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I just saw this article titled For 'Galactica's' Starbuck, a 'death' worse than her fate in LA Times. Frankly, I'm very disappointed at RDM and DE at the moment. If what this article is saying and hinting turn out to be right on the mark, Battlestar Galactica will loose some of my esteems. Not that I wish Starbuck and Katee to be off the show, but blowing up Starbuck like that and return her 3 episodes later saying she not only cheated death, but also found the promised land in the process is just too much for me to accept.
DE's words pretty much makes it official that Starbuck is not a cylon, thus closing the door on the only logical explanation for Starbuck's return IMHO. Also it's been stressed many times in the article that Starbuck the character will return, not just the actress who plays her. To me this can only mean Starbuck is morphing from her Top Gun-ish character into a Superman-ish character.
But what bothered me the most is the callous way RDM and DE played with fans emotions. Why are they so hell-bent on tricking the viewers? As a good story-teller, don't they want the viewers' understandings instead?!
"My goal was to mislead the audience into thinking Kara Thrace was a Cylon," Eick said. Being a Cylon, after all, would mean that there were many copies of her, and therefore Sackhoff could come back as a different version of Starbuck.
DE's words pretty much makes it official that Starbuck is not a cylon, thus closing the door on the only logical explanation for Starbuck's return IMHO. Also it's been stressed many times in the article that Starbuck the character will return, not just the actress who plays her. To me this can only mean Starbuck is morphing from her Top Gun-ish character into a Superman-ish character.
But what bothered me the most is the callous way RDM and DE played with fans emotions. Why are they so hell-bent on tricking the viewers? As a good story-teller, don't they want the viewers' understandings instead?!
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Yeah, that was particularly problematic in season 2, but in season 3 it seemed to me that rather than continuing to keep BSG on course as standing out from the crowd in the scifi genre, that he actually rather gave up and began to succumb to all the same cliches and gimmicks as everyone else. First, he took the Cylons from being "humanity's children" and turned them into an alien culture, then he took one of his central characters and yanked her completey out of the realm of reality. The show is becoming less and less like what he established in the mini-series, and more and more like just another installment in the Star Trek franchise.
But what I think is most damaging right now is that the fanbase now knows Ron Moore's limits. It used to be that we all felt that there was no topic or plot twist he wouldn't be bold enough to pursue if it was a realistic portrayal of the situation. {baby killings, banning abortion, suicide bombings!} Now we all know differently. In direct contradiction to all of his claims before season 3 aired, he wouldn't dare to be realistic with a death of one of his central characters. And when you can say of a writer, "he wouldn't dare"...that's NOT a good thing.
And I completely agree with you about the Ship of Lights possibility. The entire premise of the show is based upon a civilization in peril of extinction. Take away the peril...there's no suspense. How exciting can it be to watch Starbuck flying into combat now when you know she isn't risking anything?