Okay, on the "not being able to understand dialects within the same country", have you been to Louisiana? I'm a born and bred southerner and I'm at a total loss when I run into someone speaking some unholy Creole-Southern hybrid accent. Ditto for northern Maine. I always thought Stephen King exaggerated those…

Exactly. The line was supposed to be delivered with a shrug. It's not a great line, but it wasn't supposed to be. Trying to make it badass is what made it ungodly stupid.

Well also, as John Oliver pointed out, the English are kind of dicks to the Scottish and tend to treat them like idiot children most of the time. Considering Scotland has a huge portion of the natural resources and only has a 10% representation in the UK government, plus the fact they HATE the austerity measures…

The thing I remember about "You Can't Go Home Again" was that it was one of the few BSG episodes that's almost entirely victorious. Adama makes a bad decision, and Starbuck comes home with a captured Cylon ship. How often does THAT happen in this series?

For the song that best describes that sense that something dangerous and ill-advised is about to happen, can't do better than "Not a Crime" by Gogol Bordello. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

What's weird is that really should have been Battlestar Galactica, but on Earth. The premise is strikingly similar, only there's an actual chance at redemption. Unfortunately, from the review it looks like the focus is entirely on the leadership. Which is fine, but those are the people who are most likely to…

I think it's because he knows he can't get what he wants by force. He wants Aeryn to be with him. Abagail says it's not sexual, and I think that's partially correct. I think Crais sees it as proper for the two ex-Peacekeepers to join together on the ex-Peacekeeper battleship Leviathon. He's also desperate for help…

You'd think so, but there really aren't that many aside from playing "The Parent Trap" like what we got this week.
It's the dramatic problem of having two Crichtons who are equal and identical, and any story would play like this one (they're in two different places and know what each other is thinking) or the end of…

I think he makes sense on an overall arc basis, but ep to ep it can be hard to pin down. I see Stark as trying with all his might to do the job Zhaan asked of him. But without her to steady him, he has a really hard time keeping it together and ultimately spirals out of control. The guy is seriously broken from his…

They didn't really nail it down, it was more of a general ESP with some precognition thrown in. But I think that worked since nobody knew what the hell was going on with her. It's one of those storylines that probably would have gotten some significant play in S5, but had to be dropped for PKW due to the…

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Eidelons aren't really into mind-control, though. More that their telepathy-thing soothes the passions and puts people into a reasonable state of mind and also allows the Eidelons to get at the source of the whomever's deep down wants and needs, even if, emotionally, that person could normally never admit to…

I think it's a little more complicated than that. Talyn doesn't trust Crichton because Crais doesn't trust Crichton. The emotional spillover results in Talyn being hostile. It's a side-effect of that whole Crais-Talyn bond, Talyn picks up on Crais' subconscious desires. You can go further and even use this to explain…

I think they should've lured some NCIS writers over JUST to help out with those first dozen or so episodes. Say what you will about that show, they know how to do case-of-the-week procedurals with well-defined characters and snappy dialogue.

I think it was mostly that Whedon got to invent the whole universe, so the gang could be the tiny band up against incredible odds from the start. For every other show that takes place in our world, the bad guys have to be discovered and established, and that takes time. Think of Angel. The first season might as well…

My guess? His genius is intact but he loses everything else. That's a nice, nasty Whedon turn for ya. Plus, it would be kind of hard to justify keeping him around if he can't tie his shoes or count to ten. But maybe, like you say, there will be a hunt for some bit of tech that will restore his mental acuity.

How great would it have been to have gotten Al Brooks in that cameo? Instead of Brad Whitford's non-union Mexican equivalent.

That was earlier in the program, before they had corporate sponsorship. So no offices, and the explodey eyeballs were their best way to keep their half-dozen soldiers in-line, as well as their handlers. When they scaled up, it was going to be cost-prohibitive to kidnap people and do the exploding eye surgery just to…

I think it's a weird effect of movie to TV to movie to TV. In his previous appearance in full Nick Fury garb, he looked pretty damn pudgy. Agent Hill was also filling out that SHIELD skintight uniform quite a bit more fully in the Pilot than she did in The Avengers. But she looked great in street clothes in the…

I love it when people complain that a show lays everything out for you, then when it doesn't, they complain that it isn't clear enough.

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