Somehow, Jon Ronson looks like the actor I imagined playing Jon Ronson in a movie, but out of character. Like, that guy, but bald, different glasses, and in a three-piece suit.

Technically, it looks like there's just the one…

I always think of Lee stating the moral of "The Captain's Hand" when I'm encountering management or being put in a position of leadership, myself; "Garner was used to working with machines. Command is about people." It's like a more thoughtful version of the Peter Principle, focusing on the "why" and not the "how."

Plus, Baltar's math makes no sense. They couldn't be extinct in eighteen years unless the Cylons succeed in killing them all, and birthing more babies isn't going to fix that.

And the third season. In fact, it's going to be a while before the baby doesn't at least make a cameo appearance in an episode (counting two-parters as a single episode). I realize I was (and am) pretty into BSG, but I'm not sure how you can remember anything about the rest of the show and not remember that Hera…

While "Scar" is probably the most justifiable use of the flash-forward technique in season 2.5, because it's a rough thematic sequel to "Act of Contrition" (though in that episode, it included flashbacks as well as flash-forwards, so it was a more interesting structural technique overall), I still think it was…

That's exactly what I thought made the Cylons so fascinating. They have this wonderfully naive and idealized worldview, and then they blunder into the Real World and it all comes crashing down. Of course they'd design their government so that each model gets one vote; they're each supposed to represent one of the…

It's subtle, but "Scar" and "The Captain's Hand" both show how the Cylons fight differently without a Resurrection Ship. In this episode, they're performing hit-and-run raids and ambushes, drawing off individuals rather than charging in in an overwhelming-but-costly frontal attack.

Seems like the opposite to me—people are always looking for a really simple answer, in my experience.

As I understand it, there were about a half-dozen individually minor factors that led to Gore's loss, any one of which, if prevented, would've changed the outcome of the election. Gore could've drafted off of Clinton's continuing popularity rather than assuming he was a liability; he should've put more effort into…

I'm pretty sure season 4 was still Coe. I don't know the man's work, but based just on Archer, it sounds like his slow, creeky voice in the first season was an affectation, and he slowly let up on it until he was just speaking normally in "The Papal Chase." I think it only stuck out because he had such a big role in…

They kept referring to him throughout season 2 because they hoped he'd get a chance to come back, but he never reprised his role as the Pegasus CAG. On the other hand, he is one of the (surprisingly many) actors to do the BSG hat-trick, with roles on nuBSG, Caprica, and Blood & Chrome, and he is the most…

I'm surprised Zack didn't mention how surprisingly fraught the teacher's strike was. We occasionally got glimpses that that the Twelve Colonies may not have been the free and wonderful space-America that we'd assume, and the idea that the President was hoping to use the military to put down a teachers' strike is one…

Things needed to be a lot more desperate in the fleet - like mass starvation, disease, ships actually self-destructing - for me to believe that. A workers' strike, an annoying cult, and a creaky Galactica don't cut it.

I think the tricky part of making Roslin a more active participant in this plot is that Cain's major issue is that she doesn't recognize Roslin as a legitimate authority. After the events on Kobol, Adama and Roslin both agree the she is, for better or worse, the President, so having them both go after Cain is…

I completely agree with both of you. As far as I'm concerned, Cain had entirely gone rogue at the end of "Pegasus" when she justified her summery execution order by claiming she was on "detached service."

The entire cross-cut is emblematic of the differences between Cain and Adama, especially when they use formal versus informal language. Adama says, "there'll be the normal post-battle high," Cain says, "they'll all be laughing and slapping each others' backs." Adama continues "Their guard will be down," which Cain…

I think the plan was obviously flawed enough that Helo probably saved everyone's lives. They had no reason to think they'd do anything more than ruin one Resurrection Ship, but even if the virus did propagate throughout the resurrection system, it still leaves any place with out a goo-tub with a full population of…

The sad thing is, I think Black Market could've been saved by editing. For some reason, in season 2.5 they really leaned on the "Open the episode with a flash-forward" device that, while really good in "Acts of Contrition" in season 1, was annoying or detracting in most of its future incarnations. If they hadn't…

It's odd. In the circles I was in at the time, it was a pretty popular reading of the subtext that Cain and Gina had been close, given both what we know of the Sixes' M.O., and the way Cain had a lot of extra-special contempt for her during her visit to the brig. It sure didn't sound like Gina was just one face among…