Battlestar Galactica | Where Have You Taken Us, Kara?

Can Kara's coordinates be trusted?
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[@Mene0]

"She's broken her back. She'll never jump again" That was so incredibly sad for me, humanizing Galactica like that. It's easy to forget the show actually is about the old ship really.

[@stuartmcclurey9926]

I felt sad at this, but, she led a good life, fought to save the human race gave her all in the end. SO SAY WE ALL.

[@chicane90]

If you think about it, what battles this ship has done, how many strikes it survived, it' incredible. Other Battlestars blew up when they got hit by just a bunch of nuclear missiles, and Galactica withstood a hell amount of them. Sure, at some point every ship has taken enough damage, but considering when that happened to Galactica .. omfg ..what the hell of a tank she was in that decommissioned State when all began.

[@ardoronro6677]

They just don't make Battlestars like they used to, considering all Galatica went through post retirement. She really broke her back on this one. XD

[@1Knoche11]

Stuart McClurey

[@ALITISA78]

Um did no 1 think its not 1 ship. The rest of the fleet which was multiple ships could have jumped away at anytime lol. I was sad til I remembered the rest of the fleet.

[@overriderss]

"And the lords anointed a leader to guide the Caravan of the Heavens to their new homeland. And the new leader suffered a wasting disease and would not live to enter the new land.'' Roslin entered the new land. Galactica did not. Galactica was always THE LEADER ,old, rusted, slowly dying, she guided the caravan of the heavens (the fleet of ships) to their new homeworld. While Roslin and crew often had arguments and were almost always on the verge of colapse, Galactica was the only constant and the true leader of them all.

[@JezOnYT88]

Rather poetic when you think about it.

[@Arkalius80]

Roslin never entered the new land. She died before Bill could show her where he was building their cabin. Roslin was the leader. She was the one sent a vision of serpents numbering 2 and 10. She was the dying leader that came to know the truth of the opera house. Galactica being the "dying leader" may have some poetry to it, but it doesn't really fit.

[@elementxxrider]

@@Arkalius80 She did enter Earth in the final scene. Laura then was placed into a Raptor that would lead her to where that cabin would be. It was then when she died. But she did enter Earth. Galactica did never enter. Landing in such condition would be suicide. Galactica was the leader

[@derrickhighley3762]

I believe it's open to interpretation.. I like that Rosalind was the dying leader but I feel galactica fits better

[@madquest8]

I couldn't stand Roslin, this explanation is way better!

[@stephenbruce1548]

I remember when I saw the Moon going, "yes, Yes, YES!" I was ecstatic that it was our Earth they found and I remember my father rushing in to see what I was so ecstatic about.

[@norm_badwolf_9119]

That’s awesome

[@tomosko2669]

Imagine the Galactica lost power. They would just crush into the Moon :D

[@gregthepeglegpregdreg]

And then they threw the ships into the sun because who doesn't want to die from one of the many threats an entirely alien ecosystem would present. It was an awesome moment for sure, but sadly it just makes the ending hurt even more.

[@samsonguy10k]

@@gregthepeglegpregdreg Weren't there humanoid Cylons that opted to go out exploring instead of living it out on Earth? Pretty sure they would have taken any humans along that wanted to go. Yes, I can see how that ending felt a bit sucky. But you have to weigh everything they learned during their travel, especially considering the mistakes that were made by them in the past 100 years. Adama was right to try to break the cycle. If they kept their technology going, someone eventually would start to wonder why a bit of help couldn't be built again. And then the cycle begins anew. Going Adama's route, they forget everything, short of anything shared by spoken tales. Instead, those spoken tales become folktales painted to tell of heroes on shining horses.

[@gregthepeglegpregdreg]

@@samsonguy10k true enough, I suppose I just have a bit of a pessimistic view of it. With humanity being an endangered species I feel that abandoning absolutely everything is a bit too big a risk, and I see it as just setting them up to go extinct. I do understand narrativly why it is the way it is, but when it feels like they're just going to end up withering away to me, personally it leaves a bad taste. I mean I guess the extinction of humanity still serves to break the cycle so I guess there's that...

[@HeadlessChickenTO]

I found it extremely eerie seeing Galactica's hull buckle so much like she was being held together by thin Lego pieces while being manhandled by a toddler. The Saul's damage report sounding like a medical diagnosis of an injured squad mate who just took a bullet for you. They rode her hard but she didn't fail them, all the way to the promise land.

[@neilsmith4449]

Broke my heart, probably the only time tv has made me cry. She gave everything she had, and even broken, she still came through for family. Best ship of the fleet.

[@danielmclaughlin5546]

Sort of like the car the Blues Brothers drove.

[@stephenbyrne2170]

Scarred but triumphant. She brought the Human Race home.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Space Battleship Yamato

[@robertmoe2937]

Anyone notice that a Viper falls out of the flight pod when they jump in over the moon? That'd be an interesting discovery 150,000 years later...

[@BigBlueJake]

Looked at that at .25 speed - 2 or 3 Vipers slide to the edge and something roll sideways down the bay, but the front end whips back up before they fall out. But that would be a fun find - Viper on the moon! Man our civilization would flip out...

[@w9gb]

Easter Eggs for a sequel ....

