The game BSG: Deadlock has an interesting piece of lore that was already hinted in Caprica:

The 12 Colonies are not the 12 Tribes, only named after them. They have no settlement, ethnic and cultural connection.

Kobol was already in a process of globalisation and homogenisation when it became wrecked. The Galleon took in survivors from all over the planet. They all settled on Gemenon 2000 years ago.

Presumably because the other planets weren't habitable to begin with (there are space stations called Kobolformers around them in the game) and the settlers wouldn't have been that many anyways.

The people on Gemenon were thrown back to pre-industrial technology soon after and split into several countries with different cultures again. When the planet re-modernised, different states ran their own space programmes.

E.g. Caprica, Picon and Virgon were settled by the same nation on Gemenon, NOT by the Capricorn, Pisces and Virgo tribes from Kobol. Aquaria didn't begin 2000 years ago as a home for the Aquarius tribe, but a few centuries ago as a research post.

I very much like this piece of the lore because it inverts an expectation and gives depth to worldbuilding.

It's been 150 thousand years since the Cylon Holocaust. Do you think the radiation levels have dropped enough that we might be able to resettle them if we had FTL ships?

Heck, there might be some evolved Cylons there and we have another war with them! That'd be neat.

I have started watching BSG 2003, but I will admit whilst I'm overall enjoying my experience, it is sad not to see certain OG characters readopted into Reboot, such as Lucifer or the Imperious Leader, but most of all, Iblis, the villain that I most remember from watching the OG. So in this hypothetical post, what would happened if Iblis was in Reboot as like an evil version of the Messengers/Angels, how do you think that would have affect the series as a whole?

Omg I just watched this for the firat time and Omg I love the show so much the story, the people and the lore. It all ties up I just cant get this show out of my head now. I may watch it again but watch the episodes with the detail on (watched it on Blu ray) i really love the Starbuck (think I got her nickname right) story like God. I have no words for this show. Tell me somthing you think i missed

My first watch through, I thought he was just getting fucked up on pills recreationally, but on rewatches, a couple other characters mention the pills (I can't remember who, or when), but it makes me wonder, on like my fifth rewatch, I feel like there were a lot of subtle lines about him being "off his meds."

Or, "Here, you need your meds."

Maybe they just mean he needs to be high to function correctly, but maybe there's more to it than that.

The pills thing seemed to disappear later in the last seasons, but earlier, James Callis made a point to really down those pills dramatically. Which made me think he was only using them to get fucked up.

But some of the things other characters said along the way led me to believe that Gaius was actually prescribed these meds for a mental health problem.

Totally keeping the angel of god stuff out of the picture for now. Do you think Ron Moore was hinting that Gaius was actually unstable, maybe schizophrenic or bipolar?

I wish I could remember the episodes where it seemed other characters commented on his pills, but the google ai keeps insisting Baltar never took drugs. Frakkin Cylons.

Edit: I don't mean this to mean that I think Gaius was seeing head six because he was mentally unstable. I truly believe head six and head gaius were very real. But I wonder if Baltar had other mental problems aside from that. Him as a mortal man (not the being at the very end of Daybreak), dealing with something over the course of the years that made him sway back and forth so dramatically. Despite head six.

Like out of nowhere I found this gem

https://www.threads.com/@jestingjeffrey/post/DehVEylkeID

This is not a post of which version is better, but rather a post of what aspects of the Cylons you think was done better or you liked more. Be it their backstory, designs, and overall faction.

Main characters fear another main character is a robot✔️

They fear that robots have infiltrated society to take over the world ✔️

THE ROBOTS ARE RUNNING THE NAVY✔️

Suspected character is not proven a robot ✔️

I'm watching the new Carrie on Prime and Michael Trucco (Sam Anders) plays a jerk bad guy lawyer, but he is fantastic in the role. I also now realize that he played a jerk bad guy businessman in The Fall of the House of Usher, and he was even better in that role. I didn't recognize him at the time, because had been over 10 years since my last BSG rewatch. But I just finished a rewatch a few weeks ago and it is still fresh in my mind.

