#CYLON ATTACK

[comic-covers]

(1979)

#Battlestar Galactica #comics #1979 #Jeff Aclin #cover art #Cylon attack #comic book #vintage #1970s #comic books #Marvel #Commander Adama #Apollo #Muffit II

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

#UK1985 #THE MICRO USER #BOOKS #RETAIL #HARDWARE #CONTROLLERS #ATARI #ACTION #BBC #CHUCKIE EGG #CYLON ATTACK #ATARI TRAK BALL

[gurumog]

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979) Glen A. Larson Productions / Universal Television Dir. Vince Edwards / Christian I. Nyby II

#battlestar galactica #mission galactica #cylon #cylon attack #glen a larson #1970s science fiction

[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Spot any differences?

#the bot invasion continues #I do Not need a Cylon attack in my life rn #battlestar galactica

[allatariel]

Tell me something about your WIP Through All That Masquerade, please friend!

Hello friend <3 <3 <3 Thank you for the ask!

This is my far too ambitious BSG canon divergence epic for which one lonely chapter is posted to AO3, as you know :) I'm not sure what I could say that you wouldn't already know, but it has been what feels like forever since I worked on it, even though in actuality it's probably been less than a year.

I don't think I ever posted this VERY rough snippet though, so maybe this will suffice?

~~~

“Have you two agreed on a book yet?” Bill called to his daughters from the couch across the room. They’d been in front of the bookshelf behind the table for the twenty minutes since they’d arrived. Bill hadn’t had time before they’d showed up to do more than change back into his duty blues. Laura’s lavender suit still hung over the arm of the chair by the closet, her discarded shoes still sat between the other chair and his rack. It felt more like home with her clothes lying around. 

They finally agreed on something, an old favorite from when they were very small called Ghostship Masquerade, and they settled in.

J.J. sprawled out under his left arm half dozing against his shoulder as her mother often did. Edie leaned against his right arm with her legs curled under her, helping to brace the book between them and turning the pages as he read aloud. 

Later, when Edie didn’t turn the page, he looked down to find her asleep against his right shoulder.

The phone by the hatch buzzed and Lt. Gaeta’s voice followed. “CIC to commanding officer.”

At the first crackle of the speaker, J.J. was already sitting up as Bill lifted his arm from around her and Edie took the book from him, giving him room to stand. He went to the phone and picked up the receiver.

“Go ahead,” 

“I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but we have a Priority One alert message from Fleet Headquarters. It was transmitted in the clear.” 

“In the clear? What does it say?” He heard Edie ask J.J. in hushed tones what that meant, and her sister’s equally subdued reply.

"’Attention all Colonial units. Cylon attack underway. This is no drill.’" 

His eyes fixed on Laura’s Aghdashloo painting of Daybreak Over Caprica City that hung above the sideboard as he absorbed the message. Absurdly, he wondered if this would be the last view of open sky his family might ever see.

“I’ll be right there.” He hung up the receiver and buttoned up his jacket, his mind coming to grips with this new reality. There were too many civilians aboard, and they had no munitions save the bare minimum to equip their Viper squadrons. They could evacuate the civilians aboard the Vigilance, but where could they go? And they would be sitting ducks without the protection of Galactica and the rest of the Battlestar Group under his command. 

Bill turned to face his daughters huddled together on the couch, Edie clutching the book to her chest while J.J. clutched her. They had clearly sensed the shift in his demeanor. As a husband and father, his first priority was to protect his family. As a soldier and an admiral, his duty was to defend the people of the Twelve Colonies and lead his crew in that effort.

#battlestar galactica #battlestar galactica (2003) #bsg #bsg (2003) #william adama #laura roslin #laura x bill #bill x laura #j.j. roslin #edie roslin #original characters #18 year old roslin adama daughters #wip ask meme #my writing #through all that masquerade #wips #works in progress #<3 <3 <3

[byyourcommand]

One of Adama's most badass moments is when he dropped the Galactica down to New Caprica to let the vipers out for a surprise attack. Then jumps the Galactica back into the orbit above New Caprica to take on I think five Cylons baseships.

#luckily Lee brought the Pegasus to help #hell the Pegasus took out like 4 cyclon baseships #the whole scene is badass #battlestar galactica #bsg #my bsg rewatch

[redrikki]

Battlestar Galactica Rewatch: Mini series

You can thank @beatrice-otter for this. Her recent bsg fic had me reaching for my dvds when I realized how much I'd forgotten.

