Shark Bytes

This show used to be great. But when the writers threw the hats of the three hardest-core leaders of the resistance (Tyrol, Anders, and Tigh) into the cylon ring, they proceeded to rob the viewers of gritty, steadfast, personal champions.

By subverting three seasons of noble resistance, the writers have encased three great characters in hopeless leather jackets and forced them to limp behind the boat.
And all of this just to throw a huge twist into the season 3 finale!
Shame on them - as this pathetic attempt at engrossing drama only translates into pathetic television.

BSG wants to jump, but keeps skidding to stop at the edge of the shark pool. Oh, but how close it has been (Lee's rubberized jowls, labor strife on the gasoline ship, All Along the Watchtower, ghostly shimmering visions of the 5 secret cylons).

The acting by the girl who plays Starbuck is awful, one of the worst acting I´ve ever seen by a leading character.

The endless moments when Gaius talked with the Cylon in his imagination made me wanna give up on the whole thing, so boring theses moments where.

Action sequences in the first and second seasons were generally very good, in my opinion.

The first plot twists were great, but then the writers became infected with that common trend nowadays: plot twists just for the sake of twisting. That´s what leads characters to make totally absurd decisions and put a lot of viewers away.

The good point is that the show set a firm dead line for it to end. That´s honesty and decreases the chance of becoming a boring mess.

Can't stand the "I'm peeing my pants" camerawork. Looks like a good show but the cine style is absolute crp. No DVD sales in this household.

When the Pegasus blew up, she must have taken what made the show interesting with her.

Why even bother to make a Caprica Series. Its quite pointless. We know the end, atleast the end where the cylon's go away and there is a cease fire for 40 years.
Just make a TV movie instead and put it before the start of the final 10 in January.

I'm still think Starbuck is the final cylon. She has to be!

I also hate Producers who use the writers strike as an excuse for delaying the rest of the season. I'm sure up here in Newfoundland, Canada the first half on DVD will cost 40+ dollars.

Later

Just watched from the miniseries to the first half of season 3 in less than a month (I've been ill okay!). I think the series, by and large, is great. One of the pluses is that the various lead characters combine different styles of acting: classical, edgy, underplayed, almost-overplayed (Baltar!) etc but I think the acting is generally top rate. Starbuck is supposed to be P!nk in space! I love the creepy multiple Cylon copies, D'Anna, Cavil, Sharon & Sharon etc, although they are a lot less mysterious since the New Caprica episodes. Maybe it's just overkill (no it's definitely overkill -- I need to stop watching for at least a week!) but S3 seems to be a bit of a slump. Jumping forward 16 months was an audacious move, but it has to be backed up by storylines that are sufficiently gripping to make up for the 'lost time'. Which I suspect I'm going to have to wait till Season 4 to see again. It remains to be seen what will be revealed in the last group of episodes, but it seems that SOMEONE has a plan, but the Cylon models we are familiar with are not aware of the details. Or possibly even the outline. It is no sin on the part of the writers to have an outline from the beginning and then improvise the details, and this one was limited to four seasons early on (the X Files ran to 9, 3.5 of which were watchable). Could still jump, hope it won't!

It definitely jumped in season 3, however, they are just pissing everybody off by spreading season 4 over 2 years. They are now using the 5th Cylon reveal to keep people watching for yet another year. I am getting tired of TV execs still using the Writers Strike as a reason for delaying episodes an entire year. It is now obvious that the networks now spend most of their time on cheap reality shows to fill most of the year's schedule. Then they spend as little as possible for these 10 episode half seasons with 1 year breaks in between. BSG, Heroes, Lost, 24, they all do it. I just hope it does not happen to House as well.

A great show for a few seasons, beginning with the mini-series. The settlement on New Caprica was a mistake. That is when the show "Jumped the Shark." They tinkered too much with a show that was working fine. Sad.

Starbuck is now a girl, and the cylons look just like humans. Please.

I watched this show when it first aired and eagerly looked forward to watching new episodes each week. Although the show had a very doomy feel to it , I had thought the stories were quite good. But after a certain period of time the storyline seemed to go nowhere and all the characters became too unlikable for me to give a damn if they lived or died. Some of the acting is very good on the show and some is very bad (i.e. the ones that play Starbuck and Boomer). I don't know of the exact moment the show turned too sour for me, but I do know the last story i watched was the "all along the watchtower" one. It's probably not the jumping-the- shark moment for me, but it was at that time i said "alright, I've had enough of this crap". I would be surprised that this show still has it's fair share of supporters, but also I know some fans are kinda weird that way. Some can become to loyal to a show that really doesn't deserve thier loyality. This show has jerked around it's fan base enough that it doesn't deserve the kind of loyality that it gets.

How did they come up with the names for the cylons?

Last year, I was looking at the BSG interviews and saw my name in the article, which you don't see everyday.

I've watched every episode since the mini-series, starting out of morbid interest as I remembered the original from '78. Comparing it to the rest of the crap currently on air BSG remains the only television worth watching. I like the effects, but that's not what I look for; I look for writers who aren't afraid to tackle uncomfortable topics or decisions the characters must make. Jumping away to leave thousands to die but saving "tens of thousands"; a decision made by someone who woke up that morning as no more than a school teacher, now with the weight of saving what remains of the human race on her shoulders? That's writing; that's good story telling. I wish it would go on, but every good tale has an end.

I don't have my hopes up so high on the fifth Cylon.. Who really cares? The final bore has been a bust.. This whole storyline has been a bust in my opinion..

I think the last 10 (I think that's the number) episodes will knock our socks off. The creators have something good planed and the 5th Cylon is still out there waiting to be discovered or activated. The first half of this season got off to a shaky start but they had to contend with Starbuck's return, the Cylon civil war, the four revealed Cylons, and Gaius Baltar's release and (possibly genuine) redemption. These are all social themes of the show that we have come to love in previous seasons, they just had the misfortune of all having to be expressed in the time it took to get to the mid-season cliff-hanger.

Do what I do, think back on how each character has progressed and how much you have enjoyed being with them on this journey.

And if that doesn't help, just watch the pilot to the original BSG (or worse yet, BSG 1980) and realize how much worse it could have been and was.