The atmos jump was the greatest moment of the series. The way they build up to it, all of the fighters deploying out through fire, and the massive boom when the Galactica jumps felt like the thunder from a massive lightning strike to signify the sh*tstorm that was about to be unleashed. One of the best moments in TV SciFi, hands down.
Adama maneuver, I wonder if we are going to use that in the future and actually call it Adama maneuver if we ever invent something similar to FTL jump.
I saw a BSG discussion with Ron Moore and the cast where Moore mentioned the "and they have a plan" was added just to add something to hook people in. People would ask them what's the plan? His answer "hell if I know."
I liked most of the last season and a half. I liked the trial of Baltar, the cylon civil war, and the episode where Saul's wife resurects. I thought it just fell apart in the finale as they had painted themselves into a corner and they thought resolving every conflict and mystery w "god did it" was their best option.
I loved Battlestar Galactica, but the thing I find hardest to believe isn't the space travel or the ancient aliens stuff, it's the fact that 40,000 people were perfectly fine with giving up their modern technology and essentially going camping for the rest of their lives. Not one person said "yeah I'm gonna go with the Cylons, they have microwaves and indoor plumbing."
@@OrangeRiveragreed imo what would have made more sense would be for the colonels to scrap their ships and use the technology they had to build a new civilization like say Atlantis or something
@kingdomofvinland8827 that would miss the whole point of the series and the "cycle of time" They deliberately didn't want technology because eventually it would lead to the creation of more homicidal cylons. By reducing back down to the stone age, they increase the amount of time till humans create A.I again.
I've always thought that the greek pantheon was actually from the 12 colonies and when they arrived on our earth, these ideas somehow survived and became the greek mythology we know today. Though, that rationale would work better if the Galactica crew somehow arrived later, near a proto-would-be-greek civilization instead of pre history like the series.
Don't forget that at the end, they divided up supplies and materials, and groups were sent to locations all over the planet. It would take time for things to take shape.... not to mention, historians and anthropologists are constantly forced to change how far back human history actually goes, every time some ancient site like Göbekli Tepe is unearthed.
It's very likely that the whole situation with Kara Thrace and the "Angels" at the series' finale means they are Beings of Light, an extraterrestrial species seen in the original Battlestar Galactica show. Kara even paints the Ship of Lights in one of her murals at some point.
The story line also reflects Hegelian philosophy, at least as I understand it. The thesis (humans) create the antithesis (Cylon) which eventually leads to synthesis (human-cylon hybrid). I always was amused by the name of Kobol. It sounds and is spelt similar to an early programming language called Cobol. There really isn't the a connection between the two, it looks to be a coincidence. A very nice review of the newer series. I prefer the new one over the original because it did seem more realistic in many ways.
The reimagined series is my favorite TV series hands down. Plus Tricia Helfer. I'm old enough to have watched the original 70s series on TV as a kid. It was corny, but it was fun and entertaining.
I’m old enough to remember watching the TOS on TV. I just wish they kept the Idea of the Cylons being created by ancient race of extinct reptiles, and the fact when they arrived on Earth, that we no longer had the technology to help fight the Cylons.
The lore before the 12 colonies can be confusing. Also the Earth they find at the end isn't the Earth they first set out to find. They carried the name over from the wasteland Earth they did find. The final 5 even forgot about the original Earth and what happened on it. Tbh it was a great idea for the show.
I know you're a Trek guy at heart but your videos on the Expense, Dune and BSG are some of the best detailed videos out there. I've watched them multiple times. Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!!
In the original series, the development of the Cylons was a little different. It's only covered in a very short conversation between Apollo and Boxy, in which Boxy is asking why the Cylons attack them and he's told that the origianal Cylons were a reptilian species, they developed the Cylons we know and those Cylons rebelled against them.
Peacock removing it from their service makes me glad that I recorded it to DVDR when I had the chance. Too bad I procrastinated on Warehouse 13. Services removing programs that they own makes my head spin. Keeping them on costs them nothing.
Very cool explanation of the series which was one of my favorites in the late 70’s and I adored the reboot in the 2000’s. Personally I go with the explanation that they were correct in that everything has happened before in a cyclical history, not a time loop but rather repeating patterns. It’s something we can see in our own past.
Absolutely brilliant retrospective and take on the hustiry and lore of this show. The 00's take was exceptional. Scripts that were well written and great VFX also there was, like the original, many repeats of the same VFX, but it didn't damage the show.
Delighted to finally see you cover BSG. For me, it's right up there wuth SG-1 as ny all-time favourite series. II never realised there was an analogue for the Irish in the universe. That was fun to learn.
I still remember new episodes of the original BSG would come on at 8pm on weekends; sometimes we'd be coming home from my grandparents' house (over 2 hours away), and I would just be heartsick when we'd get home after it had already started, or when it was practically over, and then I'd have to wait until whenever it aired again. That deep trauma has probably shaped today's media landscape, (the media landscape I write for, lol).
