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Shiverproof22 Apr 25, 2026 +279

Mini-series being missing always felt like starting a book at chapter 3. Now I can finally recommend BSG without a 5-minute “watch order” explanation. Maybe time for a full rewatch.

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +65

Couldn't agree more. I wanted to watch the show semi recently for the first time, so I started at episode 1, like you do, with shows. And I thought oh ok, it's some in medias res storytelling, sure. But then going back to the miniseries after finding out how important it was completely changed the tone for the entire show. It's not just a dire situation, it's 9/11 era space post apocalypse.

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FalconBurcham Apr 25, 2026 +5

Yup! I forgot season 1, episode 1 isn’t the beginning. I bought the show on sale a couple months ago for like 5 a season. I started that first show and I was like.. ohhhh… Guess how much the “pilot” episode cost? 15 bucks. Assholes… the pilot should be included with season 1. I read the pilot on Wikipedia. I’ll never purchase the pilot for 15.

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alecsgz Apr 25, 2026 +5

> I read the pilot on Wikipedia You can also read the pilot with sounds and moving pictures for free...matey

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FalconBurcham Apr 25, 2026 +5

The pilot wasn’t free on Prime. I don’t know how to sail the high seas without committing a traceable felony 😂

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jl_theprofessor Apr 25, 2026 +18

I agree with you but I will also say episode 1 is an explosive introduction tot he series if it’s the first thing you watch.

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goda90 Apr 25, 2026 +3

Yeah, "33" was my first exposure and I was hooked.

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jprennquist Apr 25, 2026 +2

I grew up on the original. But I was busy with young kids and career when the sequel series came out. I have never watched a minute of a single episode. Been saving it, I guess. So with that said - it may or may not be relevant that I devoured the original series(es) and film - can you share a watch order with me? Or does it work to just do it straight through? I have paramount+. Not exactly proud of that but I can't let go of the Star Trek shows and movies.

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mrtwidlywinks Apr 25, 2026 +3

Watch the mini series first—when compiled it's essentially a movie. For some reason, Sci-Fi channel decided to cut it into dozens of 5 minute "episodes" and release it that way. After the mini series watch seasons 1-4. You'll see a familiar face from the original series on the episode about the prison ship. Save yourself a treat and don’t spoil it for yourself, I never watched the original series and found out almost decades later the actor stared in the original series. There's a movie "The Plan" to watch after the series, as well as "Razor" which I think you can watch after season 2 but I'm not sure on that one. There's other media like Blood and Chrome but I can't attest to their quality.

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RainaElf Apr 25, 2026 +1

rebbit, not a sequel

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jprennquist Apr 25, 2026 +1

Got it. But this reminds that there was a sequel to the (original) TV show where the Galactica comes to earth in 1980. It was great for a kid but I don't think critics liked it very much.

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RainaElf Apr 25, 2026 +1

it was awful

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Cervix-Pounder Apr 25, 2026 +1

Weird, both times I've streamed it here in the UK the miniseries was included there in s1 before 33

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flcinusa Apr 25, 2026 +1

That said, 33 might be the best non pilot S01E01 going, catches you up quickly and drops you into non stop drama. You feel the tension and how high the stakes are. Perfect.

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uberdag Apr 25, 2026 +96

Katee sackoff is on YouTube doing a watch/reaction vids with husband and is going to have other cast coming .... It's kind of entertaining to hear behind scenes stuff

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joemc1971 Apr 25, 2026 +5

Her and Marks podcast is great and so is his and Kevin smith's. Weird crossover with Clerks and BSG.

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FrogsOnALog Apr 25, 2026 +3

Omg thank you!

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +201

Oh thank God >On Paramount+ Sonofabitch. At least the ad option will exist.

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TheNerdChaplain Apr 25, 2026 +60

The article says it'll also be on Pluto.

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R_V_Z Apr 25, 2026 +2

But the ping from Pluto to Earth is atrocious...

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +8

Hence why I said "the ad option exists"

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Desertbro Apr 25, 2026 +9

ads x10, but FREE is FREE

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Captriker Apr 25, 2026 +10

Pluto is pretty good about limiting Commercial breaks in TV shows to their actual s**** only. Unlike movies.

