13-Kat's Sacrifice

[stopjubjubrules]

So Say We All!

[firepatriot42]

It chocked me up when Kat during the last run through the gas cloud switched her rad patch, then when she lost her charge stayed until she found it, then came out with them on the other side. The ultimate sacrifice.

[Jonijonh]

@firepatriot42 That's what true heroes are made of. Sacrifice.

[efetherman]

@firepatriot42 Yes, Kat was a good person, and soldier.

[Atowntrekkie]

I love how McCreary mixes in the percussion. The beautiful brass in this piece mixes perfectly with the militaristic drums at the beginning of the song. And toward the middle, when the drums become more like heartbeats... the perfect mix of styles to depict possibly one of the most moving moments in the entire third season.

[efetherman]

@Atowntrekkie feels right and good, too.

[SWOLFOOI]

Oh man, how many of you didn't pick up on it?!?! Kat represented a young Starbuck: when Kat died Stabuck emerged as a more mature leader who realized that the mistakes she made as the CAG had dire consequences for the rest of the viper/raptor crews!!! BSG forever!!!

[TheNoiseySpectator]

@SWOLFOOI

And further, Kat brought into the storyline a sense of the cycle of Apprenticeship and Mentorhood, much like the kind found in the work of J Michael Stratzinski.

At the beginning, (at least the start of the show), the conflict was between Col.Tighe and Starbuck. Then, as she grew as a soldier, a professional, a person, etc,

Along came her "Starbuck"; Kat.

Remember how Thrace and Tighe became friends on New-Cap. Maybe they came to understand each other more.

[Freddwith2D]

2 people prefer Dogs...

[StarshipPoopers1]

This is the one good thing to come from her character.

Her frequent screeching on the radio was always cringe-worthy.

[AndyHocvs]

... I always hated Kat. Sooo..... ahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Starbuck is the Ace around here!

[jpfdon]

@deesostrom 'cause she was already dead... her patch was black before the switch an she noticed there is no way back anymore as she stood in front of the mirror and her hair fell out. so she did what no one else could do...

[89BlackGatomon]

Sacrifice... For what it is worth living and dying...

[khanhie7]

frak me!!

[suspreena]

I liked that they made her CAG.

[suspreena]

I liked that they made her CAG.

[Clooud]

I never did like Kat throughout the whole series. But when she died so suddenly after what she did I felt pretty guilty for the stem junkie.

[nERVEcenter117]

I never cry over characters in entertainment media. It never happens. Not in my very favorite movies, games, or shows...save when Adama pulls up a stool to Kat's deathbed and wonders with her about the daughter he never had...

[bonovoxx422]

Yeah i was ok up until the point where starbuck put kats photo on the wall...then i lost it... what a great episode

[nakazatoGTR]

@bonovoxx422 man as i am that scene stirred so much. lesson there was even how disliked your actions were, what you did great would echo in eternity.

kat was no hero, not a cylon and not a villain. but a mere human who did a great thing in the end.

[zephspacer]

to be honest i really didnt care about kat untill the episode she died then i was sad.

[holodock]

The one thing I couldn't stand about Kat's character was her yelling. Everything else was fine but whenever she decided to raise her pitch it was awful.

[roewedge]

I think the most compelling scene of that episode is when Adama looks to be walking off and instead grabs a chair and sits down next to her until the very end. What a leader. Kat was definitely one of the best characters in the show

[Thermo84]

This episode is my personal favorite because, to me, it represent's what some people are able to do in certain time, to save others.

[theewilsonoo7]

Someone needs to make a legacy or memorial video of Kat.

[Collector2006]

cool. So I'm not the only one who sobbed like a little girl when Kat died.

[MrWooaa]

i know this sound meen, but i wished starbuck stayed dead. i hated how in startrek they killed of people then brogh them back later on. if she had stayed ded it would have proven that charator shealds do not egsest. they all redy had a habit of killing of side charators, ( kat, bomber (x6) calle, billy, duala, gata, zerk)

[Sirumakato]

@MrWooaa

starbuck is too important to die off.

[Hidarite100]

@MrWooaa Yes, it sucked, that she become some sort of supernatural something. The most terrible scene for me was, when Dee shot herself, and i felt sorry for Gaeta too. However, i think, that in such a cruel world, when the human race is on the verge of extinction, side characters has to die, or the peolpe wouldt realize, what does it mean: to extinct.

