Yeah, the one-year gap is where I think the show started it’s decline. The first couple seasons were awesome, but after New Caprica the show lost a lot of its charm.

By that point every character had done something pretty evil at one time or another, so I didn’t really like anyone that was still alive. The main characters were all getting married too, and they became boring afterward.

Any television characters getting married just makes them boring, especially the women, who lose all character and become passive nobodies. In BSG, for example, after New Caprica Cally became completely uninteresting, and by the time she died I was thinking “good riddance, at least Galen will be more interesting now.”