Carrie and House of Usher are both Mike Flanagan shows. He uses a lot of the same actors and actresses in his different shows. Apparently Michael Truco was also in Black Mass, but I don't remember him in that. Helo and Starbuck are also in Carrie. President Roslin is in House of Usher. I've got 2 episodes left to watch in Carrie, but I'm loving it so far. I also love House of Usher and I recommend both shows if you want to see Michael Trucco being awesome.

Enjoy all

Check out this model we made of the TOS galactica.

36”. Resin printed 10kg. Light effects.

Some photos of my collections.
I touched up the action figures
3D printed the Viper helmet and added a jacket to the 12 inch warrior.
3D printed the guns and chest plate.
The raiders in my collection. One shoots one does not.

So a brief history of the show. I think I’ve tried to watch this show three times. Once in the 2000s, and one other time in the 2010s. Both times I started with 33, and it felt like I was missing an episode, then was told to start from the mini series, and just never got to it.

Finally I gave it a solid try while on a long flight back in May. Same thing. Forgot about starting with the mini series, but finally did. I have to admit I didn’t immediately fall in love with it, but it was interesting enough to keep watching.

I can’t remember exactly which episodes, but there were some episodes where I felt it was a slog, and some that I was like “oh interesting! Let’s see where this goes”.

I can’t remember which episode it was, but there was one episode in season 2 where I just lost the motivation to watch for a while. Then maybe a month later, I decided to keep watching. I’d watch 20 minutes here, 30 minutes there.

For me though, once we got to the end of season 3, I was like “oh wow! Things are getting really interesting!” And I had to start fighting myself to get some sleep, etc.

The finale I felt was okay. I think I had the same problems most people had with it, including the latter half of season 4.

All in all though, now that it’s finished, I’ll definitely miss the characters of the world. I definitely want to do a re-watch minus some of the filler episodes sometime next year or so.

This episode takes place in parking garage.
One of the cars is a Tucker torpedo 48, if you ever saw the movie Tucker with Jeff Bridges.
Pretty neat choice to use a classic car for a futuristic movie.
The tucker was considered a futuristic car with 3 headlights.

These small quirky touches are really interesting.
Like we notice that the battlestar galactica isn’t a totally advanced ship although it has faster than light travel. Not like the starship Enterprise. Instead they still got phones and these large metal doors.

Should start around 19:04ish.

Not long, but a fun tidbit.

Video cross-posted from IG, not my OC.

My BSG rewatch (Starting with TOS. G80, then Caprica and the RDM series) has me in a mood to collect BSG again.

I read all of Battlestar Prometheus back in the day, and I've got all of them saved as PDFs to go back and look at. Wouldn't call it groundbreaking writing, but it's still more content within the universe.

Asking partially because I've been working on some vignettes set during Deadlock/the first Cylon war era, not sure if it's something other fans like or would want to see.

Related, and funny given the setting, it makes me a little nervous to put any of my creative work online because of frakking toaster getting their hands on it. 🤣

Anyway, looking forward to hearing opinions.

So say we all.

EDIT: Okay, I am gathering that either nobody cares, or if they do care, it must involve sexy times. Gotcha.

But is the 6 that ended up on Earth-2, at the end of the series, the same 6 that Gaius fell in love with on Caprica, Caprica 6?

Or is she a different 6? It was hard for me to keep track of all of them. I wouldn't mind it either way. It would be poetic if she was the same 6 as Caprica 6, and it would be tragic hope if it were a different 6.

Both would align with BSG themes.

But what do you think? And is there something obvious that I'm missing?

I was like ‘omg Helo! :)’ And then ‘omg… Helo. :(‘

I recently downloaded the demo of off steam and I want to know some tips and tricks to generally improve as well as know peoples thoughts on the full game and if it’s worth buying

Not just for fun, I would vote for Starbuck as we would need someone who can inspire optimism, which we need in the condition that we are in.