No Humanity won't find the colonies, it will be pure luck if they do. They essentially crossed the galaxy from their home system. I've always said the ending was great but sad. Because Humanity won't know their legacy at all. A legacy of a people who had space travel and traveled across the whole galaxy trying to escape a mechanical terror they made. Which in turn they mated with along with the humans on the planet. Maybe thats the way to break the cycle, to totally forget the past.
After humanity on "Earth" evolves and starts exploring the stars, they find the twelve colonies and all this debris orbiting them. And wouldn't have a clue as to what has happened.
this is perhaps the best track from the entire show in my opinion, on top of the tribal percussion pieces it gives the show the 3d aspect emphasising not only the characters destinies but the audio personification that the plot thickens (e.g the colonials are out anscestors)
does anyone know what the track is called (the one with the bag pipes) when they attack the cylon "home" in the finale?
anyone find it wierd how BALTAR and Caprica SIx survive to the present day, yet none of the others do, nor does any of the raptors or vipers they used to get to the surface?
@ArchetypeRyan I'm not sure if the theme has a name per se, but that melody is sometimes associated with Gaius. You can hear it in pieces lile "Baltar Speaks With Adama" (season 2) and "Dark Unions" (season 2).
I love this show, but I'm sorry I don't agree with it being the greatest sci fi/drama series ever. Second, and a close second at that. IMO, the greatest is Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
@A7XRules4life WTF Terminator the Sarah Conner chronicles messed everything up . When compared to BSG Terminator the Sarah Conner chronicles SUCKS really hard balls. this hows it goes BSG, Babylon 5 TIED for First , Second Star Trek TNG
@briam30 No, TSCC was genius. It didn't "mess everything up". T3 messed everything up and was just plain stupid. Salvation was a little better, but just plain meh. TSCC was smart and had an interesting plot, plus the T-888 model Terminator was cool. I'll bet you just didn't see every episode. It really is bad even just missing 1.
@A7XRules4life HECK YA!!, that show could have been MCcreary's second full fledged chance at fame for such great Soundtrack pieces!, but instead, ended up having to just continue work on Caprica which is only half has good had BSG for shore, thats show so suicidal
@A7XRules4life Sarah Connor Chronicles was moronic, and completely watered down John and Sarah Connor into melodramatic whiny weaklings. It's the WB, tweeny bopper version of T2.
@Pwells1 Well that's because they were trying to tell a story, they were trying to give John and Sarah some humility, make them seem like human beings.
@A7XRules4life John and Sarah were actual human beings in Terminator 2. In Sarah Connor Chronicles, they were moronic, teeny bopper shells of their former selves. Sarah was a poster soccer mom, not the tortured soul she once was. John was a CW teenager, not the real troubled youth he once was. Sarah Connor Chronicles sugar coated the truth and watered down the characters. They WERENT real human beings anymore. They were cardboard CW style "characters". That's the problem.
@A7XRules4life How is discussing the actual merits of SCC "trolling"? My complaints are quite valid. "Trolling" would be bashing this video, or calling you stupid names, etc. You might want to look up the definition of "trolling". It is not synonymous with "You disagree with me, therefore you suck".
im watching the series again and again..cant get enough of it....already said this b4 but still...this is the best what i got to see in last years..even though its a remake
The WHOLE underlying implication of Hera is that we, humans, evolved from part machine, thus our obsession with building androids and our feverish pursuit of technology in general. A solid ending to this series in my opinion.
Still I too am haunted by what happened to the crew after the show ended.
This is a variation of the same music that appeared at the end of season 2, the "one year later" scene on New Caprica, right before the Cylons arrived. When I heard this at the end of "Daybreak, Part 2", the hair stood up on my arm -- I thought the very last shot would have been Hera looking into the distance ...
Can't say I was terribly pleased with the epilogue, though; it really killed the poignant & serene mood of the previous half hour for me.
