Deleted Scene War of the gods Battlestar Galactica Classic

[@brillopad6901]

Grew up loving this show, sure wish it never got cancelled. I think it could've been great with a 5 season run.

[@chissstardestroyer]

I'd have loved it too, but I absolutely *hated* the stupid remake they did, however, the comics are quite good, namely the "Death of Apollo" series of comics, as they deal with the same characters as in the show. I was a toddler when this show was on television in its original format and live, so I remember very little of it overall.

[@ohroonoko]

@@chissstardestroyer I always loved BSG. I watched it first-run on ABC. Even have nostalgia for G1980. The Return of Starbuck was amazing and sad. I bought the comics in the 90’s. I read Hatch’s books in the 90’s and my gf got one of them signed by Hatch for me at SD Comic Con. And that being said, reimagined BSG is frakkin awesome. I just started my 4th watch of the series. The drama is so compelling. I get teary-eyed every episode. It is simply the greatest science fiction television series of all time.

[@explores40]

I never grew up with this show as I wasn’t born yet until 1979 yet it seems this show could have had more seasons but at the time I do wonder it was canceled? Networks like to do that lol even in todays times but I do remember the spin off battlestar in 2004 series it was ok it held up for it’s time but the thing is with the classic one the writers could have had a better story line instead of earth 🌍 and having a story line of agent gods and having Athena etc not trying to be critical or anything even the 2004 one it could have been better when I think about .

[@Chanticlair47]

I wish they could have made a spin-off series starring Edward Mulhare as John from the Ship Of Lights preparing certain chosen individuals in various important walks of life here on Earth for the arrival of their brothers from the stars. Could have been very interesting and very well thought out with good writers, imagination. Also top actors for the other leaders on the Ship of Lights.

[@CosmoShidan]

There were so many things going against the original BSG: the sudden shift of the series going from a planned tv movie trilogy to an unplanned tv series; having spent less on special effects and recycling the same stock footage for space battles; changing the Cylons from alien reptiles to robots because of censorship; no more colonial ships with innocent people getting blown up; colonial viper pilots no longer get killed off; ect. With all that, the series' ratings tanked and it all went down the tubes. NBC micromanaged the whole thing.

[@CaminoAir]

That was a really good cast. Kudos to the casting director. It's easier to accept a series like this when the actors behave as if they believe it.

[@mikevanroy9356]

Landing crew: God damn shuttles with no wheels scratching the shit out of my bay every time they land!

[@trhansen3244]

But the vipers didn't have wheels, either. I wonder if they used a gravitron buffer shield to get a soft landing without worrying about scratches. I'll have my assistant look into it over the weekend.

[@battlestarmarc]

Awesome 2 part episode. Battlestar Galactica should have been a super franchise.

[@Sennmut]

"A Feast of Thanksgiving". I loved the way Adama was unabashed about his spiritual faith. That is rare in shows of any vintage.

[@TommygunNG]

At the same time, remember the situation on the Gemini Freighter. Iblis actually made a point about how they had people living in virtual squalor. Yet at the same time, the Rising Star was having parties, and the plot armor characters were having a “feast.”

[@trhansen3244]

@@TommygunNG They should have set down on one of those many planets they passed by and started a new home.

[@TommygunNG]

Apollo remarked in “Greetings from Earth“ - the terra arc - that they never been strong enough to stop. He was hoping the human civilization. They discovered, was indeed Earth, and would be strong enough to help them stand against the Cylons. I do though wonder about the human settlements. They came across over their travels. Did the Cylons chasing them wipe them out?

[@brettthebassist]

Anne was smoking hot!

[@barreloffun10]

She was but I wish they had shown more of Maren Jensen (Athena).

[@avlanche7777]

Beautiful!

[@aaronbarlow4376]

Anne Lockhart was so hot.

[@Ken-vk8pb]

Yes , Anne Lockhart was hot but I think Laurette Spang as Cassiopea was a bit hotter but both are fine.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

@@Ken-vk8pb Starbuck was the man, juggling Cass and Athena lol. Athena also was gorgeous.

