I watched the whole thing live, and to be honest, I was suffering *with* the cast and not deriding it as I did Voyager - the IDEA of the show and characters was great. Later on Berman and Braga gained more points back from me when in the Blu-ray extras they explained....just how much and how absurdly UPN was forcing…

Ron Moore made up everything as he went along and broke his own writing principles; within four years, the show which started as a reaction against late-Trek such as Voyager...turned into Voyager.

It was good, and the scale of it unprecedented - as was the insistence that there would be no children characters on it. Yet in many ways the dialogue was melodramatic and basically....it would have worked better as a comic book. It had comic-book level overly dramatic dialogue, played straight.
Written by people…

Got to nuke something.

Met him on a rock down on Dagobah.

It's not that it was religious/spiritual - Ron *has* no deep-seated religious/spiritual opinions. He simply says vague spiritual-y things in a desperate attempt to sound "profound"...and it works on a lot of people.
For me, one of the most surreal moments was....the Season 3 finale podcast. They actually recorded…

Ron wants to convince you that what he did is "normal", and therefore, you "don't trust TV shows anymore" because what he did is somehow typical of TV.
No, he didn't do something remotely "normal" and he shouldn't be allowed to work again. There IS such a thing as a good TV show, he just made a "bad" one.

Harrison Ford: "You got the wrong guy, pal."

...we've seen Tyrion wearing the chain at different points. The chain exists in the TV show.

First, I like Ezri. Second....Dax didn't really "come back". Third....they'd established since the beginning of the character, six seasons before, that when the current host dies the sybiont lives on in a new host. So it wasn't a "cheat" anymore than Doctor Who regenerating.

Ron Moore pretty much admitted - in flowerly language - that he came up with the idea of killing and resurrecting Starbuck *as they were writing that episode*, and purely for shock value, to be "water-cooler TV". They thought they'd come up with a good reason...later.

I've realized that part of Ron's attitude was…

"wherever whores go" will become an internet meme

Strange, the only truly winning move is not to play.

This is specifically how we got killer bees.

The worst part is that I've become quite attached to Defiance, despite vowing not to forgive SyFy after BSG.

But they did right what BSG never truly did: they invested the time *before* it aired in worldbuilding each of the alien races in it. You don't need special effects, just well-thought-out backstory.

I have never been prouder to be a member of the Colbert Nation.

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The difference between us, is that beneath this cloak there is no flesh or blood to kill. Only an idea. Kovacs or Rorchach, you're only one actor on the stage."

I like it.