I love how the ONE time they did, all the fears were validated.
Gaeta (sp?) did a damn good job all things considered
Athena was the one who did all the work. What did Gaeta do? Plug some patch cables in?
And then pulled them out. Good team work.
Set up a multi layered firewall that delayed the inevitable for long enough for them to execute their plan, for one.
Gaeta is the unsung hero of that series.
Gaeta is a traitorous shitbag as evidenced by his death by firing squad.
That whole arc made me sad.
So much. I really liked Gaeta before he was a traitor.
All he ever did was try to do the right thing and generally his reward was watching the people he loved get killed or people he trusted rise to power and betray him/leave him in the dust.
I’m not saying what he did was OK, but that bitterness festered over a very long period and over many events. Not to mention this all started with the genocide of the human race, which I imagine is going to take a bit of a mental toll on someone lol
Gaeta was the one feeding the resistance information.
That was in the before times…
Life’s complicated. That’s what made his arc so tragic and good
I thought Gaeta was the one holding off the cylons from breaking into the system
Well, for a while at least.
The network with its fake daemons and firewalls lasted how long? A minute or so?
i was gonna say! LOVED that part.
BTW I love how this show continues to hold its own today. I started rewatching it a couple weeks ago, and my wife stopped behind the couch one day and now I am not allowed to watch a second of it unless she’s there to enjoy it too.
It’s a blessing and a curse. It’s great to be able to share stuff but also, what do you mean you’re too tired to watch it’s the last episode of the season come on
I usually pump the brakes with series. She likes to binge, I prefer to watch a couple at a time and let the story sink in before proceeding another day.
I would so hate watcing a great show with you. I want to know what happens next and I want to know it NOW haha
Nah, if I binge I find I forget a lot of the content. Watching one or maximum two episodes at a time stretches the good feeling from the watching, maximizing pleasure.
The binge amnesia allows for surprises on the rewatches
You underestimate how rotten my brain is 😬
… Just watch it again.
(For that “just tape them up” energy)
We just watched it last year and I can’t believe I missed it the first go round. We were blown away.
It’s just a pity on a great show to have such a bad ending.
Wasn’t that bad IMO.
It’s way less bad on rewatch. Like we had it good back then for what we considered a bad ending lol
Each to their own.
I loved the ending, but that doesn’t mean you have to.
I expected some resolution or motivation for everything that had occurred, instead we got “God did it”.
I’ve never seen the ending but from what I remember of what I’ve seen, wasn’t that telegraphed from season 1?
Weeeeellll, mostly it’s all because Cavill is a sadist ;-)
I haven’t watched the show before, but it’s been my Sunday ritual for a little while now. I watch while ironing my shirts, it’s really good ! Character writing is 10/10.
What show is this from?
Oh you’re in for a ride! Battlestar Galactica. Not the one from the seventies, the one from the aughts. This series broke my mind on what a sci-fi series could be and do. Start with the movie/miniseries, continue with the full on series.
The 2 x 1.5 h miniseries is from 2003. The series from 2004.
A friend tried to watch that with me a few years ago. Wasn’t really my thing.
Don’t be so glum, we all got skeletons in the closet.
Battlestar Galactica
I always like to tell my BSG story.
- Watch mini series, it’s good
- Don’t get into the rest, forget about it
- Come home one day to flat mate watching it on DVD, just as the Galactica jumps into the atmosphere on New Caprica and jumps out again.
- Me: “I need to watch this from the start”
- Flat mate ejects the disc right then and there and inserts the first disc of the first season.
- We watch it every night until the end
Best TV ever made.
You have a great flat mate there too
The overall story really flailed around as the later seasons went on (IIRC during a writers’ strike is when there was a lot of issues), but ‘33’- the first episode of the first season is so fantastic I still remember it distinctly.
The style, tone, and acting of BSG really kept the show intriguing even if the plot went in circles sometimes.
There was a writer’s strike in the middle of the final season which seems to have sent the show off the rails.
I’m a little sad that the first re-exposure was pretty much the pinnacle badass moment of the series. It’s a great show, but that might have still set the expectations a bit high.
That scene was the singular best piece of television in history.
May be with the Galactica jumping into and ramming the Cylon colony later on a close second.
I can weather the weaker parts of a story for the stong parts to shine beside. It’s all good.
Then you discover the board game and it’s a whole new level of great
Board game you say?
one of my absolute favs. it’s a co-op where one player is randomly, secretly a cylon, sabotaging the groups efforts.
you can toss people in the brig. theyll protest “Im not the cylon!!!” and if youre wrong (youre often wrong), the group suffers by losing the jailed character’s special ability, while trying to fight off an attack until managing to jump.
best part? half way through, you draw new loyalty cards. sleeper cylon activated!!!
its genuinely hard not to run out of food, or water, or just get overrun by a boarding party. some of the best fun losing Ive ever had
Truly it’s a hard game even if there were no cylons. Humans rarely win in my games. Alas, it’s out of print 😭. Its spiritual successor Unfathomable seems good as well, though I’ve only played it once
I’m getting my men.
Keep those frackin’ toasters outta here!
Keep those frackin’ IOT toasters outta here!
IOT
Internet of Toasters
Or IOT being for IOT of Toasters.
IOT Internet of Toasters for Toasters by Toasters.
toasters
Problematic language.
Clankers?
Chromeheads is the current PC term.
Speaking of fracking toasters, reminder that there was a valid fan theory that Cylonism was a STD for most of the series.
So say we all!
So say we all!
SO SAY WE ALL
#SO SAY WE ALL
Live long and prosper 🖖
that too why not
By your command.
Use the force, NegativeNull!
SneakerNet
“That’s right- landlines. I want corded phones fucking everywhere that don’t talk to anything but each other.”
So say we all!
i am out of the loop here once again.
In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.
In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.
Just to clarify a point of the show, it isn’t too old to be networked. They had that ability then. They had just previously fought a war with the Cylons, in which the Galactica was built for and fought in, so not networking was standard protocall then. The military decided, after a long peace, they should have networked ships, assuming the Cylon threat was gone. This cause nearly all modern military vessels to be open to exploit, except the Galactica and few remaining older vessels.
Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
I forget, did Pegasus end up disabling their networking after they made their initial escape? I don’t remember it being mentioned, but it makes for quite a plot hole if they continued on as normal.
If I remember correctly they were in drydock and thus shutdown during the initial attack
Oh yeah, people were saying Picard season 3 ripped off the idea.
Thanks for this article describing the actual computer system update crisis … but still, i do not know what this photograph of some guy means in your post …
Edit : never mind someone else explained it to me here
It’s funny that I am rewatching the series right now. Thankfully it is still as good as I remember it
Except this time the threat was from Chief Tyrol, surely not foreshadowing anything at all.
LOL
Yup.
It can be good to live an analog life, y’all.
- sent from my fax machine
Love this!
