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Captain Jamuary - I never caught that Baltar was riffing on Jim Jones until he said it in his interview. The first half of the season, I sincerely thought that his particular mumbo-jumbo was going somewhere. Clearly it meant nothing, though I'm not exactly disappointed by it. For example, I enjoyed watching Roslin…

Richelieu Jr. - I totally agree - every time we've heard anything about the rest of the fleet, especially this week, they've sounded totally confused. It's a nice touch.

I like him, too. Even bothered to look him up at the ad break: http://en.battlestarwiki.or…

Nice - that looks pretty close.

Assless Chaps, I agree - one of the great questions of the show has been, "Well, do we deserve to survive?" And my favorite episodes have been the ones where they really push the point, and then find a real answer to the question - like Apollo's speech at Baltar's trial, or Roslin's decision not to let Baltar die. …

Useful explanation
This is worth repeating: Upthread, Panda Police posted this link of Maureen Ryan's interview with Ron Moore about this episode. It explains a lot of things that weren't clear in the episode, including why they had to plug in the Nicky/Tyrol/Hot Dog story, how many people Tigh has told about Ellen,…

You'd rather watch Black Market?

I'll admit, it was a little conservative.

I love that theory. That feels amazingly right. And the "You're my dad?" revelation would make the whole series.

Nice catch!

WHERE TO FIND IT
In the US, the cheapest way to get it is through Steam, at:

I did not test that. The online co-op wasn't up, and offline, I couldn't find a regular-enough partner.

We will be covering it. Not sure which week.

Grim Fandango is my #2 game of all time. I forget where I read it, but someone pointed out that if Tim Schafer made a game starring Jet Brody as he battled the Pacifican Army, it would probably be hilarious.

Re: media, this was definitely hyped uncritically and unconditionally. But it also spawned some really good writing. John Seabrook's profile of Will Wright from '06, for the New Yorker, was easily the best game article of that year, and still a great read today. (Links don't seem to work here, but Google "John…

Lemme repost so the URL doesn't get cropped:

This is a much better summary of evolution:

I liked this game far more than I expected to, as well, for all the reasons Scott mentioned. The Star Wars universe seems to work better when it goes dark, and this game takes a lot from Empire Strikes Back: the protagonist and his story are surprisingly affecting, even though the gameplay is weirdly cheap and buggy.…

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