One interesting thought is that the meaning of, "all this has happened before and all this will happen again," could refer to the fundamental forces of the universe that have singular constants that are woven into the universe. Gravity, Planck, electric, speed of light in vacuum, etc. It is said that turn the dial on one of these and the formation of some elements is impossible and therefore planets and consequently life. Carrying that in the other direction these forces made it possible for life to occur here on Earth. Since the laws of nature seem to be consistent, then the same circumstances that created life here also can occur elsewhere and has already. I can't think of the cosmological theory off hand but it has to do with the infinitude of space and the idea that another earth exists with another version of you that simply turned left when you turned right. Not a parallel world but a duplicate world that made all the same everything, almost, because it made a you that did something different once as a variation. Kinda of like a repeating pattern that begins at a "big bang" and goes on forever while internally creating another "big bang" that starts anew and goes on and on with each variation a consequence of a minor or insignificant coin flip. Meaning that the entirety of anyone piece of the repeating whole isn't actually repeating but just another part of a unique entirety. This doesn't mean that if everything repeats then it should repeat exactly without a difference. But the repetition similarity is itself the entirety a single unique whole. Summary: The unique forces that allow for life in the universe here also make for exactly the same circumstances to occur identically elsewhere in the universe. However, because of this it allows for minute variation, this makes any variation just a piece of a unique whole without exact repetition.
Awesome video Tyler. I've been a Battlestar Galactica fan since the original series. It was great to see you do a video about BSG. Thanks for your great work!
Kobol / Kolob *does* link to Earth. Bear in mind the theme of technology and AI becoming sentient, Kobol is a corruption of COBOL. COBOL was one of the very early computer programming languages, but not the first. It's another indication that all this has happened before and will hapoen again. I don't think I've seen the link to the COBOL programming language before. But as an older software developer, who did indeed write software in COBOL at the start of my career, it jumped out at me immediately.
The high seas have a pretty good spread of BSG content. You can't 100% the full chronological binge watch there but the majority of the story is represented.
Thanks Tyler, great subject! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the series finale. I absolutely loved it, but it blew my mind and some of your theories I hadn't considered. We came from Earth, then Kobal. It makes the most "sense" to me. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦✌️
Man, I enjoyed this! ❤ Looking forward to watching your TNG videos once I complete re-watching that series (which you inspired me to do!). I didn't mind these spoilers because I've seen BSG more recently.
4:53 #UmActually, the original Battlestar Galactica series only mentions "Light Speed" as the maximum velocity. The Galactica usually has to travel slower because most of the fleet doesn't have the capacity for Light Speed. Makes no sense, I know, but that's what they went with. 🤷
One thought I always had. The people who settled Earth from the colonies passed their stories and knowledge down. The original documents have been lost over time or were never written until decades later. This information was used to give birth to many of the ancient civilizations.
And why not, if humanoid cultures have religious beliefs. Surely, machines that developed in humanity likeness could develope their own religious beliefs.
@@paulhunter6742 Machines don't need religion. It's us squishy meatheads that still cling to old ideas and traditions that have long since lost their value.
@@kingdomofvinland8827 Antitheists, atheists, agnostics and vague spiritualists would disagree. In the United States, 28% of the population count themselves among these Nones. Just showing your idea is personal, not universal.
Love just the intro. Fracking hell are you kidding me? Btw nice home/studio. You are way richer than I. & I do apologize for my withdrawal of membership. X I proper get your questions about BSG lore but look.... It is all based on Issac Asimof book. The best sci-fi is written based on 1 book. The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire. Dunno if you read Issac, but if you do check out also Simmons Hyperion. Btw (Tyler.) I never use your name?? Btw OR I love your content. Keep up the good work in 2024 & a Merry Christmas x
One other explanation of the similarities of the BSG world with ours- While it is not physically impossible for almost the exact same patterns to evolve as they did both then and now, it is literally right next to impossible. But one could take an artistic license and say that this was a universe where this remote possibility actually happened. Again, cyclical evolution. I have always viewed the show in this light.
Such a good show. I love seasons 2.5 and 3 where they begin delving into the cylon perspective. It’s one of those shows that pushes itself to explore its lore and characters.
I loved this show so much back in the day EXCEPT when they split a season into two parts and then sold two over priced DVD sets. Uh the 20zeros! What a time to be alive.
The inconsistencies with human cultural history in BSG are one of the reasons I headcanon it to be a Westworld sequel. If all of BSG is the culmination of Dolores's last Sublime game, a lot of those questions kinda answer themselves
According to one theory, it was the invention of organic memory transfer technology that was the cause of the wars that forced the inhabitants of Kobol to gradually abandon their home planet. As on Earth, there were many people on Kobol who considered resurrection technology an abomination against their religious faith and as a result conflicts erupted across the globe, not only attacks against the first generation of humanoid Cylons and vice versa, but even among members of a same nation who were divided due to different ideological positions on mind uploading, not to mention world wars.
My theory has always been DNA just does that in this universe. You get sufficiently advanced life and humans will come out sooner or later, and intelligent life will always want to build evil robots to kill themselves. This way you can grandfather in both series. There must be something special about Earth, because why does it act as a magnet for these different alternate versions of humanity?
