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Battlestar Galactica Mini Series Part 2 Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-01-30 15:06:23
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2026-06
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This is the new sync style, let us know whether or not to change anything! There is an initial sync when we start, and when Adama pops up. Everything else is transparent.

For S1E2 we will have a lowered audio gate so you can sync with our sound easier but we hope this improves your experience!

Full Length : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9P30mCejJs

Reaction : https://youtu.be/KQTWbhgdDbA

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Adam Pacio

Okay crew! Some background for you all (no spoilers, trust) which will help as you move forward with this series. Boxey first of all. In the original show, Boxey was the last ditch attempt of the writers to save the show from cancellation in the last season. Common strategy -- add a blonde kid to boost ratings. Never really worked long enough to save the show but it bought time to wrap the story arc on the way out the door. Because Boxey came in late at the end of a dying show no longer connected to its audience, Boxey (and his stupid robot dog Barky) were equated in fan memory as being sort of the Jump the Shark moment of the show when it all turned to shit and died a horrible death. So when the miniseries brought him back as part of the tribute to the original show, fans pushed back HARD. Like, it's a visceral hatred, and I don't feel unkind toward the actors who played Boxey. But the role? Fuck no. Kill it. Kill it dead. Kill it with fire. Drop a nuke on it from orbit just to be sure. Just... no. And that was fan response, so Moore and Eickman dropped Boxey completely once the show got picked up. Some other things they admitted throwing into the miniseries just because they were cool ideas in the writers room and they had no idea where it was all going yet. Like the glowing spine during Cylon sex. And Leoben (arms dealer)'s super-strength was not something that really appears in the human models. They sort of realized the logistical implications of the super-strength and very quickly stopped using it after the Miniseries Pilot. Now, something to keep in mind as you go through this. When BSG was running, seasons were still 26+ episodes on the old TV calendar. But BSG's later season 3 and 4 both happened under stressful circumstances where there were two years of threats of Hollywood Writers Strikes. And BSG was big enough budget that they were basically told, if we interrupt for a Strike, the show is just ending. We're not coming back. They pivoted brilliantly through the ups and downs, but there were two points where it looked bleak and like the Strikes would hit BSG at any moment and the show would be scuttled. And those both happened at the Mid-season Cliffhanger episode, 13 / Holiday episode around Thankgiving before the holiday winter midseason break. So Moore and Eickman adapted their scripts and treated each Half Season like a full Season of Television in terms of plot arcs. And so BSG kinda counts its seasons as Miniseries, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3.0, Season 3.5, Season 4.0, and Season 4.5. Event though S3 and S4 took up a single calendar broadcast year apiece, September to June, the arcs formed complete seasons. In fact, shortly after the last strikes were resolved, streaming spread and HD TV was adopted in the Formatting Wars, and TVs moved from the square ratio to the 16:9 ratio, and everyone decided 13 episodes a season was more than enough content. So BSG was like the last low-res square shot 26-episode arc season major sci fi show produced for television. Everyone else upped the formatting and tech. And because of the Strike threats, the end of S3.0, 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5 each one ended on an episode which was meant at the time to completely wrap up the Series and have everyone walk away never to develop the story further. What that means NOW is that the last two seasons, you will get three Alternate endings to the show, and then the "luxury" one which allowed the writers to finish their original idea. When we watched it live, the internet had finally taken hold enough that fan theory sites and discussions were all the rage, and we literally invented a bajillion theories and were loud about them, dissecting each new episode each week and hashing and rehashing the fan debates. What the hell his Head Six? Is Baltar a Cylon? Is Roslin (Stands With Fist from Dances With Wolves) a moral leader? Is Adama? Who are the other 9 Cylon Models? Does Earth exist? Are we a penal colony? A religious luddite commune planet? The Chosen Tribe? Allllllllll topics were fair game, and we worked ourselves into a theory frenzy because fandom was still kinda new as far as public pursuits of the mainstream went. We Geeks were Rising but didn't feel confident with the newfound social acceptance just yet. I'm still not convinced I'm allowed to say in public that I enjoy tabletop RPGs. LOL. But as we know now, when there's too much time between episodes, the details slip, streaming wasn't a thing for tv shows yet so we had to wait for the DVDs and those came out a year after the season originally showed. (That's how we survived the summers.) So when the final Finale happened, fans hated it. They felt Game of Thrones'd. Like the leadup had been a let down. And we walked away broken hearted and disappointed. But then, when the last season and all the extras had been released in BluRay, folks did a thing for the first time, and binged the whole show. Start to finish, knowing ALL the spoilers and reveals and all the different layers to the ending and plot twists and the ultimate wrap up. And do you know what you realize when you do that? These motherf**ing writers were true to each and every syllable uttered in the show, from the very beginning, with those few minor exceptions to plot elements that got moved. In the end, alternate endings and screwy seasons and seemingly random shifts here and there... it's all coherent. It's all cohesive. It's all got killer continuity. And every. single. word. was. planned. BSG is a great show to watch the first time through. But when you watch it the second time through and the fact that the show is spoiled allows you to clear your mind of all the guessing, only then do you notice how the only word to describe the writing of this show, in the final tally, is "Sublime." This particular story is a tapestry of a million threads and colors woven from ten thousand scenes and hundreds of characters. And there is not a single wasted moment in the entire show. My advice to you is to just recognize that sometimes, oftentimes, okay, all the time, the most important conversations are the ones that happen in the quiet, unimportant moments between side and extra characters that feel like transitional filler. But for now, keep going with the guessing, just know that the real treasure of this show awaits you in your personal rewatches. Almost worth it to do the series twice, with the second viewing giving you footage to do a couple episodes of review and commentary, showing your fave clips for the scenes that jumped out at you the second time through, and what the meanings of the NPC text actually point to. I'm super, super stoked for going on this journey with you guys. Keep up the great work. Sorry for the wall o'text again. I'm using you to avoid work. LOL.

732ReviewCrew

This was a day early. My mistake.... Enjoy 😂

Brina Blue
>>128336108

I watched the first BSG as a teen and I felt the need to correct you about the child character, Boxy and his robot dagget named Muffet. He was there from the very beginning. I went back and checked, and his actor, Noah Hathaway was in 21 of the first season episodes including 1 through 10. The fans had plenty of reasons to dislike him, but you are wrong in thinking that his inclusion could be compared to a Brady Bunch "cousin Oliver" moment.