r/videos • u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord • 22h ago
Katee Sackhoff tells Battlestar creator the impossible line of dialogue he wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrZIylDwaA37
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u/Scrabo 21h ago
That's the scene with the technobabble.
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u/triggeron 20h ago
Well that made perfect sense to me.
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u/IAmGlobalWarming 13h ago
If you watch the interview, she said she didn't read the line as written.
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u/Lee1138 17h ago
Yeah, it's not technobable.
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u/MrLlamma 13h ago
She changed the line, it used to be violent decompressions "irradiating" from the pod
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u/APiousCultist 4h ago
If we're going there, "violent decompressions" is a weird way of saying "Shit's exploding, yo."
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u/rloch 18h ago
I really need to do a rewatch of battlestar. Amazing show just a commitment to get through that much tv.
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u/bobatsfight 16h ago
I had just done it recently. Still great. It flies by the second time. Just commit to the miniseries and see if you want to continue.
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u/Maleficent-Curve8455 9h ago
My thoughts exactly. The doldrums set up the payoff moments so well though...
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u/OneOfALifetime 13h ago
I was a late bloomer and tried to watch it for the first time a couple years ago, after so many years of hearing how amazing if was. And I love anything sci fi.
Sadly all the religious crap really turned me off, whatever season it became really prominent became a struggle and I never finished it. I don't even care that it was religion itself, I found that storyline massively boring.
I now consider it my most overrated show.
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u/tazding0 13h ago
I've been an atheist since before this show came out, but in a universe where there is obviously something super natural going on, it didn't feel too forced to me.
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u/adreamofhodor 13h ago
I just remember being disappointed. I was fine going along with the religious stuff, but there wasn’t ever really a payoff for that plot line. If I remember correctly.
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u/tazding0 12h ago
How do you mean? The moment they found Starbuck all the way to the end was pretty much one story that ended with them finding earth.
There were definitely story lines that didn't pay off, like Helo and Heras baby didn't really feel that impactful other then everyone wanting to get their hands on her.
Or the few episodes where we thought there were 2 cylon babies, tyrol's and callies.
But BSG since the miniseries always had a religious aspect that built on itself to the ultimate conclusion
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u/PocketNicks 41m ago
I tried to get into it a couple years ago and only made it a few episodes before I got bored.
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u/OneOfALifetime 1m ago
Yea I always felt like I was semi forcing myself to like it. The first season totally had me, but they started with the religious in the second, and by the third I think it was the main part of most of the episodes.
Like I said, it's not just because it's religious, that could have been interesting. I just found their take really "beat you over the head" and it just was boring as hell to me.
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u/goblue142 13h ago
It's such an amazing show that gets ruined by the religious stuff. I finished it and I've rewatched it twice but I fast forward through a lot of the later episodes because the religious discussions are just cringe.
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u/MilkshakeYeah 14h ago
I like her and I love sci-fi but can we talk about "Another Life"? Like wtf happened there?
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u/is_that_optional 13h ago
I don´t know what I thought it would be about back in the day but that show went off the rails immediately. All characters were so over exaggerated, incompetent and the dialog didn´t make any sense. Like a high school drama in space.
I still have the guy swinging a pipe at her in my head... somehow him trying to kill her was her fault.
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u/madsci 2h ago
How much was she in charge of that? I see her listed as an executive producer.
It's been about 6 years so my recollection may be wrong, but didn't that show start out with the ship having a crew that were basically strangers to each other? And they still have instantaneous communications with enough bandwidth for VR, but then they have a mutiny over decision making about their next move? I remember there was a lot about the plot that just made me angry.
Prometheus also pulls the "outrageously expensive and important mission with a crew of strangers" bit. Real-life space missions of much less import can involve crews training together for a couple of years. They did swap Jack Swigert in on Apollo 13 less than 3 days before launch but all of those guys still knew each other.
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u/BloatedBeyondBelief 20h ago
She was great on Longmire
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u/CitizenTed 2h ago
To complicate matters even further, on a show like "Star Trek" you can be sure your technobabble is going to be mercilessly torn apart by all the Trek nerds.
"Wait! Did Data just say 'De-synchronize the forward shield array and send a tachyon pulse through the gamma field'? What the fuck is that? In season 5 episode 7 Riker explicitly said that gamma fields were phased out after NCC-1701-C! This is BULLSHIT! What the fuck are they DOING???"
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u/chadwicke619 13h ago
I’m curious. When I think of Sackhoff, I think of a B-list actress who never quite made it, even though she’s had quite a full career. Am I alone here? Like, does anyone see that Sackhoff is going to be in something and think, “Yeah, THAT’S gonna be good”?
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u/TheGillos 12h ago
Really, a ton of actresses would LOVE her IMDB credits. It's such an impossible industry to be in when you even get to the B-list and don't "make it," you STILL basically won the lottery!
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u/FraGough 6h ago
Agreed, She's rarely been front and centre on a poster or media junket, but she's done some good stuff as a supporting role. Being the main star isn't the be all of anything media.
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u/chadwicke619 10h ago
I 1000% agree with you. Looking at the number of Hollywood stars that have ever existed, how much work she gets, all of that… I would imagine to 99% of actors and actresses, her career is an unattainable pipe dream. I still wonder, though. I mean, it seems like she has had ample opportunity to become a true household name, but she’s just never been able to get to those next couple levels. I wonder why that is.
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u/zeroscout 7h ago
Her parents were founders for a huge home building company in Portland. She had the financial comfort to chase her dream.
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u/star_particles 13h ago
I definitely agree. I always like seeing her in stuff because hey Starbuck!! But the appeal I had for her back in the day has faded as the more roles I saw her in that were just kinda eh not bad but nit great maybe it was just the role I don’t know. It is funny how she has had a full career but never popped off from that role she really stole the show for me on battlestar.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 2h ago
From listening to her podcast she’s fully embraced her niche as a b-movie sci fi queen and she’s grateful to have made a career of it.
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u/viaJormungandr 11h ago
She was decent in Mando, but I think if you give her something where she can gleefully chew scenery she’s amazing.
I can’t say why I never got into BSG, the show just never clicked for me. So her Starbuck wasn’t that memorable. On the other hand, her little bits on Flash were delightful.
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u/legojohn 19h ago
Hey that is the Queen of Blades. She’s kind of a big deal.
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u/infomaticjester 18h ago
I believe it was Tricia who voiced Kerrigan.
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u/legojohn 12h ago
Oh shoot you are right! I'm leaving my dumb mistake up there. The robot lady was Kerrigan! The crazy lady who could only be seen by the doctor. Sorry about that.
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u/Apostastrophe 3h ago
Oh I also had these recommended to me in the past week! I love that she has long term rage about that line. 🤣
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u/Marshmallow2218 11h ago
Her face doesn't look good at a low body fat %, plus she's had work done.She almost looks scary in that thumbnail.
Check her out in Riddick, muscular, an extra pound or two, so hot. She looks like a completely different person.
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u/thccontent 10h ago edited 10h ago
Jesus, who the fuck cares? People get older. Bodies age and change. She's gorgeous here.
Edit: my God you have daughters? Imagine them growing up, becoming super successful, and then some mouth breather made comments like this about them. Would you enjoy that?
You're gross, dude.
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u/APiousCultist 18h ago
"Captain, if we invert the lateral current of the retro-encabulator's logarithmic casing right at the lunar waneshaft we could avoid side-fumbling the hydrocoptic marzel-vanes and synchronise the ship's cardinal gram-meters."
"Of course, like putting too much air into a balloon!"