Richard indeed is not very knowledgable about the details of the series. You can forgive actors for not knowing these things, because to them it's a grinding job, but writers are another matter entirely. If you want to *write* you have to do your homework, and if that means sit down and watch the episodes again to get the details straight, so be it. Novelists can spend many long hours doing research on something to get the authenticity of a scene right, and sitting down to watch past episodes in order shouldn't be that taxing to their creative efforts.
The chief problem the commentary reveals is that Richard and company for years have been seeing only the cut theatrical version of the pilot, whereas most of us, through reruns (even edited ones) were always seeing the original version unfurl properly with scenes like the Starbuck-Athena one.
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