What the Frack!

[YankeyMCC]

Ok I just watched last night's ep...I wont say anything but if you watched I think you know what I mean.

Funny thing is as I watched I felt like I was piecing a few things together as a theory about Starbuck's larger role. Now I don't know how they'll move forward with her story.

[BluePatriot]

1. Argh I sat there stunned for a while

Starbuck has evolved into my fave character so the show going into this direction...well...my SO was making fun of me a lot for being so involved with it, LOL.

[Touchdown]

2. I think this story line isn't over

I don't know where it's going, but I'm thinking something transcendental, or Mt. Olympus type involvement.

[Richard D]

3. Yeah,

Like you all said.

I'm stunned.

[Beetwasher]

4. I Don't Think She's Gone

I have a feeling she'll be back. I know it seems impossible but I have a feeling things aren't what they seem.

[Orrex]

5. Here's my guess

She winds up on a desolate planet with a vague wild-west theme, where she reprograms a semi-intert cylon to act as her companion and servant. This renaissance Cylon is destroyed tragically in the end, saving Starbuck from being slain by a team of conventional Cylons, and with its last utterances calling her its friend.




Sorry--haven't seen the show since the episode with the flying motorcycles. Or was it the one when the first-gen human-looking Cylons was carried of the edge of an Earth building by its silver-Cylon underling?

:evilgrin:

[Orrex]

9. Okay, so it wasn't screamingly funny, but...

Am I the only one who remembers those episodes?

:shrug:

[YankeyMCC]

10. :) Not at all I chuckled when I read your post too

I actually had a similar thought...wasn't there also an episode in the 1980 version where Starbuck was actually brought back from the dead or something like that.

[NewJeffCT]

12. wasn't the cylon a gunfighter in that episode?

Or, am I thinking of something else (Buck Rogers with Gil Gerard maybe?)

[Orrex]

13. No, you're right--and in fact I confused two episodes

The gunfighter episode was different from the one I was thinking of. The one I recall, IIRC, was told as a pseudo-flashback by some messianic child-figure in one of the later episodes (but prior to the Galactica reaching Earth). I remember one scene in which Starbuck, having taught his Cylon companion to play cards, then tried to cheat, and the Cylon called him on it. And then it gave him a lesson in grammar!

Honestly, I think that I really liked the episode, but I recall it so dimly that it may in fact have sucked royally.

[Richard D]

6. Ok . . .

. . . There are two possibilities I see for the resurrection of Starbuck.

Easiest one is that she's really a Cylon. That's just too easy.

Then there is the issue of her destiny. Just to die? Not a good story really.

So, what is that light she is looking up at just before the Raptor explodes? It's a physical light, most likely, because it's shining on her face. Eye of Jupiter as a worm-hole to earth?

Also, at about 38:20 there is a quick shot of her putting her hand on what looks like the ejection control (or a parking break, something I don't think Raptors are equipped with) . So my conjecture is that at the last moment, she ejects and is somehow tracked (homing device put in her on New Caprica or in the breeding hospital?) and is tracked and rescued by the Cylon ship she was tracking, and will meet her destiny as having something to do with the Cylons in a future episode. Or in ejecting, she is propelled through or into the Eye of Jupiter or whatever she was looking at in such bliss just before her ship exploded.

[Beetwasher]

7. Right

That's my thought, that there WAS a cylon ship she was tracking, she ejected and it picked her up.

[architect359]

8. After seeing this ep again...

...there was a briefest of view of the Cylon Raider and Lee saying "visual". At first I thought he meant seeing Starbuck's Viper but he just might have seen that Raider too before he's attention was re-focused onto Starbuck. If they make mention of this in the following episodes than we may have a chance that she was picked up after finally making up her mind to eject.

I just can't see Starbuck just killed off after being set up since season one as having a DESTINY that was implied to affect both civilizations.

[Xithras]

11. A couple of points.

First, she really is off the show for a while. Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) did a radio interview the other day where she mentioned that she is definitely off the show for now. She's still locked in under contract, but they have released her to do other projects. She just filmed the pilot for a new show on NBC, and she's working on a movie for Lifetime right now. Whatever Starbuck's ultimate fate may be, we apparently won't be seeing it for a while.

Second, the BSG writers have borrowed story concepts from the original BSG before, often rewriting them so heavily that they only vaguely resemble the original. Fans of the original story may remember the Ship of Lights, a ship controlled by godlike beings that had power over life and death, matter, and even time (there was a suggestion that they may have been the distant ancestors of the colonists). In the original BSG, it was the gods in the Ship of Lights that eventually provided the fleet with the coordinates to reach Earth.

People on other boards have brought up the possibility that BSG may be planning on re-using this concept. If you watch the story again, you'll see quite clearly that the person she was talking to wasn't a Cylon, AND that she was bathed in LIGHT as her ship hit the atmospheric hard deck.

I would suspect that she's being written out of the story for a while. If I had to guess, we'll be seeing a returned "pure and godlike" Kara Thrace returning at some point in the far future to save the fleet from destruction, or to lead them to their destination. I would imagine that her return will not happen until they're ready to complete the story arc.

Of course, maybe she's just a cylon. It's also been pointed out elsewhere that her mother was a soldier in the first Cylon War who was decorated for combat. It's possible that Kara herself is a human/Cylon hybrid, and that's why the Cylons are so interested in breeding her. If her mother was aware that Kara was the result of a cylon rape, it might explain her anger at Kara for being so "normal".

Then again, maybe she's just dead. BSG wouldn't be the first show to re-energize a storyline by killing off one of its main cast members.

[AnnieBW]

14. She'd better wake up in a Cylon Bathtub

All of that stuff about "finding her destiny" - and then she gets blown to smithereens? That bites!