Oh. Lord. Just caught up on the Galactica spoilers:
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Awesome. I'm TOTALLY sticking to my "the show is a black comedy" theory. Seriously, I was applauding while reading. And I know it'll piss lots of people off, but they are wrong, and I am right, because it makes me laugh and laugh. Neener.
And I'd read reactions elsewhere without the details of what they were reacting to, and they were very negative, so I was prepared for it to suck, but have I mentioned? AWESOME.
I feel so much better about everything. Because it's SO FUCKING FUNNY. Goddamn.
SO FUCKING FUNNY. Goddamn.
Dude, I saw your "off to hunt some spoilers" post in Boxed Set and started looking for you to pop up here. Hee!
Aw! It was killing me to not look sooner, especially after Jessica's posts were getting linked to in my normally-spoiler-free-haunts. Damn her!
Welcome to the dark side...
Uh oh. I read your post in Boxed Set, and started to advise you against being spoiled. Since I think characters matter more to you than they do to me. I guess that mostly I thought that you probably wouldn't like it, and that you wouldn't like it even more if you were spoiled for it in advance. But I wasn't sure.
But then I couldn't figure out how to warn you off without maybe giving things away, so I just killed the post.
Thanks for thinking of me. Thing is, I probably like BSG less than most of the people participating in the discussion here, so there's that. I was trying to hold onto suspense to make me care again, and it ended up feeling silly. Buffy? Angel? Firefly? I liked the punch of being unspoiled. Even Wonderfalls.
BSG falls into the middle ground of caring enough that spoilers are interesting, but caring little enough so that spoilers don't ruin a real good thing. Curiosity wins, and I feel okay with that.
If a Paris Hilton-type hero appears, perhaps Sylar will attack her and be stymied by the absence of a working brain to learn her power from?
Strega, I'm too spoiled to feel right posting this in thread about the post you made in the Boxed Set thread, so I'm importing part of it.
I am sorta in the camp that it'll turn out she's a Cylon. Because from the first "Starbuck dies" thing I saw, I thought, "Oh, so she's a Cylon, then. Heh." The tidbits from the podcasts do intrigue me, though. I would be fine with her being a Cylon; it would make sense to me. But I had a love/hate relationship with Starbuck so her death by itself doesn't do anything besides surprise me. That said, the episode was very moving, and she was fantastic in it, especially since I still felt kinda pole-axed by the ending despite the spoilage.
If she's a Cylon, that's kind of awesome. Maybe 50% awesome. If she's well and truly dead, that's TOTALLY awesome. If she's human and alive through some magic Starbuck power, that's negative 90% awesomeness, and I may just give up on the show since I've been off and on with it all season.
The more I think about it, the more I think Starbuck is going to turn out to be a Cylon-Human hybrid. I was thinking about the (not that well executed) triangle between her, Anders, and Apollo, and how she can't really let go of either of them, and how neither of them can really let go of her, and it makes the most sense to me.
Would that be deal breaker for you?
How about the rest of you?
I think Starbuck is going to turn out to be a Cylon-Human hybrid.
Maybe that's why her mum kept telling her she was special? Maybe her mum knew (fell in love with a Toaster during the first Cylon war, and after it was over, it/he left, and she was preggers. A classic war romance.)
