Battlestar Galactica | Is Adama Bluffing?

The Cylons must decide whether Admiral Adama is bluffing about nuking the Algae planet.

Season 3, Episode 11 "The Eye of Jupiter" - The possible discovery of the Eye of Jupiter on the algae planet leads to a stand off between the Cylons and the humans.

Season 3, Episode 12 "Rapture" - As a supernova threatens to destroy the algae planet, the Galactica team must race to find clues to the Earth's location.

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[KnightandDay]

"xo, please input your firing code"

Saul: *timidly types in '1234'*

[Comicsluvr]

I love the fact that the safeties are actual physical keys. During the Cylon war, the Battlestars were built with all of their systems independent of each other so the Cylons couldn't hack the ships. I love the blending of old wet-navy tech and sci-fi!

[Egobyte]

The bigger strike to the Cylons here was them being shaken because suddenly the Significant Seven didn't operate through concensus anymore. That caused a rift in their controlling body which was more damaging than any nuclear warhead would have been. The "bluff" was worth it.

[ajimit]

Adama never let his subordinates and friends read his mind, because he needed to trick the enemies. To trick his enemies, first he must tricks his friends.

[gasgano]

"Are we!?"

He's so frakking badass! I love this character.

[Armann_]

What’s scary serious is that Adama _would absolutely obliterate_ the face of the planet and his son on it. As soon as the Cylons detected they actually uploaded targeting packages to the nukes it wasn’t a bluff anymore.

[adburltv]

"admiral what are you doing?"
"getting ready to nuke the planet"
lol

[persona]

At the time, people complained the 3rd season was not in the same level of 1 and 2. But we had Adama Maneuver, Pegasus saving the day and this moment. A testament of an amazing show.

[stevenjeffrey]

They couldn't have cast a better Adama. Olmos is a BOSS!

[posham]

no wonder adama commands a battlestar, no other ship in the galaxy can hold his massive balls

[astronomybrainiac]

The Cylons should have realized that Adama wasn't bluffing when he rolled the Galactica into position to fire the nukes from its dorsal hull. This presented the MUCH weaker and less armored belly of his ship to the Cylons, which should have tipped them off that he was NOT frakking around, as no competent or sane commander would put their ship at such a disadvantage for nothing.

[ryank]

"unfortunately we are bluffing"
"Are we" oh love it. I don't think I'd ever want to play poker against Adama. 😎

I also live how they readied tubes 1-10 but only had like 3-4 nukes left.

[demonlordomegaacepilot]

Obi wan: You were right master. The negotiations were short.

[diapason]

Roslin: "Unfortunately, we are bluffing."

Adama: "Are we?"

Can you imagine a two-word reply holding so much badassery?

[domday]

The entire scene is perfection, the tension, soundtrack acting.. Love the moment where Roslin asks what Adama is doing. He responds, in the the most subtle yet resolute tone, and you see it on her face, she knows him well enough to understand this is not one of those times to even remotely test him. She's done that at other turns but this one she knew better. You can see it a 2nd time when he says to disable launch safeties and she gives a sigh as if to state "he really is not bluffing"

[TheGreatGooglyMoogly]

Love the look on Saul's face. He's like, "Oh frak! He IS serious!"

[FanRailer]

I love that little detail at the end as Three is strutting away from the group; the Six is visibly frustrated, pulls her hand out of the data stream and aggressively flicks her hand to dry it off.

[barra]

Watched that episode last night. Every few years I have to binge watch this masterpiece.

[Necromonger]

Yes, Adama would simply walk into Mordor.

[vallangaard]

Got Peacock TV for a month just so my wife and I could rewatch the whole series with our son.
It was great to share something we loved so much with him.
Thank you to all of the people involved in this series.

So say we all.