The implication in the show was that Hera was one of the Mitochondrial Eves (I think they say all women can trace their ancestry back through the mitochondrial DNA passed from mother to daughter back to 12 common ancestors) and that the V Baltar and V Six at the end were referring to Hera. Of course...there could have been other little girls born to Cylon mothers and Human fathers...but let's just say it was our Hera who is, in the show, all of our ancestor...
see i thought it was laura they were showing in the magasine, then i noticed gaius say she had a cylon mother and human father. i would have liked if it were laura cuz she was my favourite character, and i cried when she died.
Amazing I have to say first showing Herra in this sequence then forwarding to 150,000 years later to when it says she died along with "Her Cylon Mother and Human Father" Angel Baltar and Angel Six with evil looking smiles on their Face's so what really annoyed me was what happened to them all 150,000 years ago it is a question that needs an answer.
They didn't say she "died alongside" Helo and Athena. The six read how she lived "In what is now Tanzania over 150,000 years ago" and the baltar says "Along with Her cylon mother and human father" so the audience understands that they're talking about hera, the earliest or "first" human as we define it, and therefore the entire human race, are hybrids of colonial humans and humanoid cylons
er where did I put in my comment "Alongside" nowhere. I put "Along with her Cylon Mother and Human Father" which is what they said in the final scene.
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they were very clever when doing this scene because to me it implies that Herra died along with Halo and Athena, I know it doesnt say it, but if you remeber Herra looks up at the sky and something happens that I think wipes them all out. And then the cycle of life starts again.
If she died when she was 3, how could she be "the oldest human ancestor"? I think Hera was just looking at pretty clouds, not an incoming meteor. The point of the end was that the human race as we know it is a human/cylon hybrid, and we're all 1/2 or 1/4 or 3/4 cylon (depending on who / what Hera mated with). :)
Nah. She lives her life and lives long enough to have kids. They don't all die, it was just a stylistic approach to jump forward in time. She didn't see any light.
Yeah I know that "No shit" as people say what I was saying is it was never clearly explained as what happened to them all, and I actually hope that they do go back and explain it to us in the shape of a TV movie at some point I hate all this guess work.
she may be a hybrid of cylon and human but she can grow(get old) like the rest of mankind because she gat the trait from them so when she grew she could have a baby with "adam" thus the first born of the first people would BE
Seriously? What happened to Hera / Athena / Helo? I mean, I assume they died peacefully of old age. 150,000 is a round number that looks good on news articles like the one the Angels are reading, honestly you could give or take a few thousand years to that, much less a human lifetime.
Ecxactly, Hera is playing and then looks up at the sky (or stars in your case), the scene then wipes to a montage to show 'the pasage of time' and then stops at present day New York 150,000 years later...
People who think that Hera is looking up and then is attacked by some unknown force are a bunch of morons, guess you idiots never looked at the sky before to enjoy it's beauty, that's what Hera did, she didn't die then, she lived with her parents and grew up, use your heads.
I got the impression she looked up at the sky because deep down inside her, maybe even imprinted in her Robot/human DNA she knew she was born of the stars and that was her true home. Sounds corny but that was the nature of the show.
No it was not..You and people who share this and other similar ideologies of human evolution back 10 fold...as we move forward in time we learn, we grow more advance, travel farther, become better..to deny this is to deny our destiny
@1479242009 The creation of electricity has caused the harm to the enviorment that has effected us in many ways. So far we have yet to build a method other than wind that has harmed the enviorment or eco system in some way or another.
@UNsoldierLieutenant nuclear fusion is this nation future......also global climate change is a fraud..good hide the decline..do be a drone that just belive what other tell you.....also the UN...Please such a worthless organization of liars, thieves, tyrants, slave driving, degenerates this since side of western civilization..they have not been any but make the world that much worst place
@1479242009 I was a peacekeeper because my father was one. I do not believe that the UN is the right way for the world to be run. But technology can have the wrong effect on us.
A great piece of music and a wonderful scene that it was played to.
