Ron Moore Elaborates On Starbuck's Fate In Battlestar Galactica

Ron Moore Elaborates On Starbuck's Fate In Battlestar Galactica

Blast from the past here for all of our CBM BSG fans. If, like me, you wondered what the Hell/Heaven was going on with Starbuck(Katee Sackhoff) in the final episode of the series, creator Ron Moore finally comes clean..

By MarkCassidy - Jul 31, 2010 11:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: io9.com

In the final episode of Battlestar Galactica the surviving crew members find Earth. They go their seperate ways to plant stuff and multiply and what have you. Appolo and Starbuck stand and watch Commander Adama fly his ship away, then Appolo turns back to Starbuck, and she's gone! Earlier on in the season Starbuck "died" in the episode maelstrom, but reappeared at a later time, unable to explain what happened.

Was she an angel? A ghost? An hallucination? Well, I have my theory but whatever you have been thinking..keep on thinking it! Because although Moore does elaborate on his idea of what was supposed to have became of ol Kara Thrace, he still says that it should be a bit ambiguous..

She is what you want to think of her. It was left deliberately nebulous and vague. And I think she was a representative of an entity that didn't like to be called God, but everybody else talked about it in godlike terms. If you want to call her an angel, you could say that. She went through a resurrection story that was very Christlike. And you know, what are the implications of that? I felt, as I went into the finale, that the more I defined exactly what she was, the less interesting she became. And so I just made a choice to go out on a more ambiguous note, and to let people argue about it perpetually.

Well, there you are now! The final ep of BSG..and for some the entire last part of the season was seen as a bit of a disappointment(putting it mildly). For such a consistently brilliant show to go out on what seemed like a bit of a cop out ending angered a lot of fans. I actually didn't think it was all that bad. Sure I was disappointed, but I understand that , much like Lost, they wanted to go out giving us an emotional pay off rather than explaining everything. They could have did it better definitely, but it wasn't really anything bad enough to taint the show for me in any way(Billyblack I know you disagree!). So what do you guys think? Should that final be re watched and reassessed? Or did they really throw the S with BSG?



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MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 7/31/2010, 11:48 AM
seanxvito
seanxvito - 7/31/2010, 11:56 AM
i fully enjoyed BSG...i think it ended terrifically and the way that it should have. every story needs an ending...and let's be serious here...you can't necessarily just float around in space on a bunch of busted ass ships forever now can you?!? i just hope that Caprica can live up to the grandeur that was BSG b/c i always wondered how & what started the cylon war and exactly what happened during the war. i'd love to see Caprica go into that saga somehow.
TANKGIRL
TANKGIRL - 7/31/2010, 12:05 PM
BSG WAS FTW!!! AWESOME LOVED IT
Starlight
Starlight - 7/31/2010, 12:12 PM
BEST Futuristic/tech/sci-fi SHOW EVER !!!! I really miss it !!!
commanderhulk
commanderhulk - 7/31/2010, 12:15 PM
I really loved the new Battlestar Galactica and I found the ending really great, it meet all my expectations and surpassed them. It was excitting, fun, and tied up all the story lines and a sense that made sense and delt with the questions of mortality, our place in the universe, and it all has happened before. A great way to end a great show.

Now bring back Caprica.
CyberViking2000
CyberViking2000 - 7/31/2010, 12:17 PM
My all-time favourite BSG scene was when the Galactica was plummeting through the atmosphere of New Caprica to release their Vipers, and then jump away when it was metres above the ground.

Oh, and the overall special effects were awesome.
Talontd
Talontd - 7/31/2010, 12:19 PM
So Kara was God....WTF!?!?

I dunno, i'm a very logical person, so loose ends like this drive me nuts!!! The series itself was EPIC, the ending was...i don't wanna say "meh", but i definitely felt it didn't live up to the precedent that the series had previously established.

