Battlestar Galactica | Welcome to Galactica

Commander Adama walks the halls of his ship as he prepares to give his last address.

Mini Series PART 1 - After a 40-year armistice in the war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the latter group launches a surprise attack with a goal of exterminating the human race, wiping out virtually everyone in the Twelve Colonies.

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[jamessharpe]

"You'll see things here that look odd, or even antiquated..."

*Colonel Tigh walks by...

[andysimmons]

I forgot how well written the introduction was. It set the scene, introduced excellent characters and started a brilliant story without making it an exposition dump. They don’t do sci fi like this anymore.

[Xerro]

6 minutes and I've got the itch to watch BSG all over again.

[adgamdr]

I love how the colour of the panels change as the series goes on, this is most noticeable in the CIC, where in S1 it’s a clean white/blue, and by S4 it’s a yellowed/orange

[koernchenq]

I like that a cylon is the tour guide :)

[chickai]

Today, as a Naval Tradition, whether a ship is going into mothballs, turned into a museum ship, or broken apart ships are brought back to their highest standard before their decommissioning. It helps determine if they go into the ghost fleet (ready reserve) or if they are turned into razor blades. I decomm'ed two ships when I was in the Navy.

[patrickwalsh]

She was such a beautiful ship. Galatica and halo’s Pillar of Autumn would be my most favorite ships.

[benji]

The miniseries originally aired in two parts on two nights, it gained more audience the second night, which is extremely rare, usually smaller audience for part two of typical miniseries. This made it easy for the go ahead for the continuing series.

[oqasho.]

I love how for about the first 3 minutes of tens of people moving around the ship is actually shot in one continuous shot with no hidden cuts.

It's easy not to pay attention to this stuff when you're just watching a story and that's okay.. you're not supposed to notice these things and pay your attention to the story and performance. But when you do take a step back and notice it, it makes the show that much more impressive.

[Nexus-]

Whelp, looks like it's time for another series re-watch. By the Lords of Kobol, I fracking love this show!

[thegothicprince]

That opening drum line always gives me goosebumps.

[JackMacLupus]

Such a wonderful touch of Chief Tyrol and his crew to bring back the Commanders MKII as a gift.

[Beowulf]

"Old and antiquated" - Tigh walks by

[Xemptuous]

This is so smart to keep cycling various video clips of the series periodically on YouTube. It really helps bring back the memories and remembering why this was one of the best movie series ever made (if not the best in my opinion). Glad to be able to relive these moments thanks to your channel and your work. Keep it up.

[SewerRatie]

"...Galactica represented Caprica and was first commanded by Commander Nash" - Haha... nice to see Silas Nash appear in Blood & Chrome!
I think the drum intro for Galactica in the score for B&C references this scene too.

I was so lucky to have seen the mini when it first aired as I was completely unaware it existed and had somehow missed all announcements and marketing for this show. I know it's only 5 minutes in but even by this scene I could tell this was gonna be something wonderful and amazingly different to anything we had seen before. Forever grateful and congrats to all involved.

[Zoomer]

Fun fact: The producers were constantly telling the production teams to save money. They wanted them to be more efficient and to "cut corners" to do this. They really harped on this.

As retaliation, the props department made that decision that all papers would have the corners cut off. Every sheet of paper (hell, even the hard cover books) had the corners cut off 😂

[robertmartin]

Looking back you can guess at the emotions that Adama must have felt when he opened the picture. Pride at the respect of his crew and sadness about the loss of his family to death(his youngest son), divorce (his wife) and anger (his other son who blamed him for the death of Zack). I am sure that painting really hit him harder than he let on.

[jondorsey]

That little lyrical play between Adama and Thrace, as a sort of protocol ritual, is soo good. Made the callback at the end really hit home. I forgot it was in the pilot.

[HrLBolle]

2:12
It is so eery to see Galactica's hallways not cluttered with salvaged equipment and the CIC still clean and brightly light, her younger crew with so much joy and a carefree attitude in their stride and mind while the old like Cmdr. Adama himself linger in the twilight of peace having lasted too long.
We can clearly see that he knew the Cylon's would someday return when he is briefed about the the surprise attack later on

[richardpoliah]

So well written says "antiquated" and points to Col Tigh as he passes hinting to who he really is (to be known 3 seasons later!).