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Some BSG Speculations
Okay, so I understand that we the viewers are being led to the conclusion that Kara's fairly well dead, that she was in an unsurvivable situation.
Not that the producers haven't set up "unsurvivable" situations as cliffhangers and then revealed that the full elements of a rescue hadn't been disclosed in the next episode opening. But given the plot buildup we've been given, not just in this episode, and this season, it seems reasonable that we're not going to get a bait and switch this time.
So I'm still feeling relatively convinced that Ron D. Moore et al are playing with us when they tell us that Kara is not going to be back... but it has occurred to me just how they might be able to have their
Consider this: we've never been told in canon just how the skinjobs came about, why the Cylon God made them (or how the CG, itself, came about). I'd assumed that the skinjobs were some sort of biological engineering, much like the Raiders and the Centurions: not quite machines, not quite biological.
But this flies in the face of one canon fact that we know all too well: Cylon skinjobs are so very nearly identical to humans that it takes hellaciously fiddly testing to tell which is which. So we're not looking at easy explanations like radio (or other handwaving sensawunderiffic techie stuff) transponders in their brains. Whatever allows their consciousnesses to be transported back to the creche ships to be re-incarnated is some essence that I'll have to label spiritual for now.
But the very fuzziness of that fact gives me an evil thought. Maybe skinjobs weren't tinkered together on some biological workstation; maybe each of them started as humans with a Special Destiny because they were born with an atunement to whatever telepathic/spiritual/technological mechanism captures the "soul" of the individual Cylons and rebuilds their bodies again and again.
Maybe the reason that the final five skinjobs aren't known is because they haven't become Cylons yet. If I'm right, we'll see Starbuck waking up in a resurrection tank. We've seen one skinjob in effect become human. It stands to reason that thematically, seeing a human become a Cylon is going to be another essential plotline of this megastory.
That's why I think we'll see Starbuck again, but in a very different context. In fact, we may see a number of Karas as they keep Katee Sackhoff very busy.
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Okay, so the above is only my speculation, but I kind of like it, because I think the producers are just, well, sadistic enough to love being able to say that yes, Kara is dead, and yes, she's not a Cylon. Just because she's not technically a Cylon... yet. More like a potential-Cylon.
For those who remember the Angel series' last year, do you remember Illyria? I think in a sense, Starbuck will become BSG's (and Kara's) Illyria.
Or maybe I just really really want to see Katee Sackhoff get even more screen time, and it would really raise the angst-quotient to new and even weirder heights.
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I like your theory, and hope it's correct. Remember, she has a Destiny, and we haven't seen that played out yet.
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