First Time Watching Battlestar Galactica - Litmus (S1E6)
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The Target Audience are watching Battlestar Galactica for the first time! Today we watch season 1 episode 6 - Litmus
Special thanks to @OpenMawProductions for his graphics, backgrounds, overlays & much more!
So, 9/11, basically.
"You keep my planes flying. I need my planes to fly."
I love Olmos's delivery on that line filled with disgust and menace.
He’s the GOAT!
I mean, I think all the bile landed in "Dismissed;" the rest felit like it was setting up that one word's extra heaviness...
@@targetaudienceHe is indeed. But keep watching. This show is loaded with them.
The Galactica was going through a grand opening as a museum for Adama's retirement which is why I believe there is an entire press corp in the fleet
That would explain maybe 6 of them.
@@rayhume1971 Well, you've gotta figure that each colony has it's own planet. 12 worlds, each probably (hopefully) with multiple news sources. If anything, there's somehow not enough press to be there to cover the decommissioning of the final battlestar that fought in the first cylon war.
That’s fine; but are they all still employed? 😆
@@targetaudience That is an interesting question, is it not?
@@targetaudiencewell, if you figure each ship in the fleet has a representative.. it's the press for 50,000 people
TA: "This Show Just Got INTENSE"
BSG: "Hold my beer..."
😂
Plus, it JUST got intense? Yeah, it's been super relaxed so far...
"Don't make me angry Giaus, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
I love the Hulk reference!
The awful thing about this is that Sgt. Hadrian was on the right track but for entirely the wrong reasons.
I like how the dialogue was written for her was so correct. She's a SGT and the Pilots are officers, so she always addresses them correctly as Sir. But she's also absolutely the toughest bastard you'll ever meet.. She reminds me of every SGT I've ever known.
As I recall from watching this back in the day, the Baltar storyline really takes time to grow on you. And you never know where it's going to go.
That big balls moment from Adama is just epic 😂 “Make your choice, son”
Adama STOOD ON BUSINESS
The weird lighting on Caprica is because of the thousands of nukes dropped by the cylons and the massive dust clouds that would last for years. At least that's the way I see it.
10:58
Yeah welcome to the running gag of "Helo for the love of Gods man look up"
I've read that people not looking up is really a thing.
@@Educated2Extinction I can definitely believe that
Until he does 😂
Yes, this show plays the long game, and it's so worth it. It'll keep getting better and better! And of course there's also great stuff that we'll see right away.
Cant wait for yall to watch the evolution of Baltar
I’m watching you guys for these BSG reactions, and you’re doing a good job with them. Please keep it up!
Thank you! Will do!
Just a lil FYI Gents... Crashdown ( Sam Whitworth ) was the ranking Lieutenant on the deck :)
I had always thought Sharon outranked him given her comment about him not being her ECO and just a refugee in one of the early episodes. But if he was a reserve officer like Lee (a later episode has Lee listed as CFR for Colonial Fleet Reserve) then it's very possible for him to have an earlier commissioning date than Boomer.
The show plays a little loose with seniority among officers with the same rank. At the beginning of Season 2 Captain Kelly is established to be the next highest ranking officer in the CIC after Adama and Tigh, but by the end of Season 2/beginning of Season 3 an officer that started the show as a Junior Leutenant who has since been promoted to Captain seems to out rank Kelly. Trying to keep this as spoiler free as possible so I'm leaving the promoted officer unnamed, but in episode 4 of season 3 he says the line, Launch, launch them all." during one of the coolest moments of the show.
Side Note: He was a hawt vampire in the U.S. version of the series, "Being Human."
That shaki cam in the beginning bit, I'm dying (due to the funny)
Hope you pull through 🙏🏻
Adama is not to be fucked with, he has an epic presence
Edward James Olmos steals just about every scene he's in.
Did you like him in Agents of SHIELD?
The Centurions can function independently from each other, just like the Cylon Raider.
When you mentioned the "lighting is atrocious", usually when a film/show looks like that, they shoot with filters and adjust the color in the scene afterward to simulate night time when their filming schedule only has time to shoot a scene during daytime... or just changed day to night because it makes more sense for continuity/ story timeline.
The real reason Caprica looks like that is that they're using a filter to make it look like nighttime. They'd said Helo wouldn't move until night then used a blue filter to make you think it was night. It's cheaper than actually shooting at night because you don't have to set up lights for it.
The movie Nope developed a new day-for-night technique: they used an infrared camera to filter the color.
Everytime Adama gives a lecture/upset I can't help but feel like I'm a kid in trouble and waiting for my punishment. When Dad of the fleet has his eye on you...geesh lets hope its bc you're making him proud! I would hate being in trouble with that man!!!
I met him years ago at a DragonCon convention I was working in Atlanta. He's very soft-spoken (and surprisingly short!) but he has this air about him that just makes you believe he is Adama. I was "yes sir"-ing him like crazy. I've seen him in other things, but I just *feel like he's Adama.
@@roreddick9235 That's cool and sounds like everything I've heard about E.J.O., I bet he is a delight!
