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Battlestar Galactica | S2 E10: Pegasus (Extended DVD Cut) | Full Reaction
🕑 Added 2025-08-01 21:50:19 +0000 UTCI'm still processing this one. At first, this episode felt like a breath of fresh air. A bit of much needed hope and a huge morale boost for everyone onboard the Galactica. But what's that saying about appearances being deceiving?
Admiral Cain arrived like a force of nature. Calculated. Unflinching. And the way her crew has been operating was no different. The contrast between Cain's command and Adama's couldn't be sharper. And when the ball dropped that she was now in charge of the fleet, I think my heart skipped a beat.
This episode felt like looking into a parallel universe where survival became the only moral compass. If President Roslin's sweet schoolteacher nature hadn't led Adama's softer side to saving the entire fleet back in the beginning of the end. Adama and his crew aren't perfect and never have been. But there is still a sense of boundaries, of trying to hold onto ethics even in a crumbling world. Cain and her crew, on the other hand, seem to believe that order justifies just about anything.
I'm back to asking myself the same question I've been wondering since the beginning of Battlestar Galactica: What is the cost of survival? What is left when you sacrifice empathy and morality for the sake of the mission?
This episode was SO good but has me super nervous about what's next for the Galactica.
📌 If you haven't seen the extended version, check it out here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fw8XHpXN90Q92EyXmRnu3lwet2Cekps2/view?usp=drive_link
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LINK: https://youtu.be/4VwcL_Msk9k
I watched the DVD/Blu-Ray version of this film kindly gifted to me!
Comments
Donovan Sparks
Thanks for providing the link to the extended version, Kali. One thing you MUST keep in mind when watching this show is that the Cylons are NOT human beings. Repeat... the Cylons are NOT human. They are robots. They have no feelings. They feel no pain. They are programmed with showing the pain and torment to emulate human behavior. They may look beat up and abused, but they aren't because they are just robots. You can cut off an arm, a leg, and it wouldn't hurt the thing. Hell, you can even "kill" it, but it just downloads its memory core to another body... Not really dying at all. They aren't lives, they aren't alive. They are robots with programming. It would be like torturing a vacuum cleaner, or a refrigerator, or your car. So any time you see something happen to a Cylon, it's the same as it happening to your iphone. lol
Kali Wali
Yes! It's illegal to put out the full content, so you'll have to sync your own copy :)
Alex
do all of the BSG reactions on Patreon need to be synced with my own subscription?
KJ Gould
This is when the show went to that next level. So intense. And the show was not afraid to hold up a mirror to some of the military abuses of prisoners of war, particularly what was happening in Iraq & Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay at the time of filming. The treatment of that Six and that Sharon being unacceptable and utterly wrong is the exact message the show wanted to convey.
