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I was determined, unlike the last movie, to spend more time in one location. I went back and I looked at the first movie, which started in Prague, and realized that. When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as. Watch Battlestar Galactica Online: Watch full length episodes, video clips, highlights and more. The second season of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States on July 25, 2005, and.

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E9. Didn't he die? E1. 3. What happened to him? E2. 1. It was one of the most spectacular shows ever produced. Battlestar Galactica was the brainchild of Glen A. Larson, and evolved. Adam's Ark. Larson had pitched the show. Star Trek was in its.

In the. intervening years, Larson worked on many popular television programs. It Takes a Thief, and Mc. Cloud. It wasn't until Star Wars. Larson's pet project became something.

It was influenced by Von D. Adam's Ark helped bring a. Ultimately, Battlestar. Galactica is my original idea refined down to where I now have fixed. Galactica has often been described as the Star Wars of the small. Several Star Wars graduates worked on Galactica, including. John Dykstra's special effects, and Ralph Mc.

Quarrie and Joe Johnston. An. important component in the series is Supervising Producer Leslie Stevens. The Outer Limits), who also produced Glen Larson's Buck Rogers of. Century for NBC. The Galactica theme was cowritten with Glen Larson.

The Four Preps. Galactica's costumes, names and. Egyptian, Phoenician. Hebrew - - plus some more modern ones (Erich Von D. The deal. was signed several weeks before the Battlestar Galactica pilot. Canada, Europe and Japan.

Opening on July 7, 1. Universal's agressive marketing. Galactica's appeal paid off, in this and subsequent theatrical. Leslie Stevens remarked in Starlog #2. Watch An Act Of War Online Iflix.

April 1. 97. 9). From the very beginning, we smelled that Battlestar Galactica could. Star Wars market. And we were. right. In theatrical release, Galactica beat out Grease and Jaws.

II in Japan and Canada. And it has been shown theatrically in this.

Opening in more theaters than Jaws. The Sting, Buck Rogers grossed over $2.

At this point, on May 1. Universal released. Galactica premiere theatrically in some 4. United States. Glen Larson's two television pilots have broken the. For the next eight months, 1.

These include the. Battlestar Galactica was canceled in April. As early as May, two weeks. Larson for a two- hour movie. Galactica discovers Earth, the project that eventually. Galactica 1. 98. 0.

This chart. also indicates which episodes are on home video or have been novelized. Sep 7. 8Yes Yes. Pt. 2 1 Oct 7. 8 3. Oct 7. 8Yes Yes.

Pt. 2. 29 Oct 7. 8 6. Nov 7. 8Yes. 2Yes. Pt. 2 3 Dec 7. 8 9. Jan 7. 9No Yes. Pt. 2. 21 Jan 7. 91. Jan 8. 0Yes. 3Yes. Pt. 2 3 Feb 8. 0Pt.

Feb 8. 0 2. 1. 16 Mar 8. No No. Pt. 2. 23 Mar 8.

Apr 8. 0Yes. 3No. Pt. 2. 10 Apr 8. 0 6. Based on the US theatrical release.

May 1. 97. 9, it is 2h. VHS box indicates it is. This is the length of the pilot on all VHS and Beta versions, and. On one occasion MCA/Universal has solicited an. Suncoast Video. advertised a 2h. However, no such expanded version has ever.

This. version of the pilot is 1. For a more complete discussion of the pilot differences. The. Different Versions of the Battlestar Galactica Pilot. These include . Only two of the two- hour episodes. Mission. Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1h.

Conquest of the Earth (1h. Galactica 1. 98. 0's premiere and the two- hour . Both of these appeared as theatrical releases in Europe and. Australia. Battlestar Galactica (4. Star. Maker/Universal) is an.

Galactica 1. 98. 0's . Columbia Home video also. Battlestar Galactica home videos (US only.) Finally, as of. BSG videos are slowly being released in Europe in PAL format. With the exception of. The pilot episode is an edited variant of the home video. The remainder of the.

The only. episode to be originally aired as a two- hour block, Greetings from. Earth , notwithstanding slight variations in main title sequence, is. Although this. telemovie has no new scenes, it is an improvement on the syndicated. In each of these telemovies, the individual episodes. Sometimes these episodes were pieced together.

This version of the. Galactica 1. 98. 0 episode has had all the scenes and references to Angela. Starbuck took. the part- Cylon part- Galactican escape craft back to the Battlestar. Galactica. This sequence is then followed by a slightly longer version. The. Galactica office had announced that the first seven hours (the. In its first seven hours, Galactica worked out to $1 million. Fantastic Films #5 (February.

Glen Larson estimated the true cost was closer to $7. ABC paid for each hour. No matter what the numbers. Galactica is one of the most expensive shows ever to appear on the. The computer hardware. Tektronix donated $3 million worth of high tech computer hardware.

