“If a story begins by showing us a wizard, we understand immediately that we will see wizards and magic. If a story with no magic introduces a wizard with no hint that magic was coming, the audience rightly feels cheated.”

I literally could not have said this better myself. It’s a long article, but if the ending to BSG made you as angry as it made me, it’s worth reading.

weesleyisourking:

Take a drink every time:

• Apollo has to hold someone at gunpoint who is also holding someone else at gunpoint
• Gaius is awkwardly interrupted in the middle of talking to Number Six
• Number Six talks about God’s plan
• Someone says “frak”
• Adama is conflicted with his duty as an officer and his duty as a father
• The topic of the episode is a resource/ration crisis
• Someone thanks the gods
• Someone is accused of being a cylon

Take two drinks every time:

• Gaius is awkwardly interrupted in the middle of making out with/having sex with Number Six
• Cylons are called “toasters”
• Starbuck smokes a cigar

Take three drinks every time:

• Someone is thrown out of an airlock
• Adama gives Starbuck a free pass because she’s like a daughter to him
• Starbuck and Apollo have angry sex
• A child goes missing
• Someone talks about destiny

Finish your drink every time:

• Baltar does something unselfish

I am really digging the Terra Nova pilot so far.

It reminds me a bit of BSG, if you jumped straight to the “we found New Earth” plot and New Earth had dinosaurs.