Amy Acker has a flair for that. She did the same thing on Person of Interest (as did Sharah Shahi).
Some of them, yes, but are you really saying that Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchel and Ken Leung shouldn’t have been on the show?
Okay, three great new cast members out of, what, thirty-seven?
Ditching Jool and adding Sikozu was a great move and I think a good course correction. I liked Sikouzu quite a bit. I find myself oddly entertained by Noranti as well.
I think you’re crossing two episodes.
In Galactica 1978 they came across a planet named “Terra” that was a fascist nazi analog, and looked and acted just like Earth where the Nazis won WWII, but that wasn’t the shining planet known as Earth.
In Galactica 1980 they found Earth in 1980* (and coincidentally it looked just like real 1980 Earth) in the first episode, but they bravely ran away because if they stayed, the Cylons would find them and destroy Earth. (And tell me, Adama, what would happen if the Cylons found Earth and you weren’t there?) They even had a “simulation” of Earth being devastated by Cylons, that must have burned their entire series budget.
*In the very last episode, Apollo and Starbuck found this old old communications room in the Galactica that everyone forgot about. They were listening to random noise, and figured they weren’t going to hear anything useful, so they left. And the very last scene was the radio picking up the Apollo (heh heh) 11 broadcast. Do the math: if the Galactica 1980 was what? 20 years after the original series, and they arrived on Earth in 1980, how exactly did they pick up a signal that was at minimum ten years in their future, hundreds of light-yarhens away? Must be the Ship of Light people doing magik. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Well, they did kill off Nikki and Paolo, so there’s that.