[@BigBlueJake]

@@w9gb That would be awesome, either way. Galactica dropped enough chunks of hull plating-doubt if anyone went back for them.

[@BigBlueJake]

There is a flash of white I caught once...not sure if it was hull plating or a ship.

[@BigBlueJake]

@Marcus Knightingale- Well I'll be dipped...you have good eyes, and probably better video resolution. I'm on a laptop, slowed the video to .25 and ran it a few times to see. At 3 seconds and at 9 and 10 I finally saw the Viper. Babylon 5 - gawd I miss that show too, even with its dated CGI. That made part of the atmosphere of the show. And that's another one I never saw the end of because it was moved to cable.

[@vignesh0208]

To see Galactica like that. All those years of Abuse and Damage finally take a toll; it was heart-wrenching. Still She took her charge all the way to Their Destination. There has never Been a Better Ship.

[@BigBlueJake]

So wrong, but mesmerizing. One thing I liked about the original series is big G was "built like a brick sh!thouse" or "built like a Mack truck" for the family-friendly version... Obviously the special effects have changed to allow showing the flexing from one too many structural abuses. And I cried hard after I found this clip the first time.

[@christophermurphy4030]

Vigneswara Prabhu I agree. The only reason why she made the jump cause of the organic material to keep the hull from breaking apart and the FTL upgrades

[@raccattack7104]

So say we all!

[@astrick1768]

Truly, A Grand Old Lady

[@k1productions87]

She probably could have survived the jump.... if they remembered to RETRACT THE FLIGHT PODS!!!

[@captnrobvious47]

"Treat her like a lady and she'll always bring you home."

[@capnjackgallows3204]

Indeed scotty indeed

[@captnrobvious47]

@@capnjackgallows3204 uM aCtUaLlY... tHaT wAs McCoY... 🤓🤓🤓

[@ericdunn7352]

Admiral Leonard McCoy said that.

[@blackspade1]

Even with a broken back, her engines fired. That is one tough ship.

[@Mobius_118]

I was always surprised at how much punishment the Galactica had taken with little more than stop-gap repairs most of the time.

[@metalzonemt-2]

@@Mobius_118 Yes, several nukes for example.

[@DunkdaHunk]

@@Mobius_118 she may be old, but she was always capable.

[@samsonguy10k]

Pretty much everything was fine except for her superstructure, but that had started showing signs of failing earlier on, with even the Cylons on board shedding blood and tears to try to keep her held together. I swear 6 showed more love for Galactica than she ever showed Baltar. Everyone on board that old bird was invested in keeping her alive and going. If they tried one more jump, she would have fallen to pieces, killing everyone on board.

[@invaderzz]

Imagine being the guy who gets impaled by a steel beam on the final jump to earth

[@DrewLSsix]

Well.... I guess he'll miss out on living a hard subsistence life with the native pre agricultural humans. The little half cylon half human girl that was at the center of so much drama in the show dies while young.

[@jordancorona6825]

@@DrewLSsix except she doesn't. She becomes the progenitor of most humans remaining and is the reason people have type O blood.

[@IRMentat]

invader zz death in hope versus a slow death by ritual suicide caused by all the formerly hopeful colonists suddenly giving up in life.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

@@jordancorona6825 CylOn clood? 😉

[@Smenkhaare]

Picking fleas off one another after they give up their tech...

[@Mymumsey1]

It's funny how ships like the Galactica or the Enterprise take on an almost human quality over time. They become characters in their own way, and you feel for them when they get "hurt."

[@jamessuhr9667]

That is why Sailors call their ships-She.

[@rickymiller8539]

Bruce Van Tol That was me with Voyager.

[@aggregor95]

the enterprise is pure crap... galactica survive aromin bomb without having a energy shiel wile if you remove ghe energy shield from the enterprise it will explode even if you shoot at it with a small pistol

[@meganwilliams2962]

Like the T.A.R.D.I.S

[@Heisler146]

AGGREGOR the enterprise is not a warship

[@heavyarms55]

I cried the first time I saw Galactica drifting over the moon and the Earth came into view. After so much, they finally made it!

[@seanhewitt603]

Still got mixed feelings about it. I think that the series touches something ancient within us all. That's why it was so popular.

[@ultrajd]

Galactica isn’t just a ship. She was a character. And as her engines flared one last time you can guess there were a LOT of Engineering personnel turning wrenches and getting systems up as fast as they could. Likely many died.

[@seanhewitt603]

She was mother to the survivors.

[@ultrajd]

@@seanhewitt603 agreed. She was the mother hen that kept everybody alive.

[@Spinikar]

Yeah, That's something I didn't stop to think. Well everyone is having thier moment on the bridge, 100s of engineers and crew are probably putting put fire, turning wrenchs and ensuring the old gal keeps operating. Even during the battle.

[@MrMoorkey]

Seeing the Galactica near shattering on jump exit had me on edge...then the engines fired, and it felt like everything was OK...then..."She's broken her back. She'll never jump again." Such a gut punch after everything.

