You're not the only one— there was a whole paragraph about this in Genevieve's first review and people have continued to talk about it in comments. But I don't think we've seen enough of the story to know where they're going with this, and even what we have seen doesn't entirely support it. For one thing, we've seen…

They've barely sketched in the character so far so I'm just guessing, but my guess is: 1. Marcus is very, very pissed off about the circumstances of his reincarnation— he wasn't supposed to have been summoned into a 9-year-old body, and whatever his original plan was, Shepherd isn't following it. And 2. Maybe it's not…

(Vague book spoilers, I guess:) One of the historical conversations she had with Frank in the book gave her a pretty big clue about Black Jack's motivation which she couldn't plausibly have learned in any other way… and the show sort of included that conversation, but not that clue. Unless they're abandoning that part…

There's never enough time to get into every interesting detail of other countries' histories. I didn't mean that Claire is objectively better educated than "kids these days"— just that major events in UK history (especially ones where England won) probably would've been drummed into the head of any English kid growing…

I didn't mean for that to come out as complainy as it did. I really like most of the choices in the adaptation so far, I was just thinking out loud about how hard it is to depict the idea of "stuff the narrator just knows" in a visual medium.

Maybe this is nitpicking, but how are these characters "early" Jacobites? That movement has already been going on for a long time; at this point they're only a couple years away from it all going to shit at Culloden. (Which reminds me, I need to watch Culloden again. Actually, everyone should watch it, but especially…

One of us is confused, because I'm pretty sure Edd is still alive on the show.

I'm guessing any multiple of 9 is a significant age, since Ng was begging Shepherd to have mercy because she's about to reach "her time" by turning 72.

Near the end of this episode is when I started really digging Simm— the character is written as more down-to-earth than most thriller heroes and he plays "frustrated and unable to accomplish much, but still trying very hard" nicely, especially after his big fight scene has been deflated by realizing that 1. you can't…

The excerpt from the Qui Reverti manual made me a lot more interested in this than most evil-supernatural-overlords stories, because they don't seem to think of themselves as overlords but rather as rebels— free-thinkers who won't let the Man keep them down with his "death" scam. I like that angle, and also the…

That's pretty much the idea, yeah. "Oat opera" or "horse opera" as a term for Westerns goes back further than "soap opera"; in both cases the joke was that it was a genre that was generally considered trashy but was super-popular, so saying it was the opera of its time was a cynical comment on the state of the…

Yeah, once I got that this was a deliberate style choice and not just a vehicle for exposition, it started to grow on me. The character is so isolated and the actor is engaging enough that there's something satisfying about hearing her tell you her story— otherwise she'd seem more distant since she can't talk to…

"…serendipity so fortuitous it feels like magic: Baltar lashes out at someone who … turns out to be a Cylon anyway"

You can log in at disqus.com and go to the page called Home (which of course isn't actually the home page of the site) and see all your notifications there. They keep screwing around with the format every couple months but it works OK.

Oh for crying out loud. I have no reason to "write excuses" for anyone. I'm speaking for myself, having watched the show from beginning to end a couple of times, and I'm honestly describing how Six's actions come across to me.

I never said anything about a "deep psychological game", I said the opposite: she's impulsive. Even if her first appearance didn't make you suspect she's not a super-logical machine, soon after that another Six breaks a baby's neck either as a random gesture of compassion or just to see what would happen, and the day…

Six is a bit nuts though, she craves novelty and sensation and likes to push boundaries. I can easily see her persuading the others to let her go to the station just so she can say she was present at the very beginning of the war, and she wouldn't just want to witness the first death, she would want to literally be…

I have no quarrel with people who hate the ending or hate whatever part of it, even though I like pretty much all of it. I just hope that the comments on these reviews won't constantly devolve into everyone venting about how much the show declined at whatever point. It gets a little old.

I actually like Lee as a character a lot. He's like Starbuck in that he is both admirable and annoying, but the annoying things about Starbuck are also kind of cool— she's a familiar rogue type— whereas Lee is fundamentally uncool. And it's not for the usual uncool-anti-rogue reasons like not wanting to take chances,…

Lords of Kobol, 600 comments already… no one's going to read this, but: