That just goes to show, I only watched nuBSG on DVD I didn't have to wait for ages for the story to develop and didn't have to suffer mid season hiatuses.

I imagine this created a different perception of the show from people who had to go through all that.

I thought the whole thing from beginning to end was pretty much consistently good.

Sure some key episodes were better than others and characters like Bulldog and Boxey just vanished without any in series explanation but not having to suffer broadcast lag I could pretty much munch my way through all the story without feeling let down by any of the courses.

I felt the same way about Caprica (the pilot and the first half).

Now, when I revisited B5, a show I loved to bits at the time of broadcast, I was really finding myself noticing the pace dragging in key moments, bizarrely it was the so called fast-forward to insure a conclusion season four that was worst hit (Sheridan stayed down that hole in the ground for a hell of of an age and how long did Garibaldy have to wait before he could even meet his Martian employer let alone for what happened to happen).

The telepath war happened off screen (despite being a major plot point) and some of series five is almost unwatchably bad.

I was miffed when Crusade was canceled but that had been interfered with by sex and wrestling loving TNT so much that it hardly made sense sometimes.

In terms of story some people will not have liked Caprica in the same way that some people didn't like the direction that nuBSG went after season...(fill in blank) but the way SyFy showed it and promoted it there wasn't a chance for it to take off with the sort of people who would have liked it.

I keep reading reports of people who didn't even know the show existed until it was announced that it was being canceled or only found out about it when it came back for a couple of episodes last month.

Thanks for the link Ash.