PATREON EXCLUSIVE UNCUT REACTION - Battlestar Galactica (1978) Episode 15 - War of the Gods Part 1
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Here is our full uncut reaction to War of the Gods Part 1!
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It was funny that you all mentioned Superman since the old man on the freighter Gemini who was talking to Count Iblis was the first actor to portray Superman. Kirk Alyn appeared in two 15 chapter serials.
Rory OToole
2023-04-28 04:56:27 +0000 UTCCheck out this really cool behind the scenes home movie from 1978 made by a member of the effects production team. Many of the same special effects guys who worked on Star Wars worked on the first filmed episodes of Galactica (3-hour pilot, 2-part Lost Planet of the Gods and the 2-part Gun on Ice Planet Zero). Filmed in the same warehouse location used for Star Wars. The Oscar on the desk is the one awarded to John Dykstra for Star Wars. You see some footage from the ice planet episode along with many of the model ships used. They show the "Dykstraflex" camera that was created for Star Wars. You also get some general silliness as they play around with masks, the Landram. and even each other. Even the black velvet curtain used for space background shots it's used to make them look like they're flying to music from a Leonard Nimoy album. Most of these guys were essential in creating the effects for Star Wars and Lucas let them work on Galactica until he needed them back working on Star Wars again. Universal eventually had its own effects department setup called Hartland. There's a similar video/home movie that was done while they were making Star Wars that is also pretty cool. https://youtu.be/BQqvJE1OzfE
Rory OToole
2023-04-26 00:37:09 +0000 UTCTell me about it, I joined Patreon for the first time to see this reaction which I've been dying to see. So then when I go to Tubi the show is not there anymore. Luckily I have a DVD set from the early 2000's. Try some used DVD stores or used book stores that sell DVDs. You might get lucky. One of the guys said he thought it Barnes & Nobles. You might want to check with them.
Rory OToole
2023-04-26 00:05:35 +0000 UTCI am curious to see how you both will react to the reveal in the next episode. In the meantime, we have Baltar on the Galactica for a while, which will bring its own fun.
Collin Freeman
2023-04-25 01:33:06 +0000 UTCI know. I was watching along on Tubi and now I either have to buy them on Amazon or just skip remaining episodes. Lousy timing.
Collin Freeman
2023-04-25 01:31:11 +0000 UTCOh yeah, and even the farmer guy on the agro ship. Same guy from The Magnificent Warriors who said, “We need new seed.”
James H
2023-04-22 02:01:34 +0000 UTCWe have them turned on when we watch it on the tv, I just didn’t have them on while capturing the footage for the sync.
Josh (Target Audience)
2023-04-21 23:28:58 +0000 UTCDoes the Amazon version not have captions, or have you just stopped using them?
James H
2023-04-21 20:53:39 +0000 UTCIt looks like tubitv.com took Battlestar Galatica off their channel at least for a little while. The only copy of Battlestar Galatica that I think I have are some 30-year-old VHS recordings from the Sci-Fi Channel, and those might have gotten lost years ago. Classic Battlestar Galatica was great, but you almost needed to be about a 9-year-old kid in the late 1970s at times to enjoy it.
Chtphr Rrr
2023-04-21 19:06:02 +0000 UTCThat makes perfect sense about Apollo’s hair. Always did look like a terrible case of helmet-head in that scene.
James H
2023-04-20 21:48:12 +0000 UTCCharacter continuity was generally pretty good on this show. Did you notice Lt. Brie in the scene with Ed Begley Jr.? First we’ve seen of her since episode 5.
James H
2023-04-20 21:32:26 +0000 UTCYeah, the red planet and the crappy rear-projection shots. Here's what I've heard happened. They had acquired some special film stock that made stuff come out in weird colors like that, so they decided to use it for that planet. I think the actors even had to wear bizarrely colored makeup to make their faces show up properly (which might account for their awkward performances). Unfortunately they ran out of that special film stock before finishing the location shooting, so the scenes at the impact crater had to be shot in normal color. My guess is they had done those shots of Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba on location with the special film stock, when they suddenly ran out of it... but then they forgot to redo those shots after switching to normal film stock. That might account for why their half of that conversation was filmed in front of a crappy rear projection, while Count Iblis's lines are shot on location. This, of course, makes the second time in a row that a Part 1 ends with Baltar in trouble.
James H
2023-04-20 21:05:18 +0000 UTCThe actor who played Count Iblis (Patrick McNee) is the narrator of the first half of BSG who quoted the lines "some believe there may yet be brothers on Man, who even now fight to survive, somewhere beyond the Heavens." - Incidentally Sir Patrick McNee had his own spy show called The Avengers in the 60s and he was in Sir Roger Moore's last outing as James Bond View to A Kill as Tibbit among numerous other roles. He is also the voice of another cloned character on BSG which Baltar will bring up in part 2 so I won't further spoil that for you guys. It's obvious that in the Triad playing court where Sheeba and the Count were speaking that this was filmed immediately after the game to use the same set right away. This is why Apollo and Starbuck's hair is squashed and not quite brushed out properly from just having worn those game helmets and sweating messed up their hair even having just had a shower. Both Jolly and Ensign Green Bean (Ed Begley Jr.) As well as the actor who played Bojay (Sheeba's friend and only other surviving member of the Pegasus) have returned. The scientist who was showing Humanoid looking androids and scanning the plants is indeed the same guy who created Muffet. The continuity of characters here is great and this example should've been used in Star Trek Voyager but really didn't.
Brad Barter
2023-04-20 20:35:20 +0000 UTC
