Early Access: Battlestar Galactica 2x10 - Group Reaction+Uncut
Added 2025-06-05 13:34:00 +0000 UTCUncut: https://thenormies.com/battlestar-galactica-ea/
Edited reaction is in the thumbnail above!
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Adama did NOT cancel a court martial….he ended an independent inquiry…not at all the same thing
Derek Orr
2025-05-05 14:21:16 +0000 UTCI hope so. They should watch the extended version of this episode too
Derek Orr
2025-05-05 14:16:43 +0000 UTC12:47 she is correct in fact, not in theory.
Derek Orr
2025-05-05 14:16:19 +0000 UTC02:48 thank you !! Focus people, focus
Derek Orr
2025-05-05 14:06:12 +0000 UTCDo you think they will watch (Razor)?
Jo C.
2025-05-03 21:24:16 +0000 UTC"I'm getting my men" Damn... still get chills from Adama saying that.
Chaos T
2025-05-02 19:21:16 +0000 UTC#sunday rundown Battlestar Galactica This ep relly drives home that Ronald Moore begin a political science majors in college wanted the show to be an allegory for 9/11 and the 2nd gulf war and this ep for the treatment of number six is a direct allgory to what happen at Abu Ghraib and the us military torture of prisoner
flynt c0al
2025-05-02 02:41:44 +0000 UTCshoutout navi for never entertaining the hundred!
jasmin
2025-05-02 01:58:53 +0000 UTClol i can’t remember if marketa said anything in the beginning of the episode but i could tell she aint trust the pegasus real early on
jasmin
2025-05-02 01:58:20 +0000 UTC#SundayRundown This is one of my favorite arcs in this series. I think it's a turning point in how we view the Cylons and just goes to how terrible people can be. It's important to remember that BSG was airing after 9/11 and during the beginning of the Iraq War. The whole disgusting situation with Six and Sharon is a reflection of what was playing out in the news (Abu Ghraib) at that time. It also goes to one of the running themes of this series, standing up and being people that are worthy of survival. I don't think I loved both the Chief and Helo more than in this moment. And Adama! I loved him going down the hall ready to unleash with that amazing music in the background. One of my favorite tracks from Bear McCreary on this show. It's called "Prelude to War." Check it out on YouTube. Those Taiko drums and violins really get the blood pumping. I'm glad that I have the Blu-rays because Amazon started to charge for the episodes! Argh! Thank God for physical media. Oh, and by the way, this was the mid-season finale. I think we had to wait 6 months for the conclusion of this cliffhanger. Anyway, great reaction as usual.
cstarklady
2025-05-02 01:16:07 +0000 UTCThere are other ways to get the episodes if you're interested. You can also watch the YT cuts if you're not comfortable with that
Charity Konusser (the chonus)
2025-05-02 00:28:54 +0000 UTCYeah, fuck Amazon - I'll catch up with this when it eventually is on a streaming service for free again. What a country.
Scott
2025-05-01 22:27:36 +0000 UTCWell it's been fun guys but I can't buy the episodes of this show just to rewatch with y'all. Fucking Amazon prime. And it's literally free nowhere else online. Enjoy the journey. Goodbye.
Gambit3838
2025-05-01 21:31:16 +0000 UTCAh yes, the Pegasus story arc. I remember watching this episode when it first aired. It was the point I realized that the show I had been enjoying had become my most anticipated show for new episodes each week. The music especially(I remember the season one finale thinking they must have put extra effort into the score because it was the finale…until season 2 showed with each episode that it was just Bear McCreary hitting his stride. Some of my favorite in the series are in this Muti-part story). With everything that had to come together for it to happen, it almost seems like fate. Battlestar Galactica was the top show for the Sci-fi network at the time, but they had a relatively limited budget. They didn’t even have the budget of a network tv show, let alone real quality music composing like HBO could manage. They could pay for talent, or they could pay for experience/someone with a decent resume, but not both(it was so limited in budget that McCreary tells a story about first season when they wouldn’t pay for a full Orchestra to play the music he composed, so he gathered several of his freshly graduated friends from the music/arts program at school and had they record tracks one instrument at a time to sound like a full orchestra when combined. The drummer/percussionist was so exhausted after recording all the various drum tracks for 10-12 hours, when he woke the next day he couldn’t lift his arms from his sides let alone above his head). McCreary showed a ton of potential and talent when he auditioned for the job composing for the miniseries fresh out of USC’s Thornton music program, but had no experience yet composing the volume of music required for a mini-series/tv series. So he was hired to assist Richard Gibbs(Gibbs composed the music for the mini-series and gave the show its distinctive taiko drums sound for the space combat). That’s where fate steps in, with