"Jump!"

So you're watching a fairly middle of the road BSG episode and then, salvaging the entire episode in the last 10 seconds they plug in the hybrid and she says "jump!" and they're gone, poof - like when Boomer capped Adama, I bet you weren't expecting that.

Then a week later you're watching another middle of the road BSG and afterward you read a blog post where they talk about all of the mile wide plot holes there were and you're all like "hey this guy's got a point - how did Starbuck get back to being CAG?" And maybe "In what universe does Lee get appointed President of the Colonies?"

Then continuing that line of thought you say to yourself, gee, and why didn't they just pull the plug on the hybrid and make a reciprocal jump?

And then, like Ripley with Newt, you've made a clean spot and you have to do the whole thing. So you're remembering the excellent sequence the prior week when the Base Star jumped in and nearly collided with all these other ships, and quietly you start to wonder, hey, how is it that the Galactica fleet ships don't collide with each other every time they make a jump. It doesn't look very organized.

But now you've done it. Speculation like that will lead you to stat to question why all the planets on Stargate or Star Trek speak English. And then your head will start to hurt. There must be a sci-fi writer's rule about introducing a problem as a problem that usually they just ignore as a problem - can't make post jump collisions a problem without their always having been a problem.

Now I guess in this case you could argue something along the lines of that the jump calculations take into account the size of the vessel and the space it is jumping into and since they were using a Raptor computer to jump a Base Star that whatever the allowances are for volume of space there were would be off by an order of magnitude.

Geek... geek... geek...

All season on BSG it has felt to me like they are laboring through piles and piles of exposition in order to get us properly lined up for the end. This is the sort of maneuvering that lets Cara come back to CAG, makes Apollo the President, and makes Adama turn his ship over to his XO moments after their having a fistfight over Tigh's fracking a cylon. Maybe these guys should have taken a cue from the people over at Lost and given themselves two seasons to wrap things up so they could take their time (although even with the full extra season Lost feels a little bit the same, but you have to grant them that as they have a few more things to resolve).

Or maybe they did it just fine. Not like I am going to stop watching. Admiral Tigh, gods.