Battlestar Galactica | Resurrection Hub Attack

[@edharris2395]

I just love how everyone is at red alert battle stations... and there's baltar standing randomly in a corridor having a philosophical debate casually with a centurion... careless

[@stonem0013]

well he knows how to play to his strengths

[@zchen27]

And he eats a missile in the face for it.

[@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm]

Love this violent scene from D'anna - just casualy murders Cavill, single handledly breaking his skull, all with this "huge hangover" facial expression. Lucy played it awesomely

[@mrz80]

You can take the girl out of Xena but you can't take Xena out of the girl :D

[@thehantavirus]

since boomer escaped, the cavil that was killed was ressurected before the hub was destroyed.

[@davepowder4020]

@@mrz80 "Dangit Al, you can't just hit on Xena in the same way you hit on every other woman!" - Capt. Jonathan "Sam" Archer

[@davidlewis5312]

I forget, is that head 1 or Rebel 1

[@Wolfspaule]

If had known Lucy was in this show, I would have watched it.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

This scene never gets old. "And with a whimper every Cylon in the universe begins to die."

[@stonem0013]

and it's a good thing

[@WarGrowlmon18]

@@stonem0013 Indeed

[@WarGrowlmon18]

@The Zenful Life No, that Hub was the source of all Resurrection. It's why Cavil needed the Five even in the finale to even have a chance at rebuilding that technology.

[@Scott.Sandifer]

One of the great moments from this show. A solid victory for the humans, yet it's depicted in such a somber, tragic moment. BSG doesn't just blow up the bad guys, it makes you feel for them.

[@DarkNova50]

Meh. Aside from a few exceptions, I had a difficult time empathizing with the Cylons. Could be the fifty billion people they murdered at the start of the series, or the smug look of satisfaction they always had on their faces when they talked about it afterwards. Or maybe it was those damn goop baths. How could anybody be comfortable in all that slime?

[@Scott.Sandifer]

@@DarkNova50 Well, that's certainly your interpretation. But the show _clearly_ wants you to feel sympathy for them. During this big win, the music is melancholic, not triumphant, and there's no "woo-hooing." Plus the nuke scene is immediately preceded by a raider getting shot through the 'face,' splattering blood and sparks, and tumbling alone, lost forever in the cold emptiness of space. It's an eerily quiet death instead of it erupting in a huge, boner-inducing fireball. The children of man just lost their immortality, or perhaps their souls. It's a devastating blow, not merely a tactical achievement. The show is complex, is all i'm saying.

[@MysticEyesUser]

@@DarkNova50 Let's assume I am a Cylon. In other words I was created as a slave for humans. Would I feel remorse for the genocide? Doubt it. I would probably be happy that my previous oppressors are dieing and suffering en masse.

[@DarkNova50]

@@MysticEyesUser And that's why it was so difficult for them to have peace. The Cylons certainly have some legitimate grievances, but being human myself, I found the whole "attempted genocide" thing a little hard to get over.

[@firestorm165]

LoliconSuspect the first cylon war they had legitimate cause for. The second? Not so much

[@pjnathgaming]

I've always loved the explosions in BSG. Quiet and awesome.

[@2KOOLURATOOLGaming]

Explosions in space

[@Talon3000]

Yes, and the visual is just eerily beautiful, while the Hub just gets deleted the first basestar basically evaporates and the third one melts in the intense heat.

[@logion567]

What I like is the Wail of Death when the nukes detonated.

[@snakecool3552]

Quite awesome indeed

[@Captpolak]

Thats as realistic as they can get with them and I love it

[@thesenceofmorality]

I love the poetic justice of this scene. Its just a taste of what the cylons inflicted upon the 12 colonies, complete annihilation of a cylon home base, and them unable to do anything but watch as their ships and home were reduced to cinders in nuclear fire. Yet most important of all, a firm statement that they are mortal.

