#bsg miniseries

[madamairlock]

How's one to know? I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones

Ivy by Taylor Swift || Spaceparents [1/10]

#ivy #battlegal #spaceparents #bsg #battlestar galactica #kaitlin does a thing #miniseries #bsg miniseries #laura roslin #william adama

[isagrimorie]

I’m watching BSG miniseries for the first time since the mini aired.

It’s so interesting to watch BSG alongside my Voyager rewatch, by all accounts Battlestar Galactica 2003 was in response to the Ron D Moore’s battles in the Voyager writer’s room.

It feels like from Bryan Fuller to Ronald D Moore, these writers have Voyager writer’s room related anger.

The writers were chafing at the bit at the way they always had to reset back to status quo, and hated how Voyager’s rich premise was being hamstrung by Braga.

TrekMovie: On Voyager and Battlestar, it is a ship on its way to Earth with no infrastructure, there are some parallels. Would ‘Ron Moore’s Voyager’ be like Battlestar, if you were the showrunner?

Ron Moore: Yah…probably…when I was on my brief tenure on Voyager and I was starting to think in terms of what I wanted to do, I remember sitting with the writing staff and saying ‘I really think…that when Voyager gets damaged it should get damaged, we should stop repairing the ship, the ship should be broken down more and devolving a little bit more.’ One of the ideas I had is that they should start developing their own culture within the starship and letting go of Starfleet protocols and stop thinking of themselves as Starfleet people on some level, even though they still wear the uniform and still try to adhere to the regulations. I thought it would be interesting that by the time this ship got back to Earth, that it didn’t even belong at Earth anymore. That it sort of had become its own culture, it had formed its own civilization which was dissimilar to that which they had left behind…Now that you mention this there was somebody, I don’t think it was me, somebody had pitched the notion of them having to guard some alien ships they had encountered. It was a convoy and through some plot I can’t remember that they had agreed to protect and Sheppard through some hostile star systems on their journey. And they were going to be the warship tending the little convey of civilian ships. And I was really taken with it and really liked the idea and thought it would be cool and it was sort of Galactica. We might have even mentioned Galactica….but to your question, If I had been the showrunner from the beginning I probably would have sent it into a darker direction and sent it into a more harrowing journey yes. And made them more on the run and more less of a pretty journey getting back, and at the same time, I probably would have felt compelled to stay within certain boundaries of what Trek was and how Trek had established itself. So I don’t think I could have taken Voyager to the places I have taken Galactica, even if I did have the reins.

(source)

I think in the end, I wouldn’t have liked going on the deep end of this. A compromise of having more repercussions but still having the rails a Trek show would have, would work more.

I like the idea of Voyager having its own culture and the crew feeling out of step with Earth when they return.

Eventually, even BSG fell down some narrative deep end that was too much.

It’s kind of amazing how Battlestar Galactica disappeared from the cultural zeitgeist because it was almost as big as Game of Thrones back in the day. It won so many accolades and awards that for a good long while almost every space show had the gritty filter of BSG.

I think that’s what ultimately killed the Stargate Franchise when it tried to BSG-fy Stargate Universe.

TLDR, it’s interesting to look at Roslin and see the narrative lineage from Janeway to Roslin.

And looking at Adama/Roslin, it’s interesting how Chakotay/Janeway could have gone if Ron Moore were allowed to do more things in Voyager.

It’s also fascinating how Roslin grew and took command the moment a crisis happened. If not for the attack (which until the end was BAFFLING because no matter how much the intro says it, THERE WAS NO PLAN) Roslin would just be in the background. Her potential unrealized.

#bsg miniseries #star trek voyager

[searider--falcon]

Battlestar Galactica x The Odyssey

1 - The Twelve Colonies of Kobol as The Fall of Troy

Locations in Battlestar Galactica as stops in the Odyssey. Quotes are from the Robert Fagles or Emily Wilson translations, depending on what I thought fit best.

Screencaps are from https://frak-that.com/

#bsg x the odyssey #greek mythology #i was planning on posting this on the miniseries anniversary #but Things TM keep happening #bsgedit #bsg #battlestar galactica #laura roslin #bill adama #lee adama #kara thrace #gaius baltar #caprica six #sharon valerii #sharon agathon #karl agathon #saul tigh #ellen tigh #galen tyrol #cally henderson #anastasia dualla #billy keikeya #tory foster #battlestar galactica x the odyssey #please be nice #i never post my own stuff #my edit #screencaps are from frak-that.com #gods bless you

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

I usually don't have much of an ear for composers but I was rewatching the Battlestar Galatica (2004) miniseries like "hey the score is really good, is that Bear McCreary?" and it was! there's no point to this post I'm just very excited about it