Thanks. I've lived through both iterations of the show and am tempted to buy the entire series since it had such a great ending. Didn't see all of them but loved the final episode.
The Origin of Species section is one reason I like xover fanfics of BSG better than the solo series. You get a insider look at the various ways to explain the 'Lords of Kobol' to various degrees of success. Including many a space battle xover.
I am one who does truly favor the line "all of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again" so for in universe it could be a timeloop kind of effect, but if that's the case than we should keep in mind who's telling the story details at the end.... those two are tricky little imps and can keep their meddling fingers out of my understanding of history. Loved this one!!
It was never a time loop. Just human nature had a habit of repeating itself. Mankind creates technology to make their lives easier. It runs amok and destroys their civilization. They rebuild. And it all starts over again.
After I finished the series first time, I always wondered how a sequel could be written. Set in late 21st century, an international space agency discovers the remains of Galactica crash landed on Mercury, we discover skeletal remains of Anders and manage to decipher some of the colonial language etc and reverse engineer the FTL jump. With that we would sent an expedition fleet back to 12 colonies and discover humans there survived the nuclear apocalypse and started thriving again, when we make first contact Colonial fleet would open fire on Earth fleet thinking we are Cylons but then actual Cylon Centurion fleet jumps in and start helping our expedition fleet (their logic would be our alliance still holds which we have no idea)
BSG-Reimagined to me has a lot of paraells with Liu Cixin's "Remembrance of Earth's Past" or known as (The Three-Body Trilogy). The theme of "This is all happened before and this will all happened again," is heavily suggested in the trilogy and more in the spin-off 4th book: The Redemption of Time (written by Baoshu). There are few differences between the 2 series but if you know them both pretty good; it could potentially answer questions about BSG-Reimagined and Three-Body. I almost feel like these could be in the same Universe or Universes that happen in paraell with each other. Perhaps even side by side, where things happen in both perspectives but have different causes, effects, meanings. Who or what is the force that brings back Starbuck from a literal death that seems to be pushing the surviving Humans of BSG to safe harbor. Starbuck's New fighter that they cannot trace the parts for, etc, etc? Where in Three-Body; this force that effects this Universe is more flushed out in the 3rd and 4th books of Three-Body. There are aliens in Three-Body where none exist in the BSG-Reimagined continuity. This is all for fun people. Just a thought experiment in science fiction that are not directly connected but share a great many concepts within one another. If you have only read or seen one I'd recommend the latter. If anything its just cool to think about. Three-Body started making the rounds in 2006 and up. BSG-Reimagined started in 2004. I doubt either one leeched off the other but there are many paraells to both series. One is more adventurous and ends on a happy note where the other is more existential terror when we realize the God that Humans look up to, look at humanity as reality-fodder for its war against "the Lurker." Each series has its great attibutes and letdowns.
25:19 74,000 years ago, the worlds population of "Modern Humans" dropped from 5 million individuals to about 10,000 mated pairs. This is referred to as the genetic bottle neck. One possible explanation for this could have been the civilization that the colonials refer to as "The Lords of Kobol," coming to Earth, transplanting most of the humans to Kobol, while leaving enough on Earth to repopulate the planet.
I am about halfway through season 4. This video has been a big help, because about halfway through season 2, I was asking myself, “Okay, where are the Mormons” LOL. OMG, this is insane.
I hate circular time, if life has no beginning or destination, than it all is just a inescapable purgatory. Wheel of Time did a good job at building a world with circular time, but Robert Jordan was very open and clear that this was how that universe operated and was self aware that linear time is better by a long shot. BSG just added it to the story later to try to be clever, but ends up being depressing.
There’s the obvious DS9-BB5 parallels which I would love for Tyler to dig into. Andreas Katsulas portrayed roles in TNG (Tomalok) and BB5 (G’Kar). Plus of course, Walter Koenig was Chekhov in TOS and Bester in BB5!
This is one of those channels where, every single time you upload, I think to myself "How is this guy so small?" Like. There are dozens, if not HUNDREDS of channels that put out such lower quality content. It's almost frustrating.
I enjoyed BSG when it came out but the heavy “spiritual” aspects Ronald Moore put into it left me somewhat disappointed. I wanted more of what the expanse was sans aliens and just a more grounded man vs machine story. Still it was fun and considering what we have now it was a golden era for TV sci-fi. I was one of the few who liked Caprica and wished it had gotten a couple more seasons. It had some interesting angles the main show didn’t pursue.
I'm an atheist...but I loved the religious nonsense in BSG (and Moore's DS9). I don't hate religion...it isn't for me...but I like the mythology aspects of it. And to me whether people wanted to accept it or not...the show was always hinting at some higher power at work with Baltar's visions of Caprica Six.
I love Battlestar and the remake was sublime but to younger or less experienced fans I would say, if you go around bonking each other on the head with spanners and guns like they do in the remake whenever they need to put their friends to sleep? You’re going to terribly injure or kill each other. So don’t do that. But do shoot Cylons.