[@GrasshopperKelly]

She was well over 50 years old, she'd had most of her ablative armour removed, most of her munitions removed, most of her craft replaced with "relics" and even a portion of her balistic armaments replaced with older systems to make her look the part, and show her with an older configuration... The USS Texas is literally falling apart, only being fixed at about the Dame rate as she is disintegrating with age, by sincerely dedicated volunteers. Texas didn't have to take hits when she was in service during WW2. Galactica took repeated nukes, with minimal armour.... She was surviving on plot armour by season 3, she deserved finally being put out if her misery, as sad as that made us...

[@MrMoorkey]

@@GrasshopperKelly Agreed. I felt the same IRL after they announced HMS Ark Royal, my favourite of the ships I served in, was being decommissioned. Seeing her towed out of Portsmouth tore my heart out.

[@davfree9732]

She may have broke her back, but broken as she was, she refused to stop flying. Tigh might even say she was trying to walk it off.

[@teenagerinsac]

😅

[@jeffreypryor4549]

So many disliked the 4th season, and I did too at first. But upon so many re-watches, it's one of the best. The entire series was damn good.

[@Swiftbow]

I never understood the dislike for the 4th season. There's certainly some questions regarding the decision at the end, but once the choice was made to have them be in our past instead of the future, it was kind of necessary. I like to think they didn't just fade into obscurity, though, and are the founders of Atlantis. Hell... they could even be worked into Stargate's backstory if you're feeling creative (and are willing to ignore some of the 10th season lore).

[@filthycasual8187]

@@Swiftbow Even better... remember the original monolog that used to open episodes of 70's BSG. What happened here could easily set THAT up.

[@JB-gw7xf]

@@Swiftbow I don’t like the way they introduced the final five, which required them to gin up an entirely backstory completely unknown before then. Such a plot wasn’t impossible, but the way they did it felt rushed and not well planned. What are the odds that out of billions of people killed in the initial attack all five of the missing cylons wound up on Galactica? I know the show was going for a religious theme, but you shouldn’t just chalk everything to “God did it” whenever something doesn’t make sense. It was a great show but it started coming apart at the end as the plot kept getting more convoluted with no payoff.

[@teaandtoys]

​@@JB-gw7xfagreed. Completely wasted any storyline with older centurions

[@dixonarc69]

It's top 4, for sure.

[@RozzzaSsarcasmo]

The shot of Tyrol sitting in silence is so heart breaking

[@nplindgren]

That was the last shot of him on the show. Presumably, he ends up all alone.

[@khyronthethunderhawg6577]

He does end up alone, but it's not his last scene. He is seen again in the exodus camp. He mentions to Apollo that he'll head north, to a large island north of the northern continent. 'There are some nice highlands there'. The island is Britain/Scotland, and the highlands are specifically referring to the Scottish Highlands. This was a reference, and a nod, to Star Trek. Tyrol would be the seed for all future Sci-fi engineers, specifically a chief engineer named Montgomery Scott.

[@nplindgren]

@@khyronthethunderhawg6577 that sounds cool, but I absolutely don't remember that. I'm going to have to rewatch that.

[@kinbolluck476]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@andrewnlarsen]

@@khyronthethunderhawg6577 I thought it was Tigh and Ellen and that they both understood why Tyrol did what he did.

[@friendofjesus1680]

"Where have you taken us Kara?" ... "Africa."

[@blazerocker1734]

_*cues Toto_

[@boogiespadina8375]

goddammit kara

[@bobjuh]

@@blazerocker1734 Thought the same thing when I read that comment

[@cheddar2648]

_Frightened of this thing that I've become_

[@metalzonemt-2]

@@blazerocker1734 In BSG universe there's probably that song, but it's called "Caprica".

[@DylansPen]

The moment they fly past the moon and Earth comes into view, set up by them going to 'their' Earth and it being burned out, only to arrive here and name this new planet Earth. This entire series was so well thought out and filmed. One of the very few shows I've seen where a week seemed like too long to wait until the next episode.

[@ryans413]

This is the actual earth we live on the shot of the moon shows that. The first earth they found was not our earth.

[@kirkhutchins4989]

Still my favorite show of all time! I still watch the whole series once a year, and enjoy it every time.

[@smcneal057]

I remember seeing this at the end as you saw our Earth and screaming at the top of my lungs in delight.

[@davidkay7389]

Then the realization that it was 150000 years in our past. That was a real mind frak.

[@cheddar2648]

A couple of episodes before the end, you see the constellation Orion in one shot. You know they were getting close.

[@Unther]

@@cheddar2648 I never noticed that. Seems like I need to re-watch and look for it.

[@StsFiveOneLima]

@@davidkay7389 Kinda saw that one coming....

[@Trek001]

"Where have you taken us Kara?" "Salt Lake City" "Colonel Tigh, plot a jump" "Bill, she _can't_ jump... I just told you" "Kara took us to Salt Lake City... I'm willing to take my chances"

[@Howyaduing]

2023 Sf

[@thesillyseal284]

"Roger jumping to tooele" "Wait. No! Noooooo!!

[@maxforce]

Voyager crew would have that thing like new By the next episode.....with Borg shielding.

[@bobojo37]

Voyager had replicators and plenty of civilizations to trade with along the way.

