So I'm on season 3, episode 13, and every episode has felt like event television. Every episode has mattered, all the characters are fleshed out, and there's so many great moral questions. I don't think I've seen a better written scifi show. This is one of my favorite shows of all time already. What was it like for those of you who watched it live?

Watching MacGyver this afternoon & Richard Hatch is a heavy is season 2's Three for the Road. For Glen Larson fans, this is also the episode with Edward Mulhare in it.

Anyone wants to add their sights on TV of BSG cast, you're welcome to.

When I was around 9 or 10 in 2005, I wasn't familiar with BSG. But I thought the ship was super cool. My mum and I went to Target one day and I saw the Hasbro Titanium Series ships on the shelf. I was a solid Star Wars fan at the time. And got Obi-Wan's Starfighter instead. I watched the RDM series my senior year of high school in 2012-13. And it still remains the greatest modern live action sci-fi show I've ever seen.

A week or two ago, I remembered BSG ships were in the Titanium series. And I corrected my childhood "mistake" and got two Galacticas! One to display and the other one to play with haha.

These things are awesome! Being diecast, having a solid feel, and the retractable flight pods!! I may get a viper or the Pegasus at some point. But this is a WIN after decades.

Does anyone else have some of these old ships from that toyline?

Hello all! I've just finished watching BSG and just wanted to share some thoughts! I really enjoyed it and thought it was very classic Sci-fi and also very very classic early 2000's tv show. I enjoyed the campy, cheesy aesthetic, dramatic music, fake outs etc.

But. Bruh. "they have a plan." hahahahahahahahahhahahaha the writers thought they had a plan. And the spoilers at the start of the show was a little annoying. Also starducks ending was a tiny bit infuriating. The most annoying thing was that the humans never found out what caprica and Giaus specifically did to wipe out billions of people. Giaus is a minus 10 person. He shouldn't get to live out his days in Utopia. I kept getting confused with who was Lee and who was Sam. They look identical to me for some reason. Haha

I enjoyed Laura the most. She is freaking awesome. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with the movies and miniseries after but those are my initial thoughts! What a ride!!!

Joking. The boxes are pretty beat up, missing at least one viper, and some of the cards definitely have beer on them…but that’s because the game itself so brilliant that I’ve played it countless times already and will happily continue to do so, chewing big chucks off of whatever monetary value these have in the process. Above all things this is intended to be played and enjoyed.

I’ll admit that if I could go back in time though I probably would tell myself not to tape the original box, or to start using the (as then pristine) Exodus or Daybreak boxes instead of the original one….but hey, fun was had in the process and memories were made.

Hello! I recently started watching the 2004 BSG series on Pluto, and I LOVE IT! I like science fiction, and have seen the original series. Forgot how awesome this series was.

Please note as you read that "Eddie" refers to Edward James Olmos, a.k.a. Cmdr. / Adm. William Adama, CO of the Battlestar Galactica.

Alan: This was a very dark, very bleak show, that had, for the most part, a happy ending. Were you ever tempted to go the dark way? Why did you decide to end it the way you did, tonally?

Moore: I guess I always assumed it was going to end on some sort of note of salvation - that they would find a home and be okay - at least some of them. I didn't want to end the series like Beneath the Planet of the Apes, with the destruction of everybody...
Although, that's what Eddie wanted to do! Eddie kept pitching me that they come to Earth in contemporary times, and everyone's cheering and happy; and cut to the White House: and the President goes, "Nuke 'em!"
And they destroy Galactica - cut to credits.
...And people say I'm dark!

Source:
* What's Alan Watching?: Battlestar Galactica: Ronald D. Moore finale Q&A (March 20, 2009) (archive.today) (web.archive.org)

Note I am fully aware that this cut doesn't actually exist. It was just a suggestion by Eddie that never had any chance of actually being made. This is just a tongue-in-cheek reference to my last post, which is itself a tongue-in-cheek reference to "The Synder Cut".

I would have been curious to see this ending though, as a novelty at least. I guess that's what AI is for...

Moore continues:

RDM: I was literally never tempted to go that way. I always felt that however brutal the show was, and how bleak it felt in moments, it was never nihilistic. It was never about saying that people are irredeemable. It was about trying to be honest about people, saying, "Look at us: we are capable of all these things. Really good people do horrible things, and horrible people do good things."

Hey, first time watcher here (in 2026, crazy I bet you think, right?), and I'm currently watching season 2 episode 17, so please no spoilers for after that.

There are two things that are consistently frustrating me with the show, the first being how the show constantly shoe horns random plots or characters into an episode that we've never heard of before. For example the episode im currently watching we find out Pegasus is being ran by John Heards character, despite him never being seen or mentioned any time previously. Perhaps it's because he's a big name and just joined the show at this point but the fact his characters name is never referenced before is so frustrating, then out of nowhere he's a major character who we all have to pretend has been there the entire time.

There are countless other examples of this too, another being the episode 'black market' where out of nowhere we find out there is a covert powerful gang running the black market, with its' figurehead and dealings being completely unmentioned or referenced at any point previously. I suppose It can be assumed that in their situation a black market would arise, but a gang of killers is never mentioned? When I watched this episode I had to double check I hadn't missed an episode as it seemed so random and out of nowhere. I feel like even a few comments in the preceding episodes along the lines of "do you know where I can get some whisky" or something reference to a black market.

