originally, you know, the... the question was,
how do you redo "battlestar galactica"? how do you remake it?
the world didn't need another science fiction/ fantasy adventure.
there were already ten copycats out there as it was.
you sure they'll fly?
well, the reactor's still hot. so all we have to do
is pull the rad buffers from the engine, refuel it,
load the ordinance, and you're ready to go.
we wanted to go back to the beginning,
retell the original tale in a different way.
to tell stories that are going to be very visceral
and resonant with our culture and with our times.
all ministers and officials
should now go to case orange. the president,
the vice president and most of the cabinet are dead or incapacitated.
send a message. I’m taking command of fleet.
we want to do something to the genre
that hasn't been done in a generation,
which is actually treat it seriously.
this is the map to earth.
the critical response has been really gratifying.
I don't think I really anticipated
it would be so well received. it's not enough to survive.
one has to be worthy of surviving.
we both came at this opportunity
with the motivation and the agenda
to blow the wheels off the genre.
the war is over. it hasn't begun yet.
"starbuck"... now there's a call sign.
starbuck. starbuck...
how's the wife?
ultimately, I think the show is accessible to almost anybody,
because it's... what it really is about...
it's about people. it's a character drama.
there'll be back-story and technology
that they may not understand, but I think you'll be able
to quickly identify the key character relationships.
you can enjoy it purely on the basis of the drama and the plotting,
or you can have a deeper enjoyment of it
if you are a regular viewer, by enjoying the soapy arc, as it were.
what's the charge this time?
striking a superior ass.
I bet you've been waiting all day to say that one.
most of the afternoon, yeah. right.
there's a search for truth that we sort of explore continually.
what would really happen in this circumstance?
what would people really do?
not what's the dramatic thing, not what's the TV thing.
what would really happen to these people?
how would they really conduct themselves?
how would this... these ships really work in space?
and that philosophy has sort of driven us since the beginning.
a battlestar is sort of a combination
of an aircraft carrier and a battleship in space.
a battlestar's a big, scary piece of machinery.
it's a really powerful warship.
it's the most powerful warship in the colonial fleet.
the "galactica" was actually on its way to being retired.
it was an old battlestar that was used in the first war against the cylons,
which took place about 45 years ago.
commander adama, if I may?
captain?
I just wanted to say what a pleasure it's been
serving with you on your command, sir.
its commander, adama, was also a veteran of the first cylon war,
and he, too, was going to go into retirement.
attention on deck!
he's the father figure of the entire series.
the cylon war is long over,
yet we must not forget the reasons why so many
sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom.
the cylons were created by man,
as we say at the beginning of the credit every week.
and then one day, the cylons sort of woke up
and decided, "well, frak this.
why are we working for you? and you have enslaved us."
and they turned against their human masters,
and there began the first cylon war.
you cannot play god, then wash your hands
of the things that you've created.
sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide
from the things that you've done anymore.
after the first cylon war ended in an armistice,
the 2 sides stayed apart for 40 years.
little do they know that the cylons, off by themselves,
have been evolving and developing,
and so when the cylons suddenly burst upon the scene
after 40 years of silence and attack the colonies and wipe them out...
it has begun.
they also showed up looking like human beings.
now you're telling me you're a machine. I’m a woman.
you're a synthetic woman, a robot.
I’ve said it three times now. well, forgive me.
I’m having the tiniest little bit of trouble believing that,
because the last time anybody saw the cylons,
they looked more like walking chrome toasters.
the cylons, from the beginning,
have wanted to wipe out humanity,
and in their view,
they feel like god has made them perfect.
mankind was imperfect.
in a few hours, no one will be left.
humanity's children are returning home...
today.
moments ago, this ship received word
of a cylon attack against our home worlds is underway.
as of this moment, we are at war.
come on!
all right, people, this is what we do. we're the best.
so let's get the old girl ready to roll and kick some cylon ass!
come on.
