Return of Starbuck


I liked the character so what happened to him? Basically he's marooned on that planet and dies of starvation/thirst? Not exactly a glamorous end to such a cool chatracter

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Galactica 1980 was canceled shortly before (or after- I can't remember exactly) this episode was aired. G80 is a different series; a sequel to the original BSG, which was rushed into production after the overwhelmingly negative backlash to its cancellation. But fear not for Starbuck! If the season had gone on, there was a script waiting that would have shown that Starbuck had been rescued by The Ship of Lights- after having proven himself worthy by sacrificing his own escape for that of the baby Dr. Zee's. He would've joined its crew and made at least another quest appearance- and maybe even more. There was even speculation that Richard Hatch may have joined him as Apollo in what appears to have been an attempt to reassemble the core cast of the show. Not that any of that would've helped G80 at that point...

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Wow, did not know this about the planned rescue of Starbuck.
Wish they had been able to get that one on the air because it seemed he just died on the planet.

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If you care to search for it on youtube, there is a video put together by a guy named battlestar1999 titled Battlestar Galactica: Judgement Day, which he adds a few scenes at the end about what happened to Starbuck. He made a few interesting vids that are pretty well done if you want to check them out.

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most overrated episode ever. also boring. don't know what people see in it

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Glad you prove by your comment the exact level of intelligence and deep understanding of exploring forbidden concepts like 'friendship between a human and a Cylon' you are able to muster.

You don't know how to write a complete sentence, your punctuation and grammar are wrong, you lack capitalization and can't even use the word 'I' when it's needed.

You don't say 'most overrated something', you say "This is the most overrated.."

On the same token, you can't just say 'also boring' - you need ty say 'It is also boring'. However, for better cohesiveness and coherence, you could've joined these irrational opinions, as in "This episode is both overrated and boring.'

No need to use hyperbole anyway, as 'Battlestar Galactica' isn't known for having many 'overrated' anything - if anything, people have insulted and put down this show quite a lot. Factually speaking, there are way more overrated episodes in other shows.

Is there a reason why you are unable to use some kind of definitive words in your half-baked almost-sentences? Instead of "don't know" (weirdly, you got the apostrophe right - must be auto-correction or something..), you should've said something like "I don't know".

Now, expressing your OWN ignorance as some kind of proof about something being bad is neither wise nor intelligent.

You could've also mentioned that you simply don't see what others see in it, instead of saying you don't KNOW what others see in it. Maybe if you had said you don't UNDERSTAND what others are seeing in it, it would've made more sense, but 'you don't KNOW' .. ah, sorry, "[some unspecified group OR you] don't KNOW' what others SEE ... it's just so incongruent and you could also so easily remedy lack of knowledge by GAINING knowledge - for example, by ASKING people.

Then you'd know. You would still not understand, but at least you'd know.

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Amidst your many errors, there's also your wrongful opinion, as it proves you are wrong in about as many ways as possible.

This happens to be an excellent episode - one of the few that ISN'T boring.

This episode is NOT about 'seeing' anyway - it's about FEELING. If you are a sociopath or psychopath (judging from your extremely short post that you STILL managed to cram full of grammatical, logical, structural and other errors coupled with extreme stupidity, I'd say the probability for that ranks higher than the likelihood you will misunderstand what I am saying), naturally you can't understand what others 'see' in it.

If something requires feeling, and people feel and thus understand, but you only look and still don't even see, it doesn't mean the episode is bad - it just means you experienced a WOOSH, and then embarrass yourself by publicly showing your ignorance and lack of understanding to the world. Congratulations, that's quite an achievement only made possible by a complete lack of self-awareness!

Is your name Karen by any chance?

In any case, I was surprised to actually have started to cry at the end of this episode, when I 'semi-casually' watched it today. I remember a family member I showed this to years ago praised this to be better than Star Trek episodes we had enjoyed earlier (that family member is a big fan of Star Trek).

If everyone else can experience something to be good, but you, that can't even stich the simplest english sentence together correctly, do not 'know what others see in it'... are you SURE the problem is in the episode, and not ... somewhere else?

I don't cry easily - usually I don't cry at all - so something has to be PRETTY gosh darn powerful and special to make me cry without me being even able to anticipate it. I know this is supposed to be a 'touching' episode, but I would never have thought I would start sobbing almost uncontrollably because of watching it almost in the background.

TL;DR? You are wrong.

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You don't know how to write a complete sentence, your punctuation and grammar are wrong, you lack capitalization

Your own posts and comments have plenty of examples of these, so how about getting off your high horse and sticking to the topic?

If OP thinks this episode is overrated and boring, they must not have watched any other episode.

Also, this topic belongs on this board: https://moviechat.org/tt0080221/Galactica-1980 (where there’s already a "what happend to starbuck" post)

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