On Apr 21, 8:26 pm, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Brad Templeton) wrote:
> In article <1v7q0455b8b7fp9869f2adf6qvvbkfe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Rob Jensen <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:01:45 -0500, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Brad
> >Templeton) wrote:
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> >>In article <flfo04d65oktn8aavs060mr2mrfu4nj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>Rob Jensen <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>The show has told us that Starbuck has been to Earth. TOLD us, not
> >>>shown us. She has maps of and around the vicinity of Earth and
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> >>Nope, it's shown us. We saw pictures she took of the moon and Earth.
> >>We saw a tracking shot to the real Earth. We saw pictures she took
> >>of the Zodiac above Earth.
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> >No, they haven't shown her in earth's orbit. We've seen the tracking
> >shot, we've seen her photos, we haven't actually seen her flying in
> >Earth's orbit. Everything is logical inference on the viewer's part,
> >but we *definitely* have NOT been shown that Starbuck has really been
> >to Earth.
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> >It's a Schroedinger's Cat sort of a situation. Until we actually see
> >Starbuck actually flying her Viper in Earth's orbit, we don't know if
> >the cat is alive (ie: Starbuck was actually there) or dead (whatever
> >force saved her may be frakking with her mind). So far, the pictures,
> >the spit-clean Viper, the pictures, the intercranial GPS device,
> >they're all different sides of the box holding the cat.
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> While I think this is a stretch, what makes it a _real_ stretch is how
> we were presented things -- a year ago.
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> Namely, Starbuck returns and says hi to Lee. She says she's been to
> Earth and will take the fleet there. He goes "holy frak."
>
> And then what happens next? The narrator's camera zooms out from the
> nebula, out of the galaxy, and back in at the same place to zoom in
> to the real Earth, the post 20th century Earth in fact. And then
> the closing credits roll.
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> It's hard, very hard, to interpret this as anything but the writer
> of the show telling us, "We're talking about the real Earth here, baby."
>
> For her to have gone to a fake Earth, all in her head, and them to
> immediately show us a zoom into the real Earth, well, it makes no
> dramatic sense. Add to that she comes back with photos of the real
> Zodiac, the moon and an admittedly indistinct cloud-flecked blue and
> white planet, and I rate it 99% she went to Earth and 1% it's all some
> trick. Yes, "magical" things happened here. But while Starbuck has
> a new viper, it is that new viper which she remembers taking the photos
> with, and from which Tigh extracted the photos we saw.
>
> I just can't seem much dramatic purpose to this theory of her visiting
> a fake Earth. What reason do you propose the writers would have for
> that?
It's clear that whoever abducted Starbuck did something to her mind.
She thinks only a few hours have passed, not 2 months. We also know
from the hybrid that she may be misleading the fleet. It *may* be
that there are factions among the final 5 or whatever cylons or forces
are manipulating her, just as major factions have developed among the
7 known models. One faction may not want the fleet to reach Earth.
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