"galactica," you've got an inbound nuke.
the colonists are trying to survive, first and foremost.
their civilization was wiped out. their homes were wiped out.
virtually everyone else that they ever knew in their lives are gone and dead.
update on the head count.
and they're searching for a placed called "earth."
it won't be an easy journey.
it'll be long and arduous, but I promise you one thing...
on the memory of those lying here before you,
we shall find it, and earth will become our new home.
there's a point at which the admiral stops thinking
and just starts feeling and... and will go with his gut
and will lead that way.
we trained for this.
if we're off on our calculations by even a few degrees,
we could end up in the middle of the sun.
no choice.
you're never entirely sure what bill adama is gonna do,
but it also, I think, reinforces the sense
that there's a certain sense to the universe,
that if adama says "we're gonna go left," we're gonna go left,
and god help us, there's probably a good reason for it.
Jump.
Launching those fighters in a hunch saved our ship.
just doing my job.
you do your job good. that's why I need you, Saul.
that, and that we're friends.
Adama's best friend for 30-some odd years now
has been colonel Saul tigh.
if the crew doesn't hate the x.o., then he's not doing his job.
besides, gotta make the old man look good.
I always look good.
look in a mirror.
like, uh, two brothers, I think adama and tigh
can say things to each other that no one else can say
to either of them and get away with it.
um, I think they're also, like brothers, not afraid to...
usually involving a bottle of something between them...
acknowledge their love for each other.
Laura is essentially, the wisdom of... of the show.
she never imagined herself to be president. she wasn't on that track at all.
she's had to literally rise to the occasion,
and, uh, make many mistakes along the way, lose her way,
reclaim it, and, really, that's what a leader is...
someone who's not perfect but is able to lead in spite of their imperfections.
you tried to steal an election?
yes, I did.
but Gaius baltar
cannot become president of the colonies, bill.
it cannot happen. she's always been willing to cross lines
she never thought she would... madam president,
we have to eliminate the "Olympic carrier" immediately.
do it.
but all in service of the idea that mankind itself hangs in the balance,
and her mission in life was to get humanity home,
which was complicated by the idea that she has cancer.
she wants to get everyone to earth before she dies.
there is no earth. you understand that?
it would seem that we were wrong.
oh, it's been a slowly percolating relationship between Laura and adama.
they started in major conflict, did not like each other,
did not trust each other at all,
and they started to respect one another first,
and then they started to kind of like one another
and started to appreciate one another,
and they've gotten to a point now where they're very close.
we've been at war so long,
sometimes we forget what we're fighting for,
live life as people again.
"galactica," starbuck. Showtime.
we got one turkey playing hide-and-seek in the clouds.
when we made starbuck a woman,
it was the most controversial thing.
before the... the series came out, there was lots of "ooh!"
and uproar in the fan community about how could we do this?
ultimately, I think it was one of the smartest moves
that we made. it's exactly the kind of thing
that you knew was gonna get this huge backlash.
you knew the fans were gonna be up in arms about it.
you knew there would be all this controversy about it, and that's what you want.
with all due respect, sir, i am the best shot in or out of the cockpit.
she's right... for once.
she's the best pilot in the fleet.
she's her own worst enemy. and adama loves her
like a daughter, lee loves her like a lover,
and everyone else kind of thinks she's insane.
oh, no.
you are beyond insane!
lee adama began the series as a fighter pilot.
captain, thank you for joking us. captain.
commander, could you put your arm around your son?
perfect. it's the father/son relationship that, you know, has a rift in it,
and their initial scene together was played
with adama's back to his son in its entirety.
and i-i believe that was Eddie Olmos' idea.
"I wouldn't look at him," he said,
and that sort of encapsulated
the nature of their relationship.
that'll be all, captain.
so the series really has become
the struggle to rebuild that relationship,
and often times, it's two steps forward and one step back,
which I think resonates with a-a lot of men who, uh,
have issues with their fathers much like that.
after the initial cylon attack,
lee became not just a pilot, but the lead pilot,
the commander of the air group, or the c.a.g. as we call him.
and that was his role for quite some time.
you're the c.a.g. act like one.
what the hell does that mean?
it means that you're still acting like you're everyone's best friend.
we're not friends. you're the c.a.g.
well, I’m glad I’m not working for you.
