Don't make me wait until after a 3-5 month long "mid-season break".

I can barely feign interest now. I just want to see how it ends. I know it'll be a disappointing opportunity squandered, but just finish it please.

I have been re-watching the first season. God it held such potential then.

Both are the worst presidents ever.

Both torture and stole elections.

I wanted Sol to come roaring in ranting about how he lost an eye and killed his wife and was a Cylon BUT NEVER NEVER went all girly!

After the excitement of the season final (Starbuck's alive and been to Earth! Look who the Cylons are!) things have just ground to a complete halt. You know things are bad when one of the episode's revelations has already been addressed (it's kind of like the writers thought 'Oooh! What if people haven't seen "Razor" Hmmm, we better repeat the revelation again about Starbuck...)

C'mon BSG! Get it together! I used to love you. Now I just like you.

But I wouldn't say it's worse than the latter part of season 2 (before In-Head Baltar arrived), when Apollo decided to take on the Black Market and Tory clandestinely arranged for Billy to be killed so she could get closer to the President (that'd be an interesting idea, eh?).

If you dislike someone's criticism, how about responding with a counter-argument instead of denigrating the writer? Attacking the messenger just shows you're incapable of attacking the message.

I wonder if this is how a language really evolves; people too dumb or lazy to figure out the appropriate way to say what they want to say and just make up new words from old words and inappropriate pre- and suffixes. Case and point, "irregardless." And then, since the stupid will always far outnumber the intelligent in any population, it gets picked up by others, comes into general use, and eventually accepted as proper. More like a devolution really; eventually our language skills will revert to a series of grunts. Ah well, screw it, "Ow! My Balls!" is on...

Can't wait to see more of Starbuck's arc. Is she actually the harbinger of humanity's end, as the cylon guy in the vat claimed in "Razor"? It's making me nervous in a good way.

It's just that the previous seasons have had a great sense of urgency about them. Whether it was the early seasons when we were constantly made aware of just how many humans beings were left or situations in the later seasons where the humans were either readying themselves to rebel against the Cylons or just get ahead of them to find the next clue to Earth.

This season has just seemed slower in every regard. As a TBer above pointed out, Baltar is a lot more subdued this season. We've had episodes with Starbuck sitting around in her ship going mad and the Cylons seem too busy infighting to be chasing after the Gallactica.

With the exception of the airlock incident and the revelation about where the final five are actually from, it doesn't seem that there is a lot going on.

I'm expecting things to get a bit more frantic now but I'd compare the last few episodes to the Jack-centric episode of Lost which aired a few weeks back. It's still great television but, compared to the episodes that have come before, seems strangely lacking in something.

Moore's biggest mistake is hitting the reset button every 3rd episode

"Hey I have a new idea. Let's abandon everything we have done up this point and play around with this new toy for 3-4 episodes."

I never forgave them for having new scenes in the "Previously On" section. That crap started way back in episode 3 (4 maybe) of season 1. I was watching the shows on DVD while sick and Fuck if episode 3 started re-conning history in the previously on segment.

The characters never act like themselves over an extended period of time. Apollo? I pity the actor his character is whipsawed every chance they get.

The problem is they never mapped out a season or better yet multi-season outline. Nobody has any arc that matters. Don't bother getting invested in a character because everything will change in a few episodes, when Ron gets some new ants in his pants.

The production and acting is very good. The in-episode writing is pretty good. The overall strategic writing of the series is fucking in-excusable.

DS9 was better and that was a Star Trek show. JMS should have been brought in to outline the show and then leave.

The summer shows aren't starting yet, most shows have had their season finale already, and the two best shows on tv right now are both taking a week off at the same time..... damn it

And what happened to all the 8s, I thought there was like 5 of them on the Baseship?

In-Head Gaius/In-Head Six '08

Ayii: that line was in the promo for this week's ep

JUMP

incredible INCREDIBLE

Seems like the prez is sharing dreams with a cylon, does that make here the final cylon? Is baltar cylon as well? Have the 5 really been to Earth? did they meet a 13th cylon on Earth? Gods this is gonna be a long 2 weeek wait. No LOST, no BSG. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And Frak It, how do we know she's not under control of Cavil via Boomer?

You know something? I bet this isn't it at all. But it's better this way, hmm? Frak it, I'm going to go write my own show

Just a bit of actor trivia from Wiki:

"Alessandro Juliani is a Canadian actor and singer. He is a graduate of McGill University in Montréal, where he earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal/Opera Performance. He is the son of producer, actor and writer John Juliani. During his time at McGill's Faculty of Music, Juliani was known for his pleasant baritone voice, accurate intonation, and strong sight-reading skills, enabling him to find frequent work substituting in professional choirs, notably at Montréal's Christ Church Cathedral."

A few of his hardcore fangirl types were asking Ron Moore on the Skiffy boards last year to have Alessandro sing in an episode. The rest of us kind of smirked at them - but they've had the last laugh:).