I believe the gods are named what they are partially for as yes, a translation- but also, maybe the pantheon of Greece somehow got influenced by a species memory or more directly a flesh Cylon reflecting a certain truth, and they among many random religions got certain things right.
I don't know what you mean by "time code", but when the fleet arrives at Earth, it is the post-apocalyptic Cylon planet which is deserted. North America (the Gulf Coast in particular including Florida is shown in the establishing shot.@@OrangeRiver
I thought you were referencing a mistake in my video, but I think I vaguely remember what you're talking about. But I can't remember which episode(s) this happens in
It was produced for a north american audience, and we speak english. And no other language we know of would make any more sense and developing an entire language for a tv show that would then require subtitles would be 1. Irritating as hell 2. Would have quickly killed off the show Its not like Godzilla minus 1, a film made in japan that is just fine with subtitles and god awful with an english dub
If you think about it. We really don’t use the corners on paper. So in a situation where the raw materials to make paper out of. It would make sense to use as little of paper as needed.
I grew up Mormon and I think that you overlooked some aspects regarding Adam. It was told to me that Adam had achieved Exaltation/Godhood on another Earth like World. He helped to organize this world and fell (ie became mortal again) so that those of us who had not been born could achieve Godhood. In other words, we are the gods in embryo. All of the human types and machines are us. It's very similar to Jain Cosmology. Also, an older idea according to some Mormons involves what's called Multiple Mortal Probations. It's a kind of reincarnation that is really just a the taking of another body and learning how to be a God here or even on other worlds. I know, it's strange. Still, it's what some people believe. For them BSG is sort of like C.S. Lewis Narnia series. It's a sci-fi version of Mormon preexisting and afterlife smashed into one. BTW a Mormon also wrote "Enders Game" (Orson Scott Card).
The atmos jump was the greatest moment of the series. The way they build up to it, all of the fighters deploying out through fire, and the massive boom when the Galactica jumps felt like the thunder from a massive lightning strike to signify the sh*tstorm that was about to be unleashed. One of the best moments in TV SciFi, hands down.
That scene absolutely blew my head off. Totally freaking amazing.
Adama maneuver, I wonder if we are going to use that in the future and actually call it Adama maneuver if we ever invent something similar to FTL jump.
"Well, this should be different..."
Goosebumps ... even rewatching the clip here.
I saw a BSG discussion with Ron Moore and the cast where Moore mentioned the "and they have a plan" was added just to add something to hook people in. People would ask them what's the plan? His answer "hell if I know."
And it really showed in the last season and a half.
I liked most of the last season and a half. I liked the trial of Baltar, the cylon civil war, and the episode where Saul's wife resurects. I thought it just fell apart in the finale as they had painted themselves into a corner and they thought resolving every conflict and mystery w "god did it" was their best option.
The Cylons did have a plan, just not one they had thought through. How very human of the Cylons.
@@bbbabrock I've never felt that 'god did it.' Nor was it the case in for example, 'Contact' or 'Childhood's End'.
Irony that they made a movie called THE PLAN and after 90 minute run time you realize THEY NEVER HAD A FUCKING PLAN
I loved Battlestar Galactica, but the thing I find hardest to believe isn't the space travel or the ancient aliens stuff, it's the fact that 40,000 people were perfectly fine with giving up their modern technology and essentially going camping for the rest of their lives. Not one person said "yeah I'm gonna go with the Cylons, they have microwaves and indoor plumbing."
Yeah the ending of the series is such bullshit lmao
@OrangeRiver blame the writers leaving 3 times. First the show runner
@@OrangeRiveragreed imo what would have made more sense would be for the colonels to scrap their ships and use the technology they had to build a new civilization like say Atlantis or something
@kingdomofvinland8827 that would miss the whole point of the series and the "cycle of time"
They deliberately didn't want technology because eventually it would lead to the creation of more homicidal cylons.
By reducing back down to the stone age, they increase the amount of time till humans create A.I again.
I cant believe they didn't have image stabilization.
Anyone else notice the production quality and funny little office esque camera switches man has been incorporating? I’m loving it!
Thanks Tyler, now I have to go watch BSG and Book of Mormon again. Those songs are so catchy.
BSG is my all-time favorite show. The reboot was a masterpiece.
AGREED. So Say We All !!!
"asi decimos todos"
The reimagined BSG sucked.
I've always thought that the greek pantheon was actually from the 12 colonies and when they arrived on our earth, these ideas somehow survived and became the greek mythology we know today. Though, that rationale would work better if the Galactica crew somehow arrived later, near a proto-would-be-greek civilization instead of pre history like the series.
I feel this to be the best explanation.
Don't forget that at the end, they divided up supplies and materials, and groups were sent to locations all over the planet. It would take time for things to take shape.... not to mention, historians and anthropologists are constantly forced to change how far back human history actually goes, every time some ancient site like Göbekli Tepe is unearthed.
Perhaps during the Bronze Age collapse?
