So? I'm 26, they aired when I was also in elementary school, and I watched them both first-run. Growing up alongside classic Simpsons, along with Babylon 5, the W. Bush Administration, and a series of crippling romantic setbacks in college, made me the man I am today.

I don't think Clara was intent on passing the buck so it'd be on the Doctor's conscience if he killed the creature or all of humanity, but that she thought he could find a third option that let both survive. And then in the end, when he said he believed the hatching would be harmless, he revealed he had a win-win…

It's a common-enough notion in sci-fi, fantasy, and bizarre conspiracy theories. I remember the first storyline of the Star Trek: New Frontier novels the twist ending was that the inciting planetary catastrophe of the series was the beginning of the process of a giant space-bird hatching from the planet it had been…

It speaks to Clara's point about condescension that while she may have felt the weight of the world on her shoulders, the Doctor was confident that, either way, humanity would survive. If he'd thought the egg hatching was a real threat, he'd have been much more hands-on, a la "The Beast Below." As it is, this was exact…

I just can't see how deleting a couple lines about the spiders being giant bacteria (which was the plot of at least two Star Trek episodes, so at least it's classic nonsense) and inserting something like this

Still makes more sense than “President-Elect” Arthur Coleman Winters. Maybe those nutcases who wanted Schwarzenegger to run got the Constitution amended after all.

These things happen to other people. They don't happen at all, in fact.

It's a reference to a joke in Mystery Science Theater 3000 about a bland leading man whose only feature was that he was a big buff slab of beefcake. They kept making up generic here names for him.

Yes, but I was trying to keep the post short, but still comprehensible. And "just had a one night stand and then found her boss sleeping under a table and got beaten by him in a delusional rage" seemed to invite more elaboration than I cared to type up.

No. This forum is a lot more unforgiving of Baltar than I am. Maybe I was just more sympathetic to him since I thought he was funny, but I always felt that, yes, he was cocky and arrogant, but he was no worse than a lot of people who turn out decently. He ended up trapped by a single bad decision that a lot of people…

Baltar knowing Ellen was a Cylon could always be a trump card. In the beginning, when he was collecting Cylons in the hopes of revealing them all at once. Later, when he noticed that there were a few less than twelve kinds of Cylons on New Caprica, it gave him advantage the he knew something his masters assumed he…

It doesn't make Cally look great in the end. Based on the timeline, it looks like the Chief and Cally had a shotgun wedding because she became pregnant by the guy she cheated on him with. After they'd been dating for three or four months, tops.

Apparently, Bamber was off working on a movie or something for a few weeks, so Apollo got light duty for some episodes. The first episode of the show I saw was "Litmus," and "Tigh Me Up" was when I finally realized he was a) a main character, b) Adama's son, and c) Starbuck's boss. From the way he acted in the prior…

Baltar's actions with the Cylon Detector always seemed strange to me, too. Somewhere, the writers went into a little more detail about why he decided to never tell anyone about the results, but that unfortunately didn't get expressed explicitly on screen.

Also, Six has direct access to Baltar's brain. Once he decided she wasn't a hallucination, he's probably realized she has some means to coerce him if he resists, even if his codependency and neediness and guilt already keep him from straying.

Yeah, after they find that corpse, Leoban totally drops Kara Thrace and her special destiny. Never even speaks of it again (though part of it is that apparently the actor was busy while they were filming season 4.5, and it was a lucky break they were able to get him at all for even the brief scenes he had in the last…

SUCH A HUGE SPOILER:

Also, for anyone who doesn't know, Fred Clark of Slacktivist has been dissecting, in detail, the Left Behind series for about ten years now. Going page by page in some cases to discuss how these books fail so completely as globe-trotting thrillers, as morality tales, and as theology has been entertaining and…

Wasn't it?

There's an awkwardness to the situation, anyway, since the nature of their relationship means that unless the Doctor returns to the Library and reads River's diary cover to cover, he will never be certain he's seen her for the last time. Doubly so, now that he knows her ghost can communicate with the outside world. I…