Yes indeed.

I dated a girl in college who spent part of her childhood in Qatar. She said temperatures ranged between hot to ridiculously hot, usually with a heaping slice of 90-100% humidity, so basically everything in Qatar was built with atomic-grade air conditioning.

Helo and Roslin are the only main characters I can think of on BSG who never fell into the pit you describe: having their characters change abruptly for one reason or another, sometimes story-based and sometimes inexplicable. Roslin definitely evolved as a character — Helo was pretty much a rock throughout — but even…

I enjoyed Baltar enough, as a self-interested, oily sleaze with enough scruples to know what's right and not enough spine to choose it, up until the ridiculous cult leader arc. At that point, I just wanted somebody to shank him in his sleep so I wouldn't have to wade through the travails of Joseph Smith in Space every…

In my mind, the show rightfully ends after the Eye of Jupiter is found. And I would end it with the Battle of New Caprica, but the fallout from that arc ("Collaborators", "Torn", and especially "Unfinished Business") is great too.

I don't know. Six was a great antagonist until the powers-that-be decided to soften her character and bring her model onto the side of the good guys; Leoben was fantastically creepy and compelling; Cain was gone too soon, but so good as Adama's bugbear and Starbuck's frenemy.

I never noticed that — but you're totally right.

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I picture him wearing a pager set to go off whenever the recap posts. As fast as he can, he whips out his tablet and copy-and-pastes the Word document with his latest masterpiece into the Disqus comment form, hits "post", high-fives himself, and goes on with being the most awesome person his friends and family have no…

England including Wales, as the Kingdom of England — kind of a funky arrangement.

Speaking of next week, can Zack please do "AR-558" and "Paper Moon" as a couplet? Not that "Covenant" was bad, but it breaks up a really good two-parter.

All the bloodwine for you, Rappin_Jake.

Carole King. She's 72.

What a devastating loss it will be when John Williams passes. Yeah, it's easy to mock his bombastic style and his various idiosyncrasies — but the number of truly classic pieces of scoring he has created is undeniable. His scoring was definitely the best thing about the Star Wars prequels, that's for sure.

Speaking of Elvis Costello, how has nobody mentioned "Alison"?

I had an ex who got herpes from a guy she started hooking up with a few months after she cheated on and then dumped me. We had sort of stayed friends, awkwardly, so I kind of felt bad for her — but then again, I kind of didn't.

As an Oregonian who lives in a suburban area overrun with California transplants, I can't help but find The Californians funny, even when it's a stupid retread.

I think I've found about one of those Good Neighbor sketches funny so far. It must not be my kind of humor or something, or maybe there's some joke to them that I just don't get. The fiancee and I just kind of end up staring at the screen in confusion whenever they come on.

I think I fell asleep during the second song.

That bit Cecily did was adorable and made me feel a little bit embarrassed for her.