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How do your reviews work?
Each Battlestar Galactica series is divided by season and a link to a page where each season is reviewed episode by episode is provided. Each episode review shows a screenshot, the season and episode number, the episode name, the original air date, my rating, a synopsis, a list of technical problems or unanswered questions, a list of interesting factoids, a list of remarkable scenes, and some commentary. You may also attach your own ratings, reviews, and commentary to mine.

How does your rating system work?
It is a scale from 0 to 10. An episode rated 10 would be one of the best episodes Battlestar Galactica has ever done. A rating of 5 would be average. A rating of 0 would be an exceptionally bad episode.

What's the deal with your average rating?
Battlestar Galactica in its various forms is television at its biggest extremes. BSG 1978 and especially BSG 1980 were exceptionally poorly done. The 2003 BSG reboot conversely is widely considered to be the best and most important science fiction show to be produced since Star Trek and is widely considered to have raised the bar of science fiction thus beginning third generation of science fiction. As such, my average rating for BSG 1978 and BSG 1980 is pretty low and my average rating for post BSG TOS is pretty high.

You're going to catch hell from TOS fans for your average rating.
Probably. But die hard fans of TOS largely don't seem to realize that first generation science fiction (pre ~1987) TV shows outside of Star Trek TOS largely failed to produce timeless stories. Too many elements of American popular culture bled into the writing, props, and overall style making BSG TOS vaguely ridiculous once it had been antiquated beyond a certain date. Star Trek TOS failed on this level in some ways as well, as did all first generation science fiction. But science fiction television has learned from these mistakes and second and third generation science fiction tries much harder to ignore American popular culture. The writers don't want their shows to be seen as vaguely ridiculous in a couple decades.

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