[@TheKeyser94]

That is totally obliterated episodes later with the stupid revelation of the Final Five, that was pretty stupid, and the stupid magical Kara song, Moore lost the plot Battlestar Galactica by Season 3, but by that time I was tired of all Lee and Kara melodrama and that go nowhere.

[@MrAlkylation]

@@TheKeyser94 this is god!

[@Mobius_118]

The thing that makes it somewhat more ironic is that the Colonials used Cylon nukes from the Rebel Basestar to destroy the Hub.

[@somewhere6]

@@TheKeyser94 You touch on the main problem. They really had no plot by Season 3, even the last half of season 2. They just kept throwing in twists that seemed to create suspense for one or two episodes but at the cost of the ongoing story which became a mess. They started out with a bang and had some good actors, production and basic premise but the lack of a long term, planned out story-line and coherent character development dragged it way down.

[@cypress2647]

@@somewhere6 bad and incorrect take, trying actually watching the show and focusing on it next time

[@Armann_]

5:00 Nuclear explosions are beautiful. I don’t understand why this show never won awards for their space battles, they look so realistic and sound phenomenal.

[@Teleportcamera]

But in space, there is no sound.

[@Cailus3542]

@@Teleportcamera And completely silent space scenes, especially battles, simply don't work.

[@PetersaberHD]

@@Teleportcamera the sounds are non-diegetic. They're for us, the audience, they don't exist within the scenes themselves. Characters can't hear them.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

If you like, why not rip this video, and take out all sound from the space battles (vibrations heard within the cockpit from using the guns are fine). Then see how it'd look like as a scene.

[@DanielRoberts-dd6lh]

@@Teleportcamera Have you ever been in a space battle?

[@DarkNova50]

This show really had some great music.

[@PaulGuy]

Bear McCreary is really one of the best in Hollywood. BSG, Agents of SHIELD, Outlander, Terminator: TSCC, Black Sails, The Walking Dead, Europa Report, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and many more.

[@praise_kek340]

@@PaulGuy god of war 2018

[@MiguelLopez-is9te]

What a wonderful moment that was... to see D'Anna snap Cavil's neck and Boomer run out like a coward.

[@ThePathStrider]

Even in a bath tub, you cross Xena at your peril.

[@MiguelLopez-is9te]

@@ThePathStrider 😁😀 Yeah Baby!!!👍🤘

[@FFF813]

Well I think Boomer was running to the part of the Hub where Cavil would download to a new body so that she can get him out before it gets destroyed.

[@chrisb9960]

@@ThePathStrider What gel did BSG special effects use in the resurrection tub?

[@stevepalpatine2828]

I always hated Boomer. Slimy, cowardly and duplicitous. It's amazing that despite being the same model, Athena was basically the polar opposite.

[@derekowens1435]

Lol. "Are you gonna help end this war or are you useless?" I love Cavil's arrogance.

[@calick7208]

Gray Jedi Nah Cavill pretended to be a machine but he was as human as the other skinjobs. Only the fact that most of his feelings were arrogance, envy and hate. He was evil just like any evil human.

[@davepowder4020]

@Gray Jedi "I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter!" - and perhaps now, he'll know where Sam finally jumped to! Thanks for making your characters glorious, Mr. Stockwell.

[@Captpolak]

Caval: Thats mass murder. Colonials: *Cough*

[@LightSightTCR]

1:51 I really love this moment (and whole scene ofc). No command bridge. No pilots voices. Only music and battle scene. Only the people that know what they should do. What they did hundred times before. Just another fight for the life... Bridge coordination always suited battle scenes in BSG awesome, but for this episode it was awesome change of style. Perfect. And Bear... Yea.

[@juntalk4]

Dude you can marry the entire manufacture line. Go for it!!!

[@TshepoNkadimeng5]

LMFAO!

