Early Access: Battlestar Galactica 2x1 - Group Reaction+Uncut
Added 2025-04-03 14:47:00 +0000 UTCWill Adama make it?!
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re-watching this reaction, it's cool how Spidey was the only one to notice that the mainframe was indeed breached for a second before they were able to pull the plug. When you see Gaeta pulling out the plugs, right before he pulls the last one you'll see a brief shot of the screen where it was indeed flashing red. Gaeta didn't see it because he was yanking out the cord from below.
Daniel R
2025-03-11 14:41:54 +0000 UTCToo late for #sundayrundown but 3:10 Lost is to Suraj what Buffy is to me my brain does the same thing
colecharmed
2025-03-10 12:20:19 +0000 UTCSomething similar between Saul in that wig and Saul in better call Saul. Or maybe it's just me.
AlbinoDsquad
2025-03-09 19:09:14 +0000 UTCAt some point in the first season, Adama said this: There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. The fledgling civilian government had nothing equivalent of the Department of Justice or a legal police system. They had no judicial system of expert judges to interpret the law. The basis of their entire legal system required those mechanisms to be in place which aren't. Right now, the military holds the correctional and punitive power in their civilization along with the power to administer civilian law. This is something presumably unprecedented in the Colonies history of democratic institutions. There's no legitimate legal mechanism in place to enforce the rules created under Constitutional mandate. And yes... there are A LOT of instances in history where a military coup is 100% justifiable. Latin America, Carribean, and South America history alone lends credence to that opinion. There were numerous puppets installed by the United States and the USSR that had no legitimacy from the governed.
Chaos T
2025-03-02 11:17:10 +0000 UTC" a military coup is justifiable" I'm sorry but WTAF??????????????????
Derek Orr
2025-02-28 20:56:01 +0000 UTC"n BSG, new laws had to be established within the framework of their existing laws due to the situation they were in.".....ummm why???? especially at this point in the series there is absolutely zero reason to make changes to fundamental laws like civilian leadership over the military.....and by the way there was NO formal changing of laws or legislation passed in the show to this effect
Derek Orr
2025-02-28 20:55:33 +0000 UTCI hope they don't forget the Razor episodes. a powerful sci-fi drama that enriches the series and fills-in some of the missing pieces
Jo C.
2025-02-28 13:19:48 +0000 UTC#SundayRundown Captain Kelly was in the miniseries, he might be number 3 in the chain of command, maybe he runs the ship during the nightshift when Adama and Saul are sleeping, I don't know, I'm just trying to rationalize why he wasn't in season 1 at all. It's kind of funny, if you were watching the show when it was released it would have been, "Hey remember this character from a year ago who was on screen for 5 minutes?".
Frankie H
2025-02-28 06:24:50 +0000 UTCThough I don't believe it's mentioned, Adama and Tigh were probably close to or at military retirement age when they left the fleet. They had a lot of command experience.
Chaos T
2025-02-27 22:36:47 +0000 UTCIn real life, there's an agreed contract within the civilization on the separation of powers. In BSG, new laws had to be established within the framework of their existing laws due to the situation they were in. They had no real working government and the president was in fact unelected Adama and Roslin agreed to the new social contract which Roslin broke. I'm not saying his actions were right but they were justified. Roslin went too far with the power they both agree to. He at least had justification to arrest her and hold her until the newly formed civilian government could come up with the legal framework to give her a fair trial. When a leader goes too far with the power they were given and surpasses the mandate of power that was established, a military coup is justifiable (again, not saying it's the right thing to do). IRL, we've seen many military coups that were justified because leaders surpassed the socially accepted mandate of their power. Usually, the results are awful and often times things become worse but none the less many of those military coups were justified.
Chaos T
2025-02-27 22:31:31 +0000 UTCNice to see as many as 6 people in one reaction video
Tebios Tobak
2025-02-27 22:19:19 +0000 UTCsurej, sound from space? could you rethink that statement ... KEKW haha
Stefan
2025-02-27 22:12:49 +0000 UTCIt scare’s me when people so easily agree with a military coup, defending Adama for arresting the president is absolutely disgusting….democratically elected civilian leadership always oversees the military. In real life You can’t just have a General or Admiral from the pentagon arrest a sitting President…regardless of how you feel about their policies and politics.
Derek Orr
2025-02-27 19:48:30 +0000 UTCShip command structures are more about the CO and XO dynamic, with a senior NCO kinda in a background role
Derek Orr
2025-02-27 19:24:30 +0000 UTCPRINT ONE OFF AT THE CYLON SHOP Spidey I love ya brother XD So two kinda long things on this one. For Col Tigh and Adama through those flashbacks they mentioned "getting back in the fleet" so they had some degree of experience with command and operations. Remember there was a whole war with the Cylons and they disappeared for 40 years before this show. So this is likely maybe a decade before the Cylon attack but still long after the war, they weren't trying to go "back to their youth", and Adama knew by then what kind of officer Tigh was by then (likely war buddies). Next deals with IRL rank and operations vs the show, but I wasn't Navy so I won't be 100%, and also the show is it's own hodgepodge structure. Crashdown holds the rank of Lieutenant so we can tell he's the only commissioned officer (and a fairly junior one). A "Chief" (Chief Petty Officer) in the Navy is a Non-Commisioned Officer (NCO). Commisioned are always higher in rank than non but a Chief will likely have 5 - 10 years more experience than the most junior officers. The best way I can discribe the difference between Commision and Non is that commisioned is where command authority lies and these are the planners (white collar if you will (pilots being the biggest exception to this)). NCOs execute the plans and are more resposible for the face to face level of operation particularly with troops (blue collar). Not sure how it looks on an actual ship but most command structures are a Commanding Officer paired with a Senior NCO. What we're seeing on Kobol is an interesting look at this dynamic thrown together under extreame distress.
Benjamin Donahue
2025-02-27 18:34:47 +0000 UTCTo reiterate what someone said in the last Sunday rundown in a way that is far less confusing in the way it is worded: There are a whole bunch of *Sharons". There is only one Boomer.
Smash Bran'Discootch
2025-02-27 16:46:50 +0000 UTCWill you guys be watching the extended version of 2x10?
Cameron Thacker
2025-02-27 16:04:10 +0000 UTC
