A Little Help From The BSG Crowd...

As some of you know, I'm making my way through the Battlestar Galactica series. I'm almost through Season 1 and I have loved it.

There's so many great things about this show - the writing is clever and unpredictable, the soundtrack is perfect and their use of "handheld" cinematography within a space series is brilliant and refreshing.

But one thing is bothering me and I'm trying to find out if it is common practice within the series or something specific to the DVDs. So far, each show has opened with a brief recap ("last time, on BSG...") then an opening scene or two to setup the episode and then a standard intro. The intro starts off as slow recap of the premise...superimposing texts over images and to let folks know how the whole thing got started.

BUT THEN...the music jumps pace and a massive drum outburst accompanies a fast-paced montage. The only problem is that the montage is made up of scenes from the show you're about to watch! Which means that if you watch the whole intro, you're going to see a snippet or two that's coming up. So far, this has ruined a couple of good surprises for me personally.

Can anyone who watches in primetime answer this for me? Do all the shows run that montage preview just before the actual show starts? Or is it something new on the Season DVDs?

And if it's standard practice, does it bug anybody else? Not that it's a big deal, it just seems like a weird move for a show to make.