Any form of television requires you to suspend your disbelief on some level, even if it’s something as simple as Eastenders or Coronation Street asking you to believe that they are filming inside a house when it’s actually just a couple of walls of a set, but sometimes it asks just a little bit too much.

I have a habit of coming in late to the party with various television shows, so it’s only natural that I’ve recently started watching the reboot of Battlestar Galactica, a critically acclaimed space opera that plays on themes highly relevant to the age of the war on terrorism.  It is worth noting that it is well deserving of this praise and is absolutely fantastic television.  There is just one bit at the begninning of season two that has caused me to perform a quick double take.

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