[@cmdrreggit]

@@bobojo37 I think Maxforce was being tongue in cheek =D

[@cesarcueto1995]

Haha no doubt and they would have have 3 delta flyers to assist along with a Borg cube allied with them and throw in some time travel tech

[@maxforce]

@@cmdrreggit ah the internet.

[@acreon547]

Galactica has a dedicated crew with no means of resupply and a much better and meaningful story.

[@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube]

--"Where have you taken us, Kara?" --"Detroit." --"Prepare to jump out of here!" --"We can't. The ship broke her back."" --"Initiate self destruct!"

[@davidk8509]

I love this

[@blazerocker1734]

I see that someone has seen 'The Kentucky Fried Movie'. And if you haven't, you really should at least once.

[@orangvii3633]

Frackers stole the Ftl

[@butchkaminsky9470]

Gray, Indiana! Noooooooo!

[@westsidetrucker7943]

This wasn't star trek. We didn't go through a battle, take some so called damage, and in the next episode the ship looks like it just came off the factory line. This was Galactica. She held her own against a fleet, flew through a radioactive nebulae, fell through the atmosphere, and through it all she still flew one more time and went toe to toe against a cylon Starbase. How can you not love Galactica.

[@GoLakers3900]

You're right, this isn't Star Trek. It's got magic BS.

[@krashd]

In all fairness the Enterprise had access to hundreds of stardocks dotted all over the Alpha quadrant while any place capable of holding Galactica for maintenance was nuked to oblivion.

[@colormedubious4747]

@@GoLakers3900 Are you implying that Star Trek lacked magical nonsense? Consider Vulcan mind-melds, the Organians, time travel, mind-swapping technology, a mirror universe, transporter malfunctions that could split people into their good and evil halves, Charlie X, Tremayne, the Q, and ESPers flying through a galactic barrier that turned them into literal gods, but no magic BS there whatsoever! Have you even WATCHED the show?

[@GoLakers3900]

@@colormedubious4747 I'm not going to dignify your crude comment by addressing it. Blind buffoons everywhere ignoring the freaking BG's premise revolved around religion...

[@colormedubious4747]

@@GoLakers3900 Thank you for admitting that you have no valid counterargument. That sort of honesty is refreshing! You need to look up the meaning of the word "crude." That word doesn't mean what you think it means. I said nothing crude. I also NEVER said that BSG's plot did not revolve around religion. I merely pointed out that Star Trek is also loaded with magical nonsense. That doesn't mean it's not a fun watch. I even have all of TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT on BD/DVD.

[@0hvist]

" _The great ship_ Galactica, _majestic and loving, strong and protecting; our home for these many years while we endured the wilderness of space, and now we near the end of our journey. Scouts and electronic equipment have confirmed that we have reached our haven, that planet which is our home to our Ancestor-Brothers. Too many of our Sons and Daughters... did not survive to share the fulfillment of our dream... we can only take comfort and find strength in that they did not die in vain. We have at last found... Earth._ " - Adama

[@classicgalactica5879]

That was from the first episode of the short lived series, Galactica 1980.

[@ericdunn360]

So say we all.

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

And then the tragedy of it is that they couldn't land because it would bring the wrath of the Cylons down on a planet incapable of defending itself against them. They were hoping for a stronger, fiercer set of ancestors to welcome them in and defend them. Granted, proper story development implies that they accelerate Earth's technology to the point where it and they together can take the Cylons on and beat them, but that was asking too much, I suspect.

[@Warhorse500]

3:09 "She's broke her back....she'll never jump again." 12 years ago this year...and that line still hits me like a closed fist to the heart. Whoever's chopping onions in here, that's NOT frakkin' funny....

[@leeboi222]

Imagine surviving all of the shit they went through just to get impaled by a girder or some shit during this final jump...

[@sparrowlt]

or dying because the compartment decompressed.. there was a lot of decompression there.. like if half ship vented into space.. Still the death toll for this battle was quite high .. i think 110 or so people.. that covers the entire operation.. the assault , damage, boarding and (if) final jump damage

[@tryarunm]

That girder was waiting for him all these years.

[@frederalbacon]

I love that Saul and Adama are it until the end. They stared at each other right before the jump to the Colony, two friends who have had 30 years of fighting along side each other, going to their last fight. While Adama had been changing his tune toward Cylons a bit, I think finding out his best friend was one, and had been one the entire time, and was still loyal to him and the fleet despite being a cylon, that fully brought Adama to what we see he is at the end.

[@SkywalkerFilms1927]

"May the Valkyries welcome you and lead you through Mercury's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla and know that you've taken your rightful place in the fleet of battlestars. For a great vessel has fallen: A warrior. A protector. A home. A friend."

[@michaelnolan6054]

No matter how many times (it's been many) I see that shot of Galactica coming over the moon to see Earth- goosebumps.

[@Sir_Gugharde_Wuglis]

-Where have you taken us Kara? 3:44 -Kara: ‘I bless the rains down in AFRICAAAA!!!’ -what the frak

[@stephenbyrne2170]

Dude, what do you have against Africa?

[@Sir_Gugharde_Wuglis]

@@stephenbyrne2170 it’s a song. And if you know BSG series ‘what the frak’ is how some people react to Kara making references to music. She did All along the watch tower on the piano once , and a table full of people got on her case about it. 😂

[@edmundnschrag]

Wait a minute...statue of liberty? THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS!!...

