Read this yesterday, but only caught the pun in the title this morning. Had me laughing.

The drinking never bothered me when watching it. I listened to the podcasts by Ron Moore that he released with each episode for a while and he talked a lot about pushing all of the boundaries into contradictions like Doc Cottle being a chain smoker, Starbuck being female etc.

One of those flip upside down moments that I thought was pretty stupid though was when on New Caprica the heroes start strapping explosives onto young freedom fighters chests...for what? I get we were at the height of the Iraq war when these aired and it gave a mirrored perspective on that war, but the stupidity! The population is down to 40,000 some odd lives and the best use of those lives is to deliver a bombs which only kills their own side? I could buy it if they were actually able to make some ground in the war, but there was no gain. The cylons were just downloaded into new bodies and slightly annoyed. Meanwhile the humans population was dwindling because of it.

Ron Moore did a superb job on the show at the start, but it became pretty apparent that he was beginning to flail around a lot in the last few seasons. He was making it up as he went and there was no plan. Yeah the cylons didn't actually have a plan either. The show opening was a lie.