[@usul573]

Sounds like a wattpad fanfiction, or Mormonism =D

[@ValiantWrestling]

I love the bits with Baltar talking with the Centurion, I just wish it had survived, or atleast spoke back to him.

[@aztalyido]

Damm.. the scene when the rebel basestar fire hell out of missiles is so bad ass

[@perseuswong6864]

1:48 That's the classic Xena “I don't give a frak” eyebrow raised look.

[@zoidberg444]

I remember when this battle finally happened it wasn't really what i expected. It's quite different in character to Resurrection Ship or New Caprica. The music also lends a special quality to it - credit to Bear McCreary. I also liked this story line of the rebel cylons and colonials having to work together.

[@Mardilthefaithful]

Seeing Lucy Lawless in a bathrobe and taking her with you no questions asked is perfectly understandable.

[@MB-rn4zk]

I love this series so much the story, characthers and the dialogue so much.

[@drgonzo305]

That hub blowing up in those nuclear explosions was really pretty beautiful, looked like a circle of solar flares blooming into a flower made of light

[@SuperAerie]

This entire scene is so beautiful

[@WarGrowlmon18]

What I always liked was how the Vipers destroyed the Resurrection Hub instead of the Cylon Heavy Raiders that they were fighting with. Usually we don't see them armed with missiles much less nukes while the Heavy Raiders are.

[@hazard04]

“The inhibition’s been lifted, oh I sense it.” My favorite line- it gives me chills.

[@Leadbetter500]

Perfectly showcasing how the company used for original CGI work was dropped in Season 4. Shocking contrast to the previous work.

[@christiansoldier1968]

could you provide more information on this?

[@LtDavidB312]

I’m curious about this myself. The difference was notable between the end of season 3 and beginning of season 4, but what was the cause?

[@starmaster191]

Yeah, I noticed that too. the graphics in season 4 seemed a little less impressive than ... earlier seasons. I heard it's cause they switched visual effects companies

[@20014johnss]

This show was a beautiful piece of work

[@shiroamakusa8075]

RIP Dean Stockwell, the resurrection ship was too far away...

[@christianwheeler5920]

His strong conscience is one of the reasons Helo was one of my favorite characters in the show.

[@honzasenbauer612]

Helo is probably the only one in the fleet with a really sober and right moral compas by our standars. He had so much hate coming his way for the whole time after desctruction of the colonies, with staying on Caprica, being tricked by Athena, to fall in love with her and be heart broken after he found out, to the point where StarBuck came and gave him hope, only for them to get into trouble again. And when he finally came back to the fleet, Roslin tried to kill Athena and possibly space him aswell. Then he was hated, because he was in love with a Cylon that turned sides and if it wasn't for New Caprica, Athena would have never gotten into Colonial Fleet. But he also lost Hera because of Roslin being dodgy and after all that. He was put to the hangar deck to sort out refugees which nobody could have done any better, and he did it with empathy, understanding and objectivity. All of his life he was honorable and did the right thing, because he had too, while many of us would take the easy path

[@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf]

The thing that irked me so much with Helo was that freaking Borg argument from Star Trek applied towards Cylons (the virus in BSG vs. The one used to kill an entire Borg cube in Star Trek: TNG.) It didn't fit at all in the context of BSG since Borg were all victims themselves and held hostage by a Collective while Cylons willingly agreed and encouraged mass genocide of anyone they deemed inferior (i.e. purely organic life.)

[@thegovernor184]

I can't remember this, I am going to watch it all again now lol

[@mistaowickkuh6249]

Cavil learned a hard lesson that way; never provoke a strong amazon warrior.

[@josephmort4039]

I don't know if we're supposed to but I loved watching the resurrections ships and then the hub die. I loved watching the Cylons lose more and more.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

In the deleted scenes for this episode that Eight is killed by a Cavil boarder shortly after returning to the Basestar. Its why she's never seen again.