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +4

Time is money

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chuckluckles Apr 25, 2026 +2

Guess who owns Pluto?

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +13

The plutonians?

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chuckluckles Apr 25, 2026 +4

Paramount!

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hart37 Apr 25, 2026 +3

Goofy?

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Big-Soup7013 Apr 25, 2026 -71

So you wanted it free AND without ads?

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +54

I mean I was just hoping it was going to be on one of the 7 streaming services I already subscribe to, sorry for being so entitled

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +3

Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO... what are the other 3? (Just curious lol 😂 I get Pp for free with Walmart)

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Scoobydiesel87 Apr 25, 2026 +7

I know it was a joke but it is wild to think of all the services…. AppleTV+, Shudder, Prime and Peacock are some others I have on top of the three(4?) you listed.

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +1

Prime definitely. Apple and peacock, ok. Shudder I feel is too niche all only horror. But still that's 7 at least lol 😄

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Scoobydiesel87 Apr 25, 2026 +1

I personally love shudder but I’m a huge horror guy lol. I could also think of Criterion, crunchy roll and stuff like Tubi. So many damn services it’s wild. And I bet plenty I can’t think of or we’ve never heard of ha. Hell that’s not even counting Kanopy and hoopla either! Too many damn services….

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CivilianDuck Apr 25, 2026 +1

Crunchyroll is growing less and less niche as anime popularity grows. Here in Canada, there's some US services we don't get, so we have alternative services or bundled. Hulu is not available in Canada, but we get Hulu shows through Disney+. We also don't have HBO Max, but we have an alternative service called Crave that is owned by a Canadian Corp that has partnered with HBO to streak their library.

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ShogunKing Apr 25, 2026

>Crunchyroll is growing less and less niche as anime popularity grows I f****** hate this timeline.

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +10

Mf got my number, damn. I was being hyperbolic. But I get pp for free behind the Walmart, so idk if that's a brag

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AVeryVapidBadger Apr 25, 2026 +1

Apple, prime, dropout.tv

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kon--- Apr 25, 2026

If you shop Walmart, join Walmart+ and they offer Paramount+ Premium for $55 annually.

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seancbo Apr 25, 2026 +3

ehhh not enough for it to matter, good suggestion though

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Asclepius-Rod Apr 25, 2026 +6

Is it too much to ask for Paramount and Keith Ellison to go bankrupt?

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SomewhereNo8378 Apr 25, 2026 +2

time and attention is money.

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Big-Soup7013 Apr 25, 2026 -7

No…for the services money is money.

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SomewhereNo8378 Apr 25, 2026 +3

your attention and time to ads is what makes the money for them. You can’t play ads to a empty audience and get money

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Big-Soup7013 Apr 25, 2026 -5

That’s why I said ads….

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oldtekk Apr 25, 2026 +17

Loved watching this the first time through. Tempted to give it a rewatch.

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +17

It's even better in my opinion on rewatch because you know who is who and what's coming and you can see all the little threads and connective tissue in the foreshadowing.

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Julian_Thorne Apr 25, 2026 +11

The mini series is in? Hell yeah

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +9

Sadly no razor film it seems. But beggars and choosers and all... I wonder how Pluto is going to handle the nudity in The Plan lol 😆 do they care? I hope not lol

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Ridiculousnessmess Apr 25, 2026 +7

I think there were two cuts of The Plan. The one with nudity was for DVD/Blu-Ray.

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Atomic_Gumbo Apr 25, 2026 +1

Yeah I’m bummed that Razor isn’t in the deal. Great story.

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TheSamurabbi Apr 25, 2026 +1

Yeah, I stopped my rewatch when I realized Razor was missing. It just doesn’t make as much sense to try and rewatch this with so many missing parts

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BlinkyMJF Apr 25, 2026 +2

I wathced the mini + the series about a year ago on Showtime+ or what ever it called ~5€ per month, still watching stuff from there and I don't even need to use other platforms, there so much quality content there.

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Dottielala Apr 25, 2026 +32

I just started my rewatch after so many years and was sailing the seas to do so. Guess will pause until May 1st and watch on Pluto! So say we all?

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Julian_Thorne Apr 25, 2026 +27

So say we all!

