UNCUT REACTION - Battlestar Galactica S1E11 - Colonial Day
Added 2024-08-06 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Late to the game, but really REALLY loving these reactions! I hope to see more!
Who North America
2025-04-19 21:19:53 +0000 UTCYeah, Like mold. It Grows On YOU!
Thicketdweller
2024-08-19 05:55:37 +0000 UTCDamn, the real life parallels are scary
Evan Guthrie
2024-08-16 02:36:56 +0000 UTCI liked the original BSG, but honestly, I haven't watched it in decades because 2004 is just that much better. I probably should watch it again. The costumes were interesting.
wildhunt1973
2024-08-15 21:38:04 +0000 UTCAnd most of them were probably around for the decommissioning of the Galactica in the pilot mini-series/movie. So they'd still be around.
wildhunt1973
2024-08-15 21:35:03 +0000 UTCHey 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!
Delphinus
2024-08-15 18:02:58 +0000 UTCIn the next few days
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-14 13:57:16 +0000 UTCWhen's the next one coming, chaps?
Jon Reid
2024-08-14 12:58:33 +0000 UTCI 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.
Clyde Frog
2024-08-10 19:31:26 +0000 UTCevery character has a great arc across the series. you’re going to love it
David Marcoot
2024-08-09 06:18:35 +0000 UTCThis takes place at the beginning of the TOS era. they've already seen TOS, they already know who Garth was...
Aaron Wells
2024-08-08 18:55:24 +0000 UTCThere would be some minor spoilers in this though, right? They have only watched ToS and TNG S1-3.... I think they would need to wait on this
Rod Gallow
2024-08-08 14:27:05 +0000 UTCWOW I didn’t know that. I wonder if she got the brand?
Rod Gallow
2024-08-08 11:44:29 +0000 UTCGrace Park, who plays Sharon/Boomer, was also heavily involved with NXIVM, but bounced out of the cult right before the shit hit the fan.
Jess Thomas
2024-08-08 05:49:41 +0000 UTCRight, right.
John
2024-08-07 15:31:11 +0000 UTCOriginal Apollo*
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-07 12:43:52 +0000 UTCGood reminder. I had forgotten about that. It must be 10 years old by now.
Collin Freeman
2024-08-07 12:19:08 +0000 UTCWhen 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.
SageGreenGoat
2024-08-07 08:45:30 +0000 UTCAs 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.
Aaron Wells
2024-08-07 07:19:04 +0000 UTCGuys! 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
Aaron Wells
2024-08-07 06:42:06 +0000 UTCThis 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.
J-Ro
2024-08-07 05:14:21 +0000 UTCFor 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.)
John
2024-08-07 04:36:53 +0000 UTCWell, 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.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-08-07 00:08:02 +0000 UTCYou '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.
Zee Doctere
2024-08-06 23:36:54 +0000 UTCAnd she is actually Allison Mack’s wife. Or they are divorced now I think.
Rod Gallow
2024-08-06 23:23:10 +0000 UTCIf this character is involved in season 4 when we are watching it a year from now or whatever, I’m sure people will still be commenting it as a fun fact thinking they are the very first one to do so.
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 23:13:28 +0000 UTCThat’s also a fitting one, but I was trying to think of ostinato
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 23:07:44 +0000 UTCShe's probably my favorite character on the show because she is so different from everyone else. Next might be Leoben, and then the Chief.
Ken R
2024-08-06 21:25:56 +0000 UTCFeel the same about Voyager but lets not spoil it for TA. My older half-brother liked the original BSG and could not get into the new one. He was "I miss the happy go lucky BSG" but I'm 100% with you, this premise definitely lends itself to the serious treatment that Ron Moore thankfully gave it. I've just never had the interest to try the original.