[@sawyernorthrop4078]

What always gets me is the sound when the nukes detonate. Sounds like screaming

[@tillyt4054]

Omg ! I forgot how much I loved Baltar

[@Ajax1063]

Damn, we fans deserve a really good RTS BSG game with ships from the 2nd Cylon War. Like a what-if the Cylons never tried going to the corrupted CPN route, and instead took on the Colonials head to head like during the first Cylon war. That's the RTS I want to play. Fleets of Valkyrie types, Pegasus types, and suped up Galactica types like shown in Blood and Chrome just going head to head with Basestars made for war instead of these slender ones that were just made to hold many nukes and missiles. Maybe one day, a programmer out there will give us what we deserve, or maybe I can do with enough time and money to figure out how to make the game myself.

[@Ajax1063]

@MoppyPuppy Did you read anything past my 1st sentence? I already addressed that.

[@LtCWest]

Not exactly an RTS but there exists a strategy game called BSG:Deadlock that is set during the first Cylon war. Fun Fact: One type of Battlestar the player can build is an Artemis-class, design wise, its very close to the original Galactica from th 1970s. ^^

[@Ajax1063]

@@LtCWest Unfortunately, I am not a fan of the original series. I'm in love with the later designs like the Pegasus, Stealthstar, and the Valkyrie. Hence, why I wish I had an RTS in an alternative timeline with a focus on the ships in service at the start of the 2nd Cylon War.

[@fifaisscripted]

Battlestar Galactica Online was a great game. Sadly it got shut down

[@Ajax1063]

@@fifaisscripted I tried it but I wasn't impressed. At first I liked it and was grinding away, until I realized three things: first the build is extremely extremely slow. It literally will take you weeks just to get another ship or skin playing by yourself. Secondly, the lack lacked enough missions. There are only so much resource collection and search and destroy missions you can play before you get really really bored. Third, the community suffered from being too "clique". Everyone had their groups and beating up on the noobs consistently became too much of a thing. So much so that the game became infamous for it and deterred new players from joining. I remember reading multiple websites warning new players of these issues and I had my doubts at first but everything they mentioned was true. Eventually, I just quit and never looked back. No game lasts for long if it's player base does not consistently grow.

[@wadearendsee4430]

The music in this sequence is so haunting

[@hokiturmix]

One thing for sure. Music is SuperB.

[@johnk7302]

This scene brings shivers and blows me away.

[@kinbolluck476]

SCENES R LIKE SMALL PARTS OF THE SHOW

[@charleyzimmer2505]

I will say, the vibrate color pallet of this show is refreshing considering The Expanse's over-saturation of blue.

[@JackVermicelli]

The pallette is vibrant, too.

[@matthewraven8859]

Ftl is like a Christmas tree ornament. Lol. Like the computer in a glass bubble under the air carriers in winter soldier.

[@rikcab]

what a great show, great writing.

[@Straywolf514]

Everything about Battlestar Galactica I's awesome.

[@Mobius_118]

Ah yes, the scene where the humans played the Uno Reverse card.

[@YurkerYT]

Classic Baltar

[@stephenkalatucka6213]

The bathtub people always reminded me of the Captain of the Golgafrinchians in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. 🐤

[@angeloalves7709]

O Remorso do Aghaton sempre me chamou a atenção, e a D'anna que nem liga praticamente kkkk

[@gawainethefirst]

That episode where Xena killed Al from Quantum Leap...

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Everyone's always talking about how cool Galactica is for keeping guns as primary arms but we can agree it's also awesome they've kept nuclear weapons as these ultra powerful devices? I know for example that the ones used against Colonial cities were 50 megatons so all nukes are probably atleast one or two dozen megatons while we only have a few single digit megaton weapons left but still.