Especially the bit right at the beginning when you see little Hera looking up at the sky and then you realise that in the BSG universe she's the mother of all of our human race.
"One Year Later" was one of my favorite pieces of music from season 2. It's amazing how the music can be preserved while transforming such a melancholic piece into something more (cautiously) hopeful. Kudos to Bear McCreary . . . and thanks, SurfCompton!
150,000 years later, a man who looks exactly like William Adama stars as William Adama in the new hit series, Battlestar Galactica...
wiltbloococo 1 day ago
No Cylon was able to dislike this song.
olive12121 2 weeks ago 12
No Humanity won't find the colonies, it will be pure luck if they do. They essentially crossed the galaxy from their home system. I've always said the ending was great but sad. Because Humanity won't know their legacy at all. A legacy of a people who had space travel and traveled across the whole galaxy trying to escape a mechanical terror they made. Which in turn they mated with along with the humans on the planet. Maybe thats the way to break the cycle, to totally forget the past.
BuckFutterd 3 weeks ago
After humanity on "Earth" evolves and starts exploring the stars, they find the twelve colonies and all this debris orbiting them. And wouldn't have a clue as to what has happened.
starflame34 2 months ago
0:28 made me cry the first time I watched it, after being ridiculously sad at Roslin's death and holding it back since that moment
ScottDanielJackson 3 months ago
Yeah its supposed to be New York. What its supposed to say is that BSG occured 150000 years ago.
Colbertw 6 months ago
150,000 years later in a city that looks like New York.
smcneal057 1 year ago 2
@smcneal057 it is New York, thats part of the point
Circus28chimp 11 months ago
@Circus28chimp
Wow you are taking this too seriously.
smcneal057 11 months ago
@smcneal057 no he isn't. Just correcting your error
Ghats212 9 months ago
Gods how I cried when I watched this episode...then laughed at the brilliance of it as i realised what was going on in the final moments.
ColieBelvedier 1 year ago 9
don't know why but this song always makes me feel really sad
Damerstam 1 year ago
I LOVED how they reused the time travel music from Season 2 here.
Pwells1 1 year ago
...And in other news, the what looks to be the wreck of a 5 million year old space ship has been found on top of a mountain in Africa.
AutumnGracy 1 year ago 17
@AutumnGracy what?! I never heard of this! got anything I can read about it?
captaincmorgan 2 months ago
@AutumnGracy 10,000 years... did you watch the show?
astropirate 2 months ago in playlist BattleStar Galactica Season 4 Soundtrack
I love this scene when Hera looks up at the stars because she knows that's where she came from, breaks my heart and sends chills up my spine.
Rushthatspeaks 1 year ago
it was soo amazing... i saw the last episode of the best series the day i lost my dog i had 15 years!!!
mikmorpheus 1 year ago
this is perhaps the best track from the entire show in my opinion, on top of the tribal percussion pieces it gives the show the 3d aspect emphasising not only the characters destinies but the audio personification that the plot thickens (e.g the colonials are out anscestors)
does anyone know what the track is called (the one with the bag pipes) when they attack the cylon "home" in the finale?
kickethasseth 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading these!
MegaTruthteller 1 year ago
This song gives me the shivers every time. Like All Along the Watchtower does. What a show, what a finale. I don't think anything can ever top this.
jeecmon 1 year ago
anyone find it wierd how BALTAR and Caprica SIx survive to the present day, yet none of the others do, nor does any of the raptors or vipers they used to get to the surface?
Shinzon23 1 year ago
@Shinzon23 They don't. The two you see at the end are Head Baltar and Head Six.
thediremoose 1 year ago
What the name of the theme that recurs throughout many episodes and songs on the Battlestar soundtrack? Anyone know?
It can be heard in this song between about 26 and 36s.
