I think the turning point was Relevance (S2E16). Whatever the opposite of jumping the shark is, that's how I would describe that episode.

Just surfing, or did you download stuff?

And once again we get the "hackers are magicians" trope. The firm doesn't have backups?

Penguins seem to be the go-to hallucination: Fight Club, Awake.

They can't find a flint lying right next to the fire, and they need several clues to find the HII. Maybe the producers should have just left the HII on the ground.

Don't forget to pre-order I'm Survivor: Nicaragua DVD set?

First you throw the challenge, then you gather the votes to send the person home. Wait, what do you mean that's not the right order?

It's bit bizarre to have a negotiation where one side desperately wants something, and the other side has no real stake at all. It's not like Probst is keeping the flint or fishing supplies because he wants them for himself.

Yeah, and the story Alicia wanted him to give the media is even more removed; she wanted the story to be that she advised him to not get an abortion, which would mean that she's trying to decide for him what he should decide for his girlfriend.

Well, it this case, was mainly a reference to the "spoiler warning" part of the TGW episode, but I don't find the time limit argument entirely persuasive when it comes to more specific discussions of plots. I don't think that television should be treated as some ephemeral medium that can only be fully enjoyed if…

Anyone else wonder about where they're getting this information? I would think that abortion clinic would be rather protective of patient data.

Dude, some of us haven't seen BB yet. Common courtesy is to write "spoiler alert", and then immediately segue int talking about what happened, with no space for the reader to register that what they're about to read is a spoiler.

"If she takes the money, she has to let Bishop go free."

replace(jury,merge), I take it?

Especially this early. Now, by the time the tribes merge and Julie has to deal with John's tribemates, he'll be long forgotten.

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"I'm gay, in part'

How did the pairing get decided? Did each team simultaneously decide who's going to be next?

I'm more willing to attribute it to ignorance rather than malice. Straight people tend to see the world through the lens of heterosexuality, and "straight man" and "straight woman" are the only paradigms they're really comfortable with, so if a man doesn't fit into the "straight man" box, the conflict is resolved by…

Huh? No one knew about Baltar's role in the nuking of Caprica. Ironically, what he was charged with, going along with the Cylon occupation, he had a rather legitimate motive for (if he had refused, they would have just shot him and cracked down even harder without him to moderate between the two groups.)