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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 3214163" data-attributes="member: 7859">Here are the persons "reasons":10. Show co-creators Ron Moore and David Eick are both developing multiple other projects. Moore is working on BSG prequel show Caprica, and Eick is working on both Bionic Woman and Them.9. Crucial subplots, such as the fate of Sharon and Helo's hybrid baby, are left dangling for more than three episodes.8. Rather than developing characters via personal transformation, character development is charted via hair length, presence/absence of beards, and weight gain/loss.7. The only way the writers imagine they can showcase Edward James Olmos' considerable acting talents is via long-winded speeches.6. Cylon threesomes.5. Too much intimacy with the mysterious Cylon enemy in their SM dungeon ship makes them seem campy rather than scary.4. Entire episodes are clumsily devoted to single-word social issues like "torture" and "genocide."3. Eick promises next season will bring more flashback-heavy episodes that focus on romantic entanglements and/or childhood trauma.2. A retcon turns Adama into the cause of the Cylons' attack on the twelve colonies, thus making him both improbably important and too much of a bastard.1. Boxing is used as a thin excuse for an episode that could have been written (better) by shippers.I have a big issue with #4.  Not to be political, but given the policies enacted by Congress and the Executive Branch, not enough is probably being done on these subjects at all.  Major props to any show, that does anything with these difficult topics.Also if memory serves correctly did not the Original BSG have boxing as a regular passtime of the crew.  I seem to remember the Dirk Starbuck in head gear?  Thus making this show a nod to the original.I like the scenes from the Cylon ship, makes them seem more alien.  Cylons are a young, smart but emotionally inexperienced race.  Reminds me of the Cyclops Polyphemus from The Odyssey.  Do you pity Polyphemus because of his limited and unpredictable nature, or do you put Polyphemus down like a rabid dog because of it.</blockquote>

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