ArchetypeRyan 1 year ago
@ArchetypeRyan I'm not sure if the theme has a name per se, but that melody is sometimes associated with Gaius. You can hear it in pieces lile "Baltar Speaks With Adama" (season 2) and "Dark Unions" (season 2).
antred11 1 year ago
@antred11 Ah sorry, "Baltar Speaks With Adama" is from season 1, of course.
antred11 1 year ago
This was a bittersweet ending when you think about it. Then again it was the only way it could end.
smcneal057 1 year ago
I love this show, but I'm sorry I don't agree with it being the greatest sci fi/drama series ever. Second, and a close second at that. IMO, the greatest is Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
A7XRules4life 1 year ago 2
@A7XRules4life WTF Terminator the Sarah Conner chronicles messed everything up . When compared to BSG Terminator the Sarah Conner chronicles SUCKS really hard balls. this hows it goes BSG, Babylon 5 TIED for First , Second Star Trek TNG
briam30 1 year ago
@briam30 No, TSCC was genius. It didn't "mess everything up". T3 messed everything up and was just plain stupid. Salvation was a little better, but just plain meh. TSCC was smart and had an interesting plot, plus the T-888 model Terminator was cool. I'll bet you just didn't see every episode. It really is bad even just missing 1.
A7XRules4life 1 year ago
@A7XRules4life HECK YA!!, that show could have been MCcreary's second full fledged chance at fame for such great Soundtrack pieces!, but instead, ended up having to just continue work on Caprica which is only half has good had BSG for shore, thats show so suicidal
StuartTheGamerNerd 1 year ago
@A7XRules4life Sarah Connor Chronicles was moronic, and completely watered down John and Sarah Connor into melodramatic whiny weaklings. It's the WB, tweeny bopper version of T2.
Pwells1 1 year ago
@Pwells1 Well that's because they were trying to tell a story, they were trying to give John and Sarah some humility, make them seem like human beings.
A7XRules4life 1 year ago
@A7XRules4life John and Sarah were actual human beings in Terminator 2. In Sarah Connor Chronicles, they were moronic, teeny bopper shells of their former selves. Sarah was a poster soccer mom, not the tortured soul she once was. John was a CW teenager, not the real troubled youth he once was. Sarah Connor Chronicles sugar coated the truth and watered down the characters. They WERENT real human beings anymore. They were cardboard CW style "characters". That's the problem.
Pwells1 1 year ago
@Pwells1 *applauds your trolling* *decides to stop feeding you*
A7XRules4life 1 year ago
@A7XRules4life How is discussing the actual merits of SCC "trolling"? My complaints are quite valid. "Trolling" would be bashing this video, or calling you stupid names, etc. You might want to look up the definition of "trolling". It is not synonymous with "You disagree with me, therefore you suck".
Pwells1 1 year ago
This show makes me wonder...Does all of this have to happen again?
smcneal057 2 years ago
@smcneal057 Depends on are morality
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
im watching the series again and again..cant get enough of it....already said this b4 but still...this is the best what i got to see in last years..even though its a remake
alaurel81 2 years ago 2
Same here. It's set a whole new standard for me what I look for in a series.
CommanderTank2k 2 years ago 2
Just The Plan to go, then I'll do the same...
"All this has happened before, all this will happen again..."
MrSpiddy 2 years ago 2
so say we all^^
alaurel81 2 years ago
The WHOLE underlying implication of Hera is that we, humans, evolved from part machine, thus our obsession with building androids and our feverish pursuit of technology in general. A solid ending to this series in my opinion.
Still I too am haunted by what happened to the crew after the show ended.
Rushthatspeaks 2 years ago 3
it is sad she lived to be only 22...i think they should have kept it all
1479242009 2 years ago
I guess that the Six's and Gaius' angels weren't just in their heads.
SoManySkinks 2 years ago 2
This bit was so creepy- I didn't know what to expect
EosFilms 2 years ago
This is a variation of the same music that appeared at the end of season 2, the "one year later" scene on New Caprica, right before the Cylons arrived. When I heard this at the end of "Daybreak, Part 2", the hair stood up on my arm -- I thought the very last shot would have been Hera looking into the distance ...
