Episode of the Moment: Battlestar Galactica "No Exit"

Previously on Max Discusses Battlestar Galactica: I don't like BSG. I generally find it painful to watch, but I've often watched it out of a feeling that I need to watch it because I am supposed to.

I recently rediscovered Psych, which is actually fun to watch, rather than teetering somewhere on the edge between painful make-work and dull, lackluster mediocrity. So I've skipped over the last few episodes. In reading analysis of the "rebellion episodes" I didn't feel like I missed much. After some goading by this weeks analysis it seemed that I might actually be interested in seeing Friday's episode. So I took a trip to the neighborhood Hulu and spooled up "No Exit"...

I have to admit that I actually enjoyed the episode. John Hodgeman had an interesting, brief cameo, and Dean Stockwell had some awesome, wonderful moments. I want to hear X-Rays, as well, my friend. I think it might even be classifiable as my favorite episode of the series, but that isn't saying much about the episode's quality so much as what I think about the rest of the series. In fact, this episode was a single bottled hour of so many of the flaws that I disparage in the show's pacing and storytelling. In fact, the episode is good in spite of the series as a whole, because it finally wrapped around to the point of having enough flaws with enough interesting performances in a single episode to qualify it, in my eyes, for B-grade, interesting schlock (so bad that it is good). It's only taken 4+ years to deliver an episode I could see myself watching a second time, although probably with a finger on the fast-forward button for some of it.

I feel ...