Been thinking a bit about how they’re going to handle this. I don’t think she’s going to wake up a cylon, but how about Starbuck being translated into a cylon… I mean, her consciousness being put into a cylon’s body?
Well, iTunes just downloaded the podcast for this (coming) Sunday’s episode - anyone want to listen to it and be spoiled?
Since watching this episode I’ve developed a theory. I can’t explain exactly why anything featured in the latest episode supports this theory; it’s more a sort of “feel”, a this-is-the-mindset-behind-this. If I’m right, the day will come when millions of tv screens will be smashed by hard heavy objects flung by outraged fans. Here it is:
“Earth” in the BSG universe is a sort of Shambhala, a mystic spiritual destination rather than a physical literal one. The thirteenth tribe, after being evicted from Kobol by the Gods, set out on a quest of redemption and were last seen vanishing into the clouds as they climbed Mount Olympus. The destination isn’t as important as the journey, we will “find Earth” in our hearts, blah-blah-blah…
They wouldn’t do this to us, would they?
I think I’ll furnish the living room with nerf ™ fixtures near the television.
Lumpy, I hope they don’t resolve it that way. Because that would be the worst kind of glurge. The colonists don’t want to find Earth just because they’d like to check out the scenery. They need to find Earth, because their living situation right now is precarious, to say the least. New Caprica didn’t work, obviously, but they still need to be on a solid planet with a food source, where people can move around freely.
To say that the journey (tooling around in space, being overworked, never getting direct sunlight) is more important than the destination (a planet where they can frakking live) is like the Christmas Shoes story: you can be poor as dirt in this life, but you’re getting your reward in the next, so be grateful and smile through your tears. Frak that.
I think that would be the ultimate cop out, and will be completely disgusted if that turns out to be the case.
That having been said, Rilchiam, you are aware that most religions on Earth tell people to bend over and take it because “you’ll get rewarded later”, right?
-Joe
It was late when I saw it, but it seemed to me that Lee had a “whoa” moment very shortly before Starbuck blew up.
I wish someone could confirm or deny for us. Maybe I’ll have time to rewatch the episode tomorrow.
-Joe
Yeah, I’m aware of it! And I hate the glurge it engenders.
I’m rewatching the scene now. We see SB diving into the cyclone thing, then we get a close up of Apollo visually searching for her. Next the camera shows us Apollo’s Viper with the Cylon heavy Raider right in front of him. Then SB’s Viper sorta swoops out of some clouds upwards towards the Raider, also in front of Apollo. He then radios “visual, visual! OK, Kara I’m coming to get you.” SB says, “Lee, I’ll see you on the other side.”
You know the rest.
Hello, lurker with a theory checking in.
I don’t think Starbuck’s raptor was destroyed when it reached the hard deck; I think it was transported elsewhere by the ancients, and the explosion we saw was the effect of passing through this wormhole.
There is a recurring theme in BSG of characters feeling a mystical calling which leads to important discoveries about the ancients, and some element of transportation/teleportation when it happens.
For instance:
Roslyn/Starbuck/Athena’s arrow
and
Chief/D’anna/the appearance of the ancients in the Temple of Five
So why couldn’t Starbuck have felt this calling to plunge into the maelstrom because that how she was going to find Earth?
What say you all?
I’d say that your examples don’t support a theory of teleport-transportation.
In the Temple of the Five, D’Anna was clearly still physically present with Baltar, while she experienced her vision/whatever of the Final Five.
As for the Temple of Athena on Kobol, you’d needed to have listened to Moore’s podcasts to know that it was intended as a kind of Kobolian holodeck. Rather than to have transported everyone inside to someplace else, it made things inside look as if they were all someplace else. The original idea was to have the Cylons attack and the holo-illusion dissolve under the assault, but they ran out of time and sfx money.
No real transportation, only apparent.
My WAG, and that’s mostly all it is although it might have been influenced by something I read somewhere so, is that Starbuck will be brought back somehow somewhere but maybe not permanently. RDM could be planning a Galactica 1980 homage where she reappears briefly and does something important before expiring for good. As Lemonbalm (welcome to the boards) suggests, possibly something that leads everyone to earth.
I still say she’s frakked her last throttle jockey. A one hour retrospective of all the naked and grunting Starbuck scenes would be a good way to make it up to us fans…
Dammit, Moore, either turn up the gain on those mikes or use subtitles, willya? I would have loved to get to know Romo better, but it was too damn much work trying to figure out what he was even saying.
Way too many lawyers and reporters have survived the attacks and the pioneering of the new planet and the occupation. We’re prolly gonna see the telephone sanitizers next at this rate. :rolleyes:
Doesn’t need to be.
A Viper, off-Dradis, disappears from sight for a while. Then, said ship reappears in the vicinity of a Heavy Raider, a ship that, as far as we know, is used strictly for transport.
Starbuck was boarded and abducted. That’s my guess and I’m sticking to it until we reach the last episode and she stays dead.
Last night was especially bad, but I’ve always had trouble understanding people on Galactica - the volume is always too low, IMO.
-Joe
Wrong thread. This is the one from last week.
Glad I’m not the only one. I pretty much put the CC on as a matter of course now.
[QUOTE=MerijeekStarbuck was boarded and abducted. [/QUOTE]
How the heck can you board a ship when there’s only room for an ejection seat?