[olive12121]

@MrWooaa ok can u spell the names right? its boomer, cally, dualla, gaeta, and zarak. and starbuck is a good dynamic character and she is needed in the series. the deatg and coming back to life is a good thing here.

[MacEwanMouse]

@olive12121 Remember when starbook was like frik this tooster, and then lie wanted to have so much sex, but then odomo was all NU UH NOT IN MY HAUS. God I love batelstare galacticus.

[olive12121]

@MacEwanMouse should i bother trying to spell check that? or should i just classify you as ignorant and//or blind for not seeing your keyboard and/or not being a true fan of battlestar galactica

[MacEwanMouse]

@olive12121 Actually you should consider yourself a fucking moron for not understanding it was a joke making fun of the guy not spelling names right.

Calm down elitist boy, it's a show, we're allowed to make jokes.

[olive12121]

@MacEwanMouse bye!

p.s. i don't talk to people who use improper language, they are the dirt of society

[MacEwanMouse]

@olive12121 P.S. You're not talking at all, you're typing. Also you just typed to me or "talked" in your own words so you're also a liar. I'm glad you don't let yourself get trolled but DAYAM you're easy to troll lol.

[olive12121]

@MacEwanMouse didnt realize you werent the guy spelling the names wrong.

would you prefer communicate instead of talked? I can think of more words to substitute

[MacEwanMouse]

@olive12121 Are you upset?

[QuarterLief]

@olive12121 grammer nazi get a life dood

[SeymourButtz99]

Thanks for posting,

I return to this upload whenever I feel mournful.

Merry Christmas.

[SWOLFOOI]

After I saw this episobe I did the only thing a man could -I went into the next room and cried

[MyWIMM]

@SWOLFOOI

Yep, Luckily I was home alone when I saw the episode.

[smashbros4ever]

I had my girlfriend listen to this song without any context and asked her after to use 3 words to describe it. She said: brave, sad, war. Truly a testament to mccreary's ability to reflect the emotions/concepts of the narrative with music alone. Respect.

[melindastrassekonig]

Kats death was very sad. She was great

[ghanimajade]

One of the best episodes in the series. Kat's sacrifice was perfect and redeemed her character. The music was perfect...made The Passage one of my all time favs.

[moonsorrow77]

I love this show and Kat's sacrifice was the herioc deeds off all,despite her shady background.she is hero to the fleet. R.I.P.KAT

[willthack13]

For some reason, the idea of the runner doing what she was meant to do struck a chord. The phrase, "the fall of Hermes" kept running through my head. In her shady past she was a smuggler, and now she ran her final cargo.

[Anon701]

Does anyone else hear hints of 'Martial Law' in this? The mix of drums and brass is similar.

[apocalipsboy666]

@Anon701 every song are similar in all galery of bear. That make's it so good.

[prestonpool1057]

Probably the best tribute to mankind ever done. Showing us how flawed we all are yet capable of making the ultimate sacrifise when we need to.

[EpoBot]

I liked Cat so much. Her flaws only made her cuter. And then she had to die slowly and painfully. At least she went out with great dignity. Unlike certain other characters. :-(

[rubirosa27]

Believe it or not I just recently began to watch Battlestar Galactica after years of hearing of how great of a show it was. The Passage is my favorite episode because it sums up the whole show in one scene. Where we see Kat making the ultimate sacrifice for the lives of thousands. Seeing her in Caprica know makes me want to wish that she is playing the role of her own grandmother in the show. I think that would be cool.

[Howland20]

Wraithbored- I couldn't agree more, it was a beautiful scene.

[nisus8]

It's kinda funny, seeing Luciana Carro on CAPRICA now, as Daniel Graystone's P.R. flack. Kat's grandmother, maybe?

[espp1973]

Fron 2:12 to the ending its awesome.

It makes a fitting cadence for her final flight.

[Wraithbored]

The scene where she exits the Raptor to the applause of the crew, raises her arms in triumph, then loses her balances and topples to the floor. I can't even describe how good that scene was.

[hmvb15]

wow...this is quickly becoming one of my favorite pieces of music (not just from BSG).

[SHISHAMCC]

So sad in the end when she is in the hospital bed and Adama is promoting her to c.a.g. again.