#i love bear mccreary (bc of black sails) and battlestar galactica and also being right about things so this is very exciting for me #bsg gets kind of weird towards the end but the miniseries and the first couple of seasons are really good #in case this post somehow tempts someone into watching it you have to start with the miniseries before the regular show #if you like the people being miserable on ships (in this case space ships) #and the (seemingly) unwinnable wars from black sails you'll probably like battlestar galactica #kvetch oc

[babolat85]

Battlestar Galactica | Opening Scene I need to do a rewatch of this. Can’t believe the Miniseries is 20 years old this year

#youtube #battlestar galactica #bsg #tricia helfer #miniseries #scifi #nonsims

[transpidergwen]

Underrated dynamic: Starbuck and Helo.

They're buds. They go way back. They're completely platonic on a show with multiple love triangles. Not once is Helo's devotion to Sharon called into question. Not once are his scenes with Kara framed as anything sexual or romantic. They understand each other, they have each other's backs, they share a deep trust that I don't even think she has with Lee. He tries to to talk to her about Anders after their failed hookup and she can't, but she easily opens up to Helo about it at the end, and he gets it. Part of that is because he was there, but mostly he's just known Starbuck for so long that he sees how this has changed her in a way that Lee just hasn't been able to. Helo laid down his life when he gave up his seat on Caprica because he considered his life disposable, and then he found love and suddenly had something to live for, and he understands when Anders does the same thing for her. They're growing together while Lee continues (especially after the Blackbird) struggling to find himself.

Her relationship with Lee is a beautiful chaotic disaster and neither of them ever truly knows where they stand, but Helo is her friend and a rock that she can rely on. They can shoot the shit, they can open up, they can sit in silence and listen to music on a crappy old radio. Their scenes are always a stealth highlight of any episode and I just really really love them.

#thank the GODS they decided to being him back after the miniseries! #anyway I just watched Scar and their scene at the end was the sweetest!!! #battlestar galactica 2003 #battlestar galactica #starbuck #kara thrace #kara 'starbuck' thrace #karl 'helo' agathon #lee 'apollo' adama #helo #apollo #lee adama #bsg #bsg 2003 #I kinda lost the thread in there hopefully it makes sense

[lets-steal-an-archive]

After screening the footage — which was met with boos — Moore took increasingly heated questions from fans, one of whom asked, point-blank, whether he would take their criticisms into consideration if the miniseries was a success and the new Battlestar was ordered to series. Moore answered, “No.” He and his team had their own vision for the show, their own story they wanted to tell, and the fans could either take it or leave it.

Twenty years later, Moore and Eick’s Battlestar Galactica has totally eclipsed the original. Though mostly ignored by the Emmys (this was before they paid attention to genre shows), BSG was a critical darling that garnered mainstream attention, a Peabody Award, and an invitation for its stars and creators to address the United Nations. It still ranks among one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

In short, the fans were wrong, and if Moore had bowed to their demands, we’d all have missed out on something special.

#battlestar galactica #bsg #🎂 #fandom

[fairyhotmother]

#it's for science #i'm especially curious about R/A shippers #i'm a season 2 gal myself #battlestar galactica #bsg #laura roslin #bill adama #spaceparents

[galactica-bigbang]

Kickoff Post

Welcome to the Battlestar Galactica Big Bang and Mini Bang Event!

This event has been put together in recognition of the fact that, as of this December, it will have been twenty years since the miniseries first aired--definitely a milestone worth commemorating!

The event is a chance for writers and artists to get together and produce fanworks set in the BSG universe, with two tiers--hence Big Bang and Mini Bang.

Signups will Officially open in one month, on July 1, 2023. Posting will begin on December 8, 2023 for Big Bang participants, and will be on December 9, 2023 for Mini Bang participants.

In the meantime, please come check out the event tumblr, where we have the Rules and Schedule available.

We also have a Discord, if you’d like to come and say hi and hang out.

Questions? Feel free to send us an ask via tumblr, or you can reach out to the event email, [email protected]

We’re excited to be having this event, and hopefully you are, too! Very much looking forward to what you all come up with.

So Say We All

~GBB Mod Team

#kickoff post #battlestar galactica #bsg #galactica big bang

[madamairlock]

#how about some miniseries incorrect quotes? #bsg #battlestar galactica #battlegal #incorrect quotes #incorrect bsg quotes #kaitlin does a thing

[shadowsong26x]

Would you be interested in a BSG Big Bang event?

So, this is a kind of Impulsive idea that I had while walking the dog I'm petsitting earlier.

Basically, as of this December, it will have been 20 years(!!) since the miniseries first aired.

