That look on D'anna's face when they reached the planet. This ep still gives me the chills. And it was SOOOO frustrating having to wait six months!!

"I want to see you pick up that first fistful of earth" Well.....he did.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

Not what I wanted!

Yea, that wait was SHEER TORTURE. I still remember my shock at the reveal of the dead Earth. You’re so lucky to have such a short wait for the rest.

@Sephiroth144

2 ай бұрын

And then, of course, the episode it comes back with... But yeah, that was a rough 6 months.

@tenchraven

2 ай бұрын

I was gob-stopped.

One of the things I find common among the reactors I watch regarding this series: Season 1: "I hate Tigh! He's terrible! Get rid of him!" Season 4: "Tigh is GREAT! Tigh is an INCREDIBLE character! I LOVE TIGH!!"

Well, big surprise. We nuked ourselves. Lots of ways they could've handled Earth, and I definitely think this was a really good choice. And, as D'Anna said, only four of the Final Five Cylons were with the Fleet. Which answers the question of why the Fifth member of the Final Five didn't activate with the others. It was something which seemed so logical to me. Why wouldn't the fifth member of the Final Five activate too? Why wouldn't the signal turn them on like with the rest? And the answer is simple. *They aren't with the fleet.* They aren't there. Why wouldn't they be there? And there is a rather logical answer to that too. Also, The Plan is not the end of Battlestar Galactica. After the Plan there is *Caprica (2010)* and *Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012).* Don't listen to naysayers, they are part of the series, keep watching. Are they perfect? No. But they're both still worth watching and reacting to.

The wait WAS utter torture. I cried tears of joy when we finally jumped to earth, then to see the wasted earth when the landing party arrived had me crying tears of pain and devestation.

What an episode. It was such a looooong wait back in the day for the back half of season 4. Some absolutely incredible stuff to come! Hold on to your butts!

“This episode delivered” Yep and it also said F.U. at the end 😂

@CasualNerdReactions

3 ай бұрын

lol if this had been the series finale maybe I’d feel that way about the end. But knowing I get 11 more episodes and a movie I felt pretty good about it 😅

@psychjay

3 ай бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions For sure. Just gotta remember the hiatus after this episode. The great build up emotionally. Lee dancing on the CnC table, the shot from space with the fleet over the planet. The triumphant collections of transports descending to the atmosphere and then the 🖕and roll to credits LOL.

The Plan is worth watching (and reacting). It gives the Cylon’s perspective on the whole story, and provides some answers to lingering questions and plot holes. I would recommend watching The Plan just BEFORE the finale. The reason is that The Plan is Ok, but not great, and the Finale is simply better. Watching the Plan after the finale will feel very anticlimactic. Watching before the finale leaves the best for last.

I saw the thumbnail and my first thought was "Oh god, it's that episode!"

@Sephiroth144

2 ай бұрын

And, of course, then there's all the other ones coming...

The scariest part was at the time there was a real possibility that this was going to be the series finale instead of just the mid-season finale due the writers’ strike that occurred.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

So glad we got a real ending!!

@l33tspaniard

2 ай бұрын

I swear I’m gonna be myth busting this one for the rest of my life, but they had one kore episode in the can when the strike broke out. The NEXT episode is the would-be finale

@joshuaehrnwald8745

2 ай бұрын

Actually, no -- immediately after this episode they filmed the episode "Sometimes a Great Notion," which would've been the final episode of the series had the Writers' Guild-strike continued any longer.

Such a good episode, best of the season. I loved mean, drunken XO Ty in the miniseries, and I love Saul Ty here. No matter his origin, he is a patriot. This is also the episode where Lee steps all the way out of his father's shadow. Bill breaking, the brinksmanship, D'anna's face when she realizes that all of this has happened before. All of the cast brought their A-game for this.

I think in the extended version they showed that one hostage being thrown out an airlock before D'Anna announced it

When you weren't expecting the Fallout TV show, but you get the Fallout TV show lol

Back when you started watching this show I warned that the characters you hate in season 1, would be the characters you love the most at the end. Saul Tigh! tell me you do not now love this person?

