The Hand of God

[Hope It Is The Grog]

I'll always remember my first viewing of The Hand of God because of that moment inside the Base Star when the Cylon guard looks up and everything goes into slow motion as Apollo yells "Staaaaaarbuuuuuck!" Knowing it was the last episode, I got this tremendous chill up my spine because I thought, "Oh crap, they're going to kill off Apollo!" Luckily they didn't, but I was sure they were going to.

Anyone else have that reaction the first time? I never saw that episode during the original run, only later in syndication, probably 1982. Information being scant in those days, I only knew that Apollo was dead by the time of Galactica 1980.

[GoldCylon]

I never had the thought that Apollo or Starbuck were ever going to be killed off. I do question why they slowed it down.

[Cylon-Knight]

Dramatic effect?
Did that episode have a new director vs. all the prior episodes?

Very interesting.

[Hope It Is The Grog]

Nope, 'twas Donald Bellisario. That effect was what made me think some big bad thing was about to happen, because it was so unusual. And the final episode.

And I knew the first sentence of the novelization of Galactica 1980 was "My sons are dead." That was as far as I had read, though.

[Croft2014]

I saw The Hand of God on it's first broadcast and had seen a preview so was very stoked. At the time I lived in Rochester New York (I moved to the UK in August 1983). It remains one the best episodes of the series; I noticed that the new series used the episode title but can't recall offhand if I've seen that one and if it recalled the plot of the original. I was most disapointed at the time when BG got cancelled and even more disapointed when I saw Galactica 1980.

[Cylon-Knight]

The nuGalactica show was also - exactly - titled "The Hand of God."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519789/