Shark Bytes

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.

The show rocked all the way up to the first 4 episodes of season 3. The cyclons went from badass machines to weird wusses. The writer who came up with that female cyclon that talks jibberish in the bathtub thing needs to be shot....WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!

Season four is fixing everything, but season 3 sure f-ed things up when it became all theological with 'the final five will show the path and blah blah blah'

The show jumped the shark when they found Earth and chose to land in -- of all places -- Canada.

This show has been hard-core from beginning to end. It drags a little from time to time I'll admit, but as a whole, it was a tremendous journey. You can't say this series jumped the shark because it was short-lived and never got a chance to. To those complaining it was too dark, too gloomy, whatever, grow some stones, will ya? If you want spoon-fed sunshine blown up your bums, then watch the Cosby Show. This Battlestar Galactica was gritty, brutal, moody, and alluring.

The show jumped with the finding of New Caprica and the one year jump ahead, fat Lee... Sort of redeemed itself with the rescue, but then swiftly went downhill yet again.. Maybe it jumped way back in season one when Roslin was saved by an injection of antibodies from Hera... Only now to have cancer yet again.. Sorry butI am getting tired of both Roslin and Admiral Adama, they are the same week after week.. While Tigh brought the one truly moving scene when he killed Ellen in season three, they spoiled it by making him a Cylon.., Now the pregancy of Six is the icing on the cake.. I no longer watch for content, I merely skim with my TIVO button..

This pretentious Canadian produced poop can't hold a candle to the old version. God, it's so depressing, gloomy,dark and dull. The old one was cheesy fun but I'm sure I'll get nasty responses from snotty little 19 year olds. What do they know about anything?

Two ever good points have been made. The first is season 3 was just plan horrid. It started off with the writers trying to use the show to send a message and then was like a bad crab cake- too much filler. The second point is that the Cylons were supposed to have a plan, its the middle of the last season and there no plan in sight.

However, the show is still the best thing on TV

It's jumped the shark for a while now in incredible slow motion. The main problem is so many of the episodes of seasons 3 and 4 are incredibly padded. Go back and watch Kobol's Last Gleaming and see how they could well combine soap & action at such a breakneck, movie-like pace, it was riveting. I enjoyed watching it several times to catch every little bit. Now, they talk and talk and talk and talk. It doesn't have to be all shoot-em-up action, but things do have to happen.