Season 1 is the highpoint, but seasons 2 and 3 have some seriously good episodes in there.
Season 4 to me is the low point. The plots just got too far out there, but I still enjoyed the actors and my family always watches to the end.
I have managed to avoid subscribing to Amazon Prime for almost two decades now, but the siren song of Fat Apollo may be too much to resist.
I’m at the Compton Courthouse for jury duty and there’s a picture of Edward James Olmos on the wall in front of me saying he has also performed jury service here. It’s very inspiring!
Just wait until the judge orders you to stand and deliver. And presumably after you are all sworn in or whatever you’ll have to do a round of “so say we all”.
And you just know his performance was incredible!
The miniseries was 21 years ago, and October 18 will be the 20th anniversary of the first season.
That can’t possibly be true.
If anyone needs a BSG Fix, and want to see something new - the pilot for the aborted prequel series was pretty enjoyable. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome.
One note - the budget was a lot lower, and they couldn’t quite pull off the virtual sets. So maybe just watch on a smaller device, LOL. It first aired as a web series, then was recut into a movie for DVD release.
My memories of that one are nothing more than “snow” and “cheap effects”
I’m watched BSG for the first time. I’ve just finished season 1 episode 10 - Hands of God - and it’s the first episode I didn’t like. It contradicts the previous 9 (or 11) episodes in terms of the Cylon offensive threat.
Specifically: The Galactica attacks a mining outpost to get some ore
Firstly, we see the cyclone launch 90 fighters at the diversion and 50 at the Battlestar. So 140 in total.
Whilst there’s some toing-and-froing as they turn around a few times the ultimate fate is the base destroyed with something like 130 Cylon raiders still in space. Those 130 just jump away, despite still out numbering the human fleet
But in previous episodes we’ve seen a small number of raiders be a massive and scary threat. The exact previous episode a single raider was on a suicide run and everyone was panicked.
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Surely the 130 would just continue to attack BSG, as it’s the last human threat? Why does their base going boom cause them to stop? They were willing to attack before
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If they manage to jump away, they can just tell every other Cylon where the BSG is and they surely have no time to collect or process this ore?
The writers appear to have painted themselves into a corner here, but maybe if I keep watching it’ll all be explained away …
You maybe should learn to let go of wanting that level of consistency from this show. It’s great(until it’s not) but it simply isn’t able to keep things quite that tight on this stuff.
Wasn’t it implied that the base was some kind of command and control hub - so without that their ability to coordinate was removed? As in - they had limited autonomy outside their orders, so without the C&C they had nothing to fall back on…
You will also learn some more about what drives Cylon behavior (I believe early into season 2) and them bugging out and regrouping may make a bit more sense.
It isn’t a “what do they eat” kind of show, but a “how do they react”?
Yes, as the show progresses I am getting that feeling 
Maybe I’ll be back when I’ve finished the entire thing…
So I finished season 2, and in it Lee Adams / Apollo is noticeably fuller of face for the one year on jump. Given the way filming works, I can’t see how he was fatter in that episode but not others.
And now at the start of season 3 he’s hilariously obese.
Is this all fat suit work, or was the actor putting on weight and they covered for it? I want to Google to find out but I know it’ll be full of spoilers if I do!
It’s a suit and makeup.
Frak!
(okay, not really, but someone had to say it)