Television monitors totaling $3. The. six- foot long model of the Galactica, which weighed 6. In 1. 99. 0, this model was restored for the purpose of a.

Battlestar Galactica display at Universal Studios Florida, in Orlando. In many ways, the special.

Star Wars. The agreement was beneficial to. Dykstra's Industrial Light and Magic, later renamed. Apogee, was not working on any projects at the moment, so leasing the. To not. infringe on the prerogatives of Star Wars, Glen Larson had an.

Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz not to do several things. Galactica series, including laser streaks coming out of the. One possible reason for the lawsuit was. Universal's decision to release the premiere theatrically in Canada, the.

Century Fox had planned to rerelease Star Wars. Universal. countersued, asking Fox for damages because of a violation of the. California business and professional code. The lawsuit that started it. August 2. 2, 1. 98. Los Angeles Federal court judge.

Irving Hill ruled in Universal's favor, stating that the two films were. Glen Larson commented on the. Science Fantasy Film Classics (October. Battlestar Galactica is quite different.

When it comes to who are. I would have to say that if you.

Shane to Gunfight at the OK Corral, you'd. The child aimed a Colonial Viper toy into his mouth and launched. It also issued a missile mail- in for those who had had. In exchange for. the little red missiles, Mattel provided a Hot Wheels toys, . On March 2. 3, the boy's parents sued Mattel.

The judge. presiding over the case singled out Star Wars space toys as the. Lucas very much.). The controversy had an impact on Kenner's Star Wars' toy line, as it. Boba Fett dolls. The action figure - - whose. The Empire Strikes Back sequel - - was part of. Star Wars figurines.

Although. Boba Fett's original design and promotion included a rocket- firing. No rocket- firing. Boba Fett's ever rolled off the line, and only a handful of the. It would be. Galactica's last original episode, for the network had just canceled. No longer riding the initial momentum of the premiere, ABC. Galactica wasn't getting high enough ratings for the investment. ABC's assumptions.

Mork and Mindy, into the same time slot. Sunday, 8. PM EST), it got even lower ratings than Galactica did. The. network realized it made a mistake, but by then it was too late. In a. controversial article in Fantastic Films #2. Galactica was actually a ratings success, and that ABC exaggerated its.

Dirk. (. Battlestar Galactica failed to live up to. The ratings sagged and finally settled at. But not for a project that had numero uno written all. Anything but. the top was too near the bottom and not good enough.

It's like. an airplane that takes off from an aircraft carrier - - it sort of. Galactica by its sheer weight and. Then I. think it started to climb. We did better stories and concentrated.

In the ABC. schedule last year, literally every show was in the 4. That was. just phenomenal. Galactica was canceled with a position of 2. Cashbox's annual sweepstakes lineup. This project evolved.

Galactica 1. 98. 0 premiere of the same name, which. ABC between January 2. February 1. 0, 1.

Just prior to Galactica's. Asimov had agreed to work as an advisor on a story bible.

Battlestar Galactica (2. TV series)Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fictiontelevision series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D.

Moore and executive produced by Moore and David Eick as a re- imagining of the 1. Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Watch Robot World Online Metacritic.

The series first aired as a three- hour miniseries (comprising four broadcast hours) in December 2. Sci- Fi Channel, and ran for four seasons thereafter, ending its run on March 2. The series features Edward James Olmos and Mary Mc.

Donnell, and garnered a wide range of critical acclaim, which included a Peabody Award, the Television Critics Association's Program of the Year Award, a placement inside Time's 1. Best TV Shows of All- TIME. In the past, the Colonies had been at war with a cybernetic race of their own creation, known as the Cylons. With the unwitting help of a human scientist named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. Out of a population numbering in the billions, only approximately 5. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the eponymous Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack.

Under the leadership of Colonial Fleet officer Commander William . Another spin- off, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, was released in November 2. February 1. 0, 2. Syfy as a televised movie. The survivors are led by President Laura Roslin and Commander William Adama in a ragtag fleet of ships with the Battlestar Galactica, an old, but powerful warship, as its command ship. Pursued by Cylons intent on wiping out the remnants of the human race, the survivors travel across the galaxy looking for the fabled and long- lost .

Unlike most space opera series, Battlestar Galactica has no humanoid aliens (the antagonists are man- made Cylon robots), the primary armaments used by both military forces utilize bullets, rail guns, and missiles instead of lasers, and the series intentionally avoids technobabble. Stories also portray the concept of perpetuated cycles of hate and violence driving the human- Cylon conflict, and religion, with the implication of a . Despite the animosity on both sides, the humans and a faction of the Cylons eventually form an uneasy alliance, in the wake of the Cylon Civil War. The Cylon leader, humanoid Cylon . Cavil deceives the other models by obsessively hiding the identities and origins of the remaining five humanoid Cylon models, the . Other plotlines involve the mysterious destiny of Kara .

