History YMMV / BattlestarGalacticaReimagined

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Caprica-Six's spine glowing while having sex with Baltar in the miniseries. This is never shown, much less referred to again, and it seems to go way beyond EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Plenty of moments for the viewers, but a humorous in-universe example occurs when Baltar sees Head Baltar and is clearly only restrained from ''wigging out'' by remembering he's in public.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:
** A few moments in the show might qualify as general NightmareFuel, but [[spoiler:Dualla's sudden, shocking and violent suicide after pretending to be happy]] will leave a mark on even the most well-adjusted.
** In season 4.0, [[spoiler: even though she was TheScrappy, Cally's death by airlock (in front of her son no less) is absolutely chilling.]] Even worse, [[spoiler: before Tory showed up, there was every indication that Cally planned to throw herself out the airlock, along with the aforementioned '''''infant''''' son. Let's repeat: a baby, being subjected to all the horrible things empty space does to you before killing you. Thankfully, the writers didn't take it that far; just dangling the possibility was horrifying enough.]]
** Being informed you and [[CloningBlues everyone like you]] will be [[HumanPopsicle boxed]] [[NeverSayDie indefinitely]].
** Finding out you're a Cylon [[DeepCoverAgent sleeper agent]].
** If you're even accused, possibly even [[KangarooCourt tried]] for treason, good [[PardonMyKlingon fracking]] luck.

** Season 3 - ''Storming New Caprica'', ''Someone to Trust'', ''Heeding the Call'', ''All Along the Watchtower''

** The final moments of the series finale. [[spoiler: Be nice to your robots, or the Cylon War will repeat again.]] Real subtle.

* TheWoobie: Many characters, but especially Boomer. Felix Gaeta is a good Woobie in season 4 after [[spoiler:losing his leg and singing]]. If Cally avoided Woobiedom, it's only through lack of screen-time -- what little she got tended towards the brutal. Or it could be because she was just an unpleasant person.
** Felix is [[spoiler: less of The Woobie when, motivated by his suffering, he spearheads a ''brutal'' mutiny. Then got a few decent Woobie points back right before he was executed.]]
** Felix is a woobie for the entire series. He's very rudely disillusioned by his then-hero, Baltar, by the latter's actions on New Caprica. He's the fleet navigator yet never even gets an official military promotion, unless you count the time when [[spoiler: Zarek]] promotes him [[spoiler: during the mutiny]], which may or may not have been official or legal. It's clear from his interview in D'Anna's documentary film that he dislikes his job and finds it very difficult to de-stress, and is something of an odd man out among his colleagues. In season 3, after [[spoiler:the fleet returns to Galatica, he is beaten and then almost executed by The Circle for being a collaborator, and is hated throughout the fleet until Chief clears his name]]. Outside of the webisodes he never had any romantic relationships or love interests. And in the webisodes, [[spoiler: his lover on New Caprica betrays him, making him think that she's getting prisoners released when in reality she's killing most of them]]. [[spoiler: The loss of his leg]] could have been prevented; plus, no one faces any consequences for what happened to Felix. After [[spoiler: he loses his leg]], he doesn't even get many visitors while in sick bay. Later on,[[spoiler: Dualla, who had been his friend, commits suicide right after talking to him]].

** Baltar gets the gold, Cavil gets the silver, D'Anna Biers gets the bronze.

** Baltar, Cavil, Zarek, and Three.

* AdultFear: And HOW in the miniseries. Number Six [[spoiler: walks up to a stranger in the street, fusses over a baby, picks it up and, when the mother turns away for a second, breaks the childs neck. And leaves it there for the mother to find.]]

* {{Anvilicious}}: While morally ambiguous enough to avoid being preachy, TheWarOnTerror subtext is far from subtle.

