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Right. It's never implied that everyone left right at the start; there's probably been more or less constant attrition.

She's in White Noise 2. I shall now cry a little to think that that thing made enough money for even a direct-to-video sequel.

24 jumps a minimum of a year and a half between seasons, but I hardly think it was the first. SeaQuest did something similar, but its characters didn't feel the time pass. Red Dwarf has done something similar. That's just in my memory, but I'm sure there's something earlier.

Well, we don't know the colonists left Kobol as refugees, do we? For all we know, the people of Kobol didn't have FTL/jump technology when they left for the colonies, so just getting there could have taken years, during which time natural disaster or WMD warfare or alien marauders could have...

Way back when the treatment for the miniseries first leaked out, Moore was talking about keeping where the cameras were mounted in space shots, to the extent of suggesting that space shots should be grainy footage taken from cameras mounted on one of the fighters' wings. I think they've toned...

Nah, a series reset would be if things went back to what they were like before. Moore and company have shaken things up, but they haven't gone "back to basics" or simplified things.

If I had to guess, they're spending more money on Galactica than previous series - and getting better ratings - and figure that they'll get a better return on their investment when overall TV viewership is not at its lowest, enough to balance out the greater competition.

Of course, that assumes that the tobacco grown on an alien planet some indifinte time in the future hasn't had the carcinogens genetically engineered out.

Other way around - Pegasus is protecting the fleet while Galactica guards the mining ship; I think there was a line about Galactica being smaller and therefore more manouverable in the asteroid belt (which, like most TV/movie asteroid belts, is apparently insanely crowded; there's enough raw...

He is, one way or another, asserting control of his own life, deliberately transferring the attraction he'd felt for the original Six to the flesh-and-blood one on Pegasus, rather than the one in his head that may or may not just be a hallucination. He's got the upper hand now, and by saving...

They're clearly considered machines without human rights, although Roslin and the government probably haven't put that into official law yet. At some point, someone, be it Helo, Baltar, or someone else, is going to force the issue and point out that if they can interbreed with human beings and...

The thing is, people generally aren't a mix of organic material and technology, so one would think that an internal dataport would have shown up on the first humaniform cylon they autopsied and X-rayed.

Anyone else get a little nervous when Boomer was looking at the printout? The way she was staring made me wonder if maybe the code was making the jump to her brain, perhaps bringing her back under the Cylons' control.

(A) They're sadistic bastards that want Galactica to spring any traps that might have been lain for anyone trying to find their way back to Earth. (B) They're far from unanimous on what do do with humanity - the "Six" models tend to want homo sapiens dead, the Sharons were against nuking the...

Let me just say I'd be more comfortable if it wasn't so often right. Certainly, you can construct non-mystical explanations for everything, but you'd expect a good portion of Roslin's visions or Baltar's conversations/hallucinations to be way off-base. I'll make no bones about the fact that I...

I'm pretty sure John W. Campbell had something to do with Dune; I've got a few Analogs at home which have Children of Dune serialized within (though I think Ben Bova may have been editor by then); I don't know if Dune first appeared that way or not. There's nothing wrong with psi powers per...

Hmmph. I still hope they don't go to this well too often. I also think that it would be an interesting story if Galactica and the fleet follow one of Roslin's mystical visions and it blows up in their face. It is a science fiction show, after all, and if the mystical crud has too high a success...

Pity. That's far more interesting than prophecies and destinies.

Oh, absolutely. I don't know if Moore & company intend to go down the road of "does Boomer #2 deserve human rights"; I just meant it as an example of how they really should clarify what Baltar is testing for in order to tell a humaniform Cylon from a human being. There's a portion of the...

I think it's interesting in terms of how, if it is this hard to tell a humaniform Cylon, then you're eventually going to reach a point where the likes of Boomer #2 are effectively human. At some point, that's going to become an issue, since Boomer #2 can make an effective claim that she's been...

She's a Cylon, but she appears to be designed not to know it, a perfect sleeper. The thing is, when she found out, that didn't automatically overwrite her human persona. Even if she knows what she is, she's still conditioned to think of the people on Galactica and in the fleet as people she...