#saul tigh

[pepsimaxxing]

[lavenderknivess]

Battlestar Galactica Valentine’s For Your Loved Ones (pt 1)

[gorandomshesaid]

this has definitely been done before but

[live-logs-and-proper]

This scene alone sold the show for me and I laughed so much watching it, but adding the Wii theme song to it has been living rent free in my head for ages now so I finally did 😂😂😂😂

[thegreatsylvando]

repost bc it refuses to show up in the tags

[wipbigbang]

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[searider--falcon]

Battlestar Galactica x The Odyssey

1 - The Twelve Colonies of Kobol as The Fall of Troy

Locations in Battlestar Galactica as stops in the Odyssey. Quotes are from the Robert Fagles or Emily Wilson translations, depending on what I thought fit best.

Screencaps are from https://frak-that.com/

[allatariel]

Battlestar Galactica 3x10 "The Passage" - Deleted Scene (2 of 2)

[sweetteaandpie]

Galactica: Sabotage

i have watched this very excellent battlestar galactica fanvid every few months since it was uploaded to youtube 13 years ago. it's to the beastie boys' song sabotage. the video mirrors the original sabotage music video. a side-by-side comparison of the original with the bsg mashup is available. this video is my glimmer, my hit of happy when i need it.

[ytptennis]

gay ppl

[i-believe-in-melinda-may]

I think i handled the emotions well

Having left Gaeta with the video in the computer lab Bill has retuned to CIC with Saul and is looking at maps for ideas about where to go next.

“Commander,” Dee’s voice says, and Bill looks at her. “We’ve just got word that the President has collapsed,” Dee informs Bill and as he hears that all Bill can think is,

‘Not yet, it’s too soon, it’s too soon,’

“What?” Bill asks his voice breaking, as he has to reach out and hold onto the console so that his legs don’t give out.

“The president collapsed, EJ and Billy are with her. Doctor Cottle and Captain Adama are currently leaving on a Raptor for Colonel One,” Dee informs Bill, who is glad that both Doctor Cottle and Lee are on their way to Laura.

“I want an update as soon as possible,” Bill orders, even though he knows that chances are he won’t get the full story until he can talk to Laura himself in person.

“Yes Sir,” Dee responds, and as she does Saul walks over to Bill.

“I can handle things here if you want to go over there,” Saul tells Bill, being able to tell that he is barley holding it together, and as the only person currently on Galactica who truly understands Laura and Bill’s history he completely understands Bill’s reaction.

“I can’t, not with the current security issue,” Bill admits, as even though he desperately wants to run, and fly a raptor over to Colonel One so he can see Laura himself he knows that as commander he cannot leave Galactica right now, not when there is the real possibility that Baltar was the cause of the Holocaust.

“At least go take a break,” Saul suggests, feeling that Bill is no used to anyone right now, and because he doesn’t have it in him to argue Bill nods.

“Dee, I’ll be in my quarters, put through any call from Colonel One to me immediately,” Bill orders.

“Yes Sir,” Dee responds, and Bill walks out of CIC, Saul being the only one who notices that he is a little unsteady on his feet.

On Colonel One, Laura and EJ are in their quarter waiting for Doctor Cottle, and unknown to them, Lee. As she has re-gained consciousness Laura is lying on the couch that is EJ’s bed as it was easier to get her there than her own cot and is clearly weak, while EJ is pacing back and forth.

“EJ, I’m okay, sweetheart,” Laura tells her daughter, even though she feels very far from that, hating that she scared her daughter and also hating that she can’t get up and comfort her.

“You collapsed,” EJ says worried. “And Billy’s out there telling the press that it’s a stomach flu. But, we eat the same things, spend almost twenty-four hours a day together, and I’m fine so it’s not that, and you’re not okay!” EJ exclaims, looking terrified, as she continues to pace.

“I am,” Laura tells her daughter.

“No, you’re not,” EJ states. “Can you even stand right now?” EJ asks her mother, as from the way her mother is lying, she is pretty certain that her mother cannot actually stand right now.  

“No, I can’t,” Laura admits.

“Mom…” EJ starts to say, looking terrified, but before Laura can think of another lie to tell her daughter Lee and Cottle hurry in.

“Mom?” Lee asks worried. “Are you okay?” Lee asks worried, his worry that only increases when he sees how weak his mother clearly is.  

“I’m fine, Sweetheart,” Laura tells her son, trying to seem stronger than she is.  

“No, you’re not!” EJ exclaims. “She collapsed, Billy and I had to carry her in here, and she can’t stand up, and look how pale she is!” EJ exclaims, looking worried. “Something’s seriously wrong!” EJ exclaims, as Lee puts his hand on his sister’s shoulder, trying to calm her down.

“I’ll be the judge of that,” Cottle says, as he sits down next to Laura. “You two out,” Cottle tells Lee and EJ as he needs to talk to Laura about her diagnosis which he knows Lee and EJ don’t know about, and Laura doesn’t want them to know, so it is better if he kicks them out of the room.

“What? No!” EJ exclaims, having no intention of leaving her mother.

