Excellent points and excellent connection to Gaius in Season 4. The best part of the cult storyline to me was when he has a "head" version of himself talk to me while he is eating. Classic.

1.) Sonia, first you leave us and then you tell us that these might not continue??? NOOOO. I really have enjoyed your reviews. Thank you so much for them. You can tell that you deeply love this show and that meant a lot to me.
2.) I cannot pick a favorite moment this season, there are too many, but during these…

I have seen other people interpret that as some form of pity, but I have always interpreted that as just protecting himself, making himself seem powerful after he was humiliated, and making Six feel like shit.

I cry every time I hear "The Shape of Things to Come." As a piece of music, it's ridiculously beautiful and poignant and devastating and I agree, one of my favorite songs. Overall, the way BSG used music—I had never heard music used like that on TV before. It really sold the show for me.

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1.) First of all, I am super sad Sonia is leaving. I have always loved her reviews here and these Battlestar Galactica reviews have been really spectacular. Good luck at Salon!
2.) On this rewatch, I realize that although I still love Laura, I really sincerely hate her politics. She is very conservative. In "Colonial…

If the Sharon and Helo storyline was given to finer actors, I would have loved it. But it always just felt bogged and perfunctory. And ohhhh, I like your point about how he compares with Gaius. Kara experiences this to an extent with Leoben later on.

Overall, it was hard to watch most people act on the show because they were so outclassed by Tricia Helfer, Katee Sackhoff, Mary McDonnell, and Edward James Olmos. Like, maybe these actors would have shined in a different context, but they just couldn't shine here.

1.) Yeah "Tigh Me Up" is pretty bad, but I can't help to laugh when they are all in Gaius' laboratory screaming at one another. It's funny and really well-paced. It was an odd tonal shift for the show and definitely network-driven, but I can't help appreciate seeing people other than Gaius flexing their acting chops.…

Pretty good end of the season, hopefully next year they will learn to reel in the subplots and to focus on the study again (the study of sexual dysfunction and publication, presumably). What happened to Gini was absolutely devastating especially because once she finds out Bill's role in this, she will really have…

This is what I get for never watching any of those side movies except Razor. I'll watch them this watch around.

I think one can very well argue that they *were* the "Other" in the sense of those who are oppressed and marginalized (i.e. those classified in that sense by de Beauvoir, Said, etc.) and then they became the "Other" as opposed to "self" in the philosophical sense to humanity ("we are human and they are not"). And the…

1.) I absolutely love the idea of Simone de Beauvoir watching BSG. I have never imagined it before, but this amazing. Thank you very much, Sonia.
2.) Loved the emphasis on knowledge, intuition, self-denial in the review, too.
3.) It has always been very interesting to me that Adama is in many ways much more liberal…

Despite the overbearing whiteness of the perspective and the storyline, miraculously I still feel I have a sense of Robert's principles. But I agree, it's overall been very, very racist from the writers.

I have said this before, but the way this show uses black characters to develop white characters is disgusting. We even look at the CORE office through white eyes. We have come to know Robert pretty well, but this episode they made him into the magical sex negro. Even in the camera angles, her sexual pleasure was the…

It's that damn piano track that gets me every time in that apartment scene.

I know Sonia phrased the question so it would be harder to decide, but I would definitely be a Cylon if I could be D'Anna, Sharon, Six, etc. I have been trying to become a Cylon to ensure immortality while I am still young and spry for a while now.

I really only like Cottle when he interacts with Laura, which is most of the time. But when he's away from Laura his character is too one-dimensional. Him calling her "young lady" is so cute. Always brings a smile to my face.

She also had a good relationship with Laura towards the end of Season 1, but that didn't last. Her relationships with women never seem to be very enduring unfortunately.

I agree with what some others have been saying in the comments about "Act of Contrition: the Zak story line is boring and cliche and I might have screamed I DON'T CARE at the screen a couple of times, but I think Kara and Bill's affection for each other and acting really elevated the episode (he tells he loves her and…