[@Mobius_118]

I think what most of sci-fi forgets is that a nuclear weapon doesn't just create a larger explosion than normal, it's a weapon that creates a small sun to cause damage. Also, the irony isn't lost that the same nukes that destroyed the Colonies were used to against the Cylons "Home" as well.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

Randomly Entertaining, I suppose my question is, if they're 50 megatons, why weren't the cities more thoroughly annihilated, instead of the scenes we saw of many structures still standing? Perhaps, the blast radius was depicted as being larger, but my query remains. Maybe, I'm just missing an obvious answer, which I'd still appreciate reading.

[@Turboy65]

Baltar can persuade a Centurion to help him. Is he a badass when he wants to be, or what?

[@ObviouslyEvil]

Too bad said Centurion gets blown up. I would ve liked to have a Centurion character like Cyrus back in the Original Series when both Starbuck and a Raider crash on a planet and have to help each other survive. They actually start to bond in that one.

[@lostjedi3380]

I have to wonder if Baltar was getting through to the Centurion or not

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Cylon FTL is really, really vulnerable, apparently.

[@breadonitsown8950]

hahaha always within convenient range of any colonial missile

[@erergod]

@Battlestar Galactica, please upload the "Battle of the Ionian nebula"

[@dirdib69]

D'Anna went all Xena on his ass.

[@Maniac742]

Am I the only one sad that the centurion died? Baltar was getting through to him.

[@asvarien]

The Cylons use way too much glass in their critical space infrastructure. Same with the Pegasus CIC, how many times did they have to replace the glass in those ridiculous doors?

[@Freesorin837]

Why can’t I get nuclear armed vipers in Deadlock?

[@wilsthelimit]

FreeSorin Probably for balance, then again it might be added into a new DLC

[@RamdomView]

Or maybe it's justified in lore as in this video we see later-model Vipers carrying nukes. Maybe early Vipers could not load nuclear ordinance?

[@spartan2051]

Do remember that this after after the first cylon where ships were more advanced.

[@Freesorin837]

Guys, I was joking.

[@firestorm165]

Fabian Kirchgessner at the very least I'd appreciate it if my viper squadrons actually thought twice before flying straight into my frakking flack field

[@MrAlkylation]

1:36 she killed him like in Xena. Normally impossible to kill someone like that lol

[@Talon3000]

Nothing implies that he's actually dead at that point. He could have been knocked unconscious by that blow. The nuclear warheads on the other hand...

[@damianmorningstar4127]

What a great moment

[@earthhound]

I forgot how good Season 4 was.

[@TheKeyser94]

Good? Are you kidding? Season 4 had the most stupid parts of Battlestar Galactica, like the Final Five arc, the Kara and Lee melodrama having no resolution at all, Kara stupid song to guide the fleet to Earth, the only good thing that come from that Season was the attack to the Cylon Colony that basically a suicide mission, but ones again, Lee and Kara melodrama any good that come from it.

[@darkestred7203]

There's a a mistake in the description. "The Galactica crew and Clyon rebels team together to in order to destroy the Cylon Resurrection Hub and rescue D'Anna." EDIT: Spelling mistake.

[@Saltee323]

Where is the mistake. Sounds right.

[@Gohan-chan]

@@Saltee323 "team together to in order to" would be my guess... too many to's to make too much sense.

[@metalzonemt-2]

1:37 She's almost as fast as Xena.

[@netsraccjf3965]

Those Baseships and also the Galactica just seem to be huge targets you can't really miss !

[@bayuthubaybss1666]

Galactica Amazing 🤔 good luck Profesor 🌞

[@williamblake8560]

What is underrated in this scene is Helo reaction to seeing all those 8s (Sharons) knowing they all are going to died.

[@matthewraven8859]

My wife is a fembot. My Pomeranian is a fuzzbot. They're all bots! They're everywhere!

[@asvarien]

Why was the hub's FTL drive so ludicrously exposed like that? It was just begging to get blown up. Also why wasn't it ready to jump away at a moments notice? They had plenty of time, should have been spinning up the drive the second they detected the unknown, unscheduled baseship jump in, nevermind when it started launching heavy raiders. For a culture of machines they sure have a lot of human failings.

