Forgive me for not paying much attention--what do we get of BSG once this season is over? A spinoff series? With who?

But, she could be NOT dead and we wouldn't need to find out 'til much later that a hybrid had sensed that one of the final five were in trouble and jumped in to save her after the fleet had moved on.

Prequel - called "Caprica" and it's still all in the planning stages.

sumi, I would be really pissed off by that if it were to happen. Also, they showed us her looking pretty dead.

ita, I seem to recall there's a spinoff set on Caprica either between the two wars or during the first war. Dunno why that's a story that needs telling, but whatever.

At this point I'm mostly watching for the wtf factor.

I can totally understand Tory killing Callie. (At various points I've found that character so grating, I've wanted to kill her.) She's acting to protect herself and the others. It's Tory waiting until Callie was awake and aware that she was about to be airlocked that was particularly disturbing.

Before the first war - about the development of the Cylons and the rise of the two families involved in their development.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Scifi is going to air the second half of each SJA at 7 pm Central and the first half of the new story at 7:30 so that each week ends on a cliffhanger.

(This is not how I had originally understood the schedule.)

I am glad that they did away with Maria's friend with the v. difficult to understand accent and overly slangy dialogue.

Prequel. Okay. Just trying to work out how much we have to learn this season, and I guess the answer is everything. We will know the final Cylon because there's nowhere else to tell us.

I'm down with Callie being killed. Never liked her. I wonder at the sudden super=strength. Is it there because Tory knows she's a Cylon? It would have been hard to miss all this time otherwise.

I am glad that they did away with Maria's friend with the v. difficult to understand accent and overly slangy dialogue.

I felt it kind of abrupt. Was she really difficult to follow?

trying not to look at BSG spoilers

So - if a person were catching up (a bit erratically) on Moonlight, would this be the place to mention it? I'm hoping so. I picked it up in the full expectation of it being shite, and I think that this is definitely the best frame of mind in which to watch it, because I'm quite enjoying it. I mean, it's cheap and generic, and the writing really isn't very good, and the lead actor (whilst looking v. pretty, in a bastard-son-of-Rob-Morrow-and-that-bloke-from-Grey's-Anatomy kinda way) keeps on throwing away lines, but he is pretty to look at and has a v. sexy voice, so that's something. Also I'm loving Not!Logan (who does manage to do very good work with how own far-from-sparkling scripts, except when the lines are just unsalvageable and make me want to beat the writer over the head with a blunt object), and I'm enjoying Sophia Myles (although I'd be interested to know whether her accent sounds plausible). Oh, and Not!Marshall, Kevin Whatsisface! Always good value for money, bless him. It's depressing that they're serving up tepid cliches of the genre (and, hey, vampire detective - who knew that THAT would actually get enough shows to become its own genre? But by this point it really has) without any nod or wink or smidgen of originality - but there is the pretty, and there is plenty of scope for enjoyable fanfic.

I like Beth and her boyfriend. I really wish, though, that they wouldn't keep trying to play up the romantic angle between Our Hero and Our Feisty Reporter. It would be wonderfully refreshing, and far more plausible and pleasant, to have him viewing her in a genuinely avuncular/paternal fashion, and to have him disconcerted and vaguely appalled by any suggestions of sexual tension. That would ROCK. And it would still have given them scope for UST, inasmuch as she could be all 'oooh, hot mysterious guy who saved my life', whilst he was all 'ack! no, no, really, no hands in new places! You are 10 years old! In my head! There is no way I am going there. Even though you are quite hot...but no! Really not!' Because that's much more interesting and plausible than being all 'No, I have trust issues and emo manpain.' Pah.

The Darla thing, incidentally - gosh. Wince-inducing.

Did I mention my love of Not!Logan? Because I do love Not!Logan quite a lot, I really do. Jason Whatchamacallim has cracking timing, he really does. Pity that LeadActorGuy is not so much with the timing.

...not having watched the Highlander TV show, I get the impression that in terms of quality and slashy dynamic, it and Moonlight are perhaps cut from the same cloth?

...if you have read Tanya Huff's Smoke books, then the show is doubly enjoyable, imho. Because although I presume that the cheesy vampire detective show upon which Huff's protagonist works is based loosely on Forever Knight, which I've never seen, it might as well be based on Moonlight.

vampire detective - who knew that THAT would actually get enough shows to become its own genre?

No shit.

Of Moonlight I've only seen the one ep and came away quite unimpressed, so I have no comments on the rest of your post.

The show didn't set itself apart from the rest of its genre, and it's not an automatically compelling genre that means I need to get my vamp detective fix one way or another, dammit.