[@dcoffee4396]

Damn you to hell!

[@KawaiiSoulB42]

“You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” 1968 if you gonna quote do your fracking homework first.

[@Baseshocks]

Only thing they have not done lol... "BSG and the planet of the apes" "Cylons return to planet of the apes"

[@christosvoskresye]

There should have been a Statue of Liberty on Earth 1.0. Maybe a Cylon Centurion Statue of Liberty, but still....

[@brysimm404]

I so love that shot of Galactica passing over the moon, then seeing our Earth with the African continent front and center. One of TVs greatest reveals!

[@KEVMAN7987]

"You broke your little ships."

[@aolson1111]

THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HEEYAH.

[@davidgilroy1850]

@@aolson1111 This Far, No further

[@Phoenix1Leader]

And I.......I will MAKE THEM PAY FOR WHAT THEY’VE DONE!!

[@davidhonore6452]

Kevin Gomolchak and I thought I wad a geek. ; )

[@NorthForkFisherman]

"Suprise, assholes!"

[@ethanlauder4887]

Galactica jumps, only to appear in front of the Earth defense grid built by the UNSC to point at them. "It was at this point that Kara knew, she fucked up".

[@LtCWest]

In an alternate reality, the Luna defense grid just lit up like a christmas tree. ^^

[@Rschaltegger]

And Battfleet Solar sets course to Intercept

[@davidian7787]

Sentries report warships to the south West.... Thousands of them.

[@Knuspermonster]

@@Rschaltegger lets be real......a FTL System that doesn requiere going through Hell and is pretty pin point.......Ad mech would get a massive Boner for Galactica

[@Mobius_118]

Given that she's a human ship unaffiliated with any of the Chaos powers, I'm sure the Battlefleet Solar would welcome the Galactica into their ranks with open arms. And with the aid of the Adeptus Mechanicus, she'd probably be restored to better than new condition.

[@LtCWest]

@@Mobius_118 Yee, but considering the Imperiums bias for a "shoot first, ask never" mentality, Id say the chances for survival would be pretty slim. ^^

[@Frenki94]

Colonials knew how to built ships. All the firefights, bombs, cut corners during construction, and she still didn't give up. Hell of a ship.

[@krashd]

Although Pegasus with much more armour plating on her hull was blown up after enduring just a fraction of what Galactica endured over three years. Pegasus being destroyed so easily is probably the only bit of lazy writing I can find in the show, she should have died by being flown into a moonbase or being surrounded by half a dozen Basestars, not the two she was fighting.

[@sparrowlt]

I renember people in forums wondering why Galactica had to retract the flight pods to jump ... and then they got their answer straight up

[@falcon3268]

seeing the Galatica, going through one battle after another against impossible odds always coming out in the fine, broken and battered like that breaks my heart. Even for a ship older than any of the ships in the Colonial Fleet she held it together to bring Humanity to their new home. R.I.P. Galactica.

[@Nadhriq00]

I still remember i watched this episode when i was a kid, my mind was blown away at the earth scene. Best "wait, what?" moment.

[@sidneyfrederickson3941]

Tiny detail point. The Earth they show is today's Earth. 150,000 years ago the Sahara was a green grassland with numerous lakes and swamps. Desertification started around 10,000 years ago, forcing human and animal migration to the Nile Valley.

[@BloodofPatriots]

Then you're average fewer wouldn't haven't recognized Africa. Hell, many didn't just by the odd tilt.

[@davidwatson7919]

12.800 ago Younger dryas that is when it changed. after the 2nd impact the Sahara has become todays. largest freshwater lake in the world was once in the middle. Younger dryas impact killed most of the animals in north America including the human clovis Indians. Gone. Oceans rose 300-400 in what science is showing maybe a couple of days. Sent ice chunks as big as yankee stadium 1800 miles from Saginaw Michigan to form the Carolina bays. Created ice in the atmosphere so high much took decades to return causing epic cooling period we know as the Younger Dryas. Humanity has afar different story that we are taught. DNA now shows a way defferent migration. Peru and Persian dna found in NewZealand , amazon Indians have aboriginal dna, and mummys from dynastic nile have eastern European. Northeast china mummys in the desert area are also completely devoid of any Asian dna as we know it. Honestly DNA in mummys in peru linked to Caspian sea area. How that happen?

[@davidwatson7919]

@Eric Cartman Carthaginian Empire: The Phoenician city-state of Carthage. During Roman times was failry fertile on North African coast which 80% of it now is not. Study of real climate change shows the current hoax. Every climate model has been wrong and by a lot. Man made is warming but many other factors like Albedo would be in play if Man had never existed. If the grand solar minimum comes we will be thankful for man made heating. last one caused little ice age and killed millions in Europe. We overdue and should come in this lifetime. Maybe starting now as we are in a solar minimum but not Grand or Munder.

[@daneangram3278]

NERD!

[@davidwatson7919]

@Eric Cartman I agree totally. Focus should be on cleaning oceans and better living. Can't tax that and use to control the population. Once you realize that it is a system of control you can see the hoax clearly.