[Stealtht6]

@SHISHAMCC

So say we all!!!

[dub4life100]

its ok... i prefer wayward soldier

[Foobyking9000]

very sad-ish

its my theme song

she no longer had anyting to live for

so she was more willing to give her life to save a civillian ship

[fluidicmethod]

This is like the only time a french horn really made a prominent theme, it was amazing that for all characters to give such a noble instrument, it was Kat. BEAR MCCREARY IS GAWD

[GuideChandonn]

This is, IMO, the best piece from Galactica. The music tells the entire episode, and haunts it as well. It's full of pride and sadness as Kat's successes are destroyed by her past. It also demonstrates the dignity of her choice to go out "in a blaze of glory"!

[MrJonasQuinn]

Then I suggest you go listen to some music that you actually like.

[squidcreek]

I tried to make you -23 but I don't think you can go any lower : )

[LeoNatan25]

Retards trying to be "witty" in YouTube comments... How original... NOT.

[xtreme2101]

scar reminded me on "space above and beyonds" shicky von richthofen

[thegreatchimp]

Kat's death was one of the most moving moments in the entire series.

[Northwro]

You're right and even Kara Thrace was deeply saddened when Kat died.

I love the "Scar" episode when Kat punches Starbuck. She didn't take anything from anybody.

[thegreatchimp]

Yeah Scar was a great episode. I think Kat and Kara didn't get along because they were so alike. Strong, honourable, confrontational, take no shit alpha-female types.

[ProphetoftheMachines]

I always get bored when I watch Scar (excluding the dogfight), but when I look back on it, it's always one of my favorites. Same goes for a lot of other episodes. I don't get it either.

[Einsatz24]

"Scar" was BSG's "Angriest Angel" of "Space: Above and Beyond". :)

[Raving]

Scar is one of the best episodes. It is all centered around the Viper pilots. I have an uncle who flew A-6 Intruders in Vietnam and he says that even though it is science fiction, it is the closest to real life he has ever seen portrayed. The one pilot exiting the Viper puking after losing his wingman. The nugget asking Starbuck for advice. The pilot calling for help on the radio and everyone muttering advice under their breath and his backup rushing to his aid but knowing they were late.

[efetherman]

@Raving Yeah, war ain't pretty. Less pretty when it's not for survival, but not pretty at all.

[vide0junkie]

In retrospect, part of the deeper meaning of the episode "Scar" is that both Kat and Starbuck were themselves deeply scarred by their pasts--which is another way in which they were alike.

[holodock]

@thegreatchimp In Battlestar Galactica every death is moving since you get just enough time to start carrying about people which die.

[seshade]

@thegreatchimp yeah i remember that i cried

[zeratul1356]

@thegreatchimp

Really?I thought Cally's death was alot more moving.Expecially scince no one saw it coming

[olive12121]

@zeratul1356 I think the opposite, because we know Kat is going to die, so its a lot sadder than Cally getting flushed out of the airlock.

[zeratul1356]

@olive12121

Each to their own i guess.A unexpected innocent death of a mother to me is much more sad than a death of what I thought to be an annoying smartass character.I thought Kat as a poor counter part to starbuck

[olive12121]

@zeratul1356 yeah i agree. i thought that both deaths were very sorrowful in different ways, kats because we didn't like her and we knew it was coming and how brave she was. cally's because no one saw it coming or knew what really happened

[olysfinest]

I hated kat so much, she's not even half the pilot Starbuck is....

[thegreatchimp]

@olysfinest It's been a while since I watched it, but wasn't the point of the "Scar" episode that the two of them WERE very close in skill?

[olysfinest]

@thegreatchimp i'd argue that starbuck wasn't in a good place in that episode and kat was running off some "extra fumes"...if I remember correctly, starbuck has the chance to blow scar out of the sky but differs to kat due to the weather gauge of the situation...

[thegreatchimp]

@olysfinest Fair enough, though the two of them combined don't compare to Colonol Saul Tigh -alcaholic of the year and the gruffest, toughest bastard seen on TV." Sonofabitch!"

[sethengine]

@thegreatchimp So say we all !

[Stealtht6]

@thegreatchimp So say we all.

[DontDriveAngry]

I wish my first name was Bear...