Apollo and starbuck have had
a charged relationship from the very beginning.
good to see you, too, captain. remind me to send you to the brig later.
yeah, well...
lee's much more of an idealist
and a straight arrow and a believer
in a lot of romantic notions, and Kara is anything but that.
Kara continually is self-destructive
and sabotaging herself
and challenging authority
or finding ways to destroy relationships that are very important to her.
Kara got married.
what? yep, about an hour ago.
she wakes me up, she pops the question,
she drags me down to the priest and bang!
like that, we're married.
so it was your idea?
yeah.
good luck. you're gonna need it.
lee, partially as a response, married dualla.
and so they... they were married to other people for quite some time,
and they still actually, technically are.
Gaius baltar was a brilliant scientist
and egotist back on caprica,
and he was a magnet for women
and loved women in every way, shape and form.
miss me?
couldn't you tell? mm.
I think Gaius baltar is the show's libido.
he's, uh, equal parts, you know, Stephen hawking,
Jim Morrison
and the backroom side of bill Clinton.
what are you doing here? ultimately, that was
part of his undoing and the undoing of the human race.
you were chosen for my mission. what mission?
you knew I wanted access to the defense mainframe.
oh, my god.
once he realized that
and realized that the woman he had been seeing was a cylon
who we came to know as number six,
he had a-a complete mental break,
and he started seeing a number six
that would appear to him and talk to him.
this is insane.
and what I want most of all is for you to love me.
god is love.
No!
Baltar's never been on the side of the cylons,
but he has never really been on the side of humans either.
he's really on his own side.
every time I feel like we're gonna tell a story
where baltar's gonna finally learn his lesson,
somehow he'll find a way to compromise himself.
you're here...
because you want to be human.
but there's a trick to being human.
you have to think only about yourself.
you look...
so lovely tonight.
you can kill cylons, but there are many copies.
five times now.
their consciousness and their entire memory
is instantaneously downloaded into a new body, and they resurrect.
you've been reborn.
and this, in some ways, makes them a very difficult enemy
to... to ever really conquer,
'cause as many times as you mow them down,
more just keep coming up behind them.
this man has been identified as a cylon agent.
there's only 12 models of cylons that we know.
some many not even know they're cylons at all.
they could be sleeper agents
programmed to perfectly impersonate human beings until activation.
this idea that your best friend, your lover,
the person whom you've, uh, known your entire life,
might be able to turn on you in a way you would least expect
at a time you would least expect.
let's get you debriefed. yes, sir.
the Sharon aboard "galactica" in the miniseries,
was unaware that she was a cylon. roger that, "galactica."
and then at the end of the first season... she suddenly took out a gun and shot adama in the chest...
thank you, sir. thank you, sir.
thank you. ugh! and realized that,
"oh, my god. I was a cylon sleeper agent,
"and my programming suddenly activated,
"and I shot one of the men that I care about
the... the most in the universe." what happened?
secure that thing in the brig.
no!
there's another Sharon, who simultaneously
was on cylon-occupied caprica.
are you prepared for the next step?
yes.
she encountered helo... Sharon?
and she was deliberately letting helo believe
that she was the Sharon that he had once known.
another prime motivation of the cylons
is they want to be able to reproduce biologically.
the cylons sent Sharon in to manipulate helo
in order to try to have a child,
thinking that if she made helo fall in love with her,
that would be enough. does he love you?
I think so. what they didn't bargain for was that she,
in turn, would fall in love with him as well.
once she fell in love with helo, she couldn't betray him,
and she elected to go with him back to "galactica."
so now the two Sharon’s actually swapped sides.
the Sharon that is aboard "galactica," married to helo
and is Hera’s mother was actually the enemy
at the beginning of the series, and there's a Sharon aboard,
uh, the cylon base ships, who was actually with us
at the very beginning of the series.
I don't know what's so complicated about that.
yeah, what's... you need a diagram? what's wrong?
all the models of cylons share certain traits.
you can say that all the sharons
tend to be more naive, more trusting,
be pulled by their heart in one direction or another.
the sixes all tend to be seductive on some level,
manipulative on some level,
and insecure on some level.
they're capable of deception and brutality.
the number sixes also have become,
uh, the gateway for the audience to be forced
to acknowledge the humanity within the cylons.
the leobens tend to be more spiritual
and more in tune with ideas of god and man
and, you know, the relationship with the spirit.
