Adama Is Back | Battlestar Galactica

[@johnmcaree7298]

"you call Roslin, make her laugh." A fantastic line in a series full of fantastic dialogue

[@Frenki94]

"I care too much for this ship, to let it be overrun by rats." Such a badass line.

[@burnbobquist8999]

Yes and Gaetas answer "If only cou cared as much about the people on it" must have sting quite hart, since Adama loved the crew like they were his children.

[@melbirch7640]

That should've been President Donald J Trump's tagline

[@JoyCliffe]

​@@melbirch7640No way. Leave Admiral Adama alone. Trump is not fit to polish Adama's boots.

[@t34r]

@@melbirch7640 How about you keep your annoying real live politics out of our Sci-Fi?

[@ColdBlackInfinite]

The best thing about this arc was the fact you could appreciate it from BOTH sides. It was so nuanced it was shades of grey not black and white. It really was brilliantly written and acted.

[@beyerch]

Naw, I thought this arc was incredily stupid. Gaeda? The comm officier guy? Who the frack would follow him to lead the military? GTFO.

[@uhfanzonly]

If you watch the First season Kelly was Adamas #3 while Geta was #4 in command. Both guys served with Adama for 3 years before the Fall of the colonies. The fact that both of them went against him tells me more about how much Adama failed his command to keep his people on the same page. However Roslin was the worst to blame, she could have sold the cylon alliance and using their tech to the people so things wouldn't get out of control but instead hid in Adamaʻs room because she was ashamed of leading the people to a nuked out world aka Earth. BSG is still one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Its still better than 99% of what we see today on TV.

[@yesugeikhan6784]

@@uhfanzonly Nah they're both just overwhelmed by fear and inability to compromise. Kelly at least maintained some decorum. Gaeta was a coward.

[@junheceta268]

Of course not. Everybody who betrayed Adama was a traitor pure and simple. There is only one punishment for traitors.

[@BattlestarZenobia]

@@uhfanzonlyto be honest Kelly was in the brig since he turned terrorist bomber

[@faisal181]

Edward James Olmos was absolutely a master at that role. And Michael Hogan one of the bets first officer. Still breaks my heart what happened to him 2020 :( Hope he eventually can recover more :( Michael Hogan Michael Hogan

[@gawainethefirst]

Michael Hogan was a great General Tullius.

[@faisal181]

@@gawainethefirst Very they played soo well together you'd have thought they had been acting together for decades.

[@LostInTheFarmersMarket]

What happened to him in 2020 I cant seem to find any reference to it.

[@agp11001]

@@LostInTheFarmersMarket Fell and hit his head, suffered a brain injury, complete with paralysis of his left side, memory loss, and even developed difficulties with swallowing.

[@LostInTheFarmersMarket]

@@agp11001 good lord!

[@peterpandemonium3336]

Before Game of Thrones, there were Battlestar Galactica and Caprica. Epic!

[@jimbrewer5048]

Caprica sucked. But BSG was the greatest sci-fi series all time

[@peterpandemonium3336]

@@jimbrewer5048 Caprica explained how the Cylons came to be sentient and religious through Human complicity and why they were determined to eliminate the Human Race. It is essential. Too bad the series was truncated.

[@One-Watermelon]

I argue BSG aged much better than GoT

[@peterpandemonium3336]

@@One-Watermelon I'm a huge fan of both.

[@Psuedo-Nim]

shows that started great and ended terribly.

[@PaulCashman]

All these years later, and the sheer brilliance of this show still shines through.

[@faisal181]

the way they made it soo gritty a well, almost like its sci-fi but not in your face, it stll plays soo timeless even on repeats.

[@alschneider6364]

My friend worked on this series...I've been on all the sets....Even got a pic of me sitting in one of the Vipers.

[@Lorenzo-hn1pr]

Amazing!!!!!!

[@jonathanwolgamott5219]

Man that’s awesome

[@kparsa1]

So jealous

[@Ericthelogos]

This scene is the best. The CAG officer talking to Hotdog doesn't say frak. He says the f word.