[TheChekan]

Reminds me of the soundtrack to the movie "The Rock"

[ProphetoftheMachines]

All these months, I've skipped over this track, thinking it lame... I'm glad I didn't this time. Can;t stop listening to it now.

[mizz77anna]

I cried when Kat sacrificed herself

[Jcorp67]

I was upset that she died. I was also upset that Dee killed herself.

[thegreatchimp]

@Jcorp67 Yeah it was one of the darker moments.

[Phynkesia]

That makes two of us.

[fooby50000]

kat died?

i must of not seen that epsoide......

it would explane why i found a lack of her after awhile

[Flugskit]

** SPOILER ALERT**

They had to go through a star cluster to get too a planet with food

The civilian ships didnt have FTL advanced enough to go through it all with one jump so they had to jump twice, one jump in to the cluster and one out with raptors escorting them

The visability was like crap in there and Kat lost the ship she was escorting and she staid behind and she found the ship but she died later by radiation poisoning

[JonWilde2105]

Addtional Spoiler - Starbuck discovered during the same episode that Kat was a fraud, that she had been a criminal prior to the Cylon attack - Starbuck sneered at Kat that she had tricked her way into the company of good people. Kat begged her not to reveal her past and shame her.

Kat swapped out her radiation tag with a clean one so she would be cleared to fly additional runs through the cluster.

Cue teary apology from Starbuck on Kats deathbed as Kats true colours bled through.

[Einsatz24]

It's her Katahrsis. She gives her life to make up for her past.

[COLDWING5]

I like this song and it sounds like Martial Law a lot. I have to say that the Season 2 songs are the best of the series.

[rekless01]

It kind of reminded me of "Voices of Authority" from one of the Babylon 5 soundtracks

[jediyves]

true

[RavenKarasu777]

this song is the perfect tribute to Kat. It has that heroic vibe, but mixed with tragedy. It greatly matched the scene of Kat's return to Galactica and her passing.

[RavenholmeCP42]

So say we all!

[Stealtht6]

So say we all!

[Stealtht6]

So say we all!

[thunderlock110]

What happened to Kat? did she die?

[JonWilde2105]

Heros dont die - they live forever, etc, etc...

[uberk]

@JonWilde2105

Getting yourself killed is not heroic. Real heroes stay alive to kick even more ass.

[macnos]

@uberk What if you get yourself killed so that you can save your friends?

[The24Hourstolive]

@uberk it's not heroic to die so someone else could live? to save someone from a burning house for instance only for you to die of smoke inhalation? That's the bravest thing a person can do!

[quenoseteolvide2]

see the comment above... in the series Kat died in the episode "The Passage" after recieving a fatal radiation dosis =(

[revandarklordsith]

awsome music,i cant stop listening to it.Its an addiction.

[PsychoDelicCinema]

Starbuck: "We made it, kid."

[Aeon135]

hail the victorous dead

[espp1973]

Hail to the victorious heroes, excellent song =)

[captainpike332]

I can almost see Kat walking off the Raptor and pumping her arms when she saved that ship...

[TehVorLoN]

Among the best of all BSG songs, if not THE best.

I salute to you Mr. Bear McCreary, outstanding job. Fits the mood perfectly and makes the scene so much more heart touching than it already is.

[mikz130]

i felt sooo sad wen i heard this kat was a true hero

[cuxti]

yeah !But before I used to hate her, she was always arguing with Starbuck. This episode made me change my mind completely!

[tizzydogg]

me too

[Phantomlink84]

this has always been one of the best themes

[ghanimajade]

My favorite theme from BSG.

[FORTYSHIPS]

well it's good, but come on the best BSG theme is the Bear McCreary version of 'All Along the Watchtower', hands down

[light101]

Nope Martial Law is..

[FORTYSHIPS]

I like Martial Law. The only reason I'd place it second is because it's so short. It went in great with Tigh though.

[Thorsten91]

Prelude to war is the best ;-)

[FORTYSHIPS]

that one is great too, but I'd still rank it behind Bear McCreary's 'All Along the Watchtower'.

[IronHawk]

I hate that song. It's a completely different musical style, and I don't care for it at all.

[FORTYSHIPS]

well it was supposed to be different. It marked the beginning of a massive change in how things went in the show. And it had to be different to justify the fact that it came from a completely different culture (Earth)

[Starbuck049]

Saluting

Louanne *Kat* Katraine