Just that I need to have my emotions back for recycling.

Yes, yes, YES. BSG is unrelievedly grim.

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It's also not as beautiful, and definitely not as funny.

I can't compare it to the other shows, but I thought the scene where Baltar convinced Boomer to kill herself was hilarious. Actually, just about anything with Baltar or Helo amuses me.

Okay, so maybe the humor is a tad dark.

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Helo? I find him quite boring, especially around other people. At least they offed Crashdown, or I wouldn't be able to tell their wooden selves apart.

Baltar is just a cigarette holder and a couple missed shaves away from twirling his moustache and cackling like a madman. That doesn't really interest or engage me. The laughs I had were at his expense, but not from the belly.

I like him better before he decided to not report the Cylons his test revealed. He folded so damned easily I had nothing but contempt left. The couple seconds where I thought he lied about Crashdown to protect crashdown as well were good moments, but it ended up seeming like any preservation of Crashdown was completely a side effect.

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Oh, no, I didn't mean that I thought Helo by himself was a funny character. But I find Helo's story extremely funny. I loved all the stuff on Caprica last season because it was like a SF version of After Hours.

This may be another example of the thing where I don't really need to like the characters as people.

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I still don't get what's funny about Helo, though. I only stayed awake for Caprica!Boomer, and didn't see much to laugh at or with. Because I like her, I guess.

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I suppose a lot of it was dramatic irony. The fact that he has no idea how screwed he is. He gave his seat up to Baltar. He gets "rescued" by Boomer. When he sees Six again and his reaction is basically, "Wow, there's a pair of twins among the human collaborators. What are the odds?" After Boomer makes a break for it with him, and he says, "I killed lots of Cylons, and they've never sent an army after me before."

I don't know, it's hard to explain why you find something funny, or don't. But all of those things made me laugh.

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Eee. Space-ship size comparison chart. (Huge-o graphic.)

[link]

Drawn before *Firefly* or BSG, so no Serenity.

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Dammit. I was looking for that a way back, and now I can't remember why. I'm sure it was very important.

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Cool. SciFi is showing the BSG episode when the Cylons board the Galactica. I like this episode. So very intense.

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I'm disappointed by the absence of the Vorlon planet killer ship from that diagram. Of course, the Shadow planet killer would have been impossible to fit...

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