Comments on: Whither Starbuck?

by: Steven L. Taylor

Mon, 26 Mar 2025 21:13:59 +0000

I agree that BSG has been bad about presenting mysteries and then never solving them. Heroes, on the other hand, has done a good job of answering questions along the way while asking new ones.

One would hope that the next season (which may be the last, according to reports) of BSG we will have the answers to these nagging issues.

by: Kingdaddy

Mon, 26 Mar 2025 20:01:14 +0000

And, waddaya know, in the last minutes of the season finale…

I’m getting really impatient with BSG. Resolve some story lines already, dammit! I’m tired of ominous portents that fizzle (what’s the big deal with the hybrid baby?), mysteries that don’t get answered (to whom is Baltar talking, in his mind?), and plotlines that mysteriously stop (is there only one scientist capable of developing a Cylon detector?).

You can resolve some issues, while leaving other loose ends untied. This season started strong, with the Cylon occupation, peaked with the escape, and then went nowhere. (Much like the fleet, it seems.)

by: Eric j

Tue, 13 Mar 2025 13:27:22 +0000

I agree. I really hope that wasn’t it, not so much because I don’t want Starbuck to die, but because it was such a meaningless death, dramatically and thematically. As it stands her death was more “Tasha Yar” than “Wash.”