At least they make the token demonstrating that the Eshveni *have* been attempting air raids against Charleston, but that Volm anti-air weapons have done a decent job of fighting them off.

After thinking on it last week, I already realized Lourdes was the Mole - the point that Hal didn't know about Tom's plane trip, but the show made it a point that Lourdes gave him a med-kit, had to follow TV logic; as even Tom later said that someone must have snuck a homing beacon on board (in the medkit, apparently).

The writers had no idea what they were doing; the decision to make him a Cylon was utterly forced, ham-fisted, and led to what io9 called some of the most forced and blatant ret-cons of this generation. Shameless.

But yeah the weird thing was just watching him episode by episode in seasons 3 and 4, being sullen and…

That was the point. GRRM said he was playing around with and deconstructing fantasy stereotypes; so you get sucked into thinking "Robb Stark, romantic boy-hero warrior-king" in book 2, but by book 3....you realize he's simply an awful politician and making a lot of stupid choices which have no redeeming value. He's…

I honestly thought Jon made all of the realistic choices and was just in a bad situation, he didn't turn into a jerk.

Well, that's interesting but complicated, as the writers openly stated from the beginning that they intended to have him turn irredeemable, but so gradually that the audience would sort of get sucked into it, until they uncomfortably realized, belatedly, that they couldn't keep supporting this guy. So he was…

No....Gilgamesh didn't become afraid of dying and wander the Earth with Enkidu. Enkidu became Gilgamesh's challenger and then his great friend, then they fought Humbaba and Enkidu died...THEN Gilgamesh became obsessed with finding out how to beat death because he wanted to get his friend back. In the end he fails,…

Yeah, his character direction was just bizarre...I mean, I know season 2, particularly season 3 onwards is a god-damned train-wreck, but there comes a point where you have to ask "people sat down in a room and thought this was a good idea?"

Andromeda overall turned into a disaster after the network stole it from its own creator halfway into the first season.

You can't even think of BSG Season 4 characters as "characters" anymore, but "frantic attempts by RDM and replacement writers to make this watercooler TV". Simply watching it, I lost my "willing suspension of disbelief".

In seasons 1 or 2, I'd say "this is something I think Gaeta would do, yeah his actions make…

Abashed the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is - and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. Saw, and pined his loss.

Yeah, Wesley started out terrible. He arguably got better in later seasons when he was just a recurring character, i.e. the First Duty.

Due to the off-the rails failure of Battlestar Galactica's final two seasons (HALF THE SHOW, actually), many of the characters turned into badly written, annoying *caricatures* of their former selves. Acting badly out of character or simply behaving *randomly* compared to how they behaved the last episode; simply…

I must say, Continuum took the old trope of "different factions from future war travel back in time to try to alter the past in their favor"....and just did a really good and thorough job with it.

No. Solitary confinement means being removed from...what exactly? Society? No. Prison shower fights and male rapes by that guy called Skillinger? Yes.

How happy art thou, then, from these devourers to be banished.

My current running theory is that the Volm are building a doomsday device to blow up Earth....nor, do they personally think this even makes them "bad".

To be honest it isn't that bad by cartoon standards; at least, not offensive. I.e. they don't actually say "Christmas is great because Jesus is the son of god" or crud; Orco has no idea what Xmas is so the children go "how can you not know what Xmas is? Well the story is..." and then it cuts to another scene. Which…

Oh crap that's right; you have to remember that this isn't "real life" where the mole can be someone we've never met; it has to follow "plot logic" — they set up and underscored as important that "hey, Lourdes sent along a med-kit".