[@nargalda773]

i remember watching this streaming online with live chat, and how EVERYONE start screaming and jumping around when they show Moon and Earth, it was pure joy!

[@tunannmaceralar4207]

Best finale ever, i love this show

[@allentchang]

Enter the numerical note representation of your favorite song as the jump coordinates and see where you end up . . . . . .

[@arealperson641]

wow, what a twist this must be for some viewers! Watching all these seasons and found out earth is not flat.

[@Tecnotrucker80]

The Galactica is like the Voyager, like Janeway said: She is more than a Ship. She feeded us, carried and protectet us. The End is really awesome, love that Show!

[@corporalsilver6981]

It's interesting because despite the fact that she could have survived a few more jumps still, the fact that they had to jump with the flightbays still fully extended probably weakened the hull critically during the jump.

[@IceManHG117]

I like how they show the large lake that used to be in the Sahara desert before it completely dried out.

[@Riku-zv5dk]

I just realised the unsecured Vipers in the flight pod go sliding across the deck and one even goes off the edge.

[@mjmoran3rd]

I remember seeing the Galactica buckle and thinking "well that's that".

[@tacticalderpy2077]

After all these years, the set up, and just the scene... every time there is the reveal i jump up, throw my hands in the air and yell "YES!"

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

0:58 Honey, I'm fine. Yeah, she loved Adama.

[@251spartan]

one can only think, how many hull plates, vipers and other parts from the Old Girl fell off on the moon, durign her fly over, and are just waiting to be discovered millions of years later. Also, 0:00 to 0:29, crushing moment, when you realize, thats it, she is done, and here she will stay. Between this moment, the final lauch from the Old Man on his old Viper, and the Voyage to the Sun, this chapter made me cry so frakking hard!

[@joep3279]

I never noticed till now the food chain that was Tyrol's love life. Tyrol killed Tori, who killed Cally, who killed Boomer. I wonder if that was intended from the start.

[@williamsquires3070]

Sector 001 - Earth. Now, let’s hope the Borg don’t show up early to the party. 😬

[@Spacegoat92]

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us...

[@zeropianozeronetwork4107]

Resistance is Futile

[@walterdayrit675]

"We are the Borg, lower your sheilds.....never mind....your biological and technological systems are obsolete and broken. Assimilation unnecessary. Leaving system."

[@adaeptzulander2928]

Contact Cylon allies. "Hey, Borg-face! Say hello to our not-so little friends!"

[@ethanlauder4887]

Somewhere in Starfleet HQ: "What's with that blocky ship that just showed up?" "I don't know. But I'll be blaming Q".

[@meaninglesscog]

Watched this with a conference room at a hotel full of people. Was incredible.

[@SoCalBIGmike]

"Honey, I'm fine..." All the feels.

[@Taospark]

I can see why they cut the Chief's flashback of Cally but they could've put it elsewhere I think.

[@BigBlueJake]

Agree - I skip over that part when I review these.

[@rabbitsox]

@@InForTheLonghaul I assume they're referring to the actress being a "high-ranking" member of the NXIVM cult.

[@ilttpvvm]

Nikki Kline, who played Cally, was implicated in the sex trafficking scandal that also involved Allison Mack from "Smallville."

[@jmd1743]

@@InForTheLonghaul It happened years after the show ended.

[@jmd1743]

@@InForTheLonghaul It's pretty upsetting that a cute girl like her did that.

[@FlyingHeadbutt100]

Even with a broken back, still firing up the main sublight drives. To the end x

[@StsFiveOneLima]

"You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line."

[@jamesricker3997]

That's not Kara Thrace, that's Ibis

[@Marcel_Germann]

@@jamesricker3997 Count Iblis....

[@blazerocker1734]

Well, you're not wrong. They ran all of the ships into the sun and everyone that made it to Earth would die there. That was their end.

[@ambassadorcarey413]

Is that what they meant? The death of galactica?

[@StsFiveOneLima]

@@ambassadorcarey413 Good luck getting a firm explanation.

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

"Whhhhhaaaat the fffffffffffffrak?" me, watching the original run.

[@morrielarsen]

such a good show, with such a great ending.

[@RashaKahn]

All that hull plating that broke off Galactica landed on Earth and was found many years later to be called vibrainium.

[@krashd]

"Wakanda metal ees thees?"

[@saltystrip8761]

Ooo in that opening jump you can see a few vipers fall out of the flight pod.

[@jacob221100]

You have to give credit to the engineers that built her , if her frame did endure such dire situation. with all that movement its suprise she held up as she did .

[@samsonguy10k]

Really makes you think about the pounding poor Columbia took where she eventually exploded in the last battle of the first war. Not sure if there was anything that embellished on that, but it makes me think Columbia put herself into harms way so Galactica could do her duty. In the scene in Razor, it really looked like she was taking the entire brunt of the attack.

[@xell5252]

I can't overstate this FREAKING AWESOME!

[@Generalfund]

Fraking awesome!

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

Imagine if they just left galactica, humanity’s protector, as a wreck on the moon? imagine the news reels when they find that and discover that a good portion of humanity came from the stars

[@Bob_Mitch]

I remember as watching this final episode that I stopped breathing when I saw Earth !!!