*** Let's not even go to the religious angle.

* TheChrisCarterEffect: It would be nice if the Cylons shared their plan with the writers. Or admitted if their plan has been totally derailed by now. Or how the lost Cylons became lost. Or what the significance of the Final Five were in the grand scheme of things. Or everything else.
** Somewhat turned on its head halfway through season four when it's suggested the 'plan' is [[spoiler: the final five's plan, not the significant seven's.]]
*** And the plan has finally been revealed a few episodes before the series ends. It turns out that there were ''two'' [[strike:plans]] vague sets of goals; [[spoiler: the Final Five were trying to break the CycleOfRevenge between humans and Cylons,]] and [[spoiler: John was out to convince the Final Five that humans weren't worth saving.]]
*** ''And'' then in the MadeForTVMovie ''The Plan'', it turns out that [[spoiler: at least one of the Number Ones/Cavils changed his mind as to what the plan should be.]]
* CompleteMonster: While [[spoiler:John Cavil]] is introduced as an amusing DeadpanSnarker, as the series goes on you come to learn what a twisted psychotic piece of work he truly is and you'll ''hate'' him for it which makes [[spoiler: his death all the more satisfying.]]
** Solidified in The Plan, as mentioned under MoralEventHorizon. [[spoiler:A child has been coming to, and generally getting shooed out of Cavil's chapel throughout the film. Cavil almost seems to be warming up to the kid... until he runs a knife through him. Cavil must ''really'' hate his name John, which the kid has the misfortune of sharing.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The BearMcCreary cover of ''All Along The Watchtower'', among others.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Baltar is an insufferable, irritating, self-proclaimed "genius", and is arguably one of the major villains for a couple of seasons, but still the ladies swoon over his macho stubble. In show as well given his successes. Though this is helped by him being amusing, oddly sympathetic despite his narcissism, hugely charismatic and genuinely a genius, if out of his depth in the circumstances he finds himself in. And mad.
** In the series finale, Baltar makes the leap from being DracoInLeatherPants to being a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass by being Horatius at the Bridge in his defense against the Cylon borders. Thus, he finally did something that, as Apollo demanded, didn't even indirectly benefit Gaius Baltar.
*** Aside from proving Apollo wrong, which has got to be satisfying on SOME level.

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: There should be a whole page dedicated to this. For example, Number Six comes in "blonde glasses-wearing secretary" and "brunette chains-and-leather hooker" versions in The Plan alone.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: A few moments in the show might qualify as general NightmareFuel, but [[spoiler:Dualla's sudden, shocking and violent suicide after pretending to be happy]] will leave a mark on even the most well-adjusted.
** In season 4.0, [[spoiler: even though she was TheScrappy, Cally's death by airlock (in front of her son no less) is absolutely chilling.]]
*** Even worse, [[spoiler: before Tory showed up, there was every indication that Cally planned to throw herself out the airlock, along with the aforementioned '''''infant''''' son. I repeat: a baby, being subjected to all the horrible things empty space does to you before killing you. Thankfully, the writers didn't take it that far; just dangling the posibility was horrifying enough.]]

* JerkassWoobie: While usually sympathetic and a protagonist, Kara Thrace can be a ''bitch.'' Her ability to be a [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdini]] rivals Baltar's at times.

* MagnificentBastard: Baltar, Cavil, Zarek, Three.
** Arguably Ron Moore for creating a kick-ass story arc that plays on human emotions like a piano (though due to self-admitted [[AssPull asspulls]] in tying up the series, YourMileageMayVary by the last episode).

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Tom Zarek crosses the horizon when he orders the Quorum killed.]]
** "John" pretty much ''lives'' on the far side of said horizon.
** [[spoiler: John recently got one more hit with The Plan, where he kills a young boy he'd been "befriending" up until then, all because he found friends to be too dangerous. The careless way he tosses the body aside just adds to the squicky bad-ness.]]

