UNCUT REACTION - Battlestar Galactica S1E3 - Bastille Day
Added 2024-06-04 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Great I literally had the same reaction to Richard hatch popping up. I have to go to bed I will make an act of contrition in the morning
Thicketdweller
2024-08-17 06:43:26 +0000 UTCYeah. From budget standpoint it's another miracle that BSG remake happened and aired at least 1 season.
Jan Negrey
2024-06-14 08:43:13 +0000 UTCShaky cam started in the 90's with some cop shows to give it that reality vibe. But yea very low budget for regular filming, as they tend to use very earth like gear, not much cool space armor and the guns look quite familiar, still a truly epic story
P S
2024-06-09 19:57:02 +0000 UTCI don't know if I'm repeating anyone, and apologies if I am, but another behind the scenes aspect of this show was how shoe-string thin the budget was. And unfortunately, a good chunk of it had to go to the visual effects because in many ways that was THE selling point of the show. So they cut corners wherever they could in literally every other part of production (except maybe the casting department, haha). Notice that no one actually has any pockets unless the plot calls for it. And the shaky cam was half an aesthetic choice and half a budget one... they could shoot much faster because they didn't have to bother with tripod camera set ups most of the time. Another show that did this at the time was Friday Night Lights. It get's better as the show goes and you also get more use to it. It was much more unique at the time too; the US version of The Office didn't come out until a year and a half after the first season of BSG premiered.
Jeffrey Wilczynski
2024-06-08 21:41:44 +0000 UTCGlad to see you getting into it good episode with a nice balance of action, character development and some politics. Sign of a good show that the real enemy doesnβt even need to be in it.
AzoriusMage
2024-06-06 21:25:01 +0000 UTCFellows, Fear not you will get a lot more Starbuck ..
Delphinus
2024-06-06 15:54:04 +0000 UTCAre you still watching along, Andreas? I thought you gave up after Episode 2. Great Spotify link btw, I've never heard this interview before, it's great.
Michael Ducharme
2024-06-06 02:30:35 +0000 UTCCan confirm. The subtitles are frakked.
Dmitriy.0
2024-06-05 20:09:40 +0000 UTCFrom Apollo to Tom Zerek (Contains SPOILERS... so something for later): https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bHJ2jMBNdiXChy91gNWeU
Andreas Schmitt
2024-06-05 19:05:52 +0000 UTCOld Apollo vs New Apollo, let's go!! Some may criticize this episode, and I can understand that it's not a particular highlight of the season in and of itself, but it does one thing that I think is very important. It shows us what Lee Adama is all about. Lee arguably fights harder than anyone in the fleet to maintain the structures and laws of their civilization. Everyone else to varying degrees seems to be willing to bend the rules to get their way. Adama is talking about what "side" Lee is on, but the only side he cares about is the law. Telling both the highest civilian AND military leaders in the fleet that if they aren't going to follow the rules then their power has no legitimacy and he's under no obligation to listen to them was an early defining moment for the character IMO. I've never seen more than the odd episode of the OG BSG show, so while I knew Richard Hatch was the original Apollo(I think the trailers for the episode actually spoiled his appearance), it wasn't a big nostalgia moment for me. Still, he plays the hell out of Zarek, so even without a connection to the original show, he elevated the episode for me.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-06-05 15:44:26 +0000 UTCI love 1x9 so don't say that's the worst!
Ken R
2024-06-05 06:17:42 +0000 UTCSo awesome! Hah. We have all been waiting for this ep and your reaction. To hopefully solidify a little more awesomeness for you guys to see from BSG. Apollo!π€ Man, me first seeing originally first airing, OMG. Lol I totally had the same reaction!!! lol. Love it and you guys!
Phluke Skywalker
2024-06-05 05:32:50 +0000 UTCI'd starting to remember why I had a frenemy sort of relationship with this series. Because it's so good, but it's such a slow burn sort of evolution.
Boggle
2024-06-05 05:29:02 +0000 UTCYeah, the characters in this show are very human and relatable for the most part. There will be times you hate most of them, but that doesn't define their characters.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2024-06-05 04:24:03 +0000 UTCEver see Prelude to Axanar? 20 minute fan film on YouTube... Wonderful Star Trek. Anyway, Richard Hatch plays a Klingon warlord and its awesome. :) check it out.
