Any time the writers have to "skip a year" in order to create gaps because they've run out of backstory? That's just bad writing. They lost it on me when that happened.

now with 4 side characters suddenly cylons? I'm just not buying it. it was shock value for its own sake, not because their world really needed it.

really, i have no interest in it at all. even in a made up sci-fi world, there's a level of "reality" and internal consistency that I expect, and BSG crossed that line.