[@paulrandig]

The prove that this show was good: It doesn't really provide many memes that can stand for themselves. You have to watch the whole show, follow all the developments, see all the intertwined motives, feel with every character to appreciate those moments when all of this culminates to one sentence or one scene that channels all of the earlier developments and spews out something new, powerful and dramatic.

[@luisdonoso6154]

Thats not a great argument, Breaking Bad has lots of memes and is considered THE best, and I have to painfully admit, better than BSG

[@peterpandemonium3336]

So say we all...

[@Henry-cd8qq]

Gaeta was a genius villain. I hated him but also entirely understood his perspective. Cylons genocided his entire race. He lost his leg to a cylon. Suddenly his commander wants to ally with them, maybe I would do the same in his position. Gaetas character arc was genius

[@CrazyChemistPL]

Honestly, Gaeta just lost his hope and it surfaced in a different way to most other people, as seen with Dee and general unruliness aboard Galactica after finding the original Earth. He was one of the nicest people to Sharon Agathon, addressing her by name and being gentle with her during the logic bomb crysis, he was one of the first people to notice humanity in Cylons. He showcased exceptional bravery working as a mole for the resistance on New Caprica. Finally, however it all became too much for him, New Caprica, the secret tribunal after evacuation and his near execution, losing his leg, Earth revelation and finally being the last person who seen Dee alive and not seeing the signs of what she was planning. But, in the end, he realized the mutiny was a wrong call, he gave the order to stand down even if he had to expect it will cost him his life. And finally he was given an officer's death, firing squad rather than being spaced.

[@adarkwind4712]

Adapt and survive or die. That's thr position they're in. One doesn't have to like it but so long as you're in charge of the lives of the last of the human race you have to abide by it.

[@Mike1064ab]

@@CrazyChemistPLin the end the guy was still a weasel. They should have spaced him. Like he did to his friends during the new caprica committee.

[@4eyesleo]

BSG - Best. Story. Ever.

[@travisfoster1071]

If you prefer the original series, then no...

[@Christian_Maoist.]

@@travisfoster1071 The newer series had so much more depth, character development, and world building lore.

[@Kopjekoffie980]

Yes really well made , at the end of it all you were still confused about who cylon was i loved this show .

[@alanciu2353]

Agree

[@NotMyRealName13]

G doesn’t stand for ‘ever’ /s

[@chrisdefresne3235]

I love the arrogance of Gaeta. He has the nerve to act like he's in the right After committing a coup against his commander of many years and even has the nerve to still use the term Admiral as if Adama would listen to him.

[@cb-gz1vl]

So lets take a look at that. * He gets his leg blown of by a cylon and nobody cared * he worked with colonists on new Caprica to save them from the cylons. * He was found guilty by a star chamber and almost blown out an air lock for being a traitor. * Turns out 4 of the 5 people who found him guilty of being a traitor were cylons. * Adama's second in command is a cylon. * Adama is working with the cylons. * Adama has had a military dictatorship. * Adama trusts cylons over him when he was loyal.

[@WiiMan1133]

@@cb-gz1vl I don't condone what Gaeta or Zarek did, but this mutiny arc felt more forced than a natural, logical progression for either character. And I'm especially not a fan of how Adama and Roslin never owned their contribution to the mess that they made. Because I guess they had it harder than anyone else in the fleet and how dare anyone else question them So I completely agree with your list of reasons why Gaeta resorted to mutiny. And while it was never a central fixture of the show, Gaeta's genuinely loving friendship with Dualla probably drove him over the edge too. In many ways, Gaeta and Dualla got ruthlessly butchered by the writers, because I guess we couldn't have two of the easily most decent human beings on the show actually making it all the way to the end. Dualla stood by Lee despite his obvious lack of care for her, and the implied lack of interest Adama had in her as his actual daughter-in-law as he kept trying to find daughters in Kara and Kat. She even ventured across enemy lines to rescue Kara while she was having an affair with Lee and Lee still gaslit her when she confronted him on it. Then, after giving her NOTHING to do for half a season, she blows her head off, and Lee and Adama spent maybe 5 minutes being upset about it And Gaeta, the only confirmed queer male character on the show, who was a genuinely decent moral person, snaps and is executed by firing squad...and Baltar not only lives, but patronizes him during the mutiny and watches him die. Ok thanks alot BSG writers. Not sure what the point of any of this was except to make me feel a deep sense of nihilism and subsequently not care how the show ends

