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Battlestar Galactica

Two television films released late and set early, and two prequels made after the story had already ended.

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Where to start with Battlestar Galactica

Release order is nearly right and the two exceptions are the point of this page. The miniseries is the first act rather than a trailer, and the two television films are set inside seasons you will not have watched yet when they were released.

  1. 1
    The miniseries Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries

    Three hours over two nights: the attack, the escape and the premise. Everything after it assumes you have seen it, and it is the single most common thing people skip.

  2. 2
    The series, season 1 Battlestar Galactica

    Thirteen episodes starting days after the miniseries ends. Shorter than the seasons around it because it was ordered as a trial run.

  3. 3
    Season 2 Battlestar Galactica

    Twenty episodes, and the stretch that Razor is set inside. The Pegasus arrives here, which is the story the film later fills in.

  4. 4
    Season 3 Battlestar Galactica

    Twenty episodes, opening on New Caprica with the fleet already lost. Finish it before the films, because that is the gap Razor was made for.

  5. 5
    Razor Battlestar Galactica: Razor

    A feature length film set back in season 2, in Lee Adama's first thirty days commanding the Pegasus, with flashbacks to Cain and to the first Cylon war. Broadcast in this gap, and it plants a line about Kara Thrace that season 4 pays off.

Then what? Season 4 finishes the story in twenty episodes across two runs a year apart. After that, The Plan, which retells the miniseries and the first two seasons from the Cylon point of view and only makes sense once you know all of it. Then the prequels, if you want them: Caprica is eighteen episodes set fifty eight years earlier, closer to a family and corporate drama than a war story, and it stops unresolved; Blood and Chrome is ninety minutes with a young Adama in the tenth year of the first Cylon war, made as a pilot and never picked up. Both are optional and neither finishes anything.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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