Also, I've recently wandered back into the fandom, and while I know there are other fans out there, I haven't made many connections, and one of the best ways I've made fandom friends has been through Events like Big Bangs/exchanges.

Also also, I like BB events; they help me Finish Stuff XD

And...yeah, I thought (again, Impulsively) that I might be willing to try and run one??? If people are interested. As a way to make friends, and also, like. 20 years. That's a Thing all right. (I thought about 'maybe put it off to next year' but then I added up the dates and. Welp.)

Details still sort of vague but my thought is that it would be open to any BSG fic (meaning no restrictions on pairings/ratings as long as everything is appropriately tagged; fics relating to Caprica or Blood and Chrome would probably also be fair game; not sure about the original 70s series, I'd probably want to focus on the reimagined series timeline, but Maybe). I'm thinking a minimum wordcount of 10k? But not married to that number. Podfics and maybe fanmixes would count as art. And then posting would be in December, to line up with that 20-year mark.

Anyway, I'm putting together a poll to gauge interest! Because I do want to do this and am willing to set it up/run it if people want to participate, so here we go!

Please reblog if you vote, because I'd like this to reach as many people in the fandom on tumblr as possible!

#bsg #battlestar galactica

[thevulcanbobdylan]

Roslin x Adama +"My love," for the comforting gestures prompts. Please & thank you.

I'm new-ish to the BSG Fandom and just started watching again (got to Colonial Day last time I watched, which was years ago). So, almost finished with the miniseries (or I will be tonight.).

Ughhh I love this. I hope you enjoy it! I really did try to come up with an answer for this that I could insert nearer the beginning of the series, but this one was so loud in my brain that I couldn't ignore it. So this is set near the very end. I hope it's not too spoilery and is still enjoyable for someone just starting out - otherwise forget it until you get to season 4!

*

Jack Cottle excelled at two things in this life. The first was emergency medicine. The other was shutting off his damned ears. He’d served in one medical bay or another for longer than some of these kids had been alive, and in the curtained, false privacy of those spaces, he’d overheard things that could drive a man senseless. Usually, it wasn’t the poignancy or the mortality, but the sheer inanity of it that got to him. Nobody was meant to be a fly on the wall the way a battlestar doctor was.

At this late stage of his career, Jack’s sense of hearing was so finely tuned that he could be selective about it. So it was that he always knew when the Admiral was on deck. The old man made a habit of coming down, first thing after the end of his regular duty shift, around 1900. Besides that, it wasn’t unusual for him to step in at irregular hours, and if Cottle’s well-honed senses caught a whiff of booze or a sense of self-medicated unsteadiness about the man, well, he could switch those off as well. It was none of his damned business how the Admiral spent his rare leisure time, so long as he wasn’t causing any disturbance to the patient.

Indeed, Cottle prided himself on the perfect selectiveness of his hearing. Seated at his desk, pausing a moment between charts, he took the time to light a cigarette and let the wordless voices prickle in the back of his awareness. He’d allow them their grief, their distress - they were adults, after all. It was when she started sounding particularly fatigued that he might make himself busy with something more obtrusive, cleaning instruments and the like. That was usually enough to run the old man off, at least for a while, and let the President get some sleep.

This time, in the space of his brief half-listening, he heard something that didn’t sit right. So soft and quick, he wasn’t certain what he’d heard - a sob, perhaps, or a choked sound of pain. He suppressed the urge to grumble. It was unusual enough that he felt the need to check. If they were trying to frak in his sickbay – 

But when he passed the gap in the curtain, it was clear she was sleeping peacefully. The old man was holding one of her thin hands to his lips, and his rugged face was red and streaked with tears. Jack should’ve turned away that instant - all his instincts screamed at him to flee - but he wasn’t fast enough, and he heard what that choked voice was saying.

“My love.”

He’d been wrong, before, about the inanity being the worst of it. The President lay, grim and pained on his medical bed, lit by the awful fluorescents and looking for all the world like a godsdamned angel - her lover, hunched and helpless at her side. And Jack Cottle, backing away, found his finely trained hearing deafened by a roar that started in his chest, as his heart broke right along with Bill’s.

#roslin x adama #angst #bsg fanfic #bsg #writing prompts #flash fiction

[jbk405]

I’m finally going to lay out my thoughts on the “Battlestar Galactica” revival series

The 2003 BSG relaunch is apparently seeing something of a resurgence right now.  I’ve seen more and more people discovering it online over the past few months and beginning full-series watches.  I’m happy for any old TV series to get rediscovered (Although the thought that a show I watched as it aired is now considered “old” is disheartening), but I’ll be honest that I was never as in-love with the series as others seem to be.  And after seeing so many people talking about how it’s one of the greatest underappreciated shows of the ‘00s I’ve got to get out my thoughts.