Can't say I was terribly pleased with the epilogue, though; it really killed the poignant & serene mood of the previous half hour for me.
l3mu3lhu3r 2 years ago 2
150,000 years later in a city that looks like New York City.
There must be some way outta here
Said the Joker to the Thief
Good way to end it.
smcneal057 2 years ago 4
The implication in the show was that Hera was one of the Mitochondrial Eves (I think they say all women can trace their ancestry back through the mitochondrial DNA passed from mother to daughter back to 12 common ancestors) and that the V Baltar and V Six at the end were referring to Hera. Of course...there could have been other little girls born to Cylon mothers and Human fathers...but let's just say it was our Hera who is, in the show, all of our ancestor...
elmcgruffle 2 years ago
see i thought it was laura they were showing in the magasine, then i noticed gaius say she had a cylon mother and human father. i would have liked if it were laura cuz she was my favourite character, and i cried when she died.
quinchichi 2 years ago
There was one Mitochrondial Eve right?
That's what the facts show...
And FYI, Hera was the only mix between Cylon and Human. That's why she was so important.
Stormtjakka 2 years ago
Amazing I have to say first showing Herra in this sequence then forwarding to 150,000 years later to when it says she died along with "Her Cylon Mother and Human Father" Angel Baltar and Angel Six with evil looking smiles on their Face's so what really annoyed me was what happened to them all 150,000 years ago it is a question that needs an answer.
mart270 2 years ago
Probably just died off.
chriscool1992 2 years ago
well hopefully they all found some semblance of peace ,and died at an old age surrounded by friends and family
reg074 2 years ago
amen but sad that herira died at age 20
1479242009 2 years ago
They didn't say she "died alongside" Helo and Athena. The six read how she lived "In what is now Tanzania over 150,000 years ago" and the baltar says "Along with Her cylon mother and human father" so the audience understands that they're talking about hera, the earliest or "first" human as we define it, and therefore the entire human race, are hybrids of colonial humans and humanoid cylons
FLICKGEEK 2 years ago 2
er where did I put in my comment "Alongside" nowhere. I put "Along with her Cylon Mother and Human Father" which is what they said in the final scene.
mart270 2 years ago
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they were very clever when doing this scene because to me it implies that Herra died along with Halo and Athena, I know it doesnt say it, but if you remeber Herra looks up at the sky and something happens that I think wipes them all out. And then the cycle of life starts again.
mart270 2 years ago
If she died when she was 3, how could she be "the oldest human ancestor"? I think Hera was just looking at pretty clouds, not an incoming meteor. The point of the end was that the human race as we know it is a human/cylon hybrid, and we're all 1/2 or 1/4 or 3/4 cylon (depending on who / what Hera mated with). :)
SDKfilmproduction 2 years ago
Probably we are 1/4 cylon, 1/4 colonials and 1/2 human of earth...
FedoReds88 1 year ago
Nah. She lives her life and lives long enough to have kids. They don't all die, it was just a stylistic approach to jump forward in time. She didn't see any light.
Remagoen 2 years ago 2
Your implication is wrong...If Hera is indeed Mitochrondial Eve then she must have had sexual intercourse and made children one of them a daughter.
3 year old children can't do that.
Stormtjakka 2 years ago
Yeah I know that "No shit" as people say what I was saying is it was never clearly explained as what happened to them all, and I actually hope that they do go back and explain it to us in the shape of a TV movie at some point I hate all this guess work.
mart270 2 years ago
They all live happily ever after. The story is over, I hope they don't expand it any further in that direction.
TheloniousFunk1 2 years ago
Yeah, kids grow older you know.
Valonqar 2 years ago 2
What? Why?
wavelength121 2 years ago
she may be a hybrid of cylon and human but she can grow(get old) like the rest of mankind because she gat the trait from them so when she grew she could have a baby with "adam" thus the first born of the first people would BE
MertSoylemez 2 years ago
Seriously? What happened to Hera / Athena / Helo? I mean, I assume they died peacefully of old age. 150,000 is a round number that looks good on news articles like the one the Angels are reading, honestly you could give or take a few thousand years to that, much less a human lifetime.
