Re: BSG+ Centauri A, B, C and Cally (was Re: Anyone else notice...)

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:26:53 -0500, btm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Brad
Templeton) wrote:

>In article <1v7q0455b8b7fp9869f2adf6qvvbkfekfp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Rob Jensen  <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:01:45 -0500, btm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Brad
>>Templeton) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <flfo04d65oktn8aavs060mr2mrfu4nj6pv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>Rob Jensen  <ShutUpRob@[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
>>>
>>>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.   
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>
>While I think this is a stretch, what makes it a _real_ stretch is how
>we were presented things -- a year ago.
>
>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.
>
>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?

To frak with our minds, obviously.  Again, without further information
to confirm the interpretation at the end of that episode, it's
Schroedinger's Cat.  

Or, dramaturgically speaking, in a show like this, there are
advantages to withholding judgment of what a scene means until, like,
it's been confirmed 8 ways to Sunday.  And we don't even have a second
source of proof within the narrative itself -- just what Kara *says.*

  -- Rob
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