It's not a BAD show, not by any means, but I do honestly think it was much more impressive at the time it came out than it is now.  It tried to do new things for TV sci-fi in the early 2000s, and now that other shows are doing those same things better it doesn't stand out.  It was the novelty that made it seem so amazing at first.

One of the things it is praised for is that it brought in long-form storytelling from the beginning.  The standard for ‘90s sci-fi was to slowly introduce ongoing plotlines into episodic standalone stories, and BSG had direct episode-to-episode continuity starting from square one.  Except that BSG had no plan for what the ongoing storyline would be, despite frequent on-screen references to “the plan” (And even the eventual release of a film called “The Plan”). The writers have admitted that they did not start the series with any idea where they were going, so plot threads would drag on and climax with no buildup or any emotional oomph.  The exemplar in the beginning was Helo’s entire story on Caprica in season one: He wasn’t supposed to reappear after the pilot miniseries, but the staff liked him so much they brought him back for the series and didn’t bother to figure out why the Cylons were observing him and sparing him until season two.  So all of his scenes are filled with pseudo-mysterious conversations from the observing Cylons to cover up the fact that there was no plan.  The eventual reveal that they’re trying to see if “love” will allow Cylons to bear living children was just bizarre and nonsensical in my opinion.

Babylon 5, which aired 10 years before BSG, was conceived with a clear arc for the entire plot so they could put things in the first season that foreshadowed what was to come in the last.  But BSG, despite being praised for ‘pioneering’ serious serialization in TV Sci-Fi, couldn’t even foreshadow the rest of the first season from the pilot.

The series is also praised for its character development, when almost all prior TV shows had a mandate to keep development to a minimum so as to make all episodes accessible even if viewed out of order or without context.  And the characters definitely do change over the course of the series.  Except, just like with the main story plotline, the character arcs were not planned in advance.  The writers have admitted that the reveal at the end of season three that four recurring characters have been Cylons all along was not planned in advance at all.  They specifically said they picked these characters based purely on who would be the biggest surprise.  There was no foreshadowing at all for the audience to have picked up on earlier in the series, since until they made the decision while writing those episodes the characters weren’t Cylons.

In fact, they even needed to put in retcons to patch over this twist, since it directly contradicted their own canon and the in-series mythology.

This end result was that the show was “pretty good”, and it had some individual episodes and arcs that moved up to “great”, but it was dragged down as a whole.  It had meandering plotlines, “shocking” twists with no logic or emotional foundation, and a general lack of focus.  Season three is where I lost interest, and season four is just a mess.  Even the more devoted fans of the series are heavily critical of the finale, and personally I think the ultimate fate of the characters was just plain bad.

And -- again -- it’s still not a bad show overall.  I saw much worse shows on TV in 2003, and I’ve seen much worse shows on TV right now.  None of these faults take away from the phenomenal acting that the cast put into their performances, or the truly beautiful soundtrack (The soundtrack is the one area that I think surpasses the hype for this show).  Even the CGI holds up pretty well twenty years later.  But I just can’t get behind the “This was one of the greatest shows of the era” brouhaha that’s bubbling up.

#Battlestar Galactica #BSG #BSG 2003 #Hype backlash #TV

[fracktastic]

BSG passport stamps, plus rainbow versions for Pride. 

The date on the Caprican stamp is the miniseries premier date.  The date on the Gemenese stamp is Lorena Gale’s birthday - she played Elosha in the reimagined series. Yes, I switched up the formatting between the two. 

Can’t decide if the entry stamps should all be matchy between the colonies, or if I should get creative and make them all different. Suggestions welcome. 

#digital art #passport stamps #sci fi passport stamps #sci fi art #bsg art #battlestar galactica #caprica #gemenon #travel

[transpidergwen]

Lmao at Tigh mispronouncing Gaeta as Gaida

Edit: my b Adama was flip flopping too

#battlestar galactica #bsg #bsg: the miniseries #rewatch

[thestateofardadreaming]

I’m rewatching BSG miniseries. I’m on that part in Ragnar Anchorage.

Laura Roslin just gave Bill Adama her speech about the last human survivors needing to have babies. Bill gives her one of her looks “Not going to say anything. I’m in the middle of a military situation and you’re talking about having babies?” and then, here he is in the middle of a military discussion staring at Duala and Billy talking and he bursts out ‘They need to have babies.’ and Tigh ‘“is that an order?“ I literally burst out laughing.

It’s funny but it also shows how seriously Bill takes everyone, even that kindergarten teacher who is now the president of the colonies. Although he gave her that look and kept a poker face, he actually heard her and he was processing that as he was standing in the CIC.

#bsg #bill adama #laura roslin #spaceparents