FABIO wrote:

I Tivo'd it, and will catch it tomorrow (i've watched up until Adama drowned some baby: bringing the baby murdering count in this series up to 2).

The IMDB forums love all the meaningless pseduo-intellectual crap and think it's DEEP and MEANINGFUL. They also admit to loving the matrix sequels for the same reason. Anyone who points out that the religion crap is an intellectual red herring by writers looking for filler and wanting to seem deep (also just like the matrix sequels) is dubbed a moron who only wants "purty splosions" (the classic "you're not smart enough for this, go back to (simpler, more fun thing)" snob defense).

Really the things that made this show interesting was the cool war room feel, Jaime Escalante as Adama, and the total ruthlessness of the Cylons (sending a captured civilain ship back at them as suicide nuker). Anything that takes away from that (like the Balar/sexbot bits which now take up 15 minutes of every episode "oh look he's miming getting a blowjob and someone walked in on him again LOL!") is crap that has to go. The number one buzz killer so far is the whole "the cylons want them to get to earth/have sex with boomer for a baby and are letting them live" thing. Total suspense killer.

Soldiers shouting "Flash!" "Thunder!" at each other while under fire with lots of dirt clods being shot up by bullets: Band of Brothers

Crazy drunk woman trying to drag everyone else down with her: real life ^_^