[@cb-gz1vl]

@@WiiMan1133 Oh I agree this whole mutiny thing was a crammed in, forced drama. Plus why would Gaeta listen to some radical who was always revolting and pretty obviously just to gain power. Even if he had grievances his association with that guy was idiotic. And where were they going to go? Also Gaeta is a military guy, why would he take orders from some radical who is just seeking power over Adama who he has known for years and knows is not a power hungry person. A lot of this show was forced drama. I get you have to fill 50 minutes but this stuff made me get sick of the show. People simply are not this dysfunctional. The colonies seemed to be more like some gangster soviet style country than a place of progress.

[@gawainethefirst]

@@cb-gz1vl progress? You have a couple thousand people living on a handful of ships. The last of humanity, with exponentially receding resources, is surviving on vessels that run the scale of dilapidation. There is no room for progress when survival is at stake. Gaeta’s mutiny was counter survival, And you can only truly make progress once survival has been assured.

[@munkykng416]

If gaeta wasn't such a punching bag in the series he would have been one hell of a commander. He's smart and knowledgeable but like roslin said he doesn't have the guts.

[@Whalewraith]

I miss this so much, no alien of the week just good drama. This is a show to show people who think science fiction is for kids or stupid.

[@Snapper314]

To understand why so many turned against Adama when he tried to integrate Cylon tech into the fleet, you have to remember the Cylons murdered over 20 Billion people in the Colonies; over 99% of the entire Human population. That is something hard to overlook or forgive.

[@maushgovic1289]

In order to survive/evolve you've got to forgive.

[@gawainethefirst]

The first rockets in the US Space program, designed in large part by German engineers.

[@StillRooneyStarcraft]

@@gawainethefirst "Once ze rockets come up, who cares where zey go down, That's not my department, says Wernher von Braun" - Tom Lehrer

[@insertcognomen]

from a purely military view it was cylon tech that killed 99% of humans then it must be pretty good tech

[@thorveim1174]

@@insertcognomen that and they had superior mastery of FTL tech too. And once you start refitting the fleet with these, you want everyone to get it. After all, the fleet can only move as fast as the slowest ship in it, or leave it behind.

[@ryandann9362]

One of the best shows ever.

[@eyepatchpirate7726]

The music in these episodes is beautiful.

[@Utubesux]

This was the last long running show I watched on T.V. Nothing this amazing has come out to this day...🍻

[@JamesSullivan-c8f]

BG was a great series. 5 seasons felt like a hundred years.

[@sawyernorthrop4078]

Never noticed that he calls one of the bridge officers "Marine." Probably to show the care Adama had for the entire crew that he only ever used names

[@Privatepain1234]

I think the guy gaeta called out to was named nyreem or thyreem or something

[@jackson7963-MPI]

@@Privatepain1234 yeah it was Gage’s friend, Vireem

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

Laura Roslin / Sharon Rader, two great performances in a row! I’m such a fan!

[@alanmartin6436]

Gods, that was a good show

[@Duke0Forever]

At 02:20, you can see the Viper Mk. 2 on the cockpit computer, but the pilot is actually flying the Mk. 7. Can't believe I always find a pet peeve even with the most perfect of scenes!

[@grigss3027]

It might be a mk6 as we have no clue how those look, as they did say that the mk7's got their avionics downgraded, we have no clue how long the mk7 was in service or its prior OS's its very plausible that a mk6 os is the direct downgrade from CNP

[@bunnymayflower]

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired over that blunder.

[@Duke0Forever]

@@bunnymayflower lol 🤣🤣

[@LabradorIndependent]

I'll be honest, Season 4 wasn't my favourite - but this arc was worth the wait.

[@inspectorbuttons]

Man. I love this show. It really sucks they put it on Peacock. Who watches Peacock?!