@@kingdomofvinland8827 well... in real life, the Greek gods were well-established at the time of the Bronze Age Collapse.
Your production values are getting so much more entertaining. Great work.
Thank you!
It's very likely that the whole situation with Kara Thrace and the "Angels" at the series' finale means they are Beings of Light, an extraterrestrial species seen in the original Battlestar Galactica show. Kara even paints the Ship of Lights in one of her murals at some point.
Nope, the Galactica universe is a computer simulation. That theory explains everything, without any supernatural mumbo-jumbo.
@@20catsRPG Just like this reality, which Albert Einstein knew to be true.
Oh!!!! That’s wild
The story line also reflects Hegelian philosophy, at least as I understand it. The thesis (humans) create the antithesis (Cylon) which eventually leads to synthesis (human-cylon hybrid).
I always was amused by the name of Kobol. It sounds and is spelt similar to an early programming language called Cobol. There really isn't the a connection between the two, it looks to be a coincidence.
A very nice review of the newer series. I prefer the new one over the original because it did seem more realistic in many ways.
The reimagined series is my favorite TV series hands down. Plus Tricia Helfer.
I'm old enough to have watched the original 70s series on TV as a kid. It was corny, but it was fun and entertaining.
I’m old enough to remember watching the TOS on TV. I just wish they kept the Idea of the Cylons being created by ancient race of extinct reptiles, and the fact when they arrived on Earth, that we no longer had the technology to help fight the Cylons.
@@vereen70 There was only alien left. He sat up on the dias in a big room.
The lore before the 12 colonies can be confusing. Also the Earth they find at the end isn't the Earth they first set out to find. They carried the name over from the wasteland Earth they did find. The final 5 even forgot about the original Earth and what happened on it. Tbh it was a great idea for the show.
Alternate timelines - Quentin Tarantino should've written for the series. After Once Upon a Time in Hollywood & frying the Mans on family, that is.
Bruh, I got the Blu-Rays too 😂😂. Things have changed but I've been ready!
I bought the dvds. Now they are worthless 😅
I know you're a Trek guy at heart but your videos on the Expense, Dune and BSG are some of the best detailed videos out there. I've watched them multiple times. Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!!
Thank you so much!! I'm glad people enjoy them.
Big fan of the asides to camera #2. Keep up the great work 😄
In the original series, the development of the Cylons was a little different. It's only covered in a very short conversation between Apollo and Boxy, in which Boxy is asking why the Cylons attack them and he's told that the origianal Cylons were a reptilian species, they developed the Cylons we know and those Cylons rebelled against them.
Peacock removing it from their service makes me glad that I recorded it to DVDR when I had the chance. Too bad I procrastinated on Warehouse 13.
Services removing programs that they own makes my head spin. Keeping them on costs them nothing.
Ikr
Very cool explanation of the series which was one of my favorites in the late 70’s and I adored the reboot in the 2000’s. Personally I go with the explanation that they were correct in that everything has happened before in a cyclical history, not a time loop but rather repeating patterns. It’s something we can see in our own past.
Been waiting on this one. Thanks!
Absolutely brilliant retrospective and take on the hustiry and lore of this show. The 00's take was exceptional. Scripts that were well written and great VFX also there was, like the original, many repeats of the same VFX, but it didn't damage the show.
Delighted to finally see you cover BSG. For me, it's right up there wuth SG-1 as ny all-time favourite series. II never realised there was an analogue for the Irish in the universe. That was fun to learn.
Thanks for doing this deep dive into BSG OrangeRiver! Your videos are always interesting to watch.
I still remember new episodes of the original BSG would come on at 8pm on weekends; sometimes we'd be coming home from my grandparents' house (over 2 hours away), and I would just be heartsick when we'd get home after it had already started, or when it was practically over, and then I'd have to wait until whenever it aired again. That deep trauma has probably shaped today's media landscape, (the media landscape I write for, lol).
I've never watched the show and only understand like 14% of the video but i watched the whole thing and still enjoyed it
I’ve been watching over all your videos again, it’s great to see everyone.
One interesting thought is that the meaning of, "all this has happened before and all this will happen again," could refer to the fundamental forces of the universe that have singular constants that are woven into the universe. Gravity, Planck, electric, speed of light in vacuum, etc. It is said that turn the dial on one of these and the formation of some elements is impossible and therefore planets and consequently life. Carrying that in the other direction these forces made it possible for life to occur here on Earth. Since the laws of nature seem to be consistent, then the same circumstances that created life here also can occur elsewhere and has already. I can't think of the cosmological theory off hand but it has to do with the infinitude of space and the idea that another earth exists with another version of you that simply turned left when you turned right. Not a parallel world but a duplicate world that made all the same everything, almost, because it made a you that did something different once as a variation. Kinda of like a repeating pattern that begins at a "big bang" and goes on forever while internally creating another "big bang" that starts anew and goes on and on with each variation a consequence of a minor or insignificant coin flip. Meaning that the entirety of anyone piece of the repeating whole isn't actually repeating but just another part of a unique entirety. This doesn't mean that if everything repeats then it should repeat exactly without a difference. But the repetition similarity is itself the entirety a single unique whole. Summary: The unique forces that allow for life in the universe here also make for exactly the same circumstances to occur identically elsewhere in the universe. However, because of this it allows for minute variation, this makes any variation just a piece of a unique whole without exact repetition.