“She’s our mom, we’re not going anywhere,” Lee argues.

“It’s okay,” Laura assures her kids, knowing what she has to talk to Cottle about. “Wait in the other room,” Laura tells her kids.

“But…” EJ starts to say.

“Leeland, Evelyn, please listen to Doctor Cottle,” Laura says, looking between their kids, giving them a pleading look.

“We’ll be right outside,” Lee tells his mother, not even being able to remember the last time his mother called them both by their full names, and he gently leads EJ out of the room.

“Lee, I’m scared, somethings’ really really wrong,” EJ says to her brother, sounding upset, once they are in the other room and having no idea what to say Lee just hugs his sister as the truth is he is just as worried as she is.

(Line break)

After Lee leads EJ out of the room Doctor Cottle waits until he is sure that they are gone before turning to Laura.

“You took the pills?” Cottle asks Laura, and she reaches into her pocket, with a shaking hand, and hands him the vial of the Chamalla extract pills.

“I did, and I felt stronger,” Laura admits, and as she does Cottle recognize the issue.

“How many of these did you take, young lady?” Cottle asks. “One? Two?” Cottle asks and Laura nods, but then realises something. “Three,” Cottle concludes. “Three times the dosage,” Cottle says, looking disappointed in Laura’s choices. “Must work three times as fast, then, right?” Cottle asks, with a frown. “Everyone wants to be their own doctor. You’re lucky you didn’t lapse into a coma,” Cottle warns Larua. “You can’t cure cancer by overdose,” Cottle warns.  

“Cancer?” EJ’s shocked voice says and both Laura and Cottle turn look towards the curtain that leads into the quarters where they see Lee and EJ standing, both clearly having decided not to listen and stay out of the room.

“Mom?” Lee asks his voice breaking, as Laura realises that this is the last way, she wanted her kids to find out.

“That’s not true,” EJ says, looking both upset and like she doesn’t believe what they just heard. “You Don’t….do you?” EJ asks, needing the truth even though she doesn’t want it, feeling that that can’t be real, that her mother can’t have cancer.

“I was diagnosed the morning of the attacks,” Laura tells her children, fighting to keep her voice steady as she says the words she has been dreading saying to her kids. “It’s breast cancer and my prognosis is not good,” Laura explains to her kids, tears coming to her eyes as while telling Bill was hard, telling her kids is even harder. “If you sit down Doctor Cottle and I can answer your questions,” Laura says as she looks between EJ and Lee, both of whom are look devastated and like they are in shock, and while Lee, who has a almost vacant look on his face, sits down EJ continues to stand up. “EJ? Sweetheart?” Laura asks her daughter.

“I… I can’t do this,” EJ says before turning and running out of the room as fast as she can.

“EJ!” Laura yells, trying to move to follow her daughter, but she is too weak to move.  

“I’ve got her,” Lee tells mother, realising that his mother can’t follow, before getting up and following his sister.

Ignoring everyone else, including the press who he has had to run past, Lee chases his sister through Colonel One, feeling a little surprised by just how fast she can run. As he knows his sister so well Lee isn’t surprised that she has ran straight to the landing bay, where the raptor he flew over is.

“EJ?” Lee asks his sister.

“I can’t… I can’t… I can’t…. lose her,” EJ says, struggling to speak, struggling to breath because she is so upset.

“I know,” Lee says, walking over to his sister. “I can’t either,” Lee admits, as he hugs his sister. “Just breathe, EJ, just breathe, in and out deep breaths,” Lee says as he continues to hug her, knowing that EJ needs to calm down as with her lung issues things could get complicated, and for the next few minutes EJ tries to get her breathing under control.

“Can we get out of here?” EJ asks her brother, once she manages to get her breathing under control. “I can’t be here right now,” EJ admits, and Lee completely understands the desire to run, as he is feeling the same thing.

“Sure, just let me make a call first,” Lee says, knowing that they can’t just go without telling their mother, so he walks over to the handset in the hanger deck, and puts a call through to his mothers’ quarters. “Hi Doc, tell mom EJ and I are heading over to Galactica… we need some time to digest… thanks,” Lee says before hanging up. “Let’s get out of here,” Lee tells his sister and the two of them walk onto the raptor, both feeling like their world has fallen apart for the second time in a month.

[wouldtheyfuck]

[gorandomshesaid]

Rewatching BSG it strikes me again how good Saul Tigh is in command when there is a crisis in the moment. He saves the ship multiple times by either making the hard call or the right gut call. His biggest issue is that his good decision-making only extends to a moment because after that it immediately leads to martial laws and poisoning cups.

[cantheysurvive2001aspaceodyssey]

[thegreatsylvando]

" I FELL IN LOVE. WITH A HUMAN MAN. AND HE WAS MORTAL. AND FALLIBLE. AND HE HAD THIS INCREDIBLE PRIDE IN HIMSELF. AND I LOVED HIM WITH MY WHOLE HEART."

How To Be a Dog - Andrew Kane (2020) Battlestar Galactica (2003 - 2009)

[denimoverall]

“Embrace”

-Battlestar Galactica (2004)