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Did my dude really just launch missiles at a target a few hundred yards in front of him? Bro, that's what those guns on your Viper are for lol

[@NegaVon]

Imagine being in the fleet and not knowing that there’s a mutiny among the military who is the last line of defense between you and extinction, i.e. 2:14 when that shuttle had to quickly move out of the way. 😳

[@Henry-cd8qq]

The most underrated show of all time

[@amawesome3190]

Adama and Roslyn were wrong to form an alliance with the Cylons without making their decision clear to the rest of the crew and the rest of the fleet. They just assumed that everyone should and would follow their orders just because they are the ones who gave those orders. We, as the audience understand why they teamed up with the Cylons but the rest of the crew and fleet are in the dark. Their mistake was the arrogant presumption that just because they are the ones giving the orders, everyone should follow them.

[@theshlauf]

They were always running a virtual tyranny, mostly out of necessity. But yeah, in early seasons they would always lay out why or at least try to make them felt heard. Like when Adama ended the workers strike at gun-point, and then made the President sit down with Tyrol to negotiate.

[@Mike1064ab]

They kept having these capricans running the fleet and kept talking about the colonies when the colonies were gone and they should have had a fleet government run by the captains of the ships or at least elected officials from those ships. Doesn’t matter what planet they were from.

[@andrewpotter1159]

Kastanza?Frak Me,it's George's Great great great great great great great great great great Grandfather (150,000 years)

[@power2084]

Costanza*

[@andrewpotter1159]

@@power2084 The spelling may have changed over 150,000 years.....

[@power2084]

@@andrewpotter1159 nonsense

[@scottmatheson3346]

look at me, you're the admiral now

[@bigj1905]

I really like how Geata tried to act authoritative in front of Adama, but it looks very forced and uncomfortable. Pretty good reflection of Gaeta and his coup in general: forced and uncomfortable.

[@Mike1064ab]

I’m surprised the little punk had enough people on his side to make it work. You’d think they’d just laugh him out of the CIC and back to the brig with Zarek. Those people in there should have been absolutely loyal to Adama.

[@fredlandry6170]

I miss the Pegasus.

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

Probably would have ironically been the hero ship of this conflict.

[@ManyvanhKeovongsa]

You could look at Gina face you and Roslin had this plan all along dame you Adam

[@the2pages62]

Didn’t this clip already get posted? This channel posts a lot of clips for a 4 season series

[@sawyernorthrop4078]

I think they periodically delete and reupload clips to get more engagement

[@ManyvanhKeovongsa]

Edward james olmos and Mary mcdonald are brilliant and powerful couple

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

i looove hot dogs character arc

[@alanafowler3024]

I have to say that I like the guy who plays Gaeta better as Dr. Cereberous on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

[@101maxpro]

lol, "battlestations", is this a script mistake ?

[@Necromonger69]

Probably is since "Action Stations" is the term they use

[@henrycooper3431]

Nope not a mistake Battlestations mean the places that a personnel is assigned to so if say a gunner manning a turret on Galactica hear "all hands to battlestation", he will immediately go to his turret

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

the 6 were always the most adabtable

[@earthdate3495]

Roslyn is angry when she's beautiful.

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

any outcome other than saul tigh fighting his way out was foolish

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

that his element

[@joeyoung4309]

After what happened between starbuck and gaeta and how it cost him his leg and how harshly he got thrown under the bus it made me stop watching after this episode. I had heard about how bad her character was and was already trying to "stand" starbuck as a character and deal with her "qUiRkY" character flaws that made her "personable and realistic" according the people who defend her terrible character developement and her arc. But Gaeta being crippled by her and her getting no punishment over it, it just killed the spoiled the rest of the show for me.

[@johnlandon4276]

roslin using human shields-wow at least shes consistent letting others die for her

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

What do you expect her to do? Order the Basestar to stay out of cover with a hostile Battlestar ready to destroy them.

[@adarkwind4712]

She literally said Gaeta won't shoot and she did that because she knows him. She would not have put them there if she believed he would fire.

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

i sypathize with him, geta is and was a good man,

[@adarkwind4712]

Not really imo he consistently puts himself in bad situations because of his emotions. I get it really I do he had a lot done to him but he chose, repeatedly, to put himself there latching on to the newest thing. He did it because he lost hope or wanted to believe they were right but he did it all the same. He often tried to make up for those choices but he continued to make them.

