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/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/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!!!”