The hostage execution didn’t happen off camera. They showed someone being sent out an airlock.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

Yea, I missed it. I didn’t notice it and assumed it was an establishing shot of the ship.

This would have been an ending, but even with expired contracts everyone wanted to come back and finish it.

@michaelburns1096

2 ай бұрын

No, the next episode. It was the same location and they filmed it at the same time. The show would have ended with the 5ths reveal.

Diaspora Oratario (aka, the speech/Song of the Scattered People (though I like Song of the Sundered myself- its close enough...)) keeps playing when I hear about people close to me dying or dead- like, 5 times this has happened where I get the phone call while this song is playing (either by itself or in the episode). Already written in that its one of the songs playing at my funeral... This was the episode that I went to see at the Arclight Hollywood, where they had a "proper" (read, gated) cast/crew interaction- its weird dealing with those after you've literally been to people's houses for birthday showings... BUT it did include a proper, crowd based EJO led SO SAY WE ALL (outside, while we were all waiting) And yes, you could've heard a pin drop once the episode ended.

6:35 - "That man is BOLD!" For a split second, I thought I heard "bald" and I was like, "he's still got some hair, let's not get aHEAD of ourselves."

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

God... that original airing wait was torture, not to mention the fact I also had to wait another month to get my cable turned back on. Just wait for the 5th reveal.

Such an incredible show.

I was left with my jaw opened. In no way did I think they would arrive to an uninhabitable world. I also realized that as a very potential end of the story, who could they put that in the middle of the season? So my mind went to how to survive on a dead planet. Maybe that would and the series. Instead, we get to continue the story for another 10 weeks.😁

Yeah, this was a hell of a wait 😂 and boy, we’re in the endgame now 😬

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

Someone has their foot stuck on the gas!

Always the thank you. 😘

Yeah this could of been the final ever episode it was hell

It is so freaking typical for BSG to end a six month break with this kind of ending. Adam picking up the earth. The geiger counter clicking to show it's radioactive. Everyone looking so sad and dejected. going from the absolute celebratory "We made it" to the absolute horror of this sight.... Waiting those six months sucked, but back then, we were used to it. Binging a stream wasn't a thing in them olden days.

@CasualNerdReactions

3 ай бұрын

Oh I was riding such a high and then the episode didn’t end. I thought it was over at least two times before the ending. 🤣

You watch 'the Plan' after the finale, mate.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

That’s where I’ll end up watching it, as several patrons strongly suggested the same. Most online watch orders suggest watching it after no exit and after watching episode 16 I still think I would have found it narratively satisfying to watch it there as a flashback mid season, but I obviously can’t form my opinion fully until I see it. Thanks for chiming in!

@devilcat9843

2 ай бұрын

​@@CasualNerdReactions, Definitely wait till after the final episode before you watch "The Plan". ^^^ spoilers ^^^

@michaelburns1096

2 ай бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions it aired months after I think. If you watched mid-season it would spoil the 5ths reveal.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

The reccomended placement is directly after no exit which is where we fully saw Ellen and her many conversations with Cavil. They even references a plan in the episode. It seems like a good place to go back and see that plan. I can’t say if it does spoil anything following that episode or not, only that several watch guides suggest it doesn’t. I just like the narrative idea of flashing back there and letting the finale be the last thing you watch from the series. We’ll see how I feel after watching it. I’m sure I’ll discuss its placement afterwards in the reaction.