[@paulprovenzano3755]

death of the finest ship of the line. I cried for her when I first saw this.

[@cypherdk85]

It's good to see that one thing remains consistent in scifi, rocks falling from the ceiling of a starship.

[@DartLuke]

Expanse... We just have bulets holes

[@barneyrubble4293]

Rocks are an integral part of any advanced spaceship!

[@Kalenz1234]

I just noticed that a Viper actually fell out of the hangar 0:02

[@tlsrob6772]

Kalenz makes me think if future humans would come across it

[@mattstorm360]

Cylons spent so much time trying to kill Galatica that she died of old age...

[@NeoSilvanus]

such an emotional show

[@agamemnonn1]

Theoretically, when humanity starts colonizing the Moon, they could find pieces of Galactica's armor on the surface.

[@Buick65Wildcat]

Someday about 300 years from now someone in the Federation will find the pitted remnants of Galactica, or some other ship from the fleet, out in the Oort cloud. Insert dramatic chipmunk clip.

[@sailorx72]

@@Buick65Wildcat Unfortunately no. Anders few all the ships in the fleet into the sun including Galactica. Nothing left.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@@sailorx72 Unless due to the weakened structure, the CIC vented to space. A final little nudge that kills Anders and just slightly alters the course of the remaining fleet. In time, fuel exhausted, their mutual; gravity clumps them all together ... And after 500K years, they all begin that slow arc, back sunward. To a lush, green-blue planet where Cylons struggle amongst themselves once more.

[@soyuz281]

Glad to see the artificial gravity is immune to any sort of damage or failure..........

[@paulcavigliano6388]

Man i really miss this show.

[@spencerstraub2473]

Such a cool moment. Truly epic.

[@ExcentricDragon]

I also like that they give a geological indication of where they landed in Earth's history. Based on where the white stops, it is probably at the end, or peak rather, of the last major ice age.

[@barneyrubble4293]

They later state in the show it was 150k years before modern times which would actually land them in the previous inter-glacial period before the last ice age only 50k or so years after homo sapiens first evolved on Earth. It would have been incredible to see the life on Earth at this time in history.

[@williammorris4327]

The organic metal, installed by the cylons. Is like the only reason the ship didn't explode,after the jump.

[@1DerangedWarrior]

We guys do not cry easy. I can probably count on both hands how many times iv done tha while married. About half of them have been personal losses. The other half.. Shows like this, where an ending or 1 line completly broke me. *Shes Broke her Back, She'll never jump again* about tore my heart out

[@daleeasternbrat816]

The Galactica story resonates for some reason.

[@losttribe3001]

You survived countless attacks by Cylons, including the attack on Caprica. You managed to live through the occupation of New Caprica. Hell, you even survived Pegasus’ Admiral Cain’s tyranny. But you get blowed into space when you arrive on Earth. Whoops. At least it seems like some people would have died during those explosions on the last FTL jump.

[@krashd]

It's likely some did, though the number of people who died 10 minutes earlier during the battle with the colony was likely much higher.

[@baron7755]

I remember the night it aired, I couldn't breathe

[@madquest8]

"I've brought us to a dead airless moon of lifeless rock. However, after a few years, I think we might want to check out that blue green planet over there... first things first though, we need to set up some domes on the surf... oh wait!"

[@nikoskn1252]

I really don't understand that 15% of the fandom that really hates this finale. I personally think it's the best episode of the series and the most epic at that. All the copouts people complain, it's not like the show didn't prepare you for it. Kara jumping Galactica to earth was a patern finally coming to conclusion since s01. Kara being an angel I don't mind at all considering a) We've known there are angels to the show since s02 and b) Leoben told kara that she would become important in s01. The whole abandoning the technology part ok is a bit weak, but it does fit with the theme of humanity finally letting the hate go and both them and the Cylons start fresh. I really hope more contemporary audiences like this finale more, especially with the slew of actual terrible ending that have come ever since this one. I mean we saw how well you ended your masterpiece George RR Martin!

[@erwinmatic5062]

Not bad for a ship that was built around cutting corners to make the price tag cheaper.

[@haydensmith859]

I know it was a sort of divine vision with the piano keys that Kara used to make the jump but honestly, from all other perspectives she punched in a seemingly random set of coordinates

[@samsonguy10k]

Definitely from the perspective of those who don't know Colonial Astrogation.

[@SomeoneElse12345]

Michael Hogan can barely talk and still can’t walk after his head injury

[@mafianoodles]

i miss this show raised by wolves excellent - but watching it again like this? so say we all

[@casbot71]

The USS Voyager would have been back in working condition by next week's episode.

[@capnjackgallows3204]

To be fair voyager is much more advanced than galactica not to mention replicator technology. Stop comparing the two.

[@jonny2954]

@@capnjackgallows3204 That.

[@royalhunter3937]

Just watching her back break and then hearing her creak really hit

[@89five3five]

Plot twist. All the stories about alien abductions are cylon centurions coming back and checking on human progress.

[@jonmcgee6987]

Considering they say "what happens will happen again". A theory could be made that this is the distant past for what happens in The Terminator franchise.

