[crossposts added]
SPOILERS here for those who haven't seen BSG ep 4-03 yet
"upchuck721" <upchuck721@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:a4bb3642-0cad-4132-936a-e8621896356b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Apr 19, 12:52 pm, "KalElFan" <kalel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "upchuck721" <upchuck...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>>
news:7497f686-c52e-49d5-858e-eb9f970400e1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> > She's looking for a trinary star cluster with a gas giant. Earth has
>> > but one lonely star. I think she is looking for the cylon home world.
>> > That is my theory anyways. It kinda goes with the whole "do not
follow
>> > Kara; she will lead the human race to it's destruction" thing that
the
>> > hybrid said at the end of Razor.
>>
>> I assumed the "trinary star" system was a reference to the closest star
>> system to our Sun. It's commonly called Alpha Centauri but there are
>> actually three stars, Centauri A, B and C (the latter called Proxima
>> Centauri). The ringed gas giant Starbuck mentioned I took to mean
>> Saturn.
>
>If you take another look at Kara's hallucinations of that gas giant
>with the comet...
I've seen the one from last night's episode. Did we see that in ep 2?
> ... you will clearly see 2 stars right next to each other.
Yes, but the "trinary star" description obviously means there are 3.
Check the scale drawing with the Sun and the three Centauri stars
halfway down this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri
Proxima is actually the smallest, a red dwarf or "flare" star that
shoots out what Starbuck may have described as a comet.
It could also be that she was describing Proxima Centauri as
the gas giant, but I distinctly recall her saying it was ringed. So
again I took her to mean that she passed a ringed gas giant
planet, and then on her way further out saw this trinary star
system that fits Alpha Centauri A, B and C (Proxima Centauri).
I thought it was the writers' way of telling us that Starbuck had
indeed seen Earth and would know its generally vicinity if and
when she could find the trinary star system.
On a.b-g I don't read many posts but your original thread title
caught my eye. When I responded I thought for sure someone
would've already speculated that the Centauri system is what
Starbuck saw, but a quick search didn't yield anything. Maybe
I'm completely off base but it seems like a curious coincidence.
Never watched B5, but wasn't that set in the Centauri system?
Maybe it's a nod to that as well, like 1701D on the weapons
locker door in last night's ep was to Trek.
It's a great, great show and I don't care whether I'm right
that they're telling us Starbuck has indeed found Earth. I am
ticked they killed off Cally, but even that final shot looked a
bit like a tribute to the iconic space baby from 2001. Maybe
Cally is the fifth cylon and is being reborn in some way, to
be seen in a later episode. No resurrection ****p was in the
vicinity that we know of, but for the Final 5 maybe it works
differently. Maybe there's a cloaked one nearby or they all
have a built-in resurrection protocol or what not. :-)
There'd be something very cool about the fifth cylon reveal
being not just Cally, but by extension that two of the Final
Five cylons who didn't know they were that got married and
had a kid together. Cally's reaction to "waking up" a cylon
and realizing that would be priceless to watch too. I'm not
sure any other Final Cylon reveal would be as "priceless",
and unexpected (at least before last night's episode). All
the speculation seemed to be elsewhere.
|
