LOL, I know what you mean. Too much of their identify and feelings are wrapped up in that show, so anything said against it must be an attack at them. And they react accordingly. :-)

And that's why the show got such wonderful ratings, on a free channel. Oh wait.

You and your friends were clearly not a significant enough demographic to have made a dint in the popularity

They are absolutely not all bad. Many are just people. However, the families rule through fear and power. They torture for information, have enforcers, send enforcers to kill people, etc.

I found Baltar a tragic figure that because of an early mistake was being psychologically and physically tortured. I don't like to watch torture - psychological or physical.

1. I have not watched the episodes that you referenced because the show lost me a long time before that.

was cancelled in its first year, after roughly 24 episodes.

STFU. Real life is also not that crazy depressing - there is humor there too. Humans can't be depressed 100% of the time. That's just psychologically impossible.

On target Elimgarak.

You really want to claim that going darker with BSG was a bad move

Just because it's not all rainbows and fluffy bunnies does not mean "no fun"!

The problem is that there was absolutely zero humor to counterbalance the depressing crap. Humans can't be depressed 100% of the time, always. That's not how we are built. Something else comes a long.

No, not everything in a show, but there must be at least something to counterbalance the depressing crap. Some spark of humor. Make it black humor, fine, but if there is nothing then I am not going to watch it.

Yea, I hope not. That would suck donkey balls. I and plenty of people I know did not watch the new BSG specifically because it was so dark. It wasn't fun! It was just unrelenting darkness without any humor or a glimmer of hope. Plus it made me want to take a shower every time I watched it - because all the…

Yea, frankly I don't see it happening. The vessen did not show themselves to be all that peaceful - if anything they are more violent than humans. And humans have been fighting each other for a long time. Besides, it's pretty hard to go from peaceful coexistence to racial purity - there must be a ton of history…

I don't see a scenario where any humans were among the top families and yet the secret was not known. There would be too much of a power imbalance between the individual families. The humans would have been wiped out pretty quickly - especially in the medieval times where muscle strength was more important.

I did not assume he was a prince - I had no specific power structure in mind. Since there were seven families, I kind-of assumed that they were amorphous, with elders and so on. Heads of the family - not actual princes. Although that too could be true - that "prince" is a term for a descendant of the previous head…

IMHO for much of the first season Nick was bland and uninteresting - maybe because I am a guy. He didn't have much acting to do, his reactions to things were rather obvious, and he had very few surprising (and by extension interesting) lines. When I could predict all of his reactions and much of his dialog in…

I don't think so - it was news to me. I don't remember ever hearing the term "prince" before, or that he was a "bastard". Or that he was possibly part human.

I assumed he was fully vessen (wessen?) but either of a special species or with training that allowed him not to transform. I don't see humans being in charge of the vessen. There would be too much of a power imbalance there. The guys in charge have to at least be able to hold their own when faced with their…