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uberdag Apr 25, 2026 +10

So say we all!

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ian9outof10 Apr 25, 2026 +2

Or continue to sail and just remind yourself every so often that capitalism exists and you must participate in it.

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FionaWalliceFan Apr 25, 2026 +34

Unpopular opinion apparently but Ive always loved the ending. There are heavy religious themes throughout the whole show, its odd that people would have a problem with such a finale that has heavy religious themes

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fornefariouspurposes Apr 25, 2026 +11

Count me in among the few who actually liked the ending.

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BlinkyMJF Apr 25, 2026 +7

I very much didn't like the religous stuff getting stronger towards the end. But I recognize it's not often an audience that's addressed in scifi settings heavily, so I'm glad for those who wanted it to go that way. For me it was the firends and enemies we made on the way, very strong cast.

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ConvenienceStoreDiet Apr 25, 2026 +5

Didn't mind it personally. I think there are just so many ways it could have ended and the ending we got may not have been the absolute best, but it was fitting.

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Drivenby Apr 25, 2026 +7

I’m in the same boat . It does feel rushed but the actual ending IMHO is consistent with the entire show .

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ReasonablyBadass Apr 25, 2026 +3

I would say, it doesn't have religious themes, it uses GOD as a literal Deus Ex Machina to explain the disintegrating plot. If your show needs "uh...god did it" then your writers screwed up somewhere.

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Ridiculousnessmess Apr 25, 2026 +2

I have no problem with the ambiguities of the final episode. Some people have to have everything explained in pedantic detail, though.

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ITworksGuys Apr 25, 2026 +2

I have tried to explain this to people multiple times. The wholes show is religious, there are miracles and prophecies. The weird hate boner some sci-fi fans have for anything religious kinda creeps me out. I thought it was super interesting because I hadn't seen it before but from the reactions I see online are some "they didn't know what they were doing" takes. If you paid even a bit of attention, it's there the whole time.

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nymesis_v Apr 25, 2026 -1

Hate to overgeneralize, but there's definitely a crayon-eating kind of sci-fi fans who don't actually read any sci-fi novels and are there just for "space ships and robots". Anyone who's ever enjoyed a good sci-fi novel would feel at home in BSG asking themselves who or what God is and what influence they have on people. Found myself asking the same questions in God Emperor of Dune as with the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and many other legendary novels which the crayon-eating fans have no idea about because they just watch movies. But yeah if you're like "hurr durr lightsabers & science rule" the BSG ending is going to suck hard.

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SFHalfling Apr 25, 2026 +1

I've always felt there were things I would tweak in the ending but anyone who didn't expect it to be roughly what it was, didn't pay attention.

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LipsRinna Apr 25, 2026 +7

FINALLY

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XThePlaysTheThingX Apr 25, 2026 +8

This is big fracking news since it’s been semi-unavailable for *years*. Paramount isn’t the ideal place for it, but I’ll take the rewatch of one of the greatest sci-fi shows ever made.

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FrogsOnALog Apr 25, 2026 +1

Will go on sale on Apple TV / iTunes occasionally

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Lord_of_Chainsaw Apr 25, 2026 -1

Its been on amazon prime for years lol

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chogram Apr 25, 2026 +8

Not always. It hops on and off of there pretty regularly. I wound up just buying the DVD set a long time ago. Easier than trying to hunt it down when I want to watch it.

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +3

It comes and goes. Often isn't on there. And they often forget to include the mini, which is the pilot. Leading people to be confused as frak.

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MailmanTanLines Apr 25, 2026 +6

So say we all

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Rhoihessewoi Apr 25, 2026 +1

So say we all

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DustieBottoms Apr 25, 2026 +30

F*** YOU PARAMOUNT

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Pf_Farnsworth Apr 25, 2026 +57

\*FRACK YOU

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boggycakes Apr 25, 2026 +4

Hells yeah. Time for a rewatch.

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OCDPakiMan Apr 25, 2026 +2

What about the webisodes?

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +4

They don't even out those on the physical media. 😞

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WurmGurl Apr 25, 2026 +2

Does this work in Canada?

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ItsReallyNotWorking Apr 25, 2026 +2

SO SAY WE ALL!

