Battlestar Galactica - Miniseries Reaction

One of the best television shows I've ever watched, right after Buffy.

What happened to the next part? It's been a month. Sorry...I'm impatient lol :)

Terri

I love this. When you do have the time I would love love love to watch it again via your reactions.

Tania C

Really enjoyed your reaction, Liam! Keeping my fingers crossed that you'll consider it for the slate sooner rather than later. There's definitely a lot to dig your teeth into with this show in terms of themes and philosophy, but also, it's just stunning in terms of its cinematography and score/music.

Briony Addey

Great reaction! I hope you get to this eventually if your schedule ever opens up. Aside from just great storytelling and character development, there is so much philosophy and theology in it, questioning what it means to be human. I think you would have a lot of interesting things to say about it all.

Oh, I'd love to see you react to this - would be a great replacement for Buffy! I don't think you'd need to edit the miniseries for YouTube maybe? You could probably get away with just doing the actual series for YouTube. This would keep me subbed for the next 5 years, haha.

Dentarthurdent

This was great! I love this show, and I definitely think you would enjoy the whole thing. I advise getting watch order down whenever you do continue it, as there were some gaps as it aired which ended up creating things like "Season 4.0 & 4.5," and there is also a webseries of shorts that is in continuity & ABSOLUTELY worth watching in sequence AND there is a film which came out in the middle of a season. Don't let that put you off watching, just ask and I or most other fans would be happy to provide you with a spoiler-free watch order! (I also think I have the webseries episodes saved somewhere, haha!)

Audra Foxgrove

Oh and I found your reaction to the use of 'frack' as a swear word pretty hilarious, because I think it's actually a great substitute. You become used to it pretty quickly in my experience, and actually for a few years 'frack' was my go-to expletive. I know I'm not the only one for whom that's the case as I've heard it used in nerd communities before. Goes to show the cultural influence of this show.

I do hope you react to this show in future! One of my faves and I think you will really like it.

I LOVE the Firefly shout out in this...I missed it the first time when it originally aired but enjoy seeing it now!! :)

Patrick Lyke

Same...i guess I'm carbon dating myself but seeing the 70s series and then having doubt about the reboot I was totally wrong and LOVED this retelling!!

Patrick Lyke

I had never watched this show, but I did watch the series from the 70's, and it was fun to see all the nods to the original. This was entertaining indeed

Khanach

BTW, regarding the PR guy: in part 3, Gaius and the woman in red talk about him as a potential fall guy, and in part 4 when she appears to him in the brig, it's implied his Cylon test is BS, so he was framed, by luck he managed to frame an actual Cylon

Graeme McCutcheon

Knowing from your 2021 plans video that you've got a pretty full slate for the moment, it's been bittersweet seeing you react to Orphan Black and BSG. Just know that when gaps appear in your schedule, if you're up for continuing reactions to those two shows, I am here for it! Never read it, so don't know how this useless trivia is lodged in my brain, but I believe Starbuck is a character from Moby Dick. Loved the misdirection - you were right that those scenes involving the kid were showing you a Cylon, just not who you thought. I remember having the same reaction to the Boomer reveal.

Graeme McCutcheon

If I recall this miniseries aired about a year before the series began but if you do follow up and watch the series it begins right after the end of the miniseries. Plus the miniseries dropped a bunch of easter eggs about the 70s series. You should take a peek in order to get all the throwbacks they included :)

Patrick Lyke

Liam I love your reaction to this premier and hope you'll give the series a try! The storylines are for the most part amazing to learn as things play out! :)

Patrick Lyke

Oh I would love to see reactions to Fringe and Veronica Mars!! Great choices to suggest!! :)

Patrick Lyke

The same VFX house that did Firefly's space shots did BSG. They hid a Firefly easter egg in part one of the mini-series. In the shot prior to Roslyn getting the results from the doctor where you see various ships flying about overhead, one of them is a Firefly class transport ship. Easy to miss if you don't know to look for it. BSG is another fave series. My only nitpick: the series finale left me wanting a different ending.

