March 7th, 2007
by Michael Swanberg
Spolier alert: Review of Battlestar Galactica episode “Maelstrom.”
Okay, so let me get this straight. The most beloved character on the show, Kara Thrace, or “Starbuck,” turns out to be this golden child, this person with a destiny. She turns out to have had precognitive visions that come out in her paintings. And then all at once we find that her destiny was to wig out and die?
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Okay, I trust Ron Moore and David Eick. Starbuck can’t be dead (can she?). There’s going to be more to this, I am certain. Isn’t there?
All her life, she saw herself as just a screwed up lilttle girl who grew up into a screwed up woman. Sure, she was the hottest stick in a Viper, but she believed that was her only redeeming quality. She was insubordinate, struck superior officers (which was how we were introduced to her), and spent as much time in the brig as she did in the cockpit.
So, all at once, she decides that she does have a destiny. But that destiny is to not be afraid of death and to just allow her Viper to fall into the gravity well of a gas giant and implode. Where’s the destiny in that?
Another question I want answered is about the heavy raider she saw and pursued. When Lee “Apollo” Adama finally found Starbuck in all the cloud cover, did we not see from his perspective that he also saw the raider? What about that? Lee didn’t even call it in to Galactica. Was it a shared delusion? Or was that Starbuck’s destiny, to safeguard the fleet by seeing the raider?
Too many questions, not enough answers. I won’t summarize the episode, you should go watch it. And let me know what you think.
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