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guspaz Apr 25, 2026 +2

In terms of effects and art design, the show holds up, and with the possible exceptions of the CG centurions being a bit iffy, if you've never seen the show before, it could easily have been made yesterday.

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AbleRelationship5287 Apr 25, 2026 +2

Holy frack this is awesome!

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joshmoviereview Apr 25, 2026 +4

I remember when SyFy put it on their streaming service for free at the beginning of covid… that was awesome

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kon--- Apr 25, 2026 +2

Solid watch. One of the few shows I have on disk. I do a rewatch every few years.

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sarcasticbaldguy Apr 25, 2026 +2

It's been streaming in my house via Plex for years.

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Zesher_ Apr 25, 2026 +1

I love this show so much. I uhh, may have ripped the rentals DVDs from Blockbuster to my PC to stream when I want, but I legit paid for those rentals

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CPRolla Apr 25, 2026 +1

GET ME A FRAKIN’ DRINK BILL!!

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Suspicious_County_24 Apr 25, 2026 +1

I want the reboot!

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Tobias---Funke Apr 25, 2026 +1

I already have it free with the blu ray box set.

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amandamous Apr 25, 2026 +1

One of the best shows ever. Some of the religious stuff is a bit froofy, but the rest is just awesome.

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thesagaconts Apr 25, 2026 +1

Was Caprica good?

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HDauthentic Apr 25, 2026 +1

Nice, I’ll be doing a rewatch at some point

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srfrosky Apr 25, 2026 +1

Pluto means ads right?

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AiR-P00P Apr 25, 2026 +1

I'm more annoyed then I should be that Razor isn't there as well.

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MidwestTroy92 Apr 25, 2026 +1

free is my favorite streaming service. every show getting bounced around 4 apps gets old fast.

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Suitable_Moose6507 Apr 25, 2026 +1

I've been watching it for over a month on ITVX, might hold fire and see if it lands on P+ in the UK too

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oneup84 Apr 25, 2026 +1

About fracking time

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GkElite Apr 25, 2026 +1

Bought the Blu-ray box set.

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VinTheHater Apr 25, 2026 +1

Great news! >On Paramount+ F*** it. I’ll just buy the Blu Ray

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TheeAmateurArtist Apr 25, 2026 +1

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.🤓

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Altruistic-Cut9795 Apr 25, 2026 +1

I thought about the original Battestar Galactica but now I'm disappointed.

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domino7 Apr 25, 2026

The ending still sucked though.

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afcnfc Apr 25, 2026

Fact: bears eat beets. Bears. Beets.

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ReasonablyBadass Apr 25, 2026 -1

Everything till season 3 is great. After you can drop it, imo.

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exarkann Apr 25, 2026

If I have to watch ads, it's not free.

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bwoah_gimmethedrink Apr 25, 2026

Watching with ads isn't free.

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SadisticNecromancer Apr 25, 2026 -14

I’ve tried to go back and watch it but I cannot get past them say “frack” all the time. I understand why but I still can’t get past it.

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SineQuaNon001 Apr 25, 2026 +14

It's such a fun word though! The actors still slip into it years later. Fraking cylons!

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frackthestupids Apr 25, 2026 +2

Agreed

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letsbebuns Apr 25, 2026 +3

Gaius Frakking Baltar.

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nopasaranwz Apr 25, 2026 +4

Such a number 3 thing to say.

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Nightgasm Apr 25, 2026 +2

Frell!

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owa00 Apr 25, 2026 +1

Found the Cylon 🙄

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Ridiculousnessmess Apr 25, 2026 +1

It’s from the original series. One of the few side details Ronald D. Moore carried into the new show.

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WerthersAWill Apr 25, 2026 -7

No extended episodes, no watch.

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Ridiculousnessmess Apr 25, 2026 +4

Pretty sure the DVDs and Blu-Rays with those extended episodes (which is what they were specifically assembled for) are still in print. Go buy them if it matters that much to you.

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WerthersAWill Apr 25, 2026 +1

I have the blu ray set. But sometimes I don’t wanna get my fat ass off the couch and put a disc in.

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jacky986 Apr 25, 2026 -18

And this is supposed to be a good thing?

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