The first group of survivors settle in ancient Africa. Ironically, these humanoid Cylons created their own Centurion robotic slaves, who waged a nuclear attack against their masters, devastating the planet and making it uninhabitable. The new Earth is found to be inhabited by early humans, who are genetically compatible with the humans from the Galactica and the rest of the fleet, but who possess only the most rudimentary civilization.

The surviving humans and humanoid Cylons settle on the new planet; they discard all technology, destroying the fleet by flying it into the Sun, in order to postpone the creation of robotic servants until their society has progressed to higher ethics. The surviving Cylon Centurions are given possession of the remaining Cylon Basestar, and proceed to jump away from Earth. In the final scenes, modern- day Earth humans are shown to be descendants of the colonists, their humanoid Cylon allies, and the early humans. At the end of the series finale, an angelic Baltar and Cylon Number Six are walking down a sidewalk in modern- day New York City.

They are unseen and unheard by the people around them. As the two walk, they notice technologically advanced robots, computers, and other cybernetic devices, and they talk about the technological advancements the humans have made since the Colonists and Humanoid Cylons first arrived to this Earth, over 1.

Cylon Number Six and Baltar have an exchange over one of the ongoing themes from the series, . But the question remains, does all of this have to happen again? Gaius Baltar, a brilliant scientist, and later President. Tricia Helfer as Number Six, a humanoid Cylon.

Grace Park as. (LTJG) Sharon . Sherman Cottle, Chief Medical Officer of BS Galactica. Nicki Clyne as (SPC) Cally Henderson, member of the landing bay deck crew of BS Galactica, later married to . That search is motivated by ancient religious texts' references to a 1. Earth. Various religious relics and ruins on the Twelve Colonies and elsewhere in the galaxy provide clues to Earth's location. Throughout the series, humans and Cylons are assisted in times of need by mysterious entities, possibly from a higher plane of existence.

Human polytheism. This appears to be the state religion of the colonies; government oaths refer to the gods, and back on the Twelve Colonies, public museums housed artifacts of the gods. Some people are devout believers, others are atheists, and most fall somewhere in the middle; all three viewpoints are accepted more or less equally. The Kobol gods have the same names and characteristics as the Greek Olympian gods and the show makes references to Zeus (as well as Jupiter), Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Ares (as well as Mars), and Apollo. As evidenced by prayers offered by the human characters, the Kobol gods are morally refined and are believed to watch over and intervene benevolently in the lives of the just. This is similar to the concept of the gods during the Greek classical and Hellenistic periods, not the amoral (and very human) gods of the Greek archaic period.

In another parallel to Western polytheism, the names of the Twelve Colonies and their planets are similar to the names of the constellations in the Greco- Romanzodiac. The finale implies that the Greek and Roman pantheons, as well as several ancient belief systems including the zodiac, were imported to Earth by the colonial survivors. The principal means of transmitting divine knowledge are the Sacred Scrolls.

The Scrolls chronicle the early period of human existence, when people and the gods purportedly lived together on the planet Kobol, whose location at the beginning of the series is unknown and is regarded as mythical by secular humans. The Scrolls tell that at some point in time, twelve human tribes left Kobol and founded the Twelve Colonies, while a thirteenth headed towards Earth.

This is also referred to in the opening words of the Scrolls: . One important feature mentioned is the Book of Pythia, which chronicles an ancient prophetess (similar to the Oracle of Delphi named Pythia) who journeyed with the Thirteenth Tribe on their voyage to Earth. Pythia also described the exodus of the other Twelve Tribes, and the things that happened to them.

She describes a dying leader who would guide the tribes to salvation. President Roslin sees herself as playing the part of the leader in the texts, as she has terminal breast cancer. Another important quotation from the scrolls is the recurring phrase . The opening credits are accompanied by a new- age- inflected version of the Gayatri Mantra, a hymn dedicated to the solar deity Savitr.

It differs greatly from the humans' religion; it is monotheistic and shares many beliefs of Abrahamic monotheistic religions (God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, that he will one day deliver divine retribution and that he intervenes in the world). Much like Evangelical Christianity, the Cylon religion encourages a personal relationship with God. Despite being man- made, Cylons believe that they were created by God. Some humans have come to follow the Cylon religion, mostly by way of Gaius Baltar, who himself grew to believe in the Cylon religion through the efforts of Caprica Six. References to modern society. Johnson after the Kennedy assassination.

Many people have drawn parallels between the Cylons and Al Qaeda.