# 9 episodes into Battlestar Galactica - Does it get any better? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556 "2012-03-12T15:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/61 "2012-03-20T20:47:09Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > The boxing episode of Battlestar Galactica is just a big pile of stink. Yup. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/62 "2012-03-20T20:47:53Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > The boxing episode of Babylon 5, while retarded, is still worth watching for the B-story about Ivanova and the rabbi. The boxing episode of Battlestar Galactica is just a big pile of stink. Yes, and along with “The woman king” represented the impact of executive pressure to lay off the story arc a little and have self contained episodes a la Star Trek TNG. Of course the story arc was the best thing about BSG, so that produced stinkers like those episodes that served no purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/63 "2012-03-20T22:32:21Z")
I think that the BSG boxing episode is a little less irritating if you watch it with the thought in mind that, at long last, _someone is going to punch all these people who so richly deserve it straight in the face_. Because, seriously, just about everyone in that cast needed a big ol’ punch in the face. 'Cept maybe Dee. And the Doc, who was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/64 "2012-03-21T17:47:18Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > And the Doc, who was awesome. The same doc who openly smoked in sickbay and actually over his patients? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/65 "2012-03-21T17:55:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Yeah, I believe it concerned the security guy. You’re probably right. Been too long. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/66 "2012-03-21T18:09:12Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > It gets much better, then stumbles, then gets awesome, then gets worse, and the finale blows goats. Only the last half-hour or so - the prior bits were actually quite good, I thought. I mean, are you really saying thatGalactica ramming the Cylon colony whilst taking fire from all quartersblew goats? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/67 "2012-03-21T19:37:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think **Irishman** means that in the same sense that the _Highlander_ series inexplicably skipped straight from the original to _Highlander III_. Oh sweet fucking Christ. I’ve never seen the second one and after reading the plot summary on Wiki… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/68 "2012-03-21T21:21:50Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > The same doc who openly smoked in sickbay and actually over his patients? :dubious: Meh. So he gave Rosyln cancer, _again_. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/69 "2012-03-23T00:04:39Z")
I came back to say “the woman king? You think that was a bad episode? Are you people REALLY forgetting about the episode where the caprican doctor starts euthanizing people in galacticas cargo hold. That episode HAS to be the worst” …then I looked up the episode and realized that was The Woman King. Jesus that episode was shit. A big pile of dump. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/70 "2012-03-23T00:24:04Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > I came back to say “the woman king? You think that was a bad episode? Are you people REALLY forgetting about the episode where the caprican doctor starts euthanizing people in galacticas cargo hold. That episode HAS to be the worst” > …then I looked up the episode and realized that was The Woman King. Jesus that episode was shit. A big pile of dump. And again, to add insult to injury, added nothing to the wider storyline. You can not watch it and miss nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/71 "2012-03-23T01:58:57Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > And again, to add insult to injury, added nothing to the wider storyline. You can not watch it and miss nothing. Which is exactly why I spoiled the episode. Screw that episode. It doesn’t even deserve a spoiler box. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/72 "2012-03-23T05:24:34Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > The same doc who openly smoked in sickbay and actually over his patients? :dubious: Meh. I’m a notorious anti smoker, but I was still able to appreciate what BSG was doing narratively with the smoking. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556/73 "2012-03-23T18:23:39Z")
I’m still not sure if the smoking doctors in _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ was intentional irony or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-episodes-into-battlestar-galactica-does-it-get-any-better/615556.md?page=3)