A yet I'd still be 'yes sir/no sir-ing' him out of pure fear of disappointed look in his eye,like when a father is disappointed with their daughter look. To be fair...My dad definitely gave me a few of those looks and scary,quiet tones in my lifetime!🤭😅
I feel bad for the saergent in this. She became 'witch-hunty' because she knew something fishy was up and she knew the crew was hiding it. Then when Adama slammed her down, he was also being fishy and corrupt about it. She was 100% right the entire time, but was being prevented from finding the truth by the crew and by Adama,
I think she was initially justified, but after the one guy confessed she wasn’t satisfied and going after Adama for knowing about the relationship was unnecessary and irrelevant. The crime had been as far as she knows solved. That’s when it became a witch hunt.
@@targetaudience AGREED.
@@targetaudience She wasn't satisfied because it was obvious the kid was lying. She was trying to get to the real truth and Adama will one day wish he had let her do her job. I will say no more!
Guys, It has been like 12 days since a BSG video. I'm going through withdrawals.
They’ll be back in a few weeks. We made a community post about it last week
Im absolutely loving your reactions to this series. Reminds me of my first time watching.
13:38 that guard took too long deciding. Tigh would airlock them all for mutiny.
I think the actress playing sgt Hadrian is either a stunt woman or she played a Kliongon, or both
I like your analyses of these episodes. I can say without spoilers that the show does not remain static. What you have now is not what the show evolves into in each successive season. Give it time.
There are overarching themes. But man they get hammered and hammered and hammered. And I dunno …..I just can’t say anymore with out spoiling except to say the production is not a tight ship like TNG
You will find that most characters will end up having layers and layers that they will slowly reveal and you will have a few moments of "oh shit" that explains stuff. The more you learn about them the more you will understand some of their earlier decisions. I always enjoyed the character/dialogue writing in this show, I think its one of its main strength. And Adama's office/room is probably my favourite set on the show. So many great scenes in that room. And the gravitas he has on screen is unbelievable, even knowing what exactly happen in every episode I feel like he is probably one of the main reason why the show was so successful.
That being said, Tigh has always been my favourite character. You will understand much later why.
That opening, y’all 😂😂😂
Hold on guys. I think you got hooked. It is definitely a "long game" and "slow burn" on the plot....But it only gets better. I can't wait to see your reaction to the season 1 finale!
THIS
You can’t expect Baltar to be twirling his mustache evil when he didn’t intend any of this. His fatal flaw is that he is weak, over-powered by his egotism, hyper-sexuality, selfishness … all the things that allowed him to be so easily manipulated by the Cylons. He’s an amazingly complex character (on a series loaded with ‘em) and you’re going to be wowed by James Callis MANY times throughout this series. (Admittedly, the Head Six gags get tired fast, but worry not. The people behind the show see it, too, and will adjust.)
I’m loving your reactions, every question and stat,ent I hear you make leaves me with feelings of oh I can’t wait until XYZ that’s coming down the BSG pipeline. Can’t wait until more of the cylon models are revealed
5:02 Crashdown was stepping up to throw down.
Also love the "your choice son" from the fact that Edward Olmos is so much smaller than the guy. That really sells the scene even more, cause he's only got his authority, he doesn't impose his physicality on others.
Regarding the press reaction, it isn't a movie trope any more than people breathing.
In this show, if you don't care about things until the reason is made obvious, you're going to miss a lot. Without throwing out spoilers, your safest bet is to assume everything matters.
This episode felt like a stumble to me. It does have many good bits, but I found the whole independent investigator thing and the courtroom drama very implausible.
Nice to have you two getting into the "camera veritas" style for the start of your reaction video.
Without spoiling anything...Everybody thinks the Helo/Boomer story is the B story....It isn't!
Yes, the intensity is ramping up by degrees. But in the immortal words of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Adams’s big balls moment makes for great cinema, but it’s essentially the military overriding civilian authority which is the basis of a democratic society. The show is chock full of moments like these.
20:00 That plot is only there because they really liked Tahmoh Penikett, but it goes a LOT of places.
The rapid fire snippets in the open credits are I believe an homage to Space: 1999, which is notorious (to anyone who remembers the show) for making the most boring episode conceivable look exciting.
First run, most people I know closed their eyes during that sequence because it quickly gets spoilerific.
I find it a bit funny how so many reactors seem to feel it's their duty to watch the full opening titles and things like that, even though almost nobody did back in the day.
I dunno, I thought it was intense when they murdered a baby in the mini-series... ;)
more of a mercy killing really, no.6 knew what was coming
@@theapocalex Undoubtedly... but that doesn't mean it's not intense. They killed a BABY.
@@josephkrengel Oh yeah i do agree, i probably would have left it out of the final cut, i think they were just trying to distinguish how different they are from actual humans, despite having emotions, theyre like children emotionally. i mean look at Cavil.
Well that was a mini-series it wasn’t this show ;)
@@targetaudience the mini series sets up the show so yeah it is...