[@cks796]

Edward James Olmos (Admiral Adama) has stated in an interview that if you watch the original Blade Runner directly after the ending of the BSG remake, that it lines up pretty nicely considering what Baltar says at the end. That's how I like to think of it anyway. :P

[@deathstrike]

This is just a guess, but I would suspect that the "Jump Drive" requires a clean and symmetrical surface to actually "fold" into another region of space. Perhaps it's geometry requires all surfaces of the ship to be enclosed within it's functional envelope. Any surface past the primary structure like the landing pods must be locked and stowed as tight to the Battlestar as possible so it all can be "exchanged" at the point of entry/exit. Anything caught outside of the drives envelope is possibly "dragged" into the exchange from their former position to their new position. And In doing so, the stress on the overall structure is immense. Probably causing both longitudinal and lateral stresses like a sponge being wrung of it's contents, and thus severely damaging or even destroying the Battlestar entirely. When the pods are retracted, the ship becomes one gigantic, smooth (as possible) surface. Note, no weapons are deployed, no antennas or dishes are extended, no spacecraft are deployed until the conclusion of the jump. So while it is possible as we saw to "Jump" with pods extended, the Battlestar would have to be entirely restressed and redesigned to handle it, or risk destruction. Which begs the question? Has this happened before to the Columbia Class Battlestars? And if so, was that one of the reasons the Mercury Class was designed? To be able to immediately deploy and retrieve combat wings before AND immediately after a jump? It didn't appear the Pegasus needed to retract anything to jump. (It did not seem to have retractable pods). And Pegasus was much larger and far more powerful. Perhaps the ultimate war machine to match it's enemy the Cylons on its own terms. Shame they didn't try to save it.

[@deathstrike]

Edit: My mistake, the Jupiter Class, not Columbia Class.

[@SolarWraith]

Built Caprica tough...the Battlestar Galactica. She'll get you to your destination, even if she has to go through hell along the way.

[@d7895482]

Always wondered how close was the original earth to the other?

[@davidkay7389]

Imagine making it all that way, under all those trials and tribulations only to get sucked out into space as Galactica breaks her back on her final jump to the new Earth

[@chrislycan2495]

The poor old girl broke her back and still kept the whole crew to arrive at Earth. Imagine if the Pegasaus lived and the Galatica destroyed? They've never make if half way in the series.

[@samsonguy10k]

Pegasus was carried on the sheer will of her commander and in a lot of ways she began to die when Cain did, and especially when her Chief Engineer gave his life for her(Who should have been kept in that position. Adama fumbled when he chose to make him Captain). No way she would have endured what Galactica did from Ragnar Anchorage to Earth. Especially considering she was a peacetime-built ship.

[@Cthusiest_jeff]

Everything about this sequence makes excellent sense. The pods acted as support braces for the hull. Without them, with already the weakening fragility of the ship, this would be the result. Also, i love you see Vipers get thrown out the pods. Such a smart show

[@datathunderstorm]

To those people complaining about the ending, this was exactly what THAT ending was supposed to do to humankind. Here we are, debating the implications of THAT ending. Here we are, educating ourselves about our past, our future, our true origins. Here we are suddenly taking a closer look at ancient myths and ancient astronaut theories. A lot more of us are now realising that a large portion of humanity could have indeed had extraterrestrial origins - or at least we could be hybrids! Someone submitted valuable input about unexpected and perplexing DNA migrations across the planet - definitely an eye opener. Everything suddenly seems to tie into everything else. Everything is linked. Atlantis, Lemuria, those ancient stories of an advanced civilisation on this planet - that suddenly disappeared during a cataclysm. We’re all here scratching our heads, thinking....what the FRAK...!!! What if it’s all true? (I believed in these theories and have done since I was a child - coincidence?! - and that was BEFORE I became a sci-fi nerd). THAT ending was to open our eyes - to make us think; to question our origins and not just assume what the history books tell us! Best ending ever!

[@_spooT]

I heard the new battlestar galactica this 2020 wouldn't be a reboot because the director/producer loved the original so much and he said he didnt want to ruin a masterpiece. he said let perfect stay perfect and that the new one will be a continuation. Idk how they will do it since the last one ended on our modern day earth. Will humans somehow find ancient schematics and build the battlestars again? But damn it just feels so different without Adama

[@Refref1990]

I don't know if it will be a continuation, but it would be nice if the series took place in the present, with the Cylons surviving in space that have evolved, become humanoid again, and then destroy the earth. Meanwhile, during the first moon landing in 1969, the earth humans find a viper with the coordinates of the 12 colonies, discovering more and more during the continuation of the series, and using the viper's ftl engines, over the years they have secretly developed the hyperlight jump so when the Cylons attack, although they know nothing about their origins, nothing about the civilization of the 12 colonies, they embark on a reverse journey to find them (by now they will be habitable again), and also in this case they will find the first Earth, possibly human survivors of New Caprica or in the 12 colonies!

[@KylewithaK]

@@Refref1990 I love this idea. The realization of our true origins and the lost history of the 12 colonies rediscovered would be a mind melting show. I've been thinking about this concept for years. We go to Caprica 150,000 years later and find evidence of past human life. Maybe geological surveys show the grid outline of past cities, perhaps even a fossilized license plate or car/motorcycle.