Then, when everyone's standing around after Lee shot the guy, Moore says, "I don't know why everyone doesn't just beat the crap out of him here." or words to that effect, and then Moore goes back to what he was talking about.

Yes! I was so baffled, like DON'T ANY OF YOU OTHER PEOPLE HAVE GUNS?! SHOOT APOLLO, FOR GODS' SAKE!

Because he took down the top dog, so he is top dog. It's like Adama's plan to take down Cain, or vice versa--except she was more thorough. But it hinges on some sort of pack mentality, and recognising that you're not an alpha, and you've been beaten to the punch.

The Bystander Effect -- standing around with your mouth hanging open, even if you have both means and motivation to intercede -- works just as well on bad guys as on good guys.

Most of the time, anyway. A lot of intro psychology classes use the Bystander Effect to demonstrate a different principle: attention in intense situations. The teacher usually hires an actor to burst into class and do something dramatic/dangerous, like pretend to assault the teacher, and then leave. After the incident ends, the teacher asks, "What was that person wearing??" -- and nobody in the class will have noticed that he had on clown shoes. (Their attention was elsewhere, due to the intensity of the situation.)

This works really well most of the time, because the Bystander Effect is such that the students all sit and watch the dramatic events, rather than intervene. Except for one time a teacher of mine liked to tell about, when he (playing the actor) was tackled in the middle of his outburst by a football player who had been sitting in the front row.

They kind of had to stop the planned lecture about attention, in order to make up a whole different lecture about bystanderism and why nice football players usually don't intervene in situations like that.

I suppose dealing with Trek fans for all those years probably prepared Moore for the reaction he'd get.

Oh yeah. He was one of the writers for that Trek movie where Kirk gets killed.

He received death threats.

Speaking of funny, funny bad and SG actors, has anyone but me been subjected to the horror of Boa vs. Python?

Better or worse than MANSQUITO? Inquriring minds want to know.

BvP

Took me a sec. - my first reaction was Buffy vs. Predator.

BAMBI VS. PREDATOR!!!!!!

OMG, was it Lorenzo Lamas??

No, Lorenzo The Llama monkey

Whoops, I am a lying liar. The guy who wrote "Epiphanies" is not remotely new to Galactica. He'd previously co-written 5 episodes. I think the things I disliked were story problems rather than writing problems, so I don't blame him, really.

And the guy who wrote "Black Market" has also been around. He did "Final Cut". So I may have to blame him just a little bit.

Speaking of the Bystander Effect, I saw my first snuff video this weekend, in the interests of krav.

Not true snuff, per se, but it was security footage of a guy instantiating a heated argument, and then getting stabbed 40 odd times (which doesn't take that long), dragging himself to a barstool, slumping over and then falling dead to the floor.

Attention from other bargoers? The bartender calls the paramedics after he makes it to the barstool, and some guy walks past him bleeding to death and yells "You deserved it!" on his way out.

and some guy walks past him bleeding to death and yells "You deserved it!" on his way out.

Huh. Guy really must have been annoying....

I have to admit, I was tempted to give the finger to the driver of the SUV that spun out on the ice directly in front of me, as he was driving like a total asshole and idiot right before he lost control....

Guy really must have been annoying....

Hey, sometimes you just really, REALLY, aren't interested in trying just one sip of a harvey wallbanger.

I just looked up Krav black belts, and bumped into a page:

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Krav Maga is designed to apply to all thinkable and unthinkable attacks.

I like the idea of an unthinkable attack. It's like a Potterverse Unforgivable Curse.

"I just jumped ita with a mildewed noodle!" "That's unthinkable!"