Comments on: Battlestar Galactica: What is Starbuck?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:40:29 +0000

I am more confused now than ever. Knowing that Ellen is the final cylon hasn’t cleared up anything? We don’t know if she’s dead or alive. And I can’t wrap my head around the Starbuck mystery at all.

By: AmyV

AmyV — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:53:00 +0000

Well, an interview in the Chicago Tribune should disabuse your wife of that notion:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/final-fifth-cylon-ellen-tigh-battlestar-galactica-dualla-dee-.html

By: BilltheCat

BilltheCat — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:46:36 +0000

My guess that Starbuck is a clone/hybrid is more based on the earlier sequence where she is kidnapped on Caprica.

(I truly enjoy this series but I find Starbuck terribly annoying. I think it’s foolish to pin so much of a great series to an actor with such little charisma and ability. She’s fine as an action hero – maybe – and that’s about it.

And, no, it’s not because she’s a woman. It’s because she doesn’t have any charisma. Dirk Benedict has more charisma in one of his toenails.)

Anyway, my wife insists that Ellen is not the final Cylon. I think they couldn’t have been clearer about it.

The bigger question than the true age of Starbuck is how the final five were re-activated some 2 or 3 thousand years later.

By: Rickey Henderson

Rickey Henderson — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:23:06 +0000

Yeah, the Starbuck thing is a mindfrak. Perhaps time travel is somehow involved here? That Adama line: “SIT DOWN CYLON” was intense. Great premiere.

By: Dube

Dube — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:11:21 +0000

Good post. Leoben backing away scared of Kara was the clincher, since all this time he’s been so obsessed with her! Everything points to her being a Cylon, but she’s not. I think she is the harbinger of death for the Cylons specifically, somehow… Good call about Razor and the blonde girl. I’ve wondered if that was connected to her somehow. Or maybe it was the human that Six is based on.