Aaron Wells
2024-06-05 04:14:04 +0000 UTCThat was fun when you recognized OG Apollo! π π I wasn't sure it was him until you confirmed it. π€£π€©
TβPynyn of Vulcan
2024-06-05 03:38:45 +0000 UTCThere are comments saying "no one on this show is likable" but what is there to dislike about people like Helo and Billy? I don't get that criticism. The show does an excellent job of working in the supporting cast. There were seven people considered the stars with their names in the opening credits (Adama, Apollo, Boomer, Starbuck, Laura Roslin, Baltar and Number 6) but people like Tigh, Helo, and The Chief all contribute just as much. And then you got your even further back roles like Dee, Billy and Cally that flesh out the show showing people actually exist away from the main action. And that's just the opening episodes.
Ken R
2024-06-05 02:15:56 +0000 UTCCurtain call on Boxey. Farewell kid, we hardly knew you.
David Brown
2024-06-05 01:02:55 +0000 UTCI enjoyed this one. I don't think i discovered the series until about the 4th episode. Richard Hatch adds a certain legitimacy to this new BSG. I'm glad they didn't cast him as Adama, but rather a new and more interesting character. It's nice watching these shows with you guys when I haven't seen them before. Adds something extra to the enjoyment.
Collin Freeman
2024-06-04 22:04:01 +0000 UTCOh that's weird. I've heard from others there are sometimes weird issues with the closed captions (wrong names and such), that must be one of those.
Michael Ducharme
2024-06-04 21:13:40 +0000 UTCFor some reason the CC on the Blu-ray had βBALTAR:β when he started talking, thatβs what caused the confusion
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-06-04 21:07:09 +0000 UTCThis episode is the second worst episode of the first season IMO, so it is promising that you enjoyed it so much. I think Richard Hatch elevates it quite a bit, and if you weren't really an original Galactica fan, there wasn't quite as much here. And that's not saying that this is bad, or that any of the first season episodes are bad - it's more that they range in quality from good-ish to excellent and so this just ends up being one of the good ones.
Michael Ducharme
2024-06-04 20:52:15 +0000 UTCThe Cylon guy talking to Six on the roof on Caprica wasn't some "alternate Baltar" - he was Doral, the Cylon from the Miniseries who had been posing as a reporter on Galactica. I think you guys just forgot him somehow. He was the one who had given the tour at the beginning of the miniseries that explained to the others (and the viewers) about Galactica's history and was the one who Baltar implicated as being a Cylon (to save his own skin) and so they left him behind on the Ragnar Anchorage (the base in the nebula where they replenished their supplies). At first they left open the question of whether he really was a Cylon (because Baltar just made that up to save himself) but it was revealed at the end of the Miniseries that Doral was actually a Cylon (and Baltar happened to get a lucky guess) when you see more copies of him walk in along with Six and Leoben, and then the Boomer reveal.
Michael Ducharme
2024-06-04 20:41:14 +0000 UTCThe writing and acting on BSG is consistently impeccable. Wonderful character work. Tricia Helfer, being relatively inexperienced as an actress absolutely kills in this show...people write her off as the Blonde Bombshell trope...but she is playing multiple characters with such perfection and totally different levels of vulnerability. Mary MacDonnell is an Academy Award winning actress, and Edward James Olmos was nominated for one. And they play off each other extremely well.
Aaron Wells
2024-06-04 19:13:24 +0000 UTCThe Steve meme in the intros to these lmaooooo This show is definitely a slow burner, but I love it for that. A lot of the stuff I watched prior to this were shows that played it safe when dealing with story threads. You would have the occasional story element that would be carried through a season or so, but nothing too extravagant. BSG 04 was one of the first shows I felt completely lost in throughout the first season.
LMPGames
2024-06-04 17:26:08 +0000 UTCRichard Hatch was a real coup for the show at the time. He was a vocal critic of the mini series due to his attempts at a sequel series in the 90s and getting him involved was an olive branch for the OG fans.
EnigmaticPenguin
2024-06-04 15:42:59 +0000 UTCI loved the reboot when I first started watching it, but I also felt like it as a betrayal of the original at times (as I feel about most reboots). But when I first saw Richard Hatch in this episode, it made me realize that if they could get one of the OG actors on board, then the show became truly legitimate. May sound weird, but this kind of casting makes me happy for a reboot.
wildhunt1973
2024-06-04 15:00:33 +0000 UTCSo say we all.
Gavin Scott
2024-06-04 14:27:19 +0000 UTCRest in peace Richard Hatch. The GOAT. He was a champion for BSG for a long long time in the period between the OG show and the Reboot. He even did fund raising for a late 90s BSG continuation.
Steven Johnson
2024-06-04 12:40:31 +0000 UTC
