SPOLIER ALERT:

I fall into the (lonely, lonely) camp that says "Razor" is best enjoyed chronologically, and not in production order. Without the context of a year-long drought between seasons, it's total nonsense in it's production position, and the season 3/4 elements are either reiterated in those episodes or are so minor they're…

And it gave us the classic drinking-game reaction to the season 3 premiere. "Oh, God, Lee! For the love of Christ, do not. Drop. The towel!"

Regarding the possibility that Quentin is hallucinating Pilar, I think they tried to rule that out by having Nolan notice the dry-cleaning truck she was smuggled in just before she arrived. It could be more misdirection, like Kenya talking about smells and tastes last week, though. It could be the writers are throwing…

The Techno-Mage trilogy did too much inserting of action in between scenes in the episodes (or even between cuts), in the process totally rewriting "The Geometry of Shadows" and putting a very weird Forest-Gump moment into "Z'ha'dum."

When I designed my own hybrid order of Crusade, unsatisfied with the JMS, Lurkers Guide, and especially airdate/DVD order, I numbered "War Zone" as "1xXX." It's present solely as a curiosity, and I don't count it as part of the show.

Minor question on the timeline, since I think it's a bit ambiguous intentionally: When did Alak and Treasure start sleeping together? Based on the show to this point, it looked like they only began after Alak and Christie's fight in the Species Dysmorphia Club, but the way Christi and Stahma talked about Alak as if he…

Defiance may also be strategically located as the, um, gateway to the west, but it's unclear how much of that is because it's a pain in the ass to run the new train a few miles further south through Cedars, and how much is a smokescreen so the E-Rep has an excuse to sniff around that sweet, sweet ancient spaceship…

Don't discount the writers. They had faux-Kenya talk a lot about remembering how things smelled and tasted, which is where the holes were in the fake astronaut last year. Either someone did all their writing just before lunch, or they were laying down some red herrings to make the twist more twisty.

Nolan's the guy who shot Pol Maddis and Culty McCreepyCasti in their respective heads when he realized there was no other way justice was going to find them. And, not that deep down, he's still the guy who bragged about killing child soldiers because the "child" part wasn't so important when they were shooting at you.…

Thanks to bad timing, I ended up watching "Litmus" first, of all things. Somehow, I stuck with it and caught the beginning of the season in reruns later on.

"Hard six" is from craps. It's a six made of two threes on the dice, and is the highest risk-reward bet in the game, IIRC.

Since "Range" and "Distance" are redundant, I fanwank that it's actually Direction, RAnge, and DIScrimination, since all the DRADIS monitors show you what you're looking at and not just blank blobs.

That's nothing. She was going to be raped and murdered in the prison episode (AKA, the second episode of the show) before the writer's decided that was a bit much and had her Mike Tyson the rapist's ear off.

Some of the podcasts are a bit… screwy on the DVDs. I never did an a-b comparison, but, for instance, the first two episodes of season 3 aired as a single two-hour movie, and the podcast was recorded in that form. The DVD version doesn't handle the split into two separate episodes well (IIRC, an entire act of…

The BSGWiki was good about keeping the survivor count honest. Practically every other episode after season 2 includes a bullet point with the line "may have been offset by an offscreen birth or death."

The fat makeup was a lot more subtle in the season 2 finale than it was in season 3. I kind of wish they'd kept that level, so Fat Lee didn't look quite so silly. I definitely wish they'd used it as a midpoint look for one episode so he didn't just jump right back to being ripped.

I thought Tom Zarek was always essentially shallow. His rhetoric sounded good, but where were the solutions? What would he have done differently? Where's the logic? Yeah, great, the gardener is paid in money printed by a defunct regime, but what the hell else is going to happen? The gardening needs to be done, and the…

I felt Roslin and Tigh were both damaged by New Caprica, and became much worse people as a result. Tigh, I think, came out of it in "The Woman King," between getting punched and the realization that he'd gone to bat for a serial killer punctured his "I-am-the-clear-eyed-pragmatic-infallible-god-of-death" complex he…

For some reason, the "No good deed goes unpunished" "I'm going to get that embroidered on a sampler" exchange is the thing that I always remembered about that one.