requested an audience? .. that night you missed a rockstar performance..and me possibly winning your money..since afterwards, i played my first ever game of poker–against 9 guys who play in vegas all the time… yeah the looks on their faces when i took home the cash was priceless.. next time abhi.. next time…

i hope you’re watching from the very beginning.

One question puzzles me. Shouldn’t they be Ceylonese? Or more properly Sri Lankans? I mean, what’s with this neo-colonial naming anyway?

…including the initial mini-series. It’ll all make sense then.

The plots are frequently very unpredictable, which is something else I really like about the show.

Yeah, the premiere wasn’t exactly approachable. It wasn’t a good way to get in, in medias res. I agree with the criticisms above, too. If you had any urge to watch this show, start with the first season.

My favorite tv dramas all seem to have to do with guns lately: The Wire, BSG, and The Unit. Not sure what that says about me…but if it’s negative, don’t tell me or I’ll kill ya with my gat.

Yep, that’s what I’m talking about.

Absolutely. You can see the similarities with the tone of some of the darker and more complex political & psychological plotlines in the later seasons of DS9 (a classic example is the episode where Sisko is talking to the camera and was involved in assassinating that Romulan senator), obviously made significantly more “adult” for BSG. I like the way they don’t have an “alien of the week” theme which is so common in SF shows, and instead focus on the human drama.

but even worse is how his character gets away with talking to a hallucination. It’s a little too outlandish a dramatic conceit for me.

I think he’s basically indulged by everyone because he’s supposed to be such a genius and a highly-respected figure in Colonial society. They think he’s a bit…..eccentric, but tolerate it as symptomatic of a “mad genius”.

As for Rekha, I think she’s human.

She is human, just an extremely cold-blooded and Machiavellian one

Until it got flipped — then it just seemed retrospectively brilliant.

If you’re talking about what I think you’re talking about — the very end of Season 2 — then yes I agree with you. What a brilliant twist !

The only thing I don’t like is the fact that there is a little too much similarity to modern Western dressing styles (suits & ties, glasses), along with some very modern European/American-origin first-names for some of the characters. This does strike me as very unrealistic, although I think this was a deliberate move by the show’s creators in order to make it easier for the viewers to identify with/relate to the characters and the modern-day parallels with some of the political/military situations they encounter (torture, “sleeper cells”, religious warfare etc).

However, since it’s still very unclear whether the show’s set in the past, the present, or the distant future, maybe it’s something to do with that too. I guess we’ll all find out at some point

I found it a mildly annoying conceit, albeit an entertaining one that provided comic relief. Until it got flipped — then it just seemed retrospectively brilliant.

Personally I enjoy watching Baltar’s twitchy antics the most; I think the guy should get an award for his brilliant performance, if he hasn’t done so already.

Sorry, Jai Singh. I have to disagree with you there. His acting is really bad, but even worse is how his character gets away with talking to a hallucination. It’s a little too outlandish a dramatic conceit for me.

As for Rekha, I think she’s human. The amazing thing about the show is that the cylons are more human than the actual humans.