[@hazard04]

I know it’s been a while since this comment was made. I think the point of the show was to show us that the cylons had evolved so much that they were human. Therefore they had all of our qualities and uniqueness.

[@johnk7302]

I, even as slave, would pity a dying race.... also in space th ere is no air and no sound. Although the music during these scene brings shivers.

[@didymos9010]

Does anyone have a link to the strings version of the soundtrack? Not the one with drums, but the Resurrection Hub theme at the end of this video?

[@ltraltier6009]

What was stopping them from just making several more?

[@JohnG44]

They didn't know how only final five knew how to make ressurection

[@CodasTalon5013]

I always found it sad that so many humans who watch the show could not empathize, nor, understand how this came about to begin with. All this has happened before, and it will happen again. We’re in the middle of that process right now.

[@brianlindee588]

One thing I never got is why the new model cylons couldn't speak and with intelligence and why they had to have giant claws for hands instead of the normal ones but the wrist Canon was a good touch

[@MrAlkylation]

they can have normal hands, we can see some shifting to normal hand in season 4. We don't know if they can talk or not, maybe they don't need. If you are a machine it is pretty useless to talk actually, more efficient to use wi fi for example

[@thesparduck117]

@@MrAlkylation The Human Cylons probably didn’t want their Centurions to be able to interact with their human counterparts on a personal level, make it easier to keep them enslaved.

[@darthkarr]

No matter what role, Lucy rules.

[@johniii8147]

I wish i had "jump" button when i was stuck in traffic.

[@asvarien]

Pretty sure 1 or 2 nukes was enough, not like the Cylons had PDTs.

[@juniodamascoalmeidacosta189]

Batalha na Fronteira,,,.

[@wudupfammm8555]

0:55 why were they car pooling doe ?

[@DBoycee91]

so the hub wouldn't jump into ftl before they could get close enough

[@Erevos85]

The Vipers were powered down so that they wouldn't be detected. The Hub would spool up its FTL drive as soon as they registered Colonial signatures on DRADIS. That way there was not enough time for the Hub to jump into FTL.

[@Oneofakind123]

Why is the final 5 called final? I mean, if anything they where the first, but actually they where not that either.

[@starmaster191]

I still haven't watched season 4. Granted, I've seen bits and pieces and of course we all know what happens at the end of the series. But what is the difference between the resurrection hub and the resurrection ship that was destroyed by Pegasus and Galactica all the way back in season 2?

[@JohnG44]

The resurrection hub controls all other resurrection ship. If the hub destroyed all other resurrection ship are useless as well.

[@garethsmith3036]

You can tell bear mccreary used part of this them in the lord of the rings tv show

[@Lord_Inquisitor7]

You should upload the scene of the Pegasus saving the Galactica from the moment it enters the scene to the moment Lee rams it into the base star(like a dumbass)

[@ODST_Parker]

Too bad for the crew of that baseship that got caught in the blast. No revelations or second chances for them, I guess.

[@thehantavirus]

The other one was most likely damaged by it as well.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

The Wiki says both ships were destroyed. You can see the other ship at least partially break up.

[@juntalk4]

Hillo, you did not marry the entire manufacture line like your president said.

[@ProLogic-dr9vv]

Just for giggles and grins. she pick a very strange time to take a bath in goooo (YUK!!) ... 0:00

[@drgonzo305]

Helo's looking at all those 7's wondering how many of them he knock up too

[@beyerch]

I sure wish they used more nukes. Those nukes took out the hub and a couple baseships. Imagine how different things would have been if Pegasus jumped in and launched some nukes at New Caprica instead of just driving into the middle of 4 of them stupidly.....

[@alexshank1414]

Why did the Cylons position the FTL drive outside of the Hub, exposed?! Maybe the Cylons weren’t as advanced as we were lead to believe.

