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Dear Battlestar Galactica writers: You do know that after tonight, you only have three episodes left, right? My humble opinion is that maybe we could start getting some answers.
[Play some spoilers with me.]
Starbuck
Our favorite crazy pilot is still seeing her own corpse in mirrors, dreams and the such, and that isn't helped by the monotony of sending out patrols to find habitable planets. That's fairly important, since the Cylon repairs can only buy Galactica a few more jumps.
Starbuck searches for answers, but the best she can get is wicked drunk, plus a drawing from Hera. Luckily for young miss Kara Thrace, the bar sports a piano player who mysteriously gets better when Starbuck suggests he learn to play. Yes, go on, remember that.
Starbuck befriends the Piano Man, which makes her flash back to learning piano from her father Dreilide. Another hint: Her father's one album, supplied by Helo, is titled "Live at the Helice Opera House." Hmmmm. Anyhoo, Piano Man is frustrated because he wants to compose a song, but has artist's block. Starbuck, meanwhile, seems to want to play but is blocked by anger (of course) at the way her father abandoned the family.
Piano Man, during a particularly difficult composition, suggests Starbuck play. Starbuck finds the drawing from Hera, which turns out to be notes, and she and Piano Man play "All Along the Watchtower," so strong and so loud that the Final Five (Minus Anders) are drawn to her. No points for guessing Piano Man was a vision of Dreilide all along. So, what's Starbuck again? A manifestation of Daniel?
Chief and Boomer
Sure, Boomer rescued Ellen Tigh, but the non-Final Five Cylons blame her for helping Cavill, so they ask Roslin to hand over the wayward Eight. They plan to hold a trial, but odds are Boomer will wind up dead. This doesn't sit well with Chief, who has been staring at other Eights and remembering Sharon Valerii.
Worse, when Chief visits Boomer at the brig, she somehow shoots him visions of the two of them in domestic bliss, complete with cute little daughter. Roslin warns Chief how well Boomer can manipulate others, but he insists she's good now. Uh-huh.
Driven to near madness, Chief conks a random Eight on the head and swaps her in the brig for Boomer. Living up to Roslin's expectations, Boomer beats up Athena and then fraks Helo, all part of a plan to abduct Hera and escape. Chief unwittingly helps, though he sure does feel bad about it, and in the process of jumping away, Boomer's Raptor tears a big freakin' hole in Galactica.
Worse, Roslin somehow senses Hera has gone and collapses. Oops!
So... The Cylons have Hera, and Starbuck is still Special, and we have three episodes to wrap up all this madness and find our human friends a new home. Anyone else confident all this can happen?
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haha i agree with you.
omg i totally think starbuck's dad was daniel and she herself is a hybrid. there's a lot about hera people don't understand or know yet. perhaps there was one incarnation of daniel that managed to survive and fall in love and marry someone.
everyone says hera is special. and, leoben always said kara was special. but both the cylons and humans are puzzled by hera. why would it be any different for starbuck?
but then there's that whole blood testing thing baltar did before so wouldn't it have picked up on something back then? i dunno. it's just what i've been thinking. i hadn't know anything about starbuck's poppa until today. but the fact that daniel is musical artistic, stardad was musical and artistic. i mean. the possibility is there!
that doesn't answer any questions though.
and i don't know why i was shocked by what boomer did. i just feel so bad for tyrol. he just wants to be in love and happy and the women just keep screwing him over. jeez. the poor man.
past what i just said i have no other theories. but i do think bsg is possibly the dying leader the prophecy mentions. unless rosilin is like dead or comatose and will pontificate more on another place they could go.
i still heart this show though.
i think that maybe they're leaving it all to the finale coz they want the finale to be HUGE!! as in the biggest event in science fiction television histor
I thought this was a great episode. Very internal, sure, but I don't need whizbang effects and such to enjoy this show.
I'm also of the opinion that Kara's dad is the missing Daniel/Number Seven. He probably left Kara and Socrata because he was killed by Cavil. It dovetails too closely to be a coincidence.
I am very psyched to see the remaining episodes. I can't wait to find out what Hera's significance is, the nature of the Head characters and the Opera House, and what the ultimate fate of the ragtag fleet is.
I like that they returned to the Starbuck storyline, but not liking how little information they supplied. As you said, they've got 3-4 episodes left, and they even added MORE questions on top of it.
I think we're supposed to believe Kara's father was Daniel; after all, he was a sensitive artist who mysteriously vanished that somehow knew the lyrics to the Final Five's anthem. As for the piano player tonight, while it was possibly a younger version of her father, it is also probably a "vision" like Head Six and/or one of this version of BSG's "Beings of Light", which might also be what Head Six is and the people that appeared to the Final Five before Earth got nuked.
Good comments above. I do wish it had been a little clearer what was going on with Starbuck, but this was such an emotional episode for her, Tyrol, Athena, and Helo. This has been an absolutely captivating season. The series has a kind of operatic tone right now, building steadily to a crescendo. I can't wait to see how it all comes together in the coming weeks.
LOST is answering more questions in its second-to-last SEASON than this show is in its last half season. I am still a fan but damn, stop with the stalling already!
I agree. They are dragging these last episodes out with very little being revealed. The last episode needs to be a biggie or there's going to be a lot of disappointed/****ed fans.
Isn't there plans for a movie? I am wondering if they wrote these last eps as more of a movie setup then a series wrapup.
Either that or they are going to end it like the Sopranos!
Ellen (talking to Starbuck): "You want to know what makes you special? Well..."
Both turn towards camera. Pause. Cut to black.
End.
Im sorry--but if they answered all of the questions today, what would we do tomorrow?
Hey - to all those folks who want their answers spoonfed to them NOW, right NOW -- I take it you don't want those last few episodes, right? Have you ever read a novel? Good writers don't give all the answers three chapters from the end, otherwise there's no point in telling those last 3 chapters.
I hope BSG doesn't give up the answers until the last 10 minutes of the finale and leaves a bunch of questions unanswered. The Prisoner did that and it's kept interest in that show going for the last 40 years.