On Starbuck remaining human — and alive, or
Have You Scriptwriters Completely Lost Your Minds??
postscript appended and reposted 5-6-2007 5:41 p.m.
original post 5-5-2007 11:56 p.m.

I heard a rumor the other day — afterwards seemingly 'confirmed' by reading online posts — that on of my favorite fcitional characters on SyFy's reboot of Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck, is the fifth and final previously unknown Cylon model. The fact that she appears to Apollo at the end of the season finale (or was he hallucinating, like Baltar the mad scientist?) is supposed to make the matter clear. I understand that even Ron Moore has confirmed this (forgive me for bringing it up at this late date, but I only recently saw a tape of the finale, not having functioning cable myself).

Another bombshell in a show loaded with them, you say. Nope: just a bomb, as in dud. In fact, for the first time since the series began, Moore has made a really dumb error (if, indeed, the rumor is true). How unexpected and disappointing that in searching for a final twist for the episode, he should go for a solution so trite, superfluous, and, if you think about it, predictable. He’d practically telegraphed it. Bo-ring …

How much more interesting, though, if poor Starbuck were to return and still remain human, only to be disbelieved. Feared. Spurned.