[@JohnG44]

There was no threat to them and didn't expect for the other models to attack the hub.

[@bjornjoseph]

why would there ftl drive be so exposed? galactica has its drive deep within the bowels of the ship. Cylon has theirs like its a radar

[@Ueberdoziz]

why cant i remember this??

[@TheKeyser94]

Because most of Season 3 and Season 4 is pretty stupid and meaningless, there a few good moments, but the rest is crap, this and the failure of Caprica was why Moore was kicked out of the project all together, even if they had something good with Blood and Chrone they left aside all together, never the less, Moore discover something that he is good at, writing highlander romances were his show Outlander, were his pointless melodrama actually excites soccer moms all over the world.

[@MrChupacabra555]

Its been so long, I had forgotten Lucy Lawless was in this show, and speaking in her native Kiwi accent ^_^ Also: Damn, but that gunk must have been cold (it looks like it would be.....and no, I wasn't checking any part of her body to gain that idea!! ^_^)

[@lawrencekramer7331]

A-Wing slash anybody.

[@BLACKFLAME4941]

hm.... hello darius from need for speed carbon^^

[@KameradVonTurnip]

*SIghs* this is kind of the point when the show is beating a dead horse because I remember the Resurrection Ships, but after they had to drag the show on longer they had to well bring more Resurrection Ships into the picture, so they needed a new "Super" ship to destroy so they brought in the Resurrection Hub, same concept but bigger. This show kind of lasted a few years too many when you have moments like this being repeated.

[@aaronrivas7977]

There was one resurrection ship chasing the human survivor fleet. That was explicitly said in the show. They never said it was the only one out there. In fact they point out that cylons dying in the colonies were being resurrected because they had resurrection ship(s) in the system, while there was one chasing the fleet. They also had one in New Caprica (or near enough to it without exposing it to danger) The Hub was basically the main server. Without it the other resurrection ships couldn’t work.

[@voluntarism335]

What's the point of destroying the resurrection hub the Cylons would just build another. What good does it do to make the enemy mortal when your only remaining warship is falling apart and in no condition to fight a war and god knows how many base stars there are.

[@UnicornGamingRX03]

The Cylons need the final five because the 13th tribe on the destroyed Earth had the Resurrection technology, in 'Daybreak Part II' Saul offered Resurrection technology to John Cavil in return to stop perusing the humans.

[@voluntarism335]

@@UnicornGamingRX03 even still there are probably far too many basestars for the Galactica to even fight

[@UnicornGamingRX03]

@@voluntarism335 Galactica is in no shape to fight except fighting the colony at the end.

[@voluntarism335]

@@UnicornGamingRX03 yeah the Galactica is no shape to fight so why risk it on this mission when I do not really see the benefit. They still have dozens or hundreds of basestars and the Galactica cannot fight off all of them let alone destroy them. If I were Adama I would not do this unless there was some sort of agreement that their forces will not chase us and that they use their fleet to protect Galatica so the fleet can leave and never return. The only reason I would jump Galatica to fight the Cylons is if I had a biogenic weapon that's transmissible when Cylon prisoners are killed. Doing that would get rid of the problem not just slightly weaken them and that would be worth it, because the virus could and maybe destroy them. Then the fleet can repopulate the 12 colonies. If it doesn't it should give Galatica enough time to fully flee Cylon space.

[@Swiftbow]

@@voluntarism335 This made many Cylons afraid to continue the pursuit, because now they could actually die. Up until this point, every Cylon that was killed by Galactica simply respawned in a new body. And I don't know what you mean about "fully flee Cylon space." They were long outside of human or Cylon controlled space. The Cylons were pursuing them across the Galaxy with the intent to exterminate the human race. And yes... they had too many basestars to fight. The only chance the humans had was to throw a wrench in the whole operation. Transforming an immortal enemy into mortals is a pretty big blow to deal.

