Welcome to the Awesome Battlestar Blog. This blog has been created to squash the unintelligible nerd babble that currently dominates the Battlestar blogosphere. It is by default therefore, not just a Battlestar blog, but an awesome Battlestar blog. The quality will subsequently be supported by viewers like you! This consequently is really going to be more of a discussion forum for the meeting of the minds (only great ones) to discuss between now and 2008 where the show will go, with some hopeful garnering of revelations provided in the two hour special this fall. So without further ado, let the fun begin! Please remember to be unruly and disrespectful while making your arguments, because any other approach will just make us part of the masses.
I’d like to open a proper can of worms by making the simple argument that Starbuck is a Cylon. While some have argued that in the season finale she’s but an imaginary figure in Lee’s head, I would argue to the contrary. The entire season built around this destiny that she was pursuing. We can conclude that this destiny was either A) Death or B) Cylon. I think death is a lame destiny and that the BSG writers are not lame. I’ve heard some interesting arguments about her back lighting up during sex – if anyone is going to argue this point, then I’ll require episode citation of when we see her in the act with her back exposed . . .(Side note – do people dating cylons religiously avoid doggy style?)
We have to assume that at some level, these final 5 have a lot to be revealed about them. One of the things we have yet to learn is what went wrong. We know that they’re not in service on the cylon side. Were they somehow flawed, or was this the result of some kind of internal politics over how to live with the humans. My feeling is that the final 5 had a more cooperative approach, hence we see the fierce loyalty of the four at the end of the season 3 finale. But their cylonocity itself stands to be debated. The point here is that Starbuck has found her destiny, which is to lead the humans to Earth. The problem of course is with her survival. I could’ve bought a wormhole theory, but her ship clearly exploded. What about an extension of the aforementioned theory: the five actual split off and represent a faction of separatists, living on Earth in great populations?
1 comment:
Call me The Erector.
So, all your "blog" proves is that you don't know how to watch television, follow stories, incorporate data into a logical and consistent worldview, or notice when a hot robot mama's entire spine is pulsing bright red, coincidentally the color your mother turns when i pump her furiously.
Starbuck is not a cylon, nor is Chief, nor is Tye. Sam and Indian Political Aide Lady (henceforth known as IPAL) are unknowns, although, to reference the doggie-styling problem that leon, willie, and i have discussed at length, you'd think Kara would notice sam's back glowing red whilst she entered him.
Here's the deal: if they're cylons, then "cylon" doesn't mean what we thought it meant, and some of the stated goals of the cylons, esp. the 6 in Gaius' head, don't mean shit.
And didn't Tye get tested for cylon blood in 1st season when Gaius was testing everyone?
Blogger Schlager obviously didn't think this through and that, dear friends, is the most disappointing of all.
I don't think they're cylons. I think those five are connected supernaturally and the show is going to flesh out the human side of the magic after taking us through some of the cylon mythos (like "projecting," that truth in death shit that Xena was doing, the poetry-spouting hybrids, and the monotheism and holy baby shit). Kara's place in the human, pantheonic, religion has to be separate from the cylon stuff b/c the ancient human religion is pre-cylon and the 12 colonies of Kobol are, presumably, also pre-cylon.
so, those five mean something else, something along the lines of roslyn's place in the story. especially since Chief has been at the center of religious stuff, anyway, like his parents being priests, he understands the symbols in the Temple, and he's really the mouthpiece for the common man's religion, and roslyn for the martyr-leader aspect.
Other theories:
everyone's a cylon in this universe; kara's alive because human beings, once they die, go get reincarnated on Earth, which is just one giant resurrection ship. I still think that Earth is probably the original planet and the 12 colonies of Kobol is some sort of propaganda.
Also, as discussed last night, there TOTALLY needs to be an AllToaster, some sentient network thing, a la matrix, that exists on the cylon homeworld or something.
Things that should be explained or seen by the end of the series:
1. Cylon's homeworld
2. how lovers routinely get trapped in each other's heads
3. who was caprica 6 speaking to at the very beginning of the first miniseries episode; she's been waiting for him or something and we never find out who
4. a superbaby of human origin explodes from Adama's forehead; her name is Athena and she looks just like jessica alba
5. fuck, new-boomer's name is athena, isn't it?
6. old-boomber and chief should hump again, or do something. that storyline went nowhere, and adama still hasn't faced the boomer that actually shot him
7. flashback episodes of Tye and Adama killing whatever the fuck they want to
8. MORE BULLDOG EPISODES!
9. Shatner. I don't really need to say anything else, except the only way this series ends well is when Adama, after having found Earth, lands the BSG near the Earth capitol and shakes the Earth King's hand: Archon Shatner warmly welcomes the humans back to Earth. THen adama and shatner make out as the sun sets and the screen fades to black as Pearl Jam's "Alive" crescendos.
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