Btw, the "Colonial Gang" bit kind of addresses one of the complaints some people brought up earlier in these reviews: those press conferences are awfully crowded, how come so many reporters escaped the genocide? Based on the talking-head dude's snarky remark about "legitimate journalists", I think the implication is…

"why on Kobol would the Galactica plan a three-dimensional space battle on a two-dimensional map?" —Moore talks briefly about that in the podcasts; he didn't think of it as an attempt to do anything realistic, the intention was just 1. giving the audience a quick and easy way to understand what the plan was and 2.…

I really do need to see it, yes.

Not a German thing but a French/Polish thing— that's Roland Topor, a weirdo of many talents.

I'm sure it's possible to find super fancy pretentious ramekins (and that'd be the kind that Desi would have), but why bother? Regular ones cost like two bucks. They're just little baking dishes, if you ever want to bake something small then that's what you use.

Wait, I have some ramekins, what does that say about me?? I just thought they were good for like roasting garlic in, didn't know I was making a statement.

I'd be baffled by that decision if it was anyone else, but it's Baltar. Despite being brilliant, he's a terrified idiot who makes most of his decisions on a very childish immediate level: "Something's causing me confusion and distress? Then I will evade it and cause a distraction! Problem solved!" He's like a kid I…

Seconded. Moore is really fun to listen to, and there's a lot of nifty stuff about the twists and turns of production. It also provides a different perspective on the question of "how much do they have the plot all planned out" because the answer is clearly "not at all," except he also makes it clear that a lot of…

The attempted seduction scene was also worth it just for Adama's perfect deadpan, followed by him making that phone call as soon as she's gone— still calm, but making it clear that she's totally hinky and not wasting any time about it. Yay, people doing sensible things!

One thing I like about how the Cylons are introduced in the first few episodes is that the first two we meet, Six and Leoben, while they may be smart, don't seem all that logical or machine-like— they both seem pretty emotionally driven in general, besides both being religious fanatics. Apologies if I've mentioned…

I bet you're right about them just not being able to get the actor again— she was good enough that I think they'd have found some excuse to bring her back if they could have (a nice surprise in rewatching the first season is how many minor characters showed up briefly here who showed up again in larger roles later).…

"The female Cylons we've met so far, especially Six" - Boomer is the only other one at this point that we know of, and I think Grace Park is very attractive but she is not a 6-foot supermodel. If Leoben (who I think is awfully cute in a creepy way) can blend into a crowd, then so can she.

But there’s no follow-through to “Litmus”—it’s terrifying, but it doesn’t connect to the rest of the story. Hadrian doesn’t come back; Specialist Socinus isn’t mourned for too long

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here: "the symbiotic relationship between the show's perception of religion, faith, et al, and inherent 'human-ness' that comes from said religion." I mean, I'm not sure I'm even reading it right grammatically— the symbiotic relationship is between the show's perception…

I don't even understand the question "how Six did it." There's nothing in the episode to suggest that Shelley Godfrey is anything other than another physical copy of the Six model who managed to infiltrate the fleet in the beginning (not hard to do, since no one but Baltar knows what the Sixes look like), with a…

In hindsight, “Litmus” has a confusing message … this aired in the midst of the post-9/11 furor around military tribunals, after all. But devoid of that context, it becomes a confusing exercise

It's a minor bit that was overshadowed by the rest of the episode, but I really liked the scene of Dougal trying to strong-arm the priest— just a nicely thought-out comic progression where both sides keep coming up with new angles (I have a knife too, so there! I can quote the Bible too, so there!). I guess it's a…

Having the camera hold on that image for a few seconds did not make me feel insulted; it made me feel "oh, that's a nice image."

According to Moore in the podcast, the gradual reduction in voiceovers wasn't exactly a planned thing, more like after they had finished a couple of episodes, they got a better sense of how to use that device more selectively. They basically learned what Alien Jesus and others wanted them to learn, but they had to…

Hahaha when I loaded the page just now, one of the "You May Like" articles above the comments was about what Slim Jims are made of. I wonder if they use keywords from the comments. Reloaded and lost the link, alas, so now I'll never know.