I find it hard to believe they'd air BSG in such an early timeslot, considering the warnings they often have for content.

Not judging from his defensiveness in the comments, no.

Since it's been FARKed, I'm looking at a cache, but... given the tone of the comments, I think he's being pretty restrained.

As usual, my bias is that a lot of the comments sound like the responses I got to my recaps. And since he never said "if you are not tired of these things, you're an idiot and I hate you," the fact that people take it that way is very much their problem.

You'd think he's the first person to nitpick SF.

He's being quite restrained but that's not it. He also seems to be sincere.

Yeah, I'm with ita. He's very sincere. He truly believes these sci-fi clichés should not be seen again! Ever!

Well, I think he sincerely thought, "What are some SF cliches I am tired of?" And then wrote a piece making fun of them.

I don't know, to me it seems equivalent to taking a piece in Fametracker as some kind of authoritative statement when the point is really to amuse.

then wrote a piece making fun of them.

But..but..it's not funny! Maybe that dryness is his hook, but I can't distinguish it from a piece written in all seriousness about the clichés that irritate him. How can you tell?

The indicators are certainly mixed as to whether HRG's organization is good or evil.

Umm Bad!Dad killed Claire's parents, then adapted her, cause a cute little blond baby being orphaned right when he and his wife found out they could not have kids was a message from God.

That is like the freakin Chilean death squads man. They may not know they are evil, but they are evil. Yeah they are human, not bwah-ha-haing mixed motives, not all bad, genuine love of Claire. That is what evil looks like.

I mean (to paraphrase) 'sometimes people resist when we kidnap them, and we have to kill them. Shame about those tragic accidents'. That is pretty evil.

Does anyone have his exact words?

I think Claire's dad meant/implied --at the least, what I got out of it was that sometimes the people they're kidnapping freak out, get defensive, and bad shit happens from there, and maybe it's because OWI has better kung fu than the green supernaturals that they come out on top, and the greenies end up dead.

But still, it's not benevolent in the least to go around kidnapping people for some vague catch-and-release objective, and then once in a while, to add to the violation of it, whoops, there was a scuffle and they (the already confused supernaturals who then get to be labrats for a brief while) end up dead. Darn.

I do like the analogy that Daddy and OWI are like spies with some noble mission who are not above using unsavory tactics or using people and putting them in harms way to gain their objective. Supposed to be the "good guys", but not someone you'd like to be friends with.

So maybe Glasses-Guy = the Operative. Huh.