Gaeta hit a few sour notes. He was singing a minor-key tune, but he did sing it OFF KEY a few times.

And I'm sorry, but anything Buffy sucks, so I'll side with your mom and say Gellar was singing off key.

I can forgive Gaeta, seeing as he was drugged and in pain. Anybody who can sing coherently while in his condition can be forgiven for going off-key a few times. Gellar, on the other hand, is just as poor a singer as she is an actress, model, or reason to watch anything.

In most military service you're discharged if you lose a limb... Or even a significant number of digits. The dreams have been happening since last season, so it's not new or "to advance the episode" but actually to flashback to something older. And why would they call cancer something else? A gun is a gun, and a deck is a deck and a ship is a ship. A person is a person (and a human). A TOASTER is apparently a toaster. A clock is a clock. A ball is a ball. A drink is a drink. So WHY would they change the word "Cancer" to something else?

Frak exists because you can't say FUCK on SciFi channel.

Boomer's freedom does confuse me, though. It's as if everyone has forgotten she's a cylon half the time.

But since the basestar was the comet, that means it's a sequence of steps, not a gathering of identifiers. Just like Nova -> Temple of Jupiter -> Maelstrom -> Nebula, the path to Earth is Comet/Basestar -> Triple Star -> Ringed Planet. Now, I'm guessing the Triple Star ISN'T Centauri, because it's so frakkin' close (cosmically speaking) to Earth that finding it basically means you've found Earth.

OR, I could be wrong, and the triple star/ringed planet are a gathering of identifiers, and only the comet was a marker.

They haven't consulted scripture since the Nova went ka-blooie, right? Did the book end when they got to the Temple of Jupiter?

Oh and what a frakking line "I dont care if you spend your night on your knees prayin, or just on your knees!" Snap!! lol :)

"Alone she sleeps" and "That she be spared the pain that comes from a dark" and "To one day wake". Ron Moore specifically told Bear McCreary he wanted Gaeta to sing "an opera".

That combined with the opera house arc...it's a hell of a red herring if Gaeta isn't the final Cylon.

Also, Are Hybrids hard to come by? Maybe the Cylons are trying to steal Hera for that reason?

The island on Lost is the final ressurection hub, located on earth.

Ben is the final cylon, "John, I always have a plan". BSG "..They have a plan".

OC6 are the first cylons to land on earth.

That's what my in-head six tells me anyway.

This is also how tribal warfare occurs.

Anyhow, your explanation of the Hybrid's Starbuck prophecy is intriguing and makes perfect sense.

Still, destroying the resurrection hub impacts the skinjobs, but that doesn't mean the centurions will change course too.

Most fans 'assume' that D'Anna was speaking to Tigh or Anders. It was Doral who tortured Tigh though, and D'Anna's interaction with Anders was very brief on Caprica.

She's known Gaeta since posed as a journalist - she humiliated him on camera as well. Then as one of the nastier New Caprica Cylons on Colonial One, she was in the same room with him every day, terrorizing his boss.

"Forgive me. I had no idea." is so general; and lmost nothing this season has been as predictable as we thought going in. Wouldn't Tigh and Anders be 'obvious'?

One thing that is obvious though - every one of the Galactica Cylons worked for the New Caprica resistance. So did Gaeta. The writers have also made it a point to show that Gaeta is very knowledgable in astronomy.

Now watch it be Dualla or Admiral Cain...

I did not notice that Hera's drawings included a red-dressed Six--good catch to whoever pointed that out.

She, just prior to entering, expressed concern to Baltar that she would go crazy "just like the Hybrid", has shown open disdain for the Hybrid, and when the Hybrid objected to jumping away from the virus-infected basestar, D'Anna snarled "SHE doesn't get a vote!"

And the Hybrid seems not only to have a lot of "inside" knowledge, but is turning out to have quite an effect on things...

....oh, frak me....

Best moment thus far in Season 4

NatalieSix may have just become a dying leader. Roslyn's "let's talk to the Hybrid and find out whats doin with all these here opera house visions" plan kinda fell apart, so maybe she is not the one to know.

Or maybe the Hybrid just wants a quiet place to talk ;~)

Tricksey Hybridses...

Hmmmmm.

Nice one!

it slices, it dices, just that easy :~)

Why/How the Raiders sensed Anders is still a mystery--his own red-eye came AFTER the Raider hesitated to shoot him--was it an IFF or did Anders pass along some information or a command? He did not even (consciously) understand what happened himself....

Just

testing

welcome!

:-)

We have already seen InHeads play a n "influential role" and InHeadSix has only "manifested" into the physical realm a couple of times, to more effectively influence events...

Since they don't recognize the Five, understand their nature at all, and even the Four themselves don't understand their own nature, what their own motivations are/should be, this sets up a great potential for surprises and misinformed choices all around.

We don't NEED no frakkin splosions!