SDKfilmproduction 2 years ago
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SDKfilmproduction 2 years ago
it´s just mindblowing
wastelander123 2 years ago
its absolutely mind blowing, cant stop thinking about it. when hera looks up toward the stars while this song plays, messes with me.
Rushthatspeaks 2 years ago
Ecxactly, Hera is playing and then looks up at the sky (or stars in your case), the scene then wipes to a montage to show 'the pasage of time' and then stops at present day New York 150,000 years later...
People who think that Hera is looking up and then is attacked by some unknown force are a bunch of morons, guess you idiots never looked at the sky before to enjoy it's beauty, that's what Hera did, she didn't die then, she lived with her parents and grew up, use your heads.
mitrooper 2 years ago
I got the impression she looked up at the sky because deep down inside her, maybe even imprinted in her Robot/human DNA she knew she was born of the stars and that was her true home. Sounds corny but that was the nature of the show.
Going to get me choked up thinking about it heh.
Rushthatspeaks 2 years ago 4
kind of sad it took 100,00 years to get where we are.....i say we should have keep every bit of tech....and have the cylons help out
1479242009 2 years ago
@1479242009 I thought it was a great idea to get rid of the tech
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
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No it was not..You and people who share this and other similar ideologies of human evolution back 10 fold...as we move forward in time we learn, we grow more advance, travel farther, become better..to deny this is to deny our destiny
1479242009 1 year ago
@1479242009 Name one thing made by man that has made the world a better place and keep it that way
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
@UNsoldierLieutenant electricity...plus humans can turn anything made for good and use it for evil..the moral if any is you cant change humans
1479242009 1 year ago
@1479242009 The creation of electricity has caused the harm to the enviorment that has effected us in many ways. So far we have yet to build a method other than wind that has harmed the enviorment or eco system in some way or another.
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
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UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
@UNsoldierLieutenant @UNsoldierLieutenant And nuclear power can be counted as a good method to produce electricity
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
@UNsoldierLieutenant nuclear fusion is this nation future......also global climate change is a fraud..good hide the decline..do be a drone that just belive what other tell you.....also the UN...Please such a worthless organization of liars, thieves, tyrants, slave driving, degenerates this since side of western civilization..they have not been any but make the world that much worst place
1479242009 1 year ago
@1479242009 I was a peacekeeper because my father was one. I do not believe that the UN is the right way for the world to be run. But technology can have the wrong effect on us.
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
@UNsoldierLieutenant everything has the worng effect on us..it never ends....it all happens again and again...we must start leaving this planet
1479242009 1 year ago
@1479242009 No I don't mean that I just think it was a good idea to get rid of the tech when they came here.
UNsoldierLieutenant 1 year ago
A great piece of music and a wonderful scene that it was played to.
Especially the bit right at the beginning when you see little Hera looking up at the sky and then you realise that in the BSG universe she's the mother of all of our human race.
Very poignant.
Danbutch24 2 years ago 2
yeah man i totally agree i typed out what i said before i read this too.
Rushthatspeaks 2 years ago
I liked this song back when it was called "One Year Later." :D
HisDivineShadow245 2 years ago
Just reminds me of that amazing scene of New York when all the robots were being shown at the end. Incredible.
Alexdocherty17 2 years ago 3
Did you also notice who was reading the National Geography magazine?
Unitronus 2 years ago 22
No! I actually didn't, aha.
Alexdocherty17 2 years ago
Renaldo D. Moroe?
KurnSonOfMogh 2 years ago
CHILLLLLLZZZZ
phatteebuttz 2 years ago
"One Year Later" was one of my favorite pieces of music from season 2. It's amazing how the music can be preserved while transforming such a melancholic piece into something more (cautiously) hopeful. Kudos to Bear McCreary . . . and thanks, SurfCompton!
GreenResistance 2 years ago 13