I love the warmth Adama shows in "Home, Part 2," and that really comes down to how great Eddie Olmos is in the role.

I didn't necessarily see that. Seemed as though they were largely in line with, "Let's capture him, exonerate Hope, and THEN figure out what to do with him."

Part of me minds that Claire hijacked the episode in some places, but Rosario Dawson is just so good in the role that I can't mind it for long.

"You see, Warriors? You see what you get when you mess with the Orphans?" - Doc Rivers.

You Warriors are good. Real good.

The very early Joe Kelly/Ed McGuinness stuff still holds up really well.

I don't always enjoy this show, but I sure as hell appreciate what the writers are doing. It's not exactly easy to make an American audience respect an Imperial Japanese cop or root for Hitler. And the show's ability to twist all those old WWII tropes around makes it interesting, if not always particularly good.

That's part of what's so great about the show: both Jessica and—to a lesser extent—Kilgrave have to keep constantly reworking their plans and thinking on their feet.

I always liked Cavil's explanation at the end of season 2—that they'd tried so hard to become human that they'd replicated all of humanity's worst qualities.

Totally agree with you about him being best when morally ambiguous. Still, I liked the end of his character arc, if only because he ends up living the old truism that career revolutionaries are fantastic at tearing things down and lousy at actually creating anything.

"He did beat Joe Louis' ass."

As an exciting piece of storytelling, it's a B-. As a first-class mindfuck, it's an A.

Peggy, like just about every other adult at one point or another, feels like her life should be more than it is.

After all that blood and thunder and horror, there's Mike Milligan, stuck in middle management, surrounded by yuppie platitudes.

Okay then!

The weight of command: in conventional war, lives are (regrettably) replaceable; in BSG, they're not. Which serves to give every mission where lives are at risk an extra level of intensity.

Gretchen's crossover from slightly jealous girlfriend to borderline creepy sexual attraction was an absolute masterstroke: completely in character, and—strangely enough—completely understandable.

Go easy on Frank. His girlfriend got him captured and beaten, and he got off lucky compared to his brother's family.

Exactly what I was thinking. 10,000 words on ASA Ed Danvers and the Canadian from In Bruges would make me happy.

Ivanek would be another great subject for one of these. Definitely "that guy" in a lot of TV/movies.