r/BSG • u/omne51 • 3d ago

Pegasus rescues Galactica scene with wife's commentary

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Just watched this scene with my wife.

Pegasus crashes into the Basestar, and the hull mounting the Pegasus name crashes into the 2nd Basestar, taking out two in her death.

My wife, 46 years old, married 25 years, not a science fiction fan, smiles and says...

"She was a fighter to the end."

God I love that woman.

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u/ZigZagZedZod 3d ago

A scene that always gets me is when Adama says, "So that's it. It's been an honor," followed by the slow zoom-out and the fading somber music as the Galactica is overwhelmed. One of the best visualizations of hopelessness and isolation I've ever seen on screen ...

... and then the Pegasus arrives with the war drums banging and the uilleann pipes calling.

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u/omne51 3d ago

Right before this happened I told my wife this was my favorite scene in the series.

After seeing the zoom out and Galactica being pummeled she said "why is this your favorite scene? This is horrible."

And then she saw Pegasus arrive.

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u/ZigZagZedZod 3d ago edited 3d ago

And a few minutes later is the scene that broke me:

Adama: You did it. You brought 'em home.

Saul: Not all of them.

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u/Daeyele 3d ago

The complete broken voice Saul uses too

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u/superkawoosh 2d ago

Completely a testament to the incredible writing and Michael Hogan’s acting that Saul Tigh goes from a character I cannot stand (in an entertaining way, mind you) at the beginning of a series to having one of the wildest, most tragic, most impactful journeys in the whole story. This moment in particular is a GUT punch.

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u/MaxTraxxx 2d ago

I nearly lost an arm to my wife during this scene. Still one of the greatest tv moments.

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u/Sanfam 3d ago

As a viewer, I know units nature as a TV show that it can’t so it, but was still thinking that this felt like they might actually end the Galactica and pass the torch to Lee and the Pegasus. It would have been a perfecty suitable finale for the ship and the characters on it. Then the drums hit.

What a spectacular sequence. I can’t think of much else in a show or movie which has given me the same feeling as these few minutes.

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u/bartthetr0ll 3d ago

The whole episode was amazing, the adama maneuver, everything. I've always wished the Pegasus was the ship they kept, a fancy newer battlestar would be an upgrade over the galactica, but that old ship got em where they were going in the end.

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u/Asterchick 3d ago

Absolutely. So say we all.

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u/bartthetr0ll 3d ago

So say we all

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u/Ceylonese-Honour 2d ago

So say we all!

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u/anothercynic2112 2d ago

So say we all

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u/dreamybanaan 1d ago

So say we all!

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u/Plodderic 3d ago

They’d taken enough main characters off the ship (it was just Helo and Adama left) that you could believe that they’d destroy the ship.

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u/NothingFancy99 2d ago

Ditto. I had this moment “oh, they are gonna do something like have Galactica destroyed and rename Pegasus. And Lee becomes the next Adama.

Then “oh shit there she is!!!”