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"Battlestar Galactica" 33 (2004)


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"Battlestar Galactica" (2004): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Adama shows Leoben what lights out really means.

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8.4/10   755 votes
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Writers:
Ronald D. Moore (developer)
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Original Air Date:
18 October 2004 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Plot:
The crew of Galactica is exhausted after 237 consecutive jumps in intervals of 33 minutes and 132.25 hour without sleep to escape from the Cylons... more | add synopsis
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Best of Science Fiction -- Best of Television more (6 total)

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Germany:43 min
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Sci-Fi Channel offered the entire episode #1.1, "33", uncut and commercial-free from its Web site, along with deleted scenes. It was taken down roughly a year later and replaced by the entire season finale episode #1.13 "Kobol's Last Gleaming", in anticipation of Season 2. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: The clock counts down to the next Cylon attack. It reads 10 seconds, then we see Adama and Tigh looking off-screen at the clock as we hear ten seconds tick off, followed by a shot of the clock reading 7 seconds. more
Quotes:
Petty Officer 2nd Dualla: [to Adama] Comm traffic two from the President.
Commander William Adama: [to Tigh] Is this my ten minutes or is this yours?
Col. Saul Tigh: Yours. I took ten last time.
Commander William Adama: All right, I'll see you guys in combat.
[walks off]
Petty Officer 2nd Dualla: I believe it was your ten minutes, sir.
Col. Saul Tigh: The old man's so tired he can't remember, then it's his turn.
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Referenced in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009) (V) more

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14 out of 56 people found the following comment useful.
Best of Science Fiction -- Best of Television, 10 October 2006
10/10
Author: deerich2 from United States

This is not a remake of the cheesy series from years ago but a completely re-imagined universe. No more "poofy" haircuts, capes, and pseudo-Egyptian helmets. These Colonials dress in flight suits, uniforms, and clothing that suggest another world as well as ours.

It's science fiction at its best. Thought provoking. Well written. Well acted. Unafraid to tackle controversial topics head on.

And when you think you know what's going to happen next -- Duck! Because the new Battlestar Galactica will upset all your expectations and expose you to new ways of looking at television, science fiction and life.

For the thinking person this show should be at the top of your "must see" list.

Edward James Olmos (William Adama) and Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslyn) are fantastic. Their on screen chemistry is amazing and their abilities to communicate non-verbally unmatched. The nuances of their scenes together are enough to propel this show to the top 10 of all time.

James Callis (Gaius Baltar) is wonderful as well. His mixture of brilliance, insanity, comic relief, and religious zealotry brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "evil genius."

Watch this show!

It's the best show on TV.

And by the way, the show won a Peabody Award. These are given to "outstanding works exhibiting excellence, distinguished achievement, and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, cable television organizations, producing organizations, and individuals."

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