I only want you to see the truth of your life.
that's why god sent me to you.
that's why god wants us to be together.
the dorals are more bureaucratic
and by the numbers and just trying to get things done.
the Simons tend to be,
uh, caregivers, and health professionals.
jump the ship.
all the cylons are equal in theory,
but the d'annas tend to try to dominate any settings.
they tend to try to become the de facto leaders.
well, this is an awkward moment.
the cavils are more mysterious.
the cavils seem to have a great investment
in protecting the... the hierarchical order.
there's a suggestion that perhaps the cavils exist
to keep the cylons honest.
atmosphere is nitrogen/oxygen, fresh water.
at the end of the second season, they found
a planet that was hidden from the cylons in a nebula.
so they stayed on this planet
that they christened "new caprica."
probably pneumonia.
so give him something.
I’d love to.
I’ve been out of antibiotics for months.
the new caprica experience was not going well,
and then suddenly, the cylons found them anyway.
cylons just jumped into orbit, and the fleets jumped away.
they arrived in force,
so then began the cylon occupation of new caprica.
what do you want to do now, captain?
the same thing we always do...
we fight 'em until we can't.
ready? now.
frakkin' insurgents.
after several months, adama and lee came back
with "galactica" and "pegasus"
and managed to rescue the human population.
adama! adama! adama!
this is Apollo. do you read me?
starbuck, report!
Kara went out on a mission where she got into this weird headspace.
she was flying towards this gas giant,
and she started feeling drawn into it,
and eventually, she spiraled straight in,
and her ship exploded, and she was killed.
no!
and everyone aboard "galactica"
certainly felt the impact of that death.
the reverberations of it were still being felt, you know,
by the end of the third season,
when suddenly a viper appears, and Kara’s inside and says...
I’ve been to earth, and I’m gonna take us there.
there's a lot of questions going into year four
about who and what is Kara Thrace.
that song you're humming... I hear it everywhere.
I mean, but I can't... I can't really hear it.
you know what I mean?
yeah, it's like you can grab just a part of the melody
and then it goes away, like it's something from child...
childhood.
at the end of the third season,
we revealed four of what we call the final five cylons.
there's anders, tory, colonel tigh and chief tyrol,
and essentially, they didn't know they were cylons
until the end of the season.
after all this time, a switch goes off just... like that.
colonel tigh is probably the biggest cylon hater of all,
which was one of the great reasons why he made the perfect cylon.
i am an officer in the colonial fleet.
whatever else i am, that's the man i want to be.
you got a slight hint about their initial reaction
which ran the gamut from horror to disgust,
and then you're out. what's their connection to one another
and most of all, who's the... who's the final one?
who's the fifth of the final five?
kara is still technically married to anders,
so exactly how sam's gonna react
when she walks back aboard "galactica"...
they both have a lot to talk about. she's dead, and he's a cylon,
and this is... and they're married.
so it's much like most... most relationships, actually.
season four picks up literally where season three ended,
in real time. don't freak out. it really is me.
there comes a-a bit of a split
among people and their loyalties,
about who's gonna listen to kara and who... who is not,
particularly with adama.
where are you taking me to? to your new life.
baltar discovers a new role for himself as a religious figure.
in the cylon world, we see divisions and pressures for the first time.
real conflicts develop between them,
which creates certain dangers and certain opportunities,
uh, for the colonials.
uh, laura roslin's cancer came back
at the end of the third season,
and her cancer's not gonna go away this year,
which will also inform her relationship with adama.
sam.
you all just stay the frak away from me.
the four cylons will try to figure out
what they're supposed to do. all running
into the common theme of these characters asking themselves
the terrifying question, "will i sabotage my own people?"
no one's asking anyone to forget or to forgive,
but we have to look to the future.
this show has a built-in ending.
they're looking for a place called earth,
and eventually, they gotta find it.
commence jump prep.
we're going to the ionian nebula.
in order to honor that principle,
the show's gotta end. we all want to look back and go,
"wow. it was really great right up until the end."
three, two, one... jump.
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