David Boyd

I watched this show for the first time about 10 years ago. I'm pleased to see that I don't remember much so far and am really looking forward to this! As expected I've now watched the entire miniseries and 10 episodes. Super excited but also.... oh no. What have you done!?

Miss Timi Fantastico

I can't tell you how many times I was watching one of your reactions and thought, "Man, I'd love to hear what he thinks of Battlestar!" This made my day.

Also...I think you'll love BSG. Joss Whedon said BSG was one of his favorite shows, so I feel like that says something. They write great characters on this show. Joss even hired the guy who plays Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) to play Paul Ballard because he liked him so much in this show

Terri

YES!!! I've been hoping you would do this series! I even asked you about it once during a livestream you had. This is a great series.

Terri

If Liam thought BSG and Stargate were the same thing that means he's never seen Stargate--DUUUUUUDE if you ever reacted to that I'd be SO IN, that's my favorite sci-fi show. Meanwhile, thanks for the BSG! 🙌

RevanTheRebel

Oh my gosh!! I didn’t expect this!!! One of my favorite shows!!!!

J Scott Page

I’ve been meaning to watch BSG (was more a Babylon 5 gal back in the day). Gives me a good excuse to start it up. Watching the mini series now before I watch your reaction.

AmosRambles

Great reaction! This is one of my all time favorites. Lots of character build up with BSG, many twists and turns and many, many surprises along the way. This is an unexpected delight!

Perry lindsley

Great reaction! I'm happy it already impressed you :) I gave this show a chance after I found out that it was one of Whedons favorite shows and have never looked back. I also love how the miniseries gave them the opportunity to slowly introduce us to the characters and the world before giving us the action sequences. The actor that plays Apollo was the guest star in the S2 premiere of Dollhouse btw. Yes, that was Sinclair! Funnily enough, I ended up watching the 100 because some people were comparing it to BSG.

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Which is funny because he's playing a half Latino with an American accent!

ZemoWillams

Yessssss! What a nice surprise!

I had to laugh when they introduced Dr. Baltar and you said, “Of course. British.” Sorry, Liam, but y’all’s accent just makes you great villains. It also make you sound incredibly intelligent, as well, so there’s that. 😉 Speaking of Brits, Jamie Bamber, who plays Apollo, is actually English. I had no freaking clue until I heard an interview with him where he uses his real accent. He does one of the best American accents I’ve ever heard from an actor.

Aimee

Holy crap! This is like upper echelon of TV stuff, like TV legends kinda stuff. That kind of LOST, Breaking Bad, Early Game of Thrones, Sopranos kind of tier of like TOP TIER TV. So you're in for a hell of a ride.

Calum

I would love for you to react to the whole show, its really great!

Soren Andersen

This makes me happy. Liam tackling BSG without knowing anything at all about it. *squee* Thank you for this unexpected jewel! If you ever do Smallville, my cup will run over. ;) Now... let's watch!

Liam, I will totally watch BSG with you!! One of my top 5 shows (Buffy, Angel, Veronica Mars, BSG, Fringe) in case anyone cares! Very excited to watch this.

Briony Addey

Yay!! I've been wanting a good reactor to do Battlestar Galactica for ages! I haven't watched this reaction yet but I really hope you enjoy it and decide to do the series. It's such a fantastic show. So much to analyse and talk about.

Holy crap, yes! There’s a reason this is regarded as one of the greatest sci-if shows of all time. So here for this.

Aimee

Yes!! Huge thanks to this hero!!

Sarah Kier

Oh my god!!!!! I did NOT know this was coming and I’m so excited to see your reaction!! BSG is one of my favorite shows of all time and hardly anyone reacts to it. Yaaaay!!!! I won’t be able to watch it until my munchkin goes to bed tonight but I had to comment to say how excited I am that you’re checking this show out!!

Sarah Kier

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!! Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Ok....keep it cool. Liam man you’re the absolute best.

Big thanks to this absolute unit of a requester, woohoo!

RevanTheRebel