Especially since modern wheel covers are almost always made out of light-weight plastic. If someone slammed you across the face with one of those you'd be like, "Ow! Why the fuck did you do that?" If the tabs caught you wrong you'd need stitches, worst case lose an eye.

It's counter-programming. Just like a couple romantic comedies are released in the middle of blockbuster action movie summer months, I would much rather watch people have their faces eaten off by the undead than watch the Academy Awards. Correction: I would rather have my own face eaten off by the undead than watch…

Or the Mexican family that just wants to be with their own kind.

They've been talking about taking Carl in this sort of direction, but it's mostly been tell, not show. Lori's talked a lot about how hard he's getting, maybe it'd be better if he'd died, etc, but Carl himself doesn't do much to show those things but act a bit moody.

To be precise, he's great at climbing, OK at falling, terrible at landing. Break it down!

I just ignore that they pretended that abandoning technology was a choice. From the very beginning where Galactica is about to become a museum, the fleet had been falling apart. They had no manufacturing to speak of and there's no way ~30K people can have enough skills and knowledge to restart modern technology from…

Helfer was way more than just eye candy on the show. She sometimes had to play three different versions of Six in a single episode, and I never got confused which was which. She, along with Callum Keith Rennie, carried most of the Cylon's evolving theology, a substantial burden on a show like this. They brought her in…

Sorry I wasn't clear there: I always wonder which is the best way for *me* to watch something. A question that can never be answered definitely, of course.

Don't forget the show Moore did between the Trek shows and BSG, "Carnivále." It usually gets ignored because it isn't sci fi, but I think BSG has as much or more in common with "Carnivále" than Trek.

I watched it week to week and loved it throughout. I'm unusually patient about those things, though. I'm really looking forward to "Mad Men" coming back, but it never much bothered me that it's been gone for nearly two years. The wonderful thing about living in the Golden Age of TV is that there is always something…

Doc Cottle said they could interbreed with the natives, so more than just a resemblance, full DNA compatibility. But I agree with you, it didn't much bother me.

From a simple narrative standpoint, I was disappointed that they voluntarily abandoned all technology at the very end. It seemed simplistic when they'd already laid all the groundwork to show they didn't have the resources to keep things running.

Season 4 will always be a bit strange because it started with the writer's strike followed immediately by concrete knowledge of the series' end, but not the funding to finish it in a fully realized final season. The first episode of S4 was shot at the very beginning of the strike; depending on how long the strike…

Yeah, you can't really describe that episode without pointing out that the "real" Ronald D Moore is the local theater actor showing up at the edges.

First off, I love this show and every season. Each had its ups and downs, some things are problematic, and I hate the Moore cameo at the very end, but that doesn't spoil the whole run for me. The thematic and moral thrust of the show stays consistant and admirable throughout (and this is a show that almost always…

I think you mean martyr. Rabin is a few miracles short of beatitude, much less sainthood. Not to mention, he's a Jew (hey, he brought it up first, not me). Let's call him an ascetic and be done with it.

Don't worry 'bout him,
He's doin' fine,
He's Kevin
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I vividly remember my first visit to Chicago in the late 80s. We unwittingly followed a pretty close approximation of the last chase scene in Blues Brothers, down Lower Wacker Drive, past the Picasso sculpture in Dealy Plaza, etc. I was 18 and we were blasting through in my mid-60s wide-block Dodge Coronet, which…

There are only 12 episodes, total, so you're not investing too much time either way. Two or three episodes in you'll know if it's your thing.

There is at least a theoretical value in people watching shows on other networks if it is helping grow the overall market. I virtually quit watching TV altogether in my teens and 20s (80s and 90s) because there was so little worth watching that I was not watching enough to stumble across what was actually good. TV has…