It’s starting to click for our boys
The famous Stephen King said BSG was better than any of the trek series ( TNG,DS9 & Voyager ) when BGS debuted.
NGL, that intro had me rolling.
I was in the Navy and the jungle juice recipe was passed down from the "Chiefs."
"JUST" got intense...? Were we watching the same show?
Helo's story is as important as the Galactica's. Hung on
"Make your choice, son."
Also "I need my planes to fly." and "We are not worth that."
The show has lots of flaws in the later seasons, but this writing is why I'm still watching reactions 20 years later.
Yeah poor Helo, these games that they are playing with him, like he‘s some labrat.
And yes don‘t think about how many times he should have seen them, it‘s a bit of a weird choice IMO, they could have given the cyclons some binoculars or something right?
I l9ve how the sgt at arms forgot there no one above adama for her to be protected from him the militrys his and his alone at this point and when the marines back his oders she snapped out of it delusion 😂
All your wishes for character development will be granted. You will come to know all of them. There will be Baltar scheming soon enough and he becomes the most interesting character IMO.
What makes the show so great is simpley how human the characters are... These are not perfect people like Star Trek TNG... They're real every day people with problems, and trauma who are forced together and have to make do with what they have. And it benefits from having so much good talent and direction. Like in the previous episode When Adma and Starbuck are talking, and Olmos is just radiating hostility while acting Calm.. You could see he was playing the dual role of William Adama (angry as hell because his son died) and The Commander (col calm and in control). That quality of acting was rare back then in TV. The thing is, the characters are so real that I can see myself in them... If something like this was to happen, could I see myself hopping into a Viper and doing combat?. Yes. I'd hate it, the very idea of combat and war scares the shit outa me. But I'd still do it knowing all the guys and gals I'm flying with are probably in exactly the same position and that it's a job somebody has to do.
The score is always on point. I like all the drums, I fear that all that bashing might rip a drumhead though.
This is a VERY different Baltar. Be patient.
21:09 - "I wish I cared more about the Baltar and Number Six story ... But I don't."
WOW! I can't believe anybody watching this show felt that way. For the first few seasons, it was the Gaius and Six scenes which completely hooked me into BSG. Every episode, I couldn't wait for more Gaius and Six. I would go so far as to state, if it wasn't for those characters, I never would have watched the show, period. I guess, everyone's opinion really is different. I just never believed I would hear someone say that about this show. I mean, how can you not find Gaius Baltar interesting? He's played by the best actor on the show.
Are you not doing BSG reactions anymore? I think it’s been about a month since the last one
The 3rd re-boot has been stalled for years now. I personally don't see a need for another re-boot of BSG,.
But "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again"
@@dayveo So Say We All !!! LOL.
I kind of would be open to a middle-ground series. Not campy like the original, but a bit more hopeful than this tended toward. I mean yes they are refugees from a genocide, but even refugees have a bit more upbeat moments than they had. (I'm more mixed on this series than many here.)
Lets hope it stays stalled. There is no way to improve on this. Another reboot would be worse than watching Disney systematically ruin every superhero from my childhood comics with race and gender swapping.
Similar to the Next Gen episode
The ratio of reporters in the population is absolutely astounding.
People must have been catching flights to different planets to report on things.
the fleet has 50,000 people. even 1 in 1000 would cover the amount of press we see; but as mentioned elsewhere there was currently a bunch covering the Galactica decommissioning, and likely a higher percentage of travellers on other ships would likely have been journalists then the normal population as they would travel more often
@@rayhume1971 half the fleet should be lawyers and one-quarter wannabe influencers.
I feel like that maybe could make sense. Wasn't Galactica having like a ceremony or something when the disaster happened? So a bunch of press could have been there. (For that matter actual wars seem to have a lot of journalists around.)
I always felt like there was a reporter or representative for every ship. And honestly, in that kind of situation, what more are you going to be doing?
Not being facetious promise…..I’m
Not sure you should be doing these so close to your Trek watch
NuBSG is a lot. I had to quit a couple times two decades ago and it would suck me back in. And I didn’t have shit going on.
That said….as you get going, don’t forget there’s supplemental TV movies I think? I’m not sure how they fall in the viewing order or how you would find a viewing order without title spoilage
So, u gave up on BSG?
No, we are watching episode 12 today
It gets a billion times better this was a filler episode
Best episode thus far being a “filler” is pretty wild!
@@targetaudience Glad you like it I like your reactions reviews and after episode analysis. Try to stay clear of spoilers if you can. An honest surprise and reaction to what happens makes a difference Im becoming a fan of your channel. 👍
i looked away when the show aired. it’s better not to look.
I think that’s kind of dumb that you guys started watching this the same time you’re working your way through all of Star Trek
They certainly have put a lot on their plates. It is going to be interesting how they handle things once DS9 comes into the timeline.
Nice!
@@targetaudience Don’t get me wrong!
I’m not calling you guys dumb.
I’m just saying the action you took was dumb. That’s all.
There’s plenty of media to consume once these are done
@@KrazyKat007i think your wrong and fortunately what you think doesn’t matter