Caught up on BSG. Now what?

[learnedhand_dj]

I finally got around to watching the first half of season 4 of Battlestar Galactica. Seeing how the new eppies aren't starting until mid-January, I need a little something to tide me over until then. Do any of you know of any good post-4x10 BSG fanfic out there?

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[learnedhand_dj]

I watched the first episode back when it came out, and then watched the other 9 episodes over the last two nights. What I noticed wasn't the lack of things going on, but rather the lack of the non-essential episode. What I mean is that in most TV seasons, they don't do all arc, because that would be hard to keep up for 20 or 22 episodes. So, they have to throw in a few episodes that do nothing to advance the season arc, but are hopefully still interesting episodes. It seemed to me that each episode was an arc episode, with something going on each time.

The only time I had a "get on with it already" moment that I can recall was with the interim president search. I could tell from the very beginning that it was going to be Lee, and I didn't think that showing us the search process was necessary.

Watching episodes back to back like that does make a huge difference in someone's opinion of a show, I think. My brother actually liked Buffy's season 7, which he swears does very well when watched consecutively over several nights (which is how he originally watched it). He swears that what they were trying to do with the season is obvious when it was watched like that. Me, I can't see how watching the crap that was S7 closer together could make any difference, but obviously it does.