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Tonight’s Episode of Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi channel “Someone to Watch Over Me” proved to be mostly about the enigma of Kara “Starbuck” Thrace (Katee Sackhoff). I was disappointed though that we really didn’t learn anything new about her. I began by wondering why Starbuck would cozy up to a character that we have never seen before. Little by little we come to understand that it is her father Dreilide Thrace.
Could Kara be a Cylon? Perhaps. Maybe she’s a clone. After all, she was in the Cylon medical facility at Delphi for quite some time where they removed an ovary. Who knows what else they did with her when she was there. Some speculate that she is Pythia. The same Pythia, cloned or somehow reborn, who returned to Kobol thousands of years ago to chronicle the original journey to Earth.
There also seems to be some relationship between the Final Five and Starbuck’s father. He taught her the Watchtower song when she was a child. The Watchtower song is what brought the Five back to each other and triggered their memories. So, somehow he is connected to Earth. Could Starbuck’s father be a Cylon? Does Starbuck have a head Cylon just like Baltar does? Or, perhaps Kara’s father is Number 7/Daniel, the model that Cavil (Dean Stockwell) permanently retired.
And what’s up with Hera? Obviously she holds some sort of key. She holds something of the final wrapping up scenes, since she knows the very song that ties all three, seemingly unrelated groups together, the Thraces, the Five, and Hera. Does she point the way since she is a Cylon/human love child? And what does Cavil want with her?
Now on to Boomer (Grace Park). I was sucked right in to her deception alongside Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas). I thought it was such a shame that they were going to kill Sharon/Boomer. After all, she had just risked her life to bring Ellen back. I was somewhat happy to see that she was going to get away, although I did not approve the methods Tyrol used to free her. What was he thinking? Where was she going to go anyway? He wasn’t thinking, he was not only sucked in by Sharon’s manipulations, but was also acting purely on emotion.
I soon came to realize just how evil Boomer was when she proceeded to get it on with Helo. Harsh for Athena, having to watch those two in action. I now find one of Sharon’s statements in Galactica’s brig very revealing, when she tells the Chief “The most important thing is that we both know who we are now.” I think she was really saying that she was on Brother Cavil’s side. One thing is for certain though; we now know that Brother Cavil must know where the fleet is, if Sharon is able to jump between the two at will. Uh oh.
I find it disappointing that we completely dropped Baltar (James Callus) and the crazy cult story line from this episode. It remains to be seen if that decision will be the right one.
There are so many questions left to answer and each episode seems to introduce new ones. I am left hoping that the final 3 episodes don’t turn into just a super long exposition fest, but BSG does not often disappoint.