** Admiral Cain is clearly straddling the moral event horizon from the moment she first appears onscreen, but she crosses it fully when she [[spoiler: orders Athena, who is pregnant at the time, to be ''raped'' in order to get information about the resurrection ships out of her.]]
*** Chronologically speaking, she crosses it in flashback in ''Razor'' when she [[spoiler:executes her XO for insubordination when's merely trying to talk her out diving into a suicide mission. What's more, by this point we already know that she's ordered Gina raped as well--what's uncovered over the course of ''Razor'' is that Gina was the love of her life and she ordered her raped out of pure ''[[WomanScorned seething spite]]'']].
* MotiveDecay: Fans of Boomer complain that she has been derailed from being defiantly human to being upset by, but not stopping, the horrors of New Caprica to [[spoiler: attempted niece-infanticide]] to [[spoiler: siding with Cavil against the better elements of Cylon society]] without enough time devoted to what's going on in her head.
** For further annoyance: scenes about Boomer's motivations do exist, they were just deleted from the aired episodes.
** Well how much explanation do people need? This is a woman who's been seriously frakked by Fate.
*** Any would be nice? Her siding with P[[spoiler: Cavil]] was completely out of left field, and it was pretty much downhill from there.

* NightmareFuel: Plenty of moments for the viewers, but a humorous in-universe example occurs when Baltar sees Head Baltar and is clearly only restrained from ''wigging out'' by remembering he's in public.

* {{Squick}}: Ellen has (hate)sex with a Cavil in "Precipice". Gross enough. The squick ''really'' sets in in "No Exit", when we learn [[spoiler: that Ellen created Cavil in her father's image, and considered him as a son, making this all kinds of incestuous.]] Unlike Ellen, Cavil knew all along, perhaps proving that he's a CompleteMonster.

*** [[spoiler: The audience heard about the Cylons moving human corpses on the Twelve Colonies into massive incinerators after the attack. When we see it in The Plan, the physical image will be guaranteed to give you NightmareFuel, at the absolute least.]]
**** Human "corpses"? "Corpses" do not cry out for help en mass once it appears that the Cylons around them are dead.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: What several fans of the original think of this version, especially when a [[GenderFlip certain gender fact about Starbuck and Boomer]] first came to light.
** Being a show full of ongoing mysteries and major plot upheavals (some of them overt and flashy, some of them small but significant twists, some of them constituting games of Chicken with hype and fan expectation), the new version leaves itself frequently vulnerable to this criticism.

*** ''And'' then in the MadeForTVMovie ''The Plan'', it turns out that [[spoiler: at least one of the NumberOnes/Cavils changed his mind as to what the plan should be.]]

* CompleteMonster: While [[spoiler: Cavil]] is introduced as an amusing DeadpanSnarker, as the series goes on you come to learn what a twisted psychotic piece of work he truly is and you'll ''hate'' him for it which makes [[spoiler: his death all the more satisfying.]]

* CharacterDerailment: [[spoiler:Gaeta]] is a questionable example. He undergoes a lot of character development, but almost any time a major shift in his personality occurs, it is off screen and it is potentially questionable whether it should really have changed him that much. There is no question that he undergoes several very traumatic experiences, but he doesn't seem to logically progress through them.

** Felix is a woobie for the entire series. He's very rudely disillusioned by his then-hero, Baltar, by the latter's actions on New Caprica. He's the fleet navigator yet never even gets an official military promotion, unless you count the time when [[spoiler: Zarek]] promotes him [[spoiler: during the mutiny]], which may or may not have been official or legal. In season 3, after [[spoiler:the fleet returns to Galatica, he is beaten and then almost executed by The Circle for being a collaborator, and is hated throughout the fleet until Chief clears his name]]. Outside of the webisodes he never had any romantic relationships or love interests. And in the webisodes, [[spoiler: his lover on New Caprica betrays him, making him think that she's getting prisoners released when in reality she's killing most of them]]. [[spoiler: The loss of his leg]] could have been prevented; plus, no one faces any consequences for what happened to Felix. After [[spoiler: he loses his leg]], he doesn't even get many visitors while in sick bay. Later on,[[spoiler: Dualla, who had been his friend, commits suicide right after talking to him]].

* MagnificentBastard: Baltar, Cavil, Zarek.