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Starbuck is too OTT
The Anders-Starbuck romance ruined it for me. Anders was ken doll macho and it never made sense why the two of them melted in each other's presence. It made me hear "writers" and see "actors" and I've had trouble with the series since then.
This is Katee Sackhoff playing Starbuck: loud, aggressive laughter (Ha HA!) and winking. That's it. She has the subtlety of a young David Caruso.
Still, the mini-series and first season were pitch perfect. There were good episodes in season two linked by episodes where you could almost hear the writers saying "oh, GREAT, what do we do now? Give the cylons a conscience? Worth a try."