The mini series introduces the titular Battlestar Galactica, a 50-year-old ship under the command of Bill Adama, just as it is set to be decommissioned and turned into a museum. His estranged son Lee and Secretary of Education Laura Roslin are both in attendance. Then, everything changed when the fire nation, er, cylons attacked. Laura becomes president, assembled a fleet of civilians, and they set of with Galactica in search of earth and safety.

Initially airing in 2003, the show often gets described as post 9/11, but on rewatch it feels more cold war nightmare scenario to me. The visuals are mushroom clouds, not crashing jets. Laura's swearing evokes LBJ's and the scene with the little girl on the ship is basically a Barry Goldwater commercial. The only things that really scream 9/11 is the memorial wall and the planes halted in transit.

In my first watch, I remember being moved, but on rewatch I'm not feeling it. The problem is that it's so fast paced there are really only two quick moments with Dee in the hallway and Billy talking about his family where you get a hint of the weight of it. The show gives more to the ship board deaths. Over all, the show is so focused on the fight for survival that it never lets the characters or audience really sit with the grief.

Mini series does a good job introducing the various characters: Laura, Bill, Kara, Lee, Saul, Gaius, Boomer, Tyrol, and the rest of the gang. The fact they shoehorn Tyrol and his deck gang into everything that requires non-coms makes sense in terms of managing casting, it does get ridiculous.

The problems of Bill Adams's leadership which will haunt him throughout the show are on full display. He plays favorites in ways which undermines unit discipline and cohesion and ignores problems until the day comes he can't hide from the things he's done.

Laura's leadership strength of ruthless, clear-sighted pragmatism are also on display. Her flaw of riding roughshod over everyone is there too, but since everyone who fights her in this is clearly wrong, it's easy to miss.

From a Doylist perspective, having Leobin as the only one in the station makes sense as a way to introduce Adama to human-form cylons, but from a Watsonian perspective the fact the station is in-manned makes the Colonial Fleet seem dumb and incompetent.

This has been much debated, but I think Caprica killing the baby was an accident. She is fascinated and it's all an experiment. She doesn't care she killed him, but she didn't set out to do it.

Bill gives a great speech. So say we all!

#battlestar galactica #bsg rewatch

[thealmightyemprex]

List of Sci Fi Laserdiscs I have ,Each mutual gets to pick one for me to review

Rules simple, if your a mutual you get to pick one laserdisc and I will watch and review it .YOu also get to ask me 3 specific points to talk about(These points can vary fromserious to silly, just be specifc . ) though you can waive that

Battlestar Galactica Pilot (Claimed by @theancientvaleofsoulmaking )

Mission Galactica Cylon Attack (The Living Legend 2 parter )

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Doctor Who Day of the Daleks (Claimed by @themousefromfantasyland)

Star Trek Whom the Gods Destroy/Let This Be Your Last Battlefield

Star Trek the Next Generation Manhunt/Emissary

Star Trek The Next Generation All Good Things

Rodan

Alien (Claimed by @minimumheadroom)

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jurassic Park

When Worlds Collide

Black Hole

Lost World

Frankenstein

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @princesssarisa @minimumheadroom

[caitylove]

Ooooh titles (Taylor’s Version):

-Beginning Rush

-Light as Whispers

-Your Freezing Hands

Beginning Rush: Sharon Raydor has had to start over many times in life-- separation from her husband, post-children, and leaving Internal Affairs, but when someone from her apart returns, can she throw it all away again?

Light as Whispers: Sometimes Laura Roslin thinks she is going insane. The visions began when she was a child, but only escalated once the Cylons attacked. Can she tell the difference between fantasy and reality or will she succumb to madness at the end of the world?

Your Freezing Hand: "My dear, gentle boy, you were supposed to be in your prime, and I was supposed to be the one long cold in the ground. It shouldn't have happened like this." When Billy dies way too young, Laura offers up a prayer begging the universe to switch their places.

#fic title asks #ask game #asks

[episodeoftv]

Round 1 of 6, Group 1 of 4

propaganda is under the cut (231 words) (333 in defense) - may contain spoilers

summaries (pulled from imdb or wikis)

propaganda

Battlestar Galactica (2004) - 4.19, 4.20, 4.21 Daybreak (Parts 1-3)

Galactica launches a rescue mission to retrieve Hera Agathon from the "colony", a heavily armed and defended Cylon base located near a black hole. They manage to rescue Hera and, in the end, the fleet finds a new planet to settle on, which they come to call Earth

