Time Travel Episode. Which half-way through typing, I realized the dumbness of saying, but I'm going to leave it. They went back in time, and Rose saved her father from being hit by a car, causing a rift in time.

Ah missed that one. But in the Dickens of a Ghost story episode didn't the Doctor say that you can change the past? Anything can happen. No paradox problem, which is what makes time travel so deadly - kill your GrandDad, and you never get born - and the world gets by nicely without you. Or your civilization if that is what you wipe now. So that has changed; they've decide changing the past can now cost time rifts.

They went back in time, and Rose saved her father from being hit by a car, causing a rift in time.

I seem to recall hearing something about Rose's father dying when she was very young? So, maybe her going back in time is what has created this new universe? With a British President and all the ear buds and stuff?

So that has changed; they've decide changing the past can now cost time rifts.

It was actually the Doctor and Rose going back to the same moment twice and altering their own immediate personal histories by saving Pete Tyler that seemed to do the trick. Possibly altering the past alone wouldn't cause traumatic damage to the timestream if not for the doppelganger time travelers thrown into the mix.

I don't think that particular paradox can be responsible for splitting off the parallel timestream, since this version never had a Rose Tyler at all.

Also interesting that the Tardis was left inoperative and powerless in the parallel world. It seemed to function well enough in the completely separate universe of E-Space, though the Doctor needed to find a juncture point to return home.

Okay, now, my mum and little brother are insisting that the Cybermen are the predecessors of the Daleks. I can kinda see it, but my gut instinct is to detest the idea.

I lost track of time and screamed when the credits rolled. Didn't like how they started the story with a guest character, and really not digging Ten's lack of authority, and his rictus grin is not growing on me. Count me in on the not liking him in his manic/shouty bursts, but still adore him when he's more subdued.

BSG: phew! for Felix!

And, my love for Roslin grows. Maybe not a flawless solution, perhaps true war criminals/traitors are now allowed to walk freely, but what she diverted... *deep sigh*

I thought Galactica was kind of crappy. Halfway through I had to go back to the credits, and saw it was by Verheiden. Who wrote "Final Cut" and "Black Market," so that explained why it felt so flat. I never thought they were going to kill Gaeta, which bugged the hell out of me. Making him the focal point defanged the story.

And then there was that nonsense where Zarek's going to make Roslin his Veep, and then resign, and then she'll make him her Veep. With Adama basically threatening another coup if he doesn't go along with it. And the colonials aren't gonna call bullshit? Ugh.

And then there was that nonsense where Zarek's going to make Roslin his Veep, and then resign, and then she'll make him her Veep. With Adama basically threatening another coup if he doesn't go along with it. And the colonials aren't gonna call bullshit? Ugh.

Yeah, that all seemed pretty transparent, but was Zarek popular among the colonials? Would they want him as their President?

Okay, these are the same people who voted for Baltar, after all.

I haven't been watching long, so once they killed Jammer, I half felt like they wouldn't kill Gaeta, but I still believed it could happen, because I suffer from Whedon/Minear PTSD.

I wasn't sure Gaeta was safe because of the show in general. Beforehand, I would have said it was entirely possibly they'd kill him off. It was the episode. I don't know how to explain it. It felt... formulaic, I guess. So much time spent saying, "Hey look, Tigh doesn't like Gaeta! Hey look, Starbuck doesn't like Gaeta! Wow, here's a surprise: they're arguing about whether or not to kill Gaeta!" If they were actually going to do it, they wouldn't have spent 30 minutes building suspense around will-they-or-won't-they.

And Roslin's heartwarming solution...oy. I just wanted to know, is Adama going to make a formal announcement that Gaeta was actually helping the resistance behind the scenes, so that nobody else takes a swing at him? I mean, what's to prevent someone else from deciding to go vigilante?

I figured Gaeta was safe because they weren't going to let the show live with the pain of having killed one of the most important parts of the resistance. There are just some threads of pain that the show seems to cut.

As for the vigilantes--I wonder if the goverment has a hate crime statute or something?