some issues towards the end of the series, which occurred thanks to a writer’s strike (all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again, *looks at the recent issues in Hollywood and TV and sighs*) , but overall I can’t recommend this show enough. Really hope this performs well for you. I want to see you guys react to the rest of the show eventually too.

I was never a huge fan of the original Battlestar Galactica but the characters were very likable people. They were people you grew to care about very quickly and that made an otherwise mediocre show very watchable. When I saw the remake, by the end of it I just wished that the cylons would come and put all of these wretched bastards out of their misery. Needles to say I didn't care for it.

it only gets better in season two when Diana Muldaur takes over the Starbuck role.

I'm not sure what a downer view of humanity you think this show presents, but its not happy viewing for a channel to commit to.

There used to be an early internet BSG meme. It was an Anger Spectrum, from Zero to Flashlight, in honor of Adama's fight with the Cylon.

I'm torn on Lorne Green's vs Eddie Olmos' Adama, but I can't help but favor Colicos' Baltar over James Callis'. I get it, different world, different character, but when Colicos came on screen, I smiled. Most of the time, when Callis came on screen, I usually cringed. (Not the actor's fault, the character.) I do favor Mike Hogan's Tigh over Terry Carter's. (Again, talking character not actor.)

Now, if you’re gonna be real completists you shouldn’t leave out Galactica 1980… as awful as it was.

I’ll just say this again. Please don’t go further down this path until after Season 5 of TNG. You’ll thank me later.

In the original show the origin story is the same. The legend is that they went out from the planet Kobol (their original planet) and formed the 12 colonies, with a 13th tribe leaving Kobol for another planet called Earth instead of joining the rest.

20 years I avoided buying this series...now I gotta have it. LOL!!!

So, when I first watched the miniseries, I hated it. I absolutely despised it. Every time I watched it since, I have liked it more and more. I link the first episode of Battlestar Galactica (2004), titled "33" with the start of the golden age of television. BSG was the first show to have zero bad episodes in the first seasons. They also had no bad episodes in the second season. It wasn't until the third season where they had one bad episode. The quality of the new Battlestar can't be beat.... I hope y'all decide to watch it.

I waited for this condensed version to watch (sometimes i just don't have a couple of hours to spare) and you guys had great reactions. I had never seen this at all before the last year, wife and I decided to binge watch the entire series about a year ago. I'd always heard how good it was but at it's first airing I didn't have the capability of watching it. We both were pleasantly surprised at how GOOD it is. Well written and acted all throughout it's run. I'd say more but I can't without spoilers. I was a bit miffed about Starbuck being gender swapped but the character was well written and acted, not to mention hot. (I'm not going to go into what the entertainment media is doing to destroy any decent shows these days) So Say We All!!

I forgot to mention this before but in the original show the Cylons were not created by humanity, but by some other race from another planet that was Reptilian and they were also called Cylons, and they killed the Reptilian Cylons that created them. It was one of the changes made in the new show.

I hope this does well. So you will please,please,please continue with the rest of the show.

Excellent reaction. I'm looking forward to seeing y'all watch more! The Battlestar reboot did a LOT for sci-fi in the 2000s. I actually remember watching this as a kid with my family when it was airing and I'm SO excited for y'all to see it for the first time too! And as y'all mentioned, you'll be seeing plenty more of Ronald D. Moore's work in Star Trek as well, so keep a lookout for that name in the writing/producing credits for the next few YEARS of Star Trek episodes (and movies) y'all will be watching.

Love this series, glad you guys checked it out. Hope you continue with it! I think you’ll really click with it.

Thanks for this vid guys. Knew the twists would make you sit up and take notice. Hope sometime in the future you'll continue to watch and react to this series.

You skipped the first Battlestar Galactica series entirely. Why?

Michael Hogan as Col Tigh is the GOAT. He gets so much more fleshed out and faceted in the series itself. Love that character.

Adama isn’t anti-tech. He’s anti-networked tech.

On the skim for the edit did you catch Serenity leaving Caprica City before Prezzy got her cancer diagnosis? Some people say in a couple of the fleet shots you can make out the TOS Enterprise and the Falcon, too.

And she’s awesome