1) I asked my dad for his opinion on the worst finale ever and he said this one "made him feel stabby" (and then elaborated that he felt like they took every mystery from the show and came up with the worst possible explanations for them)

2) To be fair, the series had started to go downhill before this, but the finale is what turned one of the greatest scifi shows ever into something forgettable. It's kind of hard to pinpoint what was the worst part. There's the reveal that they were looking for prehistoric Earth (our Earth) all along and all humans are descendants of a human/cylon baby. The reveal that a beloved main character was dead for the whole season and possibly an angel as they disappear without a trace. Then showing two other main characters somehow walking around modern day, talking about how they know God (with a capitol G). Also, somehow, Bob Dylan was a space angel/prophet. Go figure. The series was created by mormons and in no place is more evident than in this finale as it makes an odd left turn from scifi to theology.

IN DEFENSE: OKAY, alot of people dislike the Battlestar Galactica (2004) finale but I think while odd, is still a very good way of ending the series. The series throughout subtextually has a very blatant discussion of theology, The Humans have some pantheon that seems to be loosely analogous to Greco-Roman myth and the Cylons all follow one singular god, and even within the Cylon ranks they have debates and beliefs about if faith or logic is better. When Gaius Baltar tries to found a monotheistic religion, humans from across the ship(s) begin to enact violence on his followers. Gaius Baltar has a manifestation of one of the Human-like Cylons in his head throughout the entire series basically up until the end, Often referred to as "Head 6", (though for this I'll call her "Mind 6"), it's often believed that because this manifestation knows so much about things Gaius wouldn't that she is a neural clone of some sort implanted into Gaius, but we see later that this cannot be the case, as Caprica 6, the person Mind 6 is impersonating, is alive and well(-ish), and not only is she alive, but she's got a Mind Gaius who's been doing the same stuff to her. Mind 6 and Mind Gaius are revealed in the finale to be some sort of divine entities. They simply took the form of Gaius and Caprica 6. As far as the "Bob Dylan was a prophet" thing, it's implied by the finale and a few other plot points that Humanity and similar races are bound to repeat a few similar points in identifiable history, as Mind Gaius and Mind 6 look at the rise of research into Artificial Intelligence and one asks to the other if they believe that earth, our earth, will be the one the break the cycle. I don't know what to say about Starbuck though, that shit's wild to me still and I still don't get how to wrap my head around the implications of it.

Skins - 4.08 Everyone

As Emily, Naomi, Pandora, and Thomas make up, the gang become concerned for the absent Freddie and hold his birthday party in his absence. Cook, who has read Freddie's notebook which mention's Foster's obsession with Effy, follows the psychiatric worker home and breaks into his basement, where he discovers a bag containing Freddie's blood-stained clothes. Foster comes in and attacks him but, with a cry of "I'm Cook" the youngster hits him back with the baseball bat and avenges his friend's death.

A character getting randomly brutally killed in the previous episode is the real crime, but the fact that the finale barely acknowledged it and had no emotionally satisfying conclusion or follow-up for that is a capper on it

#battlestar galactica #skins #wfround1 #wfpoll #polls #poll #wfr1g1

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

The Battlestar Galactica (2003) Movie is the Perfect Reboot

Rebooting a property is extremely difficult. It's a balancing act between bringing back old iconography and creating new ideas and characters, and in no two instances is it the same.

Battlestar Galactica is the perfect reboot for a number of reasons. First, the characters.

There is not a single weak performance on the cast (in the movie). From legacy characters like Adama, Apollo, Starbuck and Tigh to new characters like the President and her aid and the flight deck crew to the fucking background characters, everyone is on their A-game for the entire three-hour movie, and their A-game is amazing. Relationships form and develop in believable ways between believable characters (we'll get to that). But no one outshines Gaius Baltar.

Of the changes to the series, Baltar is the most drastic. The original version of the character was cartoonishly evil - he sold out the Twelve Colonies of Kobol to the Cylons because he was told he'd rule his homeworld, Caprica (I think). The new version is a guy who was in an emotionally manipulative relationship with a Cylon (he didn't know it at the time) and got played. He feels awful for what he did, and the knowledge that all of this is his fault weighs on him heavily, not helped by the fact that is abuser has implanted herself in her brain and spends the back half of the movie tormenting him.