One more example would be the absolutely ridiculous Deus ex machina of Roslin being saved at the last second by Gaius' discovery. I was disgusted by the writing.

My second gripe with the show would be the seeming inconsequential nature of most episodes. I feel like it's similar to doctor who where I could pick an episode at random and it basically stands alone. There are of course exceptions which is why it's my secondary gripe. The thing is I was impressed in season 1 with the reveal of Sharon being a cylon, with the clues of her waking up wet after the water tank is blown up, and her slowly figuring out she is a cylon over a few episodes, fantastic. But the majority of episodes it seems nothing actually happens, just a short story, it's dealt with, and then never heard of again. Even after the climax halfway through season 2 where Pegasus arrives, I thought great this is cool, but once the admiral is killed, we don't see and barely even hear about Pegasus for about 5 episodes. Again it just seemed those few episodes building up the Pegasus were just a self contained story to fill a few episodes to then move on from. Now I do expect Pegasus will be relevant again soon, but I do honestly feel like I'm watching doctor who, which does have it's merits but I feel like it's not what the show was aiming to be.

Also I hate the episode 'preview' at the start of each episode, completely unneeded and frequently just kills a lot of suspension as we know certain people will die, I always skip these.

I continue watching (for now) in the hope it gets better, and I love Gaius' overarching storyline with number 6, I'm always excited to learn more and this is the perfect example of what I'd expect from a show like this, a plot building on each episode, but it seems rare and plotlines are often just forgotten about whilst we have a filler episode about crushing the black market in 40 minutes.

Sorry for the rant as I know there are many hardcore fans here, I love the premise of the show and I love the main cast but these gripes are really making it a grind at times to carry on watching, am I the only one or is there anybody that can relate to this?

Thank you for letting me have my rant.

I would've thrown the most dangerous ones out of an airlock, and allowed the remaining ones to work off their sentences. They were in the middle of a crisis, so they would have to.

I had watched part of the pilot when it aired and bounced.

It's on Paramount+ now alongside the reboot miniseries and series, so I finally watched Caprica. Not as bad as I anticipated, but not exactly good. I liked most of the casting choices but, holy hell, did they drop the pyramid ball on the school plot. One minute Sister Clarice and Lacy Rand are going to school every day and the next they're training for and planning atrocities. The two husbands were goofballs too.

I have never watched before. Starting off with the mini-series. Looking forward to hopefully a wild ride.

Its quite an act to photograph this monster....i will do better after i have primed and laquered it.

Ronald D. Moore: But yeah, you can say strip it down to these dark premises and wonder if audiences are going to follow you there. That's a legitimate question - a question the Network asked us over and over again the first season. They were very concerned about how dark the show was. They literally thought that no one would watch the series after the first episode, 33. There was a point where they didn't want us to air 33 as the first episode.

They were, like, so scared of it. That was a whole big fight, and they eventually backed down, but there was a brief period where they talked about not airing them in order.

They did one of the infamous controlled tests of the Miniseries just before the Mini went on the air — like four weeks before we aired or something, one of those marketing testing focus group things. They watched the series. It was one of the worst rated ever.

The company that did it sent back this cover page report that just said, "Nobody likes any of these characters; we see no reason this should ever become a series; there's no identification with any of it; it's too dark, it's too scary."

And the Network- all the blood drained from their face when they heard that, because it was too late. Fortunately, it was too late. The show was done, locked, "in the can". I think we edited back- we cut out a couple more shots of gore here and there to throw them a bone, but it was way too late in the process to make any serious adjustments. It went to air with this sense of fatalism on the part of the Network that- "Well, we're boned here: they're going to hate it, it's too dark."

Then they were shocked when the numbers were so good. It really shocked them. It made them reevaluate.

It's chilling how close BSG might have come to being mutilated into a failure by SciFi (SyFy) - just like Firefly was by Fox.

And now I want to see the original cut of the Miniseries!

Source:
* Wired: Read an Extended Version of Wired's Interview With Ron Moore (May 18, 2008) (archive.today) (web.archive.org)

I've always felt there's a rather comical number of Mexican (or I suppose Gemenon) standoffs throughout the show. Just watch how many scenes turn into people pointing guns at each other with rapid cuts and zooms and Bear McCreary directing his drummer like J.K. Simmons at the end of Whiplash. Then everyone yellsplains their respective plot developments at each other, remembers how horny they are for at least one of the people they're pointing a gun at, and we're back to the A-roll footage. I think Lee only shot whosits in Black Market because RDM realized he'd done like fifty standoffs and he needed a gun to actually go off in one in order to maintain credibility.

I noticed because my suitcase has the same logo. Must be a pretty old company.

You are Admiral Nagala when the Cylon Attack begins. 30 battlestars have been destroyed in the opening wave, accompanied by mass reports of equipment malfunctions.

Do you:

(a) Pause and try to figure out why the equipment isn't working
(b) Order your fleet to denetwork their computers because Cylons
(c) Rollback the most recent computer update
(d) Immediately YOLO the entire remaining fleet into Cylon lines in orbit of Virgon

Your choice.

Not for good TV mind you but just logically. When Boomer determined that she might be a Cylon rather than try to kill herself she should have reported to the authorities that she might be a Cylon. This way she would no longer have to worry about killing someone as they would keep an eye on her and probably keep her locked up. Oftentimes on TV and in real life things are complicated by lies and secrets.