[@edwardguerena3270]

Battlestar Galactica with Lauren Green it was one of my favorite shows and Captain Apollo and Starbuck the old series 1978

[@rowanaforrest9792]

Mine too (though the name is Lorne, not Lauren). Lorne Greene always has such a presence on screen.

[@Sennmut]

@@rowanaforrest9792 Did you ever see him as the Aposle Peter, in 1954's The Silver Chalice? I can see why they cast him as Adama.

[@rowanaforrest9792]

@@Sennmut I never knew about that movie. Mostly I knew Lorne Greene from the long-running Bonanza series. I can see why he was cast as all three roles. He had that kind of wise, fatherly presence.

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

I had a huge crush on Sheba as a teen watching this :) still do....she was so gorgeous

[@davemiller6055]

Sheba is drop dead gorgeous. Prettiest woman on the show. And that's saying something.

[@rickbruner5525]

It's hard to beat Jane Seymore - Serina

[@Ken-vk8pb]

Yes, Anne Lockhart - Sheba and Jane Seymour - Serina were very attractive at that time but I thought Cassiopea played by Laurette Spang was better looking. I also think that Janet Louise Johnson as Lt. Brie looked fine as well.

[@davemiller6055]

@@rickbruner5525 Nothing wrong with Jane Seymore either.

[@ardiekepoo744]

@@Ken-vk8pb let’s not forget Maren Jensen who played Adama’s daughter, Athena.

[@HariSeldon913]

No love for Siress Belloby? Poor Brett... 😺😺😺

[@reesepacker7983]

lol...i had that damn 70's bowl cut as a kid

[@exidy-yt]

LOL, so did I.

[@trhansen3244]

I can understand the reason, though. It was very inexpensive and easy to comb. The cost of a haircut in the 70s was anywhere from $20-500. That is a lot of money.

[@stefanoaguila2744]

loved growing up watching this show...

[@classicgalactica5879]

Me too. I still watch it every so often on Blu Ray.

[@alexhenderson1312]

Same here! 😎👍 GINO is just SO ridiculously overrated! Now Ron Moore did some great stuff for Star Trek but his 'reimagining' of Galactica, its lore and concepts was a massive mistake! ☹️😖 In many respects a precursor to all the other shameless 'reimaginings' and 'subversions' of established franchises - TV and film - done because they arrogantly think they 'know better' than the creators of these pop culture icons! 😡😤👎

[@psalm37v4]

@@alexhenderson1312 I completely agree! Many supporters of the reboot will make fun of the original series, but if they actually watched some of the better episodes and ditched the cheesy ones they would see what a truly great series it was

[@azurerainbow4637]

It would've been interesting if there were an episode of Battlestar Galactica in which Apollo marries Sheba,daughter of Cain,Commander of the Battlestar Pegasus,and they both raise Boxey as their own son,whose biological father was killed when the Cylons invaded & attacked the Great Colonies and then Boxey's mother,Serina,died on the Galactica after being shot by a Cylon on Kobol hours after she married Apollo.

[@Rometiklan]

Apollo and Sheba's kid would grow up hearing the exploits of his 2 grandfathers, 2 of the greatest battlestar commanders in history. Huge boots to fill.

[@bri55118]

Unfortunately Sheba was to die in the opening of the first episode of the 2 nd season. Thankfully the comics that came after the series have Apollo and Sheba together, check out the maximum press galactica comics for their son named Cain.

[@rowanaforrest9792]

@@bri55118 I always thought Apollo and Sheba were a rather awkward couple, there seemed always some awkwardness and I'd predict a fair number of arguments, but I could still see them getting married happily. Starbuck and Cassi were pretty much soulmates, but most happy marriages aren't.

[@roberttbrockway]

@@bri55118 "Unfortunately Sheba was to die in the opening of the first episode of the 2 nd season." After Serina and Sheba we may have found that Apollo had trouble getting dates.