When I think of storytellers, i like to think that they know the beginning, the middle, and the end. Sure the way they get there is always going to take detours and such, but to find out that they were making it up as they were going is always a little disheartening to me.

Just my .02
Talontd
Talontd - 7/31/2010, 12:21 PM
BTW, Caprica rocks! I love it!
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 7/31/2010, 12:25 PM
Yeah I definitely got that feeling from it. No way they always had that ending in mind. I think Kara was whatever phantom Baltar and 6 were..representatives of The Gods/God. But y'know, that still sucks a bit! But what I disliked most about the ending was the way they all just buggered off away from one another..as if! These people that had shared so much are just gonna part ways once they reach salvation? We didn't even get a goodbye scene between Tigh and Adama:(
TANKGIRL
TANKGIRL - 7/31/2010, 12:28 PM
trica helfer and apolo rocks
Simonsonrules
Simonsonrules - 7/31/2010, 12:34 PM
@Ror: completely, completely agree about the ending. What bugged me about it was that they wanted us to think it was all premeditated. It was obvious by the 4th season that they had written themselves in circles and had no idea how to end the show. It wound up being just another morality lesson about how we should be careful with our robots, i.e. Terminator, sprinkled with some overwrought, "nebulous" God nonsense.

Incidentally, Tigh was the best part of that show IMO. In some of the interviews with the actor who played that role he was too damn funny for words.
SHO1138
SHO1138 - 7/31/2010, 12:35 PM

Go back and watch the show from the start. There are lots of clues as to where things ended up.
Simonsonrules
Simonsonrules - 7/31/2010, 12:35 PM
Tricia Helfer was hot, however.
queenofdisaster
queenofdisaster - 7/31/2010, 12:38 PM
Starbuck, Starbuck, Starbuck. I got so sick of that character by the end of the show. Ron Moore was completely obsessed with her.

My favourite part of the finale were Baltar and Six together. I loved that Gaius decided to go back to farming.

I really miss BSG!
SHO1138
SHO1138 - 7/31/2010, 12:42 PM
@ Simonsonrules "Tricia Helfer was hot, however."

Understatement of the century! ;)
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 7/31/2010, 2:46 PM
WTF I love Starbuck's!!!!! no I will miss the double chocolate chip Frap!!
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 7/31/2010, 2:50 PM
theangrytroll
theangrytroll - 7/31/2010, 4:01 PM
This show started off kinda weak, but by halfway through the second season it really turned around into an awesome show. I like the way it ended, leaving things open to interpretation. I don't think any different ending, with the audience been handed ALL the answers, would have worked. Just wasn't the way the show progressed.
DetBullock
DetBullock - 8/1/2010, 12:56 AM
Great series, and I liked the ending too.
This is the science fiction I like, not that insult to the very idea of SF that is the last Star Trek movie.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 8/1/2010, 3:04 AM
Sweet! :)
Vital
Vital - 8/1/2010, 9:49 AM
I can't seem to get into syfy channel tv shows, they seem so low budget and corny. I wish this wasn't the case :/
dancingmonkey08
dancingmonkey08 - 8/1/2010, 12:16 PM
I only watched the show recently, and I really enjoyed it. Tricia Helfer, Edward James Olmos, Katee Sackoff were awesome in it
ScarletSpidey
ScarletSpidey - 8/1/2010, 12:35 PM
Favorite show ever (well, bit of a tie actually w/ Six Feet Under) and I loved the finale and the whole last season.
Battleready73
Battleready73 - 8/1/2010, 1:13 PM
I'm a Dee/Lee fan. Hated the whole 4th season. I think they ran out of ideas. Starbuck wasn't my favorite I think her purpose should have been explained not left up to the imagination of the fans. They left it as if we get right we bad, if we get it wrong oh well. They're not the only one's. Shows just end now a days no big last show that ties into the series, no dramatic ending no nothing!
avengingson
avengingson - 8/1/2010, 4:15 PM
I thought the ending ruled.
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