....If a police drama started planting clues in season 8 for a reveal at the end of season 10 that one of them was a paranormal vampire, I'd still be annoyed. It was too late to introduce such elements, even with "setup" (and in the case of BSG, there wasn't even that much setup for these changes).

Unless they…

....that's "Death of the Author", which I reject. You're asking me to make excuses and headcanon which the writers themselves acknowledged didn't happen.

Well, let me pick a big example: the writers developed "The Final Five" in Season 3 to stupidly explain why we haven't seen five Cylon models yet/as a surprise…

Problem was that this show wasn't really conceived of to even have standalones; but that's irrelevant- the mid-season 3 crapfest was admitted by Ron to be filler because they had to throw out their planned plotlines at the last minute (think Babylon 5 season 5).

Basically the difference between a standalone episode…

No, they did not set up that they were interacting with literal Angels. Even Ron Moore, in that Paley center post-finale video, explained that it was only an idea he loosely began to toy with in Season 2, and only gradually settled on as Season 3 progressed. Even then their actions don't add up to a whole.

Yes, the…

I think they developed a taste for long pig.

From what we've seen on their website and such, the impression is that there was no "ape vs human" war before this. The Simian Flu pandemic pretty much wiped out humanity on its own: a point they repeat is that Caesar didn't even think there *were* any surviving humans. The humans they're fighting now are scattered…

Wait, were you raised Jewish or are you practicing Jewish?

"This is how it's done, kids, by the religion that started it all"

Zoroastrianism?

If I recall, Adam was given *dominion* over plants, as draft animals and such, but only Noah was the first one explicitly given permission to actually eat animals.

That's probably a better plot than Ron Moore ultimately will come up with.

Ron Moore's triumphant return to television?

NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS.
The ratings are awful, dropped as the season progressed...and I suspect they renewed it at a loss rather than deal with the shame of one of their new tentpole shows flopping.

Why do they call him "Cockknocker"?

The second video isn't in Black Lodge backwards talking dream language, it's in some crazy made-up space language.

I appreciate the M41A pulse rifles: the gun that brought us back from the brink.

"Crom".

Once again, thank you for being more considerate than that Jeff fellow.

Television Without Pity became a sellout years ago, and this is why I stopped reading it. They were "funny recaps" but not reviews. They no longer ran actually critical comments, even for bizarrely bad TV episodes, for fear of insulting the show creators who might actually drop into the comments. I mean things like…

Connor Campbell's work is godawful. Well, no, as "fanart" it's as good as any, but the only reason it's held up as "representative" of anything is because other professional artists haven't had the opportunity to draw these scenes before. This isn't what the Purple Wedding looks like. This is a bizarre, primary…

What do you mean by "beginnings of Ape society" specifically?