The arrangement of the colonial star system is new to me, thanks for sharing that resource/theory as it fills in a few gaps!
Awesome video Tyler. I've been a Battlestar Galactica fan since the original series. It was great to see you do a video about BSG. Thanks for your great work!
Thanks Joe!
Kobol / Kolob *does* link to Earth. Bear in mind the theme of technology and AI becoming sentient, Kobol is a corruption of COBOL. COBOL was one of the very early computer programming languages, but not the first. It's another indication that all this has happened before and will hapoen again. I don't think I've seen the link to the COBOL programming language before. But as an older software developer, who did indeed write software in COBOL at the start of my career, it jumped out at me immediately.
The high seas have a pretty good spread of BSG content. You can't 100% the full chronological binge watch there but the majority of the story is represented.
You must have had to rewatch the entire series again to take all these notes. What a sacrifice 😃
I watched it for the first time in September :D
Thanks Tyler, great subject! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the series finale. I absolutely loved it, but it blew my mind and some of your theories I hadn't considered. We came from Earth, then Kobal. It makes the most "sense" to me. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦✌️
Cool video, I found this on accident and enjoyed it. Never gets old nerding out on some Battlestar. Take my sub sir
Man, I enjoyed this! ❤
Looking forward to watching your TNG videos once I complete re-watching that series (which you inspired me to do!). I didn't mind these spoilers because I've seen BSG more recently.
Thank you Nathan!
4:53 #UmActually, the original Battlestar Galactica series only mentions "Light Speed" as the maximum velocity. The Galactica usually has to travel slower because most of the fleet doesn't have the capacity for Light Speed. Makes no sense, I know, but that's what they went with. 🤷
well i for one hope that someone was fired for that mistake (dusts dorito crumbs off beer belly)
One thought I always had. The people who settled Earth from the colonies passed their stories and knowledge down. The original documents have been lost over time or were never written until decades later. This information was used to give birth to many of the ancient civilizations.
I always found the concept of cybernetic superintelligence finding religion to be hilarious.
And why not, if humanoid cultures have religious beliefs. Surely, machines that developed in humanity likeness could develope their own religious beliefs.
@@paulhunter6742 Machines don't need religion. It's us squishy meatheads that still cling to old ideas and traditions that have long since lost their value.
Isaac asimov used religion his science fiction
@@AvangionQI’m going to have to disagree on that last bit. Humans are hard wired to worship something. I don’t know why but we just are.
@@kingdomofvinland8827 Antitheists, atheists, agnostics and vague spiritualists would disagree. In the United States, 28% of the population count themselves among these Nones. Just showing your idea is personal, not universal.
I really enjoy your content. Keep it up.
This was great. Thanks! B5 next? :D
Yaaaaay I was SO excited for this one!!
Bruh all that LDS stuff I never knew about lol. Thanks for the vid, solid recap!
Thanks!
Really great rundown! The home system(s) always fascinated me, Nice breakdown.
Love just the intro. Fracking hell are you kidding me?
Btw nice home/studio. You are way richer than I. & I do apologize for my withdrawal of membership. X
I proper get your questions about BSG lore but look.... It is all based on Issac Asimof book. The best sci-fi is written based on 1 book. The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire.
Dunno if you read Issac, but if you do check out also Simmons Hyperion.
Btw (Tyler.) I never use your name??
Btw OR I love your content. Keep up the good work in 2024 & a Merry Christmas x
One other explanation of the similarities of the BSG world with ours- While it is not physically impossible for almost the exact same patterns to evolve as they did both then and now, it is literally right next to impossible. But one could take an artistic license and say that this was a universe where this remote possibility actually happened. Again, cyclical evolution. I have always viewed the show in this light.
Such a good show. I love seasons 2.5 and 3 where they begin delving into the cylon perspective. It’s one of those shows that pushes itself to explore its lore and characters.
I loved this show so much back in the day EXCEPT when they split a season into two parts and then sold two over priced DVD sets. Uh the 20zeros! What a time to be alive.
Great video as always Tyler
Thanks Malkiore!
Love the Vols coaster Orange River!
Haha thanks!
Battle star is underrated as heck!
You're right, he was a great sidekick in Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Hell no. It is larger then most shows. No not Star Treck huge, but bigger then Stargate. Now V is a forgotten show.
25:24 had me dying, I love how fed up you are with the lore.
Now I've got to go play All Along the Watchtower.
Are you a Cylon ?
Man was that good.. Getin to work now to give you some blingi.
The inconsistencies with human cultural history in BSG are one of the reasons I headcanon it to be a Westworld sequel. If all of BSG is the culmination of Dolores's last Sublime game, a lot of those questions kinda answer themselves
The scene in Razor where the Pegasus makes a blind FTL jump might be my favorite moment from the entire series.
where's that Mycelial network? this has to be one of my favorite episodes you have done.