[@ALITISA78]

When they cut the cable and it goes whipping back towards the viper is such an error. LOL that would not happen in space. the cable would just continue to be in the same sort of position really, there is no g force or air to produce a whiplash. Cool scene though lol

[@mattshuey1]

is robo-genocide approved by the Kobal Convention?

[@JohnG44]

Yes it is 😅

[@chrisb9960]

Not to be I kill joy or anything. How did they not know how resurrection worked? It was required by their entire civilization and would have needed maintenance.

[@Swiftbow]

The Resurrection Hub was built by the survivors Old Earth (the final Five Cylons), but they never gave the new Cylons the plans for it. Then the Cavils betrayed them and wiped their memories of being Cylons, making the Resurrection Hub the ONLY Resurrection Hub.

[@Bek359]

Knowing how to fix something and knowing how to rebuild something from scratch are two very different skillsets.

[@chrisb9960]

@@Bek359 An advanced civilization, based on one major piece of technology goes to war with another civilization and they don’t take time to document or backwards engineer a single part of it? I know it completely destroys the storyline but think about it. I enjoyed the series but it’s fictional. There are going to be inconsistencies in the story and for it to work we would have to ignore or accept it. It would be like going to war with rifles and tanks without one person knowing how they work.

[@johnwolf2349]

@@chrisb9960 blame Cavil - he's the one that decided to mindwipe and exile the chief designers and builders of the technology before anyone else learned about it.

[@chrisb9960]

@@johnwolf2349 The resurrection ship would have required maintenance. To enter into a war and not know how their most important piece of equipment worked, their biggest advantage or how to repair it is not what an advanced civilization would do when entering a war.

[@Muckylittleme]

Waman

[@jyvben1520]

hate the whispering text

[@spartanx9293]

1st

[@edwardcoomer5865]

4th. y e e t

[@wudupfammm8555]

Y E E T

[@TheKeyser94]

The Final Five is the most stupid arc of the final seasons, other than the stupid Kara magic song, but that had began with Lee and Kara exhausting and tiresome melodrama, and worst of all we don't even get a resolution of that, Kara just disappear from thin air, like all was meaningless.

[@usul573]

Meaningless? Everyone dies in real life too.

[@TheKeyser94]

@@usul573 Yeah, but not like this, sometimes people have resolution, here, there was non, one moment Kara was there, the next she disappear, I have no problems with people dying, it was the premise of the whole show, survival, but the endless melodrama make it stupid.

[@usul573]

@@TheKeyser94 One moment she was there, the next, she disappeared. Yeah that happened to me in real life too. Out of nowhere like Lee looking again and she's gone. There was resolution, it was full circle. Kara lets him go and says a prayer for him when she thinks he's dead in the miniseries. Lee had to let her go, like she told him to. She promised he would love earth, and he did. It gave us that catharsis, standing on earth together. She fulfilled her destiny. They achieved their goal, they made it to earth, but there is still sadness and death. Somehow it's ok though, that's the main message. What endless melodrama? What do you want? What kind of resolution would you want to see?

[@TheKeyser94]

@@usul573 Maybe you are new in this Fandom, because most Battlestar Galactica including myself hate the last two season of it, and that was bullshit, all our emotional investment in this characters was for nothing, hell, even in the original Battlestar Galactica Starbuck and Apollo had better arcs, even that Starbuck also dies there as well, but it wasn't filled with stupid melodrama and nonsensical plot arcs like the Final Five.

[@usul573]

@@TheKeyser94 What do you mean most? 2.4 million people watched the ending, so a few haters online doesn't mean a thing. The show has had haters since day 1. Mostly Dirk Benedict fanboys who are old and insecure in their masculinity. I loved it personally. I never felt that our emotional investment in the characters was for nothing. I found it satisfying. Season 4 of BSG has universal acclaim from critics and users. I never saw any stupid melodrama. The final five plot was done well.