[@trhansen3244]

Sheba was a better fit than the Jane Seymores character. if you askjed me

[@aaronbarlow4376]

Old series is better than the new one. That's right I said it.

[@ericmcconnaughey2782]

Two completely different things. Each great on their own. Reportedly, EJO told producers 'No Aliens; first sign of a BEM, I'm outta here!'

[@aaronbarlow4376]

@@ericmcconnaughey2782 BEM? Brussell-sprout Enhanced Meal? I agree, that's horrible.

[@CosmoShidan]

While I prefer the new series, simply because the premise and its tone aren't as jarring as the original, I still would have preferred to see Glen A. Larson's original plans for the original BSG to be a trilogy of television films rather than a tv show.

[@CosmoShidan]

@@aaronbarlow4376 That is a joke right?

[@aaronbarlow4376]

@@CosmoShidan No, the OG series had a certain charm about it. A similar campiness that was shared by another series of the same time that I loved 'Buck Rogers'. Attempting to reboot a series with 'edginess' and making it darker sometimes destroys the feel and charm of the original. Heroes like Starbuck were ruined a bit by gender swapping, he was a cigar smoking, drinking womanising hotshot pilot, i.e. ultra cool. While Katee Sackoff did a good job, the character worked better as a guy. The cylons were also cool with the distinctive metallic voice and the moving red eye, they were also campy in an almost Doctor Who way but still fun.

[@johnodom3282]

Great show!

[@MrHarveyrex23]

Count Iblis= Imperious Leader of the Cylon Empire. Senator/ Chancellor Palpatine=Darth Sidious & Galactic Emperor.

[@drafe007]

nice historical/cinematic segue.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

Iblis is another name for Satan. An Islamic name.

[@44excalibur]

Iblis and the Imperious Leader were not the same person. Count Iblis' voice was imprinted on the Imperious Leader at the time the Cylons overthrew the reptilian race that created them and took over, which Count Iblis was implied to have had some influence in.

[@diogenesesenna9323]

I think I can see why that was deleted - look at Apollo's very late reaction to Boxey being there. It was out of character. By this time their father and son relationship was fully cemented, so Apollo would have picked him up as soon as he arrived, not ignore him completely for a good thirty seconds. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.

[@christianealshut1123]

I remember the series too, though we had it A LOT later in Germany...Is this by any means from the episode which has Patrick Macnee as Satan in it? I remember something to the effect that he also voiced the Cylon Leader and on of the characters (Baltar I think) recognized him for what he was because of that voice.

[@psalm37v4]

Yes, he played Count Iblis (A.k.a. the devil)

[@Pfirtzer]

Patrick Macnee voiced the Imperious leader of the Cylons as well, he did the intro of every episode too.Wonderful actor and one of my favorite episodes of the 2 part of the series.

[@jedicrush1497]

I really wish they could put this back on HULU.

[@crazedvole]

Right now you can watch it on NBC under "throwback" www.nbc.com/battlestar-galactica-classic

[@WalterDWormack214]

Spare yourself THE PAIN. It's available on DVD. And in the last couple of years, they've finally released it on Blu-Ray dvd.

[@starsiegeplayer]

Available on Tubi also.

[@borgduck]

Feast of thanksgiving? No wonder!

[@extracreditproductions1697]

Now, why the hell doesn't the DVD set have that shot of the cloven hoof?

[@TheCausalParadox]

Because nobody has it. It has been lost to time.

[@jayesh787800]

@@TheCausalParadox is it really gone? That would be such a shame. I'm hoping that someone who worked on this episode/series managed to get hold of it and kept it hidden but now lost awaiting to be found

[@PalisadesParketeer]

For a short while it was here on KZbin. Think it was called ?"Blue Jimmies" or something close to that. But don't see it anymore. It's been off of KZbin for quite awhile now.@@TheCausalParadox

[@jamessullivan4391]

Sheba!

[@omarr.dasilva9530]

I love galáctica 🐸👽

[@sandralee3091]

Came here to see what face from the A-Team did before... Starbuck is a cool name. Did the coffee shop get it from his character?