Another great video!
Thanks Mark!
According to one theory, it was the invention of organic memory transfer technology that was the cause of the wars that forced the inhabitants of Kobol to gradually abandon their home planet.
As on Earth, there were many people on Kobol who considered resurrection technology an abomination against their religious faith and as a result conflicts erupted across the globe, not only attacks against the first generation of humanoid Cylons and vice versa, but even among members of a same nation who were divided due to different ideological positions on mind uploading, not to mention world wars.
Awesome video is pretty entertaining
My theory has always been DNA just does that in this universe. You get sufficiently advanced life and humans will come out sooner or later, and intelligent life will always want to build evil robots to kill themselves. This way you can grandfather in both series. There must be something special about Earth, because why does it act as a magnet for these different alternate versions of humanity?
The Kat said "I'll take it as I didn't listen Tyler"😅✊
Wow, wasnt expecting a mention of the casimir effect.
Thanks. I've lived through both iterations of the show and am tempted to buy the entire series since it had such a great ending. Didn't see all of them but loved the final episode.
The Origin of Species section is one reason I like xover fanfics of BSG better than the solo series. You get a insider look at the various ways to explain the 'Lords of Kobol' to various degrees of success. Including many a space battle xover.
Missed a perfect opportunity to end it with a "So say we all!!"
too bovious lol
I am one who does truly favor the line "all of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again" so for in universe it could be a timeloop kind of effect, but if that's the case than we should keep in mind who's telling the story details at the end.... those two are tricky little imps and can keep their meddling fingers out of my understanding of history.
Loved this one!!
It was never a time loop. Just human nature had a habit of repeating itself. Mankind creates technology to make their lives easier. It runs amok and destroys their civilization. They rebuild. And it all starts over again.
Man forgot to program the 3 laws into the androids.
Isaac Asimov wasn't born yet ;-)
After I finished the series first time, I always wondered how a sequel could be written.
Set in late 21st century, an international space agency discovers the remains of Galactica crash landed on Mercury, we discover skeletal remains of Anders and manage to decipher some of the colonial language etc and reverse engineer the FTL jump.
With that we would sent an expedition fleet back to 12 colonies and discover humans there survived the nuclear apocalypse and started thriving again, when we make first contact Colonial fleet would open fire on Earth fleet thinking we are Cylons but then actual Cylon Centurion fleet jumps in and start helping our expedition fleet (their logic would be our alliance still holds which we have no idea)
whats really funny about glen a larson is that he was so bias that of course the hub of everything is caprica, cuz he was a capricorn
Im surprised no one has ever made a huge rts game or open world game based on this lore
Hello, really enjoy your vids. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do a Vid or 2 on either Robotech ( an anime ) or possibly Babylon 5.
I like the plot and also that the ship is considered ancient obsolete tech but that's what saved them eventually
BSG-Reimagined to me has a lot of paraells with Liu Cixin's "Remembrance of Earth's Past" or known as (The Three-Body Trilogy). The theme of "This is all happened before and this will all happened again," is heavily suggested in the trilogy and more in the spin-off 4th book: The Redemption of Time (written by Baoshu). There are few differences between the 2 series but if you know them both pretty good; it could potentially answer questions about BSG-Reimagined and Three-Body. I almost feel like these could be in the same Universe or Universes that happen in paraell with each other. Perhaps even side by side, where things happen in both perspectives but have different causes, effects, meanings.
Who or what is the force that brings back Starbuck from a literal death that seems to be pushing the surviving Humans of BSG to safe harbor. Starbuck's New fighter that they cannot trace the parts for, etc, etc? Where in Three-Body; this force that effects this Universe is more flushed out in the 3rd and 4th books of Three-Body. There are aliens in Three-Body where none exist in the BSG-Reimagined continuity.
This is all for fun people. Just a thought experiment in science fiction that are not directly connected but share a great many concepts within one another. If you have only read or seen one I'd recommend the latter. If anything its just cool to think about.
Three-Body started making the rounds in 2006 and up. BSG-Reimagined started in 2004. I doubt either one leeched off the other but there are many paraells to both series. One is more adventurous and ends on a happy note where the other is more existential
terror when we realize the God that Humans look up to, look at humanity as reality-fodder for its war against "the Lurker."
Each series has its great attibutes and letdowns.
every episode of that show was sooo good.
14:03 as a Leo i see this as an absolute win 🎉
25:19 74,000 years ago, the worlds population of "Modern Humans" dropped from 5 million individuals to about 10,000 mated pairs. This is referred to as the genetic bottle neck. One possible explanation for this could have been the civilization that the colonials refer to as "The Lords of Kobol," coming to Earth, transplanting most of the humans to Kobol, while leaving enough on Earth to repopulate the planet.
That's still 76,000 years after the show takes place though :/ But it could play into the cyclical time aspect of the universe 👀
I am about halfway through season 4. This video has been a big help, because about halfway through season 2, I was asking myself, “Okay, where are the Mormons” LOL. OMG, this is insane.