@Sephiroth144

2 ай бұрын

And maybe Caprica & Blood and Chrome... the latter is more of a fun bit during the end of the 1st Cylon War, the former a prequel leading up to Cylons being CYLONS

1. The hostage execution never made any sense to me. What was Dianne hoping to achieve? She won't tell the humans who the final (4 of) 5 are, but is pressuring them to send those cylons over anyhow. How does she think the humans could comply? 2. That crackling sounding instrument used on the dirt is a Geiger counter. It measures radioactivity. The faster the crackling, the more radiation. I've used it (long ago) in graduate physics labs. The level we hear is not immediately dangerous, but too high to be habitable. If the landing party departs within a few days, they should be fine; if they stay for a year, not fine. The primary long-lasting radioactive isotope from a nuke (Sr90 and Cs138) both have half-life of about 30 years, so every 1000 years, radiation level would drop by a factor of about a billion ( = 0.5**(1000/30) ). Since the landing party is right inside a nuked city, the original level must have been fairly high, so even thousands of years later the soil would still show plenty of background radiation. (I'd think that if you go away from the cities, you could find places where radiation levels are almost back to natural levels; but that's not what the show wanted to do; also, radiation level in space, where they spend most of their time, is fairly high as well -- so the rural areas of a long-ago nuked planets are probably less radioactive than staying in a spaceship).

Earth.

@Sephiroth144

2 ай бұрын

That first handful...

I know you're episodes further along, so I can safely say anyone not that far thru his reactions that you're gonna facepalm so hard when you realize we've known the final Cylon for a while, & watched them die on New Caprica! But Cylons don't really die, do they? So: bit character? Supporting character? One of the nameless background characters??

I'm really happy for you how exited you are about season 4. I just can't. Several plots are sadly to rushed or not as grounded in how people would react as were those in earlier seasons. We literally did go from let's commit genocide against the cylons to lets ally with the cylon rebells within a few episodes. Compare that to how long it took for Athena to be trusted, how desperate they needed to be to even let her try to earn their trust and to the grain of reality they left in the show that there are still a lot of people who would love to just kill her anyways.

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

Good thing the decision to quickly trust the rebels won’t lead to any kind of uprising or conflict… 👀😅

@BobHerzog1962

2 ай бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions We can talk about that when it comes up. But overall season 4 feels like an unfinished product. Or like two sides in the writeing team wanted to tell their resoloution and they just went with both of them. Even the explenation of the final fives is a bit hairbrain once you think about them. Not so much where they come from, but how they were inserted into the colonies. Just think about the age differences between them for example ... From Adama's memories we know he an Tigh know each other longer than the younger onces are (officially alive). But him being inserted decades eaerlier than the others does not fit the explenation how and why the five were send to the colonies. Not to mention where the heck Tigh's service record from the first war ought to come from (including meeting Adama ...). Overall it feels like they decided at the end of season 3 which characters would be a good twist to be the final five and then thought they could deliver a good explenation later on.

Finally Kara lead them to that planet

@Sephiroth144

2 ай бұрын

Now she just has to pick up her stuff down there...

Spoilers!!! . . . . I can't see that final scene of Earth without hearing "This has all happened before, and it will happen again" from Razor. Its so wonderfully haunting lol

Whelp, see you in 6 months...

Will you watch Caprica?

@CasualNerdReactions

2 ай бұрын

I don’t have plans to watch it at this time, I’ll see what my interest level is after I finish the series. Based on my limited research the first half of the series doesn’t sound very reaction worthy, so if I watch it I’m leaning towards just watching it or releasing it as a Patreon exclusive. We’ll see!

@darkglass1

2 ай бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactionsIt is reaction worthy. It has twists and intrigue. Plus it shows life in the 12 colonies between the wars.

@lindsiria

2 ай бұрын

@@CasualNerdReactions It is very, very different from BSG, but I quite enjoyed it. I think it could have been something fantastic had it not been canceled so soon.

Strong posibility this could have been the series finale. Due to the writer strike, there was a chance the studio would have to release the actors from their contracts.

@suncore598

2 ай бұрын

It would have been a bold choice. Depressing but bold.

@Dularr

2 ай бұрын

@@suncore598 it all happen before, it all will happen again.

@kaykutcher2103

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes a Great Notion, the next episode, was the potential last episode. Script got turned in just before it started, filming got green lit last minute, but there was no word on a continuation to the production during the shoot.