20 Years Ago, The Best Modern Space Opera Delivered The Most Badass Scene Ever
Looking back on the Adama Maneuver. After a fraught two-part season opener, in which BSG fully committed to the new status quo of most of the characters living on a crummy planet called New Caprica, the two parts of “Exodus” eventually resulted in a massive reset button. By the end of these episodes, humans and Cylons alike left New Caprica, and the spare Battlestar picked up in Season 2, the Battlestar Pegasus, was destroyed. The Galactica pops into the atmosphere. Essentially, in order to get the Viper fighters launched as close to the planet as possible, Adama jumps the Galactica directly into the atmosphere, and has the massive aircraft carrier of a ship fall into the atmosphere as the starfighters streak out to protect the people below. As Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) says in the scene, the ship is “falling like a rock.” When the Vipers are launched from Galactica, we get a great line…
