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Originally Posted by spronk

As with anything where the authors don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end preplanned a lot of the stuff is never going to make sense. The "glowing spinal columns", how Baltar survives the blast, is there a working cylon detector or not, the particle system that "melts" cylon brains (early episode on a resupply station), etc, etc are all stuff that seems convenient and fun at the time but make later episodes bizzare. And trying to retcon that stuff back in makes things even worse, so a lot of it gets ignored or explained in dumb ways.

In many ways I think the BBC has it right - BSG, Lost, Heroes, etc would have been vastly better shows IMO if they were 6-8 episodes per season and only 2-3 seasons long. So much filler, so much continuity issues.

They cylon detector 'worked' when Baltar used it on Sharon. IIRC at that point he lied to her about the result and then made a decision that it would never actually detect any cylons, so it basically became a non-player after that point because no one (except maybe Gaeta) would have been smart enough to figure it out.