Gibbs having to bow out of working on the series for personal reasons late into production, giving the studio a tough choice. Did they want to delay the premiere of the first season of this show meant to be one of the key draws for the network to hire a new composer, or gamble on Gibbs assistant McCreary who they were assured by Gibbs was up to the job and already had familiarity with the temp tracks they had written for the first half of the season. So they went with Bear McCreary, knowing they could replace him for season 2 if he didn’t work out…and the rest is history. The show lucked into a composer far better than they ever could have hoped to afford if circumstances and timing hadn’t worked out perfectly for everyone involved. And the episode…while a huge part, it’s more than music. With so many of my favorite tracks in these episodes, was worth mentioning. The track “prelude to war” was a favorite of mine to play when playing an online competitive match whenever gaming(it’s the track playing during this episodes buildup to it’s “to be continued” cliffhanger). Just as the government and the military had seemingly worked out a comfortable working relationship between Roslin and Adama, you have this new ship with an Admiral to shake things up(and she has legitimate points during the first half,before she starts pushing it a bit further…until you hit that breaking point at the climax of the episode). The show deals with themes of war well(we the audience have seen very little of the Cylon side of things to help put us in the mindset of the surviving humans). Dehumanizing your enemy is a common occurrence in war to make it easier to kill the enemy, but there can be ugly side effects(how much easier is it to dehumanize an enemy when you see them as literal inhuman machines…even if those machines are now so close/indistinguishable from humans that even when dead it’s difficult to find any biological differences. The crew of the Pegasus treat Cylons so inhumanly that they sacrifice some of their own humanity in their actions, to the point that they can dehumanize Helo and the Chief simply for their association with Cylons. Apollo is a great character to watch these episodes because he is very much the idealist(Helo is as well, but he’s also the optimist. Apollo is more a realist). It’s what drives him to take actions such as when he pulled a gun on Colonel Tigh. I’m going to wait until the conclusion to type more to avoid possible spoilers. Besides, I’ve already typed quite enough for one post thanks to my going into the history of the shows music.
Todd “Canuck” Schmuck
2025-05-01 17:28:52 +0000 UTC#SundayRundown The survivor count increased in the intro sequence, it is now 49,605. It jumped up 1,752 from the last episode intro. So I guess Battlestar Pegasus has 1,752 crewman. I'm gonna keep commenting this every week until someone mentions it, you guys keep blaming Tigh for some things Adama did. Adama did the coup on the President, Lee Adama was arrested before Adama was shot, and yes Tigh declared martial law, but when Adama woke up from surgery he didn't undo anything Tigh did. Adama continued it for like a few days. I'm just saying some of the Tigh anger on the couch should also be directed at Adama. You guys are blaming Tigh for things Adama did.
Frankie H
2025-05-01 17:05:52 +0000 UTC"this is Pegasus actual"..."Adama is that you?" the greatest opening ever.
Macs
2025-05-01 17:01:17 +0000 UTCAn excellent, but tough addition to the Battlestar Galactica canon. After The Farm, I was super anti-cylon (hell, they wiped out most of humanity) so even my suspicions toward the Pegasus came from 'Well, maybe one of them is a Cylon'. As soon as they reveal the abused Number Six and we realize who we're dealing with, it complicates things even more than the classic Walking Dead 'Actually, the people are worse than the zombies' thing. It's almost a mirror toward ourselves for how we've seen cylons. Admiral Cain also had a ton of good points throughout the episode: Adama has been bending rules and having Apollo as his CAG does make their military relationship slightly compromised. He doesn't look at Starbuck and see a soldier, he sees a daughter. She also brings up how Adama just canceled a court martial because he didn't like the results. That's sus. And yet, they place these good points in the worst people imaginable. Good episode, but I would tattoo "Fuck Pegasus" on my arm if I didn't think people would assume I hated the flying horse.
Anansi
2025-05-01 15:56:15 +0000 UTCIt's really hard for me to root for the Cylons after the Farm episode. Also, they wiped out billions of people.
Anansi
2025-05-01 15:50:35 +0000 UTCthis episode was sooo good. I had to whip out the Blu Rays for this one since Amazon Prime now charges to watch BSG :/
Daniel R
2025-05-01 15:16:37 +0000 UTCthe thumbnail selector did rana dirty
Christian
2025-05-01 15:10:34 +0000 UTCI had been having a hard time rooting for humans after the waterboarding episode. After this episode I starting rooting for the Cylons.
Trevor
2025-05-01 14:54:29 +0000 UTC