[@CosmoShidan]

Starbuck is the name of Captain Ahab's first mate in the novel Moby DIck by Herman Mellville. It's most likely Larson borrowed the name for DIrk Benedict's character.

[@SniffyPoo]

deleted? I seem to remember this was in the original version.

[@44excalibur]

No it wasn't. This wasn't in the original broadcast.

[@WalterDWormack214]

I have the *"BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: The Complete Epic 'ORIGINAL' Series" box set,* that was released on *Universal Home Video.* And I've watched *"War of The Gods",* and the scene shown here, *is NOT, in the episode, as it was "originally aired"!* And it is not included in the *deleted scenes* portion of the DVD, either.

[@topJimmyP1984]

This is indeed in the DVD Blu-ray "Definitive collection" most recent set released and the times to my knowledge are all around 45 minutes which indicates they would have had to delete other scenes to add this back in so I believe it was as originally aired, although I haven't compared to my complete epic series set that came in the Cylon head. Possibly remembering the deleted scenes...

[@LordZontar]

It was deleted from the original broadcast cut but I remember reading it in the Glen Larson/Robert Thurston novelisation of this episode.

[@psalm37v4]

@@LordZontar same

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Someone, please, give Boxey a haircut! Bowlcuts are something that should not be inflicted boys.

[@starwarsrebel2006]

Back in the 70s, we all had them, including me. :)

[@TommygunNG]

Ditto, starwarsrebel2006. I don't allow those pictures to be displayed anymore.

[@brettthebassist]

Apparently you did grow up in the 70’s, that’s the look we had...lol

[@clasicradiolover]

I liked the 70's and 80's men's hair styles

[@davemiller6055]

Plenty of us had them.

[@garynordeen4296]

This scene was not deleted

[@werre2]

holy framerate batman

[@GoLakers3900]

I don't remember this scene...

[@topJimmyP1984]

Deleted scenes from the box set

[@reesepacker7983]

wow i see white men , black men , ...women , a "old white man" all together on the same team on screen ...so why does hollywood now act like all the stuff coming out now is so trend setting and "woke" ...i say because it was never issue ...not REAL issue anyways

[@barreloffun10]

All that "woke" shit is just Marxist propaganda.

[@TheCausalParadox]

@@barreloffun10 Yup, divide and conquer. All the shit people are fighting over these days.... race, gender, age, religion... people were already on the path to harmony decades ago. Then the marxist professors took over the colleges......

[@zemxxi2765]

Very true. And what is often unsaid is that sci fi has been, for generations a vanguard in presenting diversity. At least it was after John W. Campbell (of Astounding Science Fiction) died.

[@HariSeldon913]

And both of those black men got replaced in the new "diverse" reboot, one by an Asian female and the other by an "old white man".

[@CosmoShidan]

Simply having Black folk in film or tv was groundbreaking, but not really a step toward progress nowadays. This is because you still have white dudes as the main characters in the 1978 show. Now the reimagined BSG had Hispanics, Asians, First Nations, and Mixed persons of color in it. We can indeed call this a step toward progress. Although, even in the reimangined series, while it was a step toward diversity almost 20 years ago, it still had white folk in the main leads. It may appear that the culture has changed, but the act of color-blind casting is still a thing. Plus, there needs to be more writers of color in the writers room and the editing room.

[@TheLevel52]

the left should watch this..mmmmmmmm..where is the racism here...

[@Cailus3542]

"Look at this random scene from a sci-fi show in the 70's! See, there's a black guy! Clearly this means that racism doesn't exist anywhere and there are no problems at all! Man, I'm such a genius, aren't I?" Seriously.

[@CosmoShidan]

So ya got a pair of black folk, whoopie. Sure there are a pair of blackfolks surrounded by white walls, but who needs more colors painted over them! So I guess Asians, Hispanics, First Nations and Mixed persons of colors aren't required at all! Progress!

[@paulbeauregard1598]

need the entire show as tis piece is just useless crapola