Rod Gallow
2024-08-06 21:25:13 +0000 UTCleitmotif - you're missing the "t"
Michael Ducharme
2024-08-06 20:36:26 +0000 UTCGreat minds think alike (and watch the same films) :)
Collin Freeman
2024-08-06 20:06:05 +0000 UTCDame!! By seconds
startrekiborg
2024-08-06 20:02:48 +0000 UTCFun fact: You'll be hearing alot about that in Youtube comments if you continue with the show lol
EnigmaticPenguin
2024-08-06 19:59:01 +0000 UTCSorry, beat you to it.
Collin Freeman
2024-08-06 19:55:49 +0000 UTCYes, it's in my top 20 movies of all time list
Collin Freeman
2024-08-06 19:55:32 +0000 UTCThanks, it's been so many decades since I watched Patton that I honestly don't remember scenes from it. I should give it a rewatch...
Mark Wood
2024-08-06 19:50:16 +0000 UTCThe wonderful thing about Ellen, is she is someone you can see doing either. It gives the character a nice ambiguity.
Mark Wood
2024-08-06 19:48:45 +0000 UTCIt's not even remotely close. I don't think there is a single component of TNG season 1 that is (in compassion to the time each show was made in) that comes close to each departments work in nuBSG season 1. Now it is true that they are different types of shows. One a geared more as an adventure show, the other geared as a dramatic show. And there are season of Trek (its its softer style) that I think are better, but not TNG season 1.
Mark Wood
2024-08-06 19:47:49 +0000 UTCOh Shit indeed.....
Mark Wood
2024-08-06 19:45:15 +0000 UTCSee as someone who watched the original when it aired, I never, ever understood this. This is a premise that literally SCREAMS at the audience that this should be one of the darkest concepts ever put on Television for either of its two runs. Anything else just utterly rings as an insult. I mean as a teenager I loved the the original movie portion of Battlestar Galactica, but go to the casino planet and I was pissed.....I am going we got "Roots" on TV. This should be way more serious and darker than Roots. TV shows that don't treat their plot and situation with some realness piss me off. Probably why I really had a hard time getting into a good portion of Voyager.
Mark Wood
2024-08-06 19:44:59 +0000 UTCI 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.
startrekiborg
2024-08-06 19:36:01 +0000 UTCThat 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.
Collin Freeman
2024-08-06 19:35:45 +0000 UTCI 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.
Nolan
2024-08-06 19:18:40 +0000 UTCI loved your discussion at the end of this episode and can't wait for you to see where the show takes all these characters!
Jon Reid
2024-08-06 18:28:28 +0000 UTCFUCK! RIP
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 18:14:37 +0000 UTCoh man.....must bite tongue about some of the speculation the guys said here lol ...until season 1 finale
Derek Orr
2024-08-06 18:08:36 +0000 UTCUnfortunately Richard Hatch passed away back in 2017:(
Derek Orr
2024-08-06 18:06:22 +0000 UTCTwo completely different seasons of TV, but yeah I’d agree probably
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 17:48:03 +0000 UTCI like to think she crawled through the vents
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 17:44:06 +0000 UTCI didn't get the impression she killed him, just passed on his location.
Ken R
2024-08-06 17:24:14 +0000 UTCBut don't you agree the first season of BSG is more rock solid than the first season on TNG?
Tom Occhipinti
2024-08-06 17:19:59 +0000 UTCYeah there's a fair bit of BSG chat on the Discord, there are a few channels for it.
Michael Ducharme
2024-08-06 15:45:12 +0000 UTCGlad 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.
Michael Ducharme
2024-08-06 15:21:32 +0000 UTCOH SHIT!
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 15:19:46 +0000 UTCGreat 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.
Rod Gallow
2024-08-06 15:17:03 +0000 UTCIt 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!
Rod Gallow
2024-08-06 14:58:44 +0000 UTCPosted within an hour of Harris picking her Vice President lol
EnigmaticPenguin
2024-08-06 14:45:00 +0000 UTCGlad to hear there’s discussion in the Discord about the other series
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-08-06 14:43:53 +0000 UTCThere 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.
Rod Gallow
2024-08-06 14:31:45 +0000 UTC
