As I always love to say, Battlestar Galactica begins with mass genocide and just gets worse from there.

BSG has a bleak ending in bright packaging. I consider the show to be, to all intents and purposes, about two duelling death-cults, each bent on using the other as a means of self-immolation. The Road has got nothing on this.

Season 4 goes some places, but I think Sometimes a Great Notion is one of the most bleak bits of TV I've ever seen.

I think 'Pegasus' is pretty much the model by which bleak episodes of science fiction are judged.

Can make a case for Hannibal:

It did end up having a happy ending but man-it got very, very dark!

For me, the decision to settle on New Caprica was the real game changer. It ushered in quite a change in the characters and the style of the show that lasted the rest of the show.

Gaius Baltar would be an awesome travel buddy if your plan was to get hideously drunk, chain-smoke and get laid. A lot.

Oh fuck it. I don't have to talk to you either, man. See how you like it. Just total fucking silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. We'll just see how you like it. Total silence.

Happy Friday!

And when I fuck it up, as I inevitably do, I'll go back to Earth and mope around like the world's most depressed John Constantine cosplayer. Perhaps I'll get a slushy to relieve the existential pain of basically sucking at everything. I like slushies.

It was hard figuring out how to write this in a way that pointed out how very much more complicated landmines make already-terrible flooding, without instantly attracting the, "Aw, stop clickbaiting you exaggerating meaniepants!" brigade. But when it comes to unmarked, drifting explosives obscured with a thin layer of…

This is more terrifying than most people would understand. I was over there for a bit, back in the day. Everything is mined, it is drilled into you never to ever leave the hard pavement, because there's mines (and unexploded ordinance of various kinds) everywhere. Every day you'd hear an explosion somewhere, from…

I think it's less a plot hole and more that the audience thought that they were watching a different sort of show.

I don't think magic space angels counts as a plot hole.

Honestly, I do think it worked, though. Even the stuff with Tyrol's kid not being his. It gave him a VERY tragic arc, IMO; He had gone from having a stable (if barely secret) relationship, plans for the future, a solid career, and dozens of friends to being a broken man with no aim to his life and only heartbreak…

This is one of the all-time classics... they brought Starbuck back from the dead and revealed four new Cylons at the end of BSG season three, and the writers have admitted they came up with this at more or less the last minute, figuring they would explain it all later.

Kyndle and Subaru.

I used my own name, so, Shep Shepard.