Who has time to watch shows twice?

Daniel is in the frakkin' ship
Listening to Bob Dylan and having tranny head-sex with Baltar.

But really, the most clear indication that Jules and Jim isn't a standard MPDG romance is that the relationship doesn't work. Even if you don't think Truffaut ends up deriding Catherine, the whole movie still serves as an indictment of the unrealistic expectations and naivete of a bunch of libertines.

Well, my point is that it's not a romance in which people actually fall in love. It's certainly a believable take on human relationships, but it's all about infatuation. The affection really only goes in one direction, that being the black hole that is Catherine, and even then, it's not at all that clear Jules and Jim…

No, I don't get that impression from the last third at all. In fact, the last third makes it pretty obvious that she's just selfish and childish and plenty of shots are there to indicate that she's a calculating jerk. This is further underlined when both men basically figure out she's full of shit and she goes crazy…

True, but I don't think Kate Winslet's character was actually an MPDG. If you focus on the pre-memory-wipe scenes, she's acts like a real, perfectly self-aware person, though one who is slightly off-kilter. This is obvious in the scene where basically says, "Look, I'm not a fucking MPDG." It's only after her brain…

As the subversive, postmodern critic ROGER EBERT said:

It's really not an ironic spin at all. Watch the movie. The whole conflict comes froom Catherine never actually reciprocating the devotion directed towards her. Trauffaut himself was pretty upfront about this.

No no no.

Jules et Jim is not a falling-in-love movie
It's a horror movie about obsession and emotional dependency based around one of the greatest movie villains ever: a Manic Pixie Dream Girl wielding her thinly veiled narcissism with all the cunning and malice of Hannibal Lector.

It could have been any of the cylon infiltrators since the point was just to sow distrust and paranoia.

The Eight's plan was to not run out of oxygen and maximize their chances of survival. It was triggered by her realization that the humans were going to do the same if she didn't do it first. It was, basically, a microcosm of the entire premise of the show.

Honestly, if you're already convinced that any plausible explanation is just a rationalization for bad writing, why bother asking the question? You've evidently already parted ways with this show as a coherent narrative.

It's really not an "excuse." The themes outlined above have been developed since Caprica Six first went rogue. It's not a matter of the Cylons destroying them on a "whim," it's a matter of fear mixed with religious fanaticism… an ideology that was challenged when they began to actually interact with the humans. The…

Roslyn used magic powers to hypnotize them!

I'm guessing Hurley's curse actually causes the housing bubble collapse.

As someone pointed out above, the "rebel cylons" are basically like confused children. They had something of a guiding authority figure (Cavil) but were generally used to ruling by consensus. Their culture has now been shattered, they're overcome with uncertainty, and like the adolescent race they are, they're…

So the true meaning of family and friendship is only looking out for yourself? Sounds about right.

Who says the Others aren't unstuck in time?

hold on a sec
The kid got mac & cheese AND french fries!