[@ManyvanhKeovongsa]

You can look on Gauise face you and Roslin had this all plan

[@hellhoundofjustice]

BSG marked the pinnacle of scifi serial tv. Nearly every inch of that ship and every crew position aboard her was fully known and understood by the end of the series. A testament to absolutely excellent writing and phenomenal acting. No such thing as an NPC on Galactica. I miss it still

[@chemicalhap]

I would put the expanse up there too.

[@DrLynch2009]

I hated this entire storyline.

[@jimbrewer5048]

Ended up one of the greatest story lines in the entire series. All series long there was conflict within the fleet in regards to the cylons and this was the conclusion. “Madame president stand down, galactica secured” I mean come on it’s amazing

[@t34r]

I liked it.

[@johnnymays4203]

Adama consorted with The enemy he was a traitor to The human race. Let me give you a example. The civil war general lee ordered a up hill assault even know he knew that it would fail even though his general's objected and he even refused to allow calvary support to try and draw fire away from The main attack. It was obvious that he was allowing his army to be defeated. And because of the respect his people had for him no one stopped him. That was how the war ended general lee went on to be a president of a university where he was paid thousands of dollars a year. While everyone else lost everything. He was a traitor and did it on purpose to end the war. Look it up. Gaeta had a responsibility to act.

[@adarkwind4712]

🤦‍♂️ give me an example where the example comes from a situation where they're the last of humanity. And the "enemy" he's consorting with are a rogue faction of their own side helping you get to where you need. Adapt or die that's the situation they're in.

[@t34r]

I really don't know wether i should shout or laugh at you.

[@originalscottfree]

Before woke took over. :)

[@TheVeritas1]

Battlestar Galactica is quite woke by tackling racial and political issues. It also had strong and smart female characters, something conservatives would permit.

[@t34r]

​@@TheVeritas1 You seem to have no idea what being woke means. Also you are too biased against conservatives.

[@TheVeritas1]

@@t34r Woke is Black slang for being vigilant about government tyranny, especially in terms of race. In 2024, conservatives redefined it to provide cover for their racism and sexism.

[@omegacon4]

The writing for this episode was atrocious. Almost as bad as the later seasons of The West Wing (e.g. when Toby Ziegler betrayed the President and the White House). Gaeta would never betray Adama and yet the writers decided to jump the shark on that one.

[@sword4005]

honestly while the last season was terribly written but Gaeta transformation was done pretty well, he was the optimist, and he was constantly crushed, he believed in baltar for president, and seeing what a disaster that was before cylon showed up, then he worked from the inside to get the resistance information, hated by everyone, and almost thrown out a air lock for his efforts while baltar was able to get away with a no guilty verdict and enjoy life as a cult leader, and the final straw he lost his leg and no one cared that broke him.

[@omegacon4]

@@sword4005 Are we to believe that broken people are capable of carrying out an insurrection, let alone organize one? I think not. Like I said, terrible script writing. Don't even get me started on the vanishing Starbuck at the end of the series. Ronald Moore was ready to move on at that point.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

@@omegacon4 I wouldn't be so sure. Some tyrants rise to power after being dismissed or ignored or not taken seriously.

[@omegacon4]

@@TheEDFLegacy Gaeta is not a tyrant and never was until lazy script writing set in.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

@@omegacon4 I never said he was. I was speaking generally. All I'm saying is that someone with an axe to grind can do it if there's enough disenfranchised people to back them up. And looking at the events of the past four years... this episode hits closer to home than ever before.

[@vnixned2]

I do quite admire Roslin here. She has gall, she has strength and is quite willing to risk things but also is still capable of thinking things through properly in a highly charged situation whilst suffering late stage cancer!

[@hellhoundofjustice]

Gaeta got a bum rap as traitor on Earth2. Escaped spacing by Starbuck who was in a frenzy for colaborators blood. Thats another thing. They lost more humans due to treatury and aggressive human nature than they did to Cylons over span of series.

[@RyanRuark]

Felix was always such a coward.