Second, the character dynamics.

There are a bunch of really interesting dynamics that form between characters, both pre-existing (i.e., they exist before the world starts ending) and that form as a result of the plot. Apollo and Adama's strained relationship over the death of Apollo's brother (Adama's son), Zak, which is on the mend by the end of the movie, Tigh and Starbuck fucking despising each other, the romance between Tyrol and Boomer - these do a great job of implying history between characters, while relationships like Apollo and the President becoming friends Billy and Dualla's spark (which is paid off brilliantly) act as story threads to follow.

Third, the story.

The Cylon attacks on the Twelve Colonies is played as the end of the human race, and there's a tension over the three-hour runtime around this fact (which is the next point on this review). It's the worst-case scenario, and it keeps devolving as characters react to the Cylon's genocide of the human race. The characters are all attempting to react as best they can to the unthinkable, and every time they've managed to adapt, it gets worse and they have to adapt again - first, the Cylons attack, then they find out that the Colonies have been obliterated and humanity all but destroyed, then the government is gone, then Galactica is the only Battlestar left, and it becomes clear that central focus of the story isn't how badass the Colonial Military is, but the indomitable nature of the human soul, as characters like Adama and the President refuse to stop doing what they can to save what's left of mankind.

Finally, the tension.

From the moment the ambassador is killed by Cylons at the end of the movie to the final conversation between Adama and the President, the movie is cloaked in tension. At first, it's the dramatic irony of the destruction of the colonies, then the situation deteriorating, then a number of heart-rending decisions made by characters where they have to make the survival of the human race a numbers game, then the human forces being trapped inside an ion storm which is surrounded by a Cylon fleet, then the final battle between the Galactica and the Cylon forces to buy time for the rest of mankind to escape, then the aforementioned confrontation between Adama and the President, where she reveals that, in this universe, Earth is a myth and Adama has given everyone false hope.

Sure, there are moments of relief from that tension, most notably when the remaining humans have regrouped in the ion storm, the movie's one joke (Adama looking over Billy and Dualla and echoing a sentiment expressed by the President that the priority of the human race is repopulation, causing an incredulous Apollo to ask if "that's an order", which got a real laugh out of me) and Adama's "So say we all" speech.

So yeah, it was a combination of the characters and the relationships between them and the plot and sense of tension that made Battlestar Galactica (2003) the Perfect Reboot.

So say we all.

#battlestar galactica #battlestar galactica reboot #starbuck battlestar galactica #adama #movie review

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

#UK1985 #A&F SOFTWARE #ACTION #SPECTRUM #BBC #ELECTRON #ATOM #NEW CYLON ATTACK #CYLON ATTACK

[gurumog]

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979) Glen A. Larson Productions / Universal Television Dir. Vince Edwards / Christian I. Nyby II

#battlestar galactica #mission galactica #cylon attack #glen a larson #1970s science fiction

[transpidergwen]

I had a dream last night that I lived in the 12 colonies (still my house/yard/etc) when the Cylons attacked and I stood in my front yard and saw a caravan of evacuation ships flying overhead, lights glittering against the night sky. One by one they jumped away in atmosphere and sent mini sonic booms echoing through the night. Might sound like a nightmare but tbh it was just kinda cool!

#battlestar galactica #bsg #bsg 2003

[maaruin]

There are many fewer problems with aristocracy if the aristocrats are competent.

Like, why does it need a strike to tell President Roslin that the workers on the tylium refinery ship (which is absolutely critical for the continued to survive) need a training program for new workers and phases of rest and machine downtime for maintenance. Those things should have been set up weeks after the Cylon attack, not after two years.

Roslin and Adama suck at long term strategy and this re-watch has really pushed my opinion of them downwards. As charming as they are as personalities, they are leaders who aren't leading well.

#battlestar galactica #battlestar galactica spoilers #commander william adama #president laura roslin #strategy

[gameraboy2]

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979), Australian poster

#battlestar galactica #vintage #poster #poster art #1979 #1970s #bsg