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Shiverproof22 1 day ago +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 1 day ago +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 15 hr ago +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 13 hr ago +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 12 hr ago +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 1 day ago +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 13 hr ago +3

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

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jprennquist 22 hr ago +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 20 hr ago +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 16 hr ago +1

rebbit, not a sequel

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jprennquist 14 hr ago +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 10 hr ago +1

it was awful

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Cervix-Pounder 10 hr ago +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 10 hr ago +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 23 hr ago +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 16 hr ago +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 17 hr ago +3

Omg thank you!

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seancbo 1 day ago +201

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

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TheNerdChaplain 23 hr ago +60

The article says it'll also be on Pluto.

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R_V_Z 11 hr ago +2

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

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seancbo 23 hr ago +8

Hence why I said "the ad option exists"

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Desertbro 21 hr ago +9

ads x10, but FREE is FREE

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Captriker 20 hr ago +10

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

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seancbo 21 hr ago +4

Time is money

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chuckluckles 20 hr ago +2

Guess who owns Pluto?

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seancbo 19 hr ago +13

The plutonians?

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chuckluckles 19 hr ago +4

Paramount!

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hart37 18 hr ago +3

Goofy?

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Big-Soup7013 1 day ago -71

So you wanted it free AND without ads?

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seancbo 1 day ago +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 1 day ago +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 1 day ago +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 1 day ago +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 23 hr ago +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 19 hr ago +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 19 hr ago

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

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seancbo 1 day ago +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 23 hr ago +1

Apple, prime, dropout.tv

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kon--- 1 day ago

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

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seancbo 1 day ago +3

ehhh not enough for it to matter, good suggestion though

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Asclepius-Rod 23 hr ago +6

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

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SomewhereNo8378 1 day ago +2

time and attention is money.

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Big-Soup7013 1 day ago -7

No…for the services money is money.

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SomewhereNo8378 1 day ago +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 1 day ago -5

That’s why I said ads….

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oldtekk 23 hr ago +17

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

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SineQuaNon001 23 hr ago +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 1 day ago +11

The mini series is in? Hell yeah

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SineQuaNon001 1 day ago +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 20 hr ago +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 10 hr ago +1

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

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TheSamurabbi 9 hr ago +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 20 hr ago +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 1 day ago +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 1 day ago +27

So say we all!

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uberdag 23 hr ago +10

So say we all!

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ian9outof10 10 hr ago +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 22 hr ago +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 20 hr ago +11

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

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BlinkyMJF 20 hr ago +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 19 hr ago +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 21 hr ago +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 17 hr ago +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 20 hr ago +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 20 hr ago +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 15 hr ago -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 11 hr ago +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 1 day ago +7

FINALLY

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XThePlaysTheThingX 1 day ago +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 17 hr ago +1

Will go on sale on Apple TV / iTunes occasionally

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Lord_of_Chainsaw 23 hr ago -1

Its been on amazon prime for years lol

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chogram 23 hr ago +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 23 hr ago +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 22 hr ago +6

So say we all

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Rhoihessewoi 13 hr ago +1

So say we all

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DustieBottoms 1 day ago +30

F*** YOU PARAMOUNT

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Pf_Farnsworth 1 day ago +57

\*FRACK YOU

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boggycakes 23 hr ago +4

Hells yeah. Time for a rewatch.

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OCDPakiMan 1 day ago +2

What about the webisodes?

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SineQuaNon001 1 day ago +4

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

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WurmGurl 23 hr ago +2

Does this work in Canada?

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ItsReallyNotWorking 21 hr ago +2

SO SAY WE ALL!

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guspaz 21 hr ago +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 11 hr ago +2

Holy frack this is awesome!

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joshmoviereview 1 day ago +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--- 1 day ago +2

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

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sarcasticbaldguy 22 hr ago +2

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

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Zesher_ 21 hr ago +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 19 hr ago +1

GET ME A FRAKIN’ DRINK BILL!!

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Suspicious_County_24 18 hr ago +1

I want the reboot!

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Tobias---Funke 17 hr ago +1

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

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amandamous 15 hr ago +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 14 hr ago +1

Was Caprica good?

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HDauthentic 13 hr ago +1

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

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srfrosky 13 hr ago +1

Pluto means ads right?

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AiR-P00P 13 hr ago +1

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

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MidwestTroy92 12 hr ago +1

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

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Suitable_Moose6507 12 hr ago +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 9 hr ago +1

About fracking time

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GkElite 9 hr ago +1

Bought the Blu-ray box set.

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VinTheHater 9 hr ago +1

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

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TheeAmateurArtist 23 hr ago +1

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.🤓

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Altruistic-Cut9795 20 hr ago +1

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

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domino7 22 hr ago

The ending still sucked though.

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afcnfc 23 hr ago

Fact: bears eat beets. Bears. Beets.

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ReasonablyBadass 17 hr ago -1

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

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exarkann 17 hr ago

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

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bwoah_gimmethedrink 12 hr ago

Watching with ads isn't free.

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SadisticNecromancer 1 day ago -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 1 day ago +14

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

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frackthestupids 1 day ago +2

Agreed

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letsbebuns 1 day ago +3

Gaius Frakking Baltar.

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nopasaranwz 1 day ago +4

Such a number 3 thing to say.

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Nightgasm 1 day ago +2

Frell!

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owa00 1 day ago +1

Found the Cylon 🙄

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Ridiculousnessmess 20 hr ago +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 22 hr ago -7

No extended episodes, no watch.

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Ridiculousnessmess 20 hr ago +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 10 hr ago +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 1 day ago -18

And this is supposed to be a good thing?

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