UNCUT REACTION - Battlestar Galactica S1E11 - Colonial Day

Late to the game, but really REALLY loving these reactions! I hope to see more!

Yeah, Like mold. It Grows On YOU!

Damn, the real life parallels are scary

Hey Guys, love the work. Question, is the 1 per week posting of 2004 BSG alternate between uncut episodes and YT postings? Just want to synch your schuduel with mine. Thanks. Keep up the balls to the wall work!

When's the next one coming, chaps?

I thought the summit was to choose a Vice President from the beginning, in preparation for the coming Presidential election in however long. Maybe I'm wrong though.

every character has a great arc across the series. you’re going to love it

When the fires all along the west coast were raging, some time back, and here in the east the late afternoon sun for a couple weeks was an uneasy-making dim reddish-orange, that's the best I can say about the weird light on Caprica. Light is fun.

As for reporters....this is a society of 50,000 people. Any city that size has press. I'm not sure how the press doesn't make sense. Especially if each of the 12 colonies has a reporter.

Guys! You want to see Richard Hatch play a Klingon warlord? And Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh) play a Starfleet Captain? With some Tony Todd mixed in? Watch Prelude to Axanar. Don't have to make a video about it. Just a 20 minute youtube thing....but its seriously some of the very best Star Trek. For your own good, Prelude to Axanar. :D

This show excels at having a very large cast of interesting characters. I've come to think of this as a trait of Ronald D. Moore's showrunning and writing. As such, Star Trek Deep Space Nine is also in this lane, with an insanely deep bullpen of dynamic, thought-out, well-written characters (both main and reoccurring). In regards to the show's cinematographic process and style, it's hit or miss with most people. It's intentionally grainy, as are the blown-own light sources. The outdoors stuff gets more dialed-in in the later seasons (along with larger budgets). For the record, I'm rewatching this with you guys for the first time since the show completed in 2009. It's still as good as it was then, and, honestly, even better now.

For the record, by this point, I also wanted Zarek to be a good guy. (I didn't learn until long after the show was over that he was the original Starbuck.)

Well, cat's out of the bag with Helo and Caprica Sharon now. At least that storyline isn't treading water(literally in some cases) anymore. He didn't outright shoot her, but learning that clearly fucked him up. I don't dislike this episode really, certainly I think it's better than ep9. But it's pretty lukewarm for me. There does need to be some political intrigue in the fleet beyond "Adama runs the military, and Roslin is the civilian leader". Baltar becoming VP also gets him out of the dead end "cylon detector guy for the next 60 years" role he's been stuck in for a few episodes. Also giving Zarek more screen time doesn't hurt. Things are shaping up, and I can't wait for the finale.

You 'think' you know the characters now, but there is overlapping round development. This is the first show really that i didnt see it coming even though I thought I had it...nope.

I never noticed, the interchange between Tom Zarek and Laura Roslin: Roslin: "Don't worry. I won't be kissing you today" Zarek: "That's a shame. I shaved very closely in anticipation of being smacked by you." It was taken from the movie Patton. It copys the interchange between Patton and Montgomery.

That line by Tom Zarek toward Roslin near the end of 'That's a shame. I shaved very closely in anticipation of being smacked by you.' is a line that was used in the movie Patton (1970) by George C. Scott ( General Patton) to Field Marshall Montgomery.

I think the word Josh was looking for was "leitmotif" A musical cue that is reused throughout a work to represent a character or theme - BSG uses these a lot, so you will recognize familiar music through the series. The reason we haven't seen this level of politics in the series before is because in the first five minutes of the episode, it's said this is the FIRST meeting of the new Quorum. Some of these delegates were likely working in the background, but now is the point where they've been officially elected to the council and the government isn't just officially Roslin on her own. Which good on her for not just holding on to power.

I loved your discussion at the end of this episode and can't wait for you to see where the show takes all these characters!

oh man.....must bite tongue about some of the speculation the guys said here lol ...until season 1 finale

Unfortunately Richard Hatch passed away back in 2017:(

I didn't get the impression she killed him, just passed on his location.

But don't you agree the first season of BSG is more rock solid than the first season on TNG?

Glad you guys like this one. It's a bit of a funny one for me - a lot of this was filmed at the University of British Columbia, at sites related to the music building (but nothing at the main music building itself), and I studied music there for years so I was at those locations many times. The Chan Centre concert hall stage, where the UBC orchestra performs, was where Roslin was speaking from, and I was up on that stage like a day after re-watching the episode which felt weird. The party scene and bar scenes were filmed in the lobby to the Chan Centre concert hall, which you had to walk through, and I've had to go up the same flight of stairs that Gaius came down at the end when Roslin introduced him. The beautiful outdoor park where they are speaking at the beginning is just outside the concert hall entrance, down a flight of stairs. When Roslin is talking to Wally Gray telling him he has to drop out, it is at the bus loop right outside the concert hall, you can see the bus stops in the shot (it's not a loop for large buses, just for smaller ones that go across campus). I used to tell my spouse "pick me up at Cloud Nine" when I was waiting at that bus loop. Then the Cylon Base that Helo and Sharon arrive at at the end, with the ship landing on top, is the Koerner library. The only locations I didn't recognize were the washroom (probably a washroom in the Chan Centre that I haven't been in) and the location where Helo was scaling the wall at the end and Sharon shot one of the other Sharons. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the back of the Koerner library (as there are buildings immediately behind it instead of a big parking lot like in the episode) but was a different building. The shot when Helo is running away from Sharon at the end, I'm pretty sure he was running towards the Old Auditorium, which is a secondary music building with a stage used for the Opera Studies program at UBC.

Great discussion at the end! Enjoyed it! A random sidenote, as you briefly mentioned the "other chick" that hangs out with Chief. Her character name is Cally played by Nicki Clyne. She was one of the 3 top people in the NXIVM cult led by Keith Raniere and Allison Mack (from Smallville)! Crazzzzzy.

It was interesting to see you all come into the series a little jaded due to liking certain characters from originalBSG. I wonder how much impact that had on you all not enjoying the mini-series and first episode as much as some? I've never watched the original so I didn't have that problem. ... I know some people have issues with this series being too dark, depressing, melancholy, but I'm glad to see you all enjoying it. The characters are great! And the story unfolds nicely in the next season, perhaps the best season of the show!

Posted within an hour of Harris picking her Vice President lol

There was a debate in Discord whether or not you all would like this one. Personally I thought it was good. Certainly not as great as many other episodes, but still good.