Lysana, that's a good analogy. It's very serious and portentous; I do hope they can leaven it with the occasional humor. Like the poker scene with Baltar and Starbuck, that was pretty good, I thought.

But Boomer? She's so totally fucked. And I'm dying to know if the one on Caprica thinks she's human, too. And if so, how that works. At what point did they get split up? When did the Cylons get placed? Did they take Boomer and replicate her, or was she always a Cylon?

Many fascinating plot-related questions to ask!

Poor Boomer.

RE Citizen Joe, which I've just now watched the beginning of: Who knew "seven years ago" translated to "1957"? *headdesk*

Aha. I just worked out what made me think the Stargate special was a retrospective ... the phrase "provide highlights of previous seasons" as the show description. However, it looks like every scene so far is forward-looking, as it should very well be.

Hey -- are we establishing a convention for whitefonting the current run of BSG?

I've been doing it because I've been talking about eps pre-broadcast, and I'm also not keeping track of what has aired here. But I'd just figured BG talk would be the same as the Stargates. Though, I admit that I don't know, technically, when we go from whitefont to regular for those. And I also don't have a preference anyway. Probably not a helpful paragraph, really.

If I had my druthers I'd say BSG was open for regular, non-whitefonted posting as soon as it's aired--same way we handled Buffy. But I don't really care.

The standard for the rest is once it's aired in the US, it's blackfont.

I'm getting all tangled up between what, on BSG, I can talk about and what I can't, and when it's all in whitefont, it doesn't help.

Blackfont questions: What's the history/theology of BSG? I get that the humans are polytheistic, and the Cylons monotheistic, but which gods do the humans worship? I finally realised that the planets are named after the zodiac. Does that tie in with who they worship?

How does Earth and Kobol fit in? Or at least, how did they fit in in the original?

Explaining how Earth fit in to the original mythos requires drawing on the excerable Galactica 1980 series, and no one wants that.

That wasn't so bad! Thirteenth colony=Earth, Kobol predates us both.

That wasn't so bad!

Only someone who's never seen the actual series could say that with a straight face.

Hey, I didn't ask what happened in the series. I just needed to know what the damned Kobol/going to Earth stuff meant for the characters. For all I know, it has been answered in BSG 2004, and I just missed it.

For anyone that's watched episode 11: Were you disappointed by the sexualising of the Starbuck/Apollo? I mean, she was engaged to his brother, looks up to his dad like he's already her father in law ... I was kinda hoping that if they were going to go there, it'd at least be from his PoV first. Also, it'd have been nice if she could be a wee bit less guilty about casual sex, although it doesn't seem the community at large is relaxed about it, so perhaps not. Oh, and I loved Grace Park! Great work.