Comments on: Starbuck Paints Original Series Ship Of Lights?

By: James McGrath

James McGrath — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:12:22 +0000

Irrespective of whether that is the ship of lights, Starbuck’s return in a spotless white viper recalls the white uniform Apollo wears after being on that ship.

I don’t know if the final five are hybrids, but I think the story will end up being that humanity on earth are descended from both Cylons and humans.

All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again…

http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2008/04/bartlestar-theodica.html

By: Jaz

Jaz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:31:40 +0000

I agree Mindcrime – it’s a MAJOR clue. The angle was totally making it obvious, I agree. Unfortunately, I have no clue what it means.

I’ve been thinking that the final five are hybrids, not really cylons, not really human.

I’ll take the quarter bet that we’ll see a Ship of Lights theme either visually or in the plot lines.

By: jm

jm — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:51:48 +0000

I’ll preface by saying that I have no insider information in this case and these are simply my thoughts based on what everyone has seen. In fact most of you have probably seen and heard more than I since I only watch the RDM series and don’t listen to the podcasts.

I have never seen the original series – it was well before my time – but being a genre filmmaker and noting how they leverage and evolve the original material: I have theorized since the season III finale that Starbuck & the four Cylons are not Cylons but in fact the RDM version of whatever those “being of light” things were. Basically some kind of heavy hitters/big 5 for the humans or some variation of that idea. (No one agrees with me.)

Dramatically/story mechanics wise, it would be amazing if the four humans falsely think they are Cylons. Especially in Tori’s case in terms of the way she’s behaving and what has come to pass. The writing’s great either way, but that might have been my direction if I were writing the series picking it up at end of season 3. That would also mean we still have many more Cylons to discover.

Anyway I’m not giving up my not-a-Cylon theory until I see some of those fools wake up in goo baths with new bods kthanxbye!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:46:05 +0000

Her mysterious paintings just add to her overall hotness.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:51:34 +0000

In her vision the comet does look like a comet, not sure it really looks so much like the ship of lights. Need to see a screen shot to be sure though.

By: Mindcrime

Mindcrime — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:57:29 +0000

I for one believe it is ABSOLUTELY a clue. Look at the way it was shot. When she was lying in bed naked…they made sure to give us a LONG CLOSE look. They’ve never used that angle before. It’s a clue. Plus if you look closer…the ‘comet’ referred to above is ACTUALLY an orb of light.

My take? It’s probably either the cylon programmers…OR…the Lords of Kobol. Odds are that we’ll find out and soon however.

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:34:14 +0000

Didn’t RDM say at one point that he had no intention of redoing the ship of lights arc? (Of course, we know for a fact that just because he said something doesn’t mean he wouldn’t, and he could certainly have changed his mind.)

I’m not keen on introducing the ship of lights though… I’d rather not have any more Deus ex Machinas than we have to.

By: Armando

Armando — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:24:48 +0000

I was pointing this out with a friend of mine yesterday. I’d take the quarter bet and say that we’ll be seeing a ship of lights concept pan out before the series is over, though I hope to the Lords of Kobol that they pull it off in much better fashion than the original series ever did.

By: dxf

dxf — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:08:28 +0000

Suggestion, from a new-school fan who knows zilch about the old series: Maybe, for the podcast, a longer discussion of some of these next-level concepts and characters from the old show? Maybe with a call-in guest, like a listener who’s extra-well-versed in Original BSG (O-bs-G for short) lore?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:01:12 +0000

She is painting what she saw in a vision in the ep. Does anyone have a screen shot of that?

By: ninesixteen

ninesixteen — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:01 +0000

That one image certainly looks like the Ship of Lights…I also had noticed that one of the images was of a comet…Starbuck did mention that she remembered seeing a comet as well.