No, you misunderstand: I'm not saying "haha you should have realized what I meant" — I apologize, I should have written "that's like saying Jack Bauer's wife was always a spy" and I wasn't being clear.

"The Princess and the Queen", a novella by George R.R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the great Targaryen civil war that tore apart Westeros and killed off most of the remaining dragons.

It's amazing, I never thought it would be this good; Martin has mentioned the Dance of the Dragons in passing since the first…

My problem is that everyone focuses on Jar Jar Binks and young Anakin — both of which WERE very annoying — but don't focus on the systemic problems which plagued the entire prequel trilogy, which weren't just limited to that. And no, I had no major problem with midichlorians (they always hinted there was some…

Well, the difference between Vaatu and Ra'va is that because Vaatu represents Chaos, he just keeps trying to destroy Ra'va outright, even while knowing that he can't really destroy her because she will eventually be reborn from within himself (though I guess you could say he's hedging his bets; if he "wins" in one…

Yeah, I can look up where athletes went to high school in the news media; worse is that Tigh's military record and eye witnesses would be harder to forge than noob recruit Boomer.

Let me be clear because I've said this before: many TV shows go through a chaotic writing process before later coming up with great…

"Are you saying that because there are sleeper agents that that makes BSG a spy show?

Dude, I was talking generically about spy movies in that instance. I should have been more clear and said "you can't just say 'Jack Bauer's wife was a spy all along' without any setup".

My god, how do you screw up a concept this simple? Their *job* as TV writers is to create....*TV QUALITY DIALOGUE*! I can understand complaints about it being really quotable versus merely serviceable dialogue....but no, NO, you have to *actively try* to get dialogue this wrong.

1 - I actually acknowledge that if the end product fits together perfectly well, it doesn't theoretically matter if it was a retcon. The problem is that retcons often lead to plot holes which simply can't be easily explained: the problem is more that it *didn't* fit together retroactively. Occasionally writers are…

....the article you linked is about critics saying they don't like how Apollo turned out. This changes nothing: the *writers of the show itself* intended for him to be the hero, they never intended for him to be as thoroughly unlikable as he inadvertently became in Season 3.

I love this show.

In the past 5-7 years, the major ones were that I fell hard for BSG: complete fanatic. Then when Season 3 hit I kind of went crazy because it got really bad, really fast.

It wasn't consistent or purposeful; they wanted him to have this giant heroic arc.

The other tiny dots exactly correspond to maps of gulag prison camps that defectors have provided.

You're getting it confused: one day North Korea simply "vanished" - one set of patrols left the DMZ and the next shift didn't arrive to replace it.

And even 10 years after the end of the Zombie War, no word has been heard from them since.

The running theory is that all of the North Koreans retreated into massive…

In the back of my mind, I always wonder: are they just really good at enforcing mandatory nighttime blackouts? To fool foreign intelligence?

Or is it really that medieval?

I'm saying it made about as much logical sense based on established facts. Tonally, the character was utterly lost in season 3, even the writers admitted that; and worse, they admitted that they used up *all of the writing time for every other character* desperately trying to rewrite Apollo over and over again to fix…

Egon was my hero since I was 4 years old, and I had his action figures.
A flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Even without the commentary (and there's even weirder shit in it) much of my opinion is just based on watching Season 3 itself. I mean, by the same token, a lot of people who didn't listen to the commentary were infuriated at how odd it felt, then when they later listened to the commentary when it came out on DVD,…

Esther....while women have a lower rate of *carrying* the hemophilia gene because it is a recessive trait requiring both X chromosomes to have it.....men have a far higher rate of *surviving* hemophilia when it is expressed. Girls with hemophilia tend not to live past menarche (well, in the old days before current…