I hate circular time, if life has no beginning or destination, than it all is just a inescapable purgatory.
Wheel of Time did a good job at building a world with circular time, but Robert Jordan was very open and clear that this was how that universe operated and was self aware that linear time is better by a long shot.
BSG just added it to the story later to try to be clever, but ends up being depressing.
Life lowkey is an inescapable purgatory lol. We're all hairless apes on a rock floating in space, collections of atoms with anxiety
Since you've done Battlestar you should do babylon 5 next. I fucking love bablyon 5
There’s the obvious DS9-BB5 parallels which I would love for Tyler to dig into.
Andreas Katsulas portrayed roles in TNG (Tomalok) and BB5 (G’Kar).
Plus of course, Walter Koenig was Chekhov in TOS and Bester in BB5!
Should he not do Caprica first. The show is different enough.
@@TempoLOOKING Caprica - Got the shaft because it was too cerebral, not much action. It was yin to BSG's yang.
I loved how they did not evolve from earth. I thought that made the lore more interesting.
All this debate takes away from the fun of the show. It is one of my favorites. The other is Star Trek (EXCEPT FOR DISCOVERY).
This is one of those channels where, every single time you upload, I think to myself "How is this guy so small?"
Like. There are dozens, if not HUNDREDS of channels that put out such lower quality content. It's almost frustrating.
Thanks 😎 If you think it's frustrating, imagine how I feel 😂
I enjoyed BSG when it came out but the heavy “spiritual” aspects Ronald Moore put into it left me somewhat disappointed. I wanted more of what the expanse was sans aliens and just a more grounded man vs machine story. Still it was fun and considering what we have now it was a golden era for TV sci-fi.
I was one of the few who liked Caprica and wished it had gotten a couple more seasons. It had some interesting angles the main show didn’t pursue.
I'm an atheist...but I loved the religious nonsense in BSG (and Moore's DS9). I don't hate religion...it isn't for me...but I like the mythology aspects of it.
And to me whether people wanted to accept it or not...the show was always hinting at some higher power at work with Baltar's visions of Caprica Six.
Thank you
I love Battlestar and the remake was sublime but to younger or less experienced fans I would say, if you go around bonking each other on the head with spanners and guns like they do in the remake whenever they need to put their friends to sleep? You’re going to terribly injure or kill each other.
So don’t do that.
But do shoot Cylons.
Great video
Thanks Aaron!
I believe the gods are named what they are partially for as yes, a translation- but also, maybe the pantheon of Greece somehow got influenced by a species memory or more directly a flesh Cylon reflecting a certain truth, and they among many random religions got certain things right.
Awesome.
Mormons in space!! Love this series.
The only trouble with Earth as depicted is that North America is used for its image - so Earth and Earth 2 are clone planets?
Time code?
I don't know what you mean by "time code", but when the fleet arrives at Earth, it is the post-apocalyptic Cylon planet which is deserted. North America (the Gulf Coast in particular including Florida is shown in the establishing shot.@@OrangeRiver
I thought you were referencing a mistake in my video, but I think I vaguely remember what you're talking about. But I can't remember which episode(s) this happens in
It was produced for a north american audience, and we speak english. And no other language we know of would make any more sense and developing an entire language for a tv show that would then require subtitles would be
1. Irritating as hell
2. Would have quickly killed off the show
Its not like Godzilla minus 1, a film made in japan that is just fine with subtitles and god awful with an english dub
why the papers on BSG has cutted corners?
If you think about it. We really don’t use the corners on paper. So in a situation where the raw materials to make paper out of. It would make sense to use as little of paper as needed.
Great content
Thank you!
I always thought that our earth would become something like Kobol with 13 ships flying out to the 12 colonies and "Earth" starting the cycle again
I grew up Mormon and I think that you overlooked some aspects regarding Adam. It was told to me that Adam had achieved Exaltation/Godhood on another Earth like World. He helped to organize this world and fell (ie became mortal again) so that those of us who had not been born could achieve Godhood. In other words, we are the gods in embryo. All of the human types and machines are us.
It's very similar to Jain Cosmology. Also, an older idea according to some Mormons involves what's called Multiple Mortal Probations. It's a kind of reincarnation that is really just a the taking of another body and learning how to be a God here or even on other worlds.
I know, it's strange. Still, it's what some people believe. For them BSG is sort of like C.S. Lewis Narnia series. It's a sci-fi version of Mormon preexisting and afterlife smashed into one. BTW a Mormon also wrote "Enders Game" (Orson Scott Card).
just starting this video and i hope you mention how BSG reimagined is actually a reimagining of the 1962 scifi film, Creation of the Humanoids.
Why did my friends just now send this to me in a group chat?? My first youtube channel subscription of 2025! A no brainer
We have seen this before, and we will see it again.
Great show, kinda of floundered coming down to the end but still solid story overall
Good work by you!!!
Thank you!
12 colonies are in a quaternary system i believe. With 12 habitable planets.