then there's the amazingness and complexities of the relationships and the way the dialogue zings and zings and makes little squees of delight go off in two dozen different parts of your brain.

Exactly. I've spent a lot of time, since I've become familiar with the canon, digging out mirrors and playing in parallels, looking for the parts where so-and-so is a stand in for someone else and a reflection of yet another, and I watched this again and yeah, suddenly there were so many new and different things that tied knots and threads to each other. Interconnectivity always really gets me high.

even more incredible Connor was the second time around. And this is ME talking here.

ha, yeah, I didn't know you could find him more incredible. ;o)

There's nothing artificial in the way that VK and Phoenix and the guy who plays Baltar cry.

The thing is with all three of them that sometimes I think they are so truly *in* it that they have no idea their eyes are even filling.

But, I must say, Baltar crying does not get to me. It just makes me want to slap him around and tell him to buck the fuck up.

VK with the tears, I'd give him my kidneys if it would make him not be sad. And . . . that's kinda gross.