This sounds neat, though the odds of my local library having it seem pretty slim.

Cabin In The Woods can really only exist in a post-Scream world, though. Scream's schtick was having the characters discuss the tropes and cliches of horror movies as they're living through one, while Cabin assumes its audience is well aware of all those cliches and will pick up on how the ritual the characters are…

When a crime breaks out
All the cute girls shout
Get the
Good Lookin' Guy!

Oh, it used "internet commentator" and "helpful" in the same sentence. That's so cute.

The war had stil been going on for over two years in Europe and Asia. Even without being personally involved, that's plenty to make Americans uneasy. There was also a general feeling that the U.S. would probably get involved at some point; American pop-culture had its heroes fighting Nazis and fifth-column saboteurs…

I thought he was saying that it was a game-changer from his perspective, in that he'd never really tried doing live-action tv before, but thanks to The Flash had gotten a taste for it.

Out of curiosity, what was it you thought they were building to?

Well, in the beginning ABC tried to convince people that all the weird stuff on the show would eventually be explained either by mundane causes or Michael Crichton style modern-science-turned-up-a-few-notches. But that's because, in the early 2000's, TV execs were worried that mass audiences wouldn't be interested in…

Jack being in the same pose and in the same location at the end of the show is just supposed to be an artistic come-full-circle flourish, not some "he was dead all along" twist.

He was probably also afraid that, if he starts outing Cylons, they'll out him for having inadvertently helped the Cylons destroy the Colonies.

Honestly, at this point I started feeling like the other characters were being too hard on Baltar. We the audience know he's done some awful stuff, like giving Gina that nuclear warhead, but since most of that is kept a secret from the rest of the cast, their willingness to go "Baltar's the worst" feels a little odd.

See, the bits in Season 1 where people talked about whether a divine power was at work? Those never seemed like they were trying to build a mystery to me. Not the sort of mystery you expect answers to, anyway. Those moments seemed to be simply a reflection of how most people experience spirituality: a sense that the…

The first season presented things in a very agnostic fashion: characters talk about God or gods, and there are events which can be interpreted as the work of some paranormal entity, but there's nothing that couldn't just as easily have a mundane explanation.

And I've seen plenty of hard sf stories that still have technology that works like magic; they just say that it was built by inscrutable alien beings. If none of the point-of-view characters know how the technology works, then the author doesn't have to, either.

Then there are the people who'll say a story is only science fiction if it explores the social or technological ramifications of new scientific discoveries. If a story uses advanced technology, alien lifeforms, or other sci-fi elements, but isn't using them to comment on how they'll change humanity, then it's not…

Depends what definition of "feminist" you're using.

The episode was called "Hand of God", which makes sense because multiple characters believe that God or a similar entity may be taking a hand in events. But that's hardly the same thing as the show itself telling us that that's what's happening.

Again, Baltar thinks his actions may have been guided by God, but given what the audience was shown, it could just be a lucky coincidence that he's chosen to interpret that way. Nothing there was blatantly supernatural.

I personally always found the characters' insistence on following Colonial law kind of amusing. I just take it as a given that, if 99.99% of humanity dies overnight, then we're gonna be remaking the social order from scratch.

Religion clearly mattered to the Colonials and Cylons, but during the first season there wasn't anything that was obviously divine intervention.