Battlestar Galactica : Starbuck is a Cylon! January 22, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in Battlestar Galactica, battlestargalactica, scifi.trackback
NO I’M not 100% sure..but i just watched the first episode of the second half of season 3 (episode title “Rapture”)…which was a fine episode btw…and now Lucy Lawless’ cylon (D’eanna) has seen the final five cylons (before she gets whacked).
She nods and apologizes to one of them as though she has done them wrong - at first i though it must have been president roslyn but after seeing the last 5 minutes when Kara Thrace (Starbuck) apparently had visions of the eye of jupiter her whole life…well…nuff said she’s a cylon.
Doesn’t anyone wonder why she’s the ONLY ONE who can fly the cylon raider?
Doesn’t it seem like she can kick a litle more ass than she should be able to?
She’s the best pilot AND sniper,
Cylons seem to know an awful lot about her, almost as if maybe they actually made up all her memories and know about it.
Why was she seperated from the other baby machines in the farm episode?
I totally agree.But only one thing is against starbuck cylon beeing, is that cylon guy, what his face, kept her in that room, made experiences if she had a baby girl…so, I think its 99,9% she is cylon.
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This will resolve this question.
WARNING: SERIOUS SPOILER contained in this gag reel.
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Speculative Guess…
Herra and Starbuck
(Children born of with one human parent and one cylon…
at least that my 2cents
It was stated before Season 3 began that we would get the following:
- more glimpses inside the Cylon ships;
- better understanding of the Cylons; and
- the arrival of additional Cylons other then the usual 7.
There was speculation on that last one whether these would be the missing 5 Cylons or whether they would be the missing links between the Toasters and the Humaniod Cylons.
I think that Starbuck is one of the missing 5 Cylons and thus keeps the final BG S3 promise.
Starbuck is both a Cylon and a human. My theory is that we are dealing with an “original” AND a bunch of copies. When she went into the storm the first time, she was human Starbuck, and when she came back, she was a mentally tortured copy doomed to suicide. Kara Thrace spent a little too long in the Cylon med lab. They poked around her ovaries to try to make a hybrid, but I think they also restructured her DNA to make copies for later use. She’s both; a human version and a Cylon version. That’s why Leoben held her captive as his love slave. He wanted the original to love him; and that’s why the oracle said they were linked and he knew more about her (the copy) than she did. Wouldn’t it be so cool to watch the real Starbuck rage against her self anyway? That’s why we love her, right. She’s the tragic hero. I don’t think she’s one of the five though.
since it’s possible for lesbian a gay relationships to happen on the cylon communities…
Do you find it rather sick that there are only 6 other models to “date” if you willing to go both ways… and 7 if your willing to really go taboo.
Sick… just sick. But the thought… twins… is intriguing.
Nice
the story editors will do their best to conceal whos a cylon and not, and imo starbuck cannot be a cylon, as so is implied so many times in the show (above you made the points). we have to be shocked to know the ids of the final 5. like “the killer is the usher”
besides, i dont think cylons drink.
guys, i dont like starbuck myself, and i’ll love to see her as a cylon and gone thru the airlock, but unfortunately shes not a cylon.
i am.
Am I the only one who thinks Starbuck is a god? They want us to believe Cylon because there isn’t much other choice, but her destiny can’t be that obvious. Maybe I read too much into it…but when Kara became intrigued by the the little goddess statue and gave it to Adama to put as a figure head on his model ship, I belive it was more significant than that. Aurora: Goddess of the Dawn brings a morning star and a fair wind. A fresh start! When Kara was looking at her mom’s portfolio of her, there is a drawing which she made as a kid after she turns the page. It looks like it fills the description of the goddess. A star is behind her and squiggly lines everywhere for wind. I believe that is Kara’s special destiny. She will come back, but not as the cocky disobedient jock pilot. She will come back as a god and show them the way towards Earth. I bet the morning star is the Sun. Also we found out that it wasn’t Leoben at the end. He said that he was there to show her the space that hovers between life and death. Then a gust of wind blew on her before going back to the viper scene. So there you go peeps. She didn’t die. Yet she’s not alive.
…..OR I’M THINKING TOO MUCH INTO THIS AND SHE JUST DIED, BECAUSE AFTER ALL KATEE SACKOFF’S NAME DID NOT APPEAR IN THE OPENING CREDITS OF THE FOLLOWING EPISODE.
Starbuck may be a Cylon, but she isn’t the only one who knows how to fly a Cylon Raider. Isn’t that how Bulldog found his way back to Galactica?
She’s definitely a Cylon. She most certainly exploded with her Viper. And since the only characters who can die and then have brand new bodies are Cylons, SHE HAS TO BE A CYLON.
Seriously, how is there even doubt?
I agree with the god theroy or maybe an Angel(lightrider). The original had a type of this and I think were seeing a sort or reincarnation in the new series.
