Since playing the board game, not quite to death, but close, I've found it difficult watching the tv show without making board game references:

With last week's episode "That's what happens every time you take the admiralcy from me," and "So are they at fuel 0?"

The episode before "Morale's at 1, use a quorum card already."

And generally things like "Zarek shouldn't be able to do that, he can't act when there are other people in the room." "Don't you hate it when Roslin's player isn't willing to spend cards to actually DO anything?"

Sad, I know, but I'm hoping I'm not the only one. Anyone else been finding this?

I started watching the show because of the game, but not to this effect. That's funny!!

I commented to friends that Battlestar Galactica is the best TV show based on a Board Game ever made

I do keep pointing out that Adama is far too emotionally attached and laugh whenever someone gives an executive order.

Personally I've had the opposite experience. I love making jokes about the show during games and to me, that's half the fun. I already posted this joke earlier in the forum but I'll post it again anyway. I love playing as Helo and trying to free Boomer when she's is in the brig because when people ask me why I'm helping her I say "She's carrying....my child!" in an angry Canadian accented way. I also like telilng people to 'quit frakking around and do your job' when I'm Tigh or telling Apollo "You're the CAG... act like it" whenever I'm Adama.

Man, I love BSG, although season 3 and 4 were a lot weaker than the first two. Anyone else think the latest plot developments are happening a season too late? It seems to me like they're just trying to thin out the cast at this point.

Lol, my friends keep doing this as well. They hadn't seen the show until playing the game, so I've just been watching through Season 1 with them now, and yeah, a ship will blow up or something, and they'll be like "oh man, there goes a population!".

I've got players who haven't watched the show at all and don't know what we're saying (we're working on getting them to do it, honestly), some who aren't past season 3 and some who aren't past the first 4 episodes of season 4, so in the game we have to keep it spoiler-free. I guess it bleeds out into the few of us who are all caught up referencing it during the show.