Reply #5: At the same time, though...

[Orrex]

I've never seen or read a post hoc "enemy origin story" that really added to the character(s). Every time they tell you how The Bad Guys came to be, they risk throwing Jake Lloyd all over the screen. If they're not extremely careful with Caprica, they'll fuck up both incarnations of BSG!


(Before someone suggests The Killing Joke as a rare example of a successful post hoc bad guy origin story, I remind the reader that The Joker himself speculated in that very book that the origin story told within it might not have been true!)