I think Kara is a hybrid like Hera. We never heard much about her dad. Maybe it is Saul Tigh. Or may be it is a whole different cylon played by Dirk Benedict.
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I reckon that Leoben is her father. And that she is the real first half human/cylon.
RDM and Katee Sackhoff have both said multiple times that Starbuck is NOT a Cylon nor is she a hallucination.
I think it’s too obvious to say she’s a cylon. I believe the makers want us to believe that. Ever think she might have used are emergency exit to get out of the viper before it exploded?
I think Andrea here is more in the right direction, towards believe Starbuck might actually be a god. Or the prophecies might not have been talking about Roslan being the dying leader who will lead them to earth, but about Starbuck seeming to be dying at the end of Maelstrom but then finding earth.
Season 4 will be the last season of BSG, let’s enjoy every minute of it!
ok - so lets spell this out. BSG is a real world Sci-Fi show - meaning. People are human. These are no super heros, no powers, starbuck isnt a god (and if they make her one i will be seriously disappointed with the makers of this wonderful show). The thing that makes this show a sci-fi show is the cylons. as we know cylons are the ONLY life form on this show that can come back to life. That is abundantly clear. Now - in regards to Kara i.e. Starbuck. She died. She had a mental breakdown suffered hallucinations and bit the big one in front of us all. Then she came back to life. Since the world they live in is comparable to ours and they have they same physical attributes as us, they are in fact human, it would make sense to say then, that the only way Kara could have come back to life is if she is a cylon. There is no other explanation. All 5 of the final cylons were revealed at the end of season 3. I cant believe there is even speculation that she wouldnt be.
^Incorrect. BSG has shown a number of “magical” elements - such as the prophecies, Roslin’s visions, Helo and Sharon having a baby.
Kara is NOT a Cylon. It’s way too obvious of a choice, and also the writers have said themselves that she is NOT a Cylon.
My best guess is that Starbuck is a Human/Cylon hybrid. Reasons that this would make some kind of sense are as follows:
- Tigh(who is a Cylon) could be Starbuck’s father. They have the same temperements, they’re both alcoholics. During one of Tigh’s flashbacks we see him with a woman just before he is re-instated as a Captain. For some reason I think that that was Starbuck’s mother, it would fit in with the time-frame.And it’s not really that hard to see Tigh having a one-night stand
- In the episoe “Maelstrom” Starbuck wake’s up from a bad dream at the same time as the half-human half-cylon baby,Hera.
If Starbuck was also a Human/Cylon hybrid it would mean that they have some kind of connection.
- If Starbuck truly was a Cylon/Human hybrid then it would explain why the Cylons have such an interest in her. And why at the start of season 2 when Starbuck is rescued from the farm, Athena says to Starbuck ” you’re different” and ” The Cylon’s Know about you”
Mabey I’m just looking into this way to much. I don’t care if Starbuck is a cylon or a hybrid or some kind of angelic being, I’m just glad she’s back.
Admiral Adama is the 5th of the final 5. What a twist that would be… Off topic abit, anyone noticed that the 13 tribe went to earth about 3000-4000 years ago. Recorded history here is only about 10,000 years give or take. We’d be like 6000 years or so in the past when the BSG arrives… just a thought.
You know how ,because of the writers strike, only 13 of the final 22 episodes are made right now? Well I just heard that the final 9 episodes might not be made at all, I know that all the contracts were signed and all but they think it’s going to be, as they put it, “cut short”. I hope to god that this is NOT true but they also said - quote- “until someone from the studio says otherwise, them’s the breaks”. Frack-ity frack frack frack. Tell me it ain’t so, I’m probably just over-reacting, but if it is the truth then I’m going to shoot somebody.
^ It ain’t so. Production has officially resumed. They intend to complete all 20 episodes.
Thank the gods. Anyway I have been doing some research and I now think that Laura Roslin is the final Cylon, and that Starbuck is some kind of ascended being, like the original Starbuck in the original series. Or mabey Baltar is the final Cylon, he was a Cylon in the original, but then again. Argh! So many questions.
And what makes it SOOOOOO much worse is that I don’t have the channel that Battlestar Galactica is showing on, which means that I’ll have to wait until it comes out on DVD, which could be in 2009.
I just can’t wait that long!
^ You could always use youtube. Are they still offering episodes on ipods?
Another point about Bulldog… in his episode you get some pretty clear evidence that the Three’s were directly involved in his detention and possibly torture…
If he’s the final cylon, I’ll be disappointed, because he seems so obvious.
I don’t know what you think, but Season 4 started very slow…not exactly right.
did u ever notice how they run out of food and water and everything else except booze? they all have full bottles of booze. i know so what but think about this………..
robot chicken bsg the search for booze. saul tighe would be hilarious in it. just lose frak and ill love the show.
seriously scifi all make up stupid ass curse words. u wanna say fuck say it not frak.
i say we ban frak, kriffing, and stang. asap
Well, it’s pretty much obvious now that Starbuck is NOT a Cylon.