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The Return of Starbuck

posted 13 years ago by Camelot_2000
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I never cared for Galactica 1980 at all when it was first aired. It was good though seeing Dirk Benedict in his Starbuck role again for the last episode The Return of Starbuck.

I just didn't like the ending at all when the final scenes show him remaining marooned on that planet with no hope of escaping. That was a real bad fate for him. The show abruptly got cancelled right after that.

I find out years later though that had Galactica 1980 not been cancelled, there would've been a continuation on the Return of Starbuck episode and it would've showed him getting saved by the aliens with 'the ships of light'. I wished it could've been aired before the cancellation. By not having the continuation to the episode, it made it look like he was stranded on that lonely planet forever.

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[–] smarieru 13 years ago

It was obvious Angela was one of those people in the light ships, and would make sense with the super intelligent Dr. Zee being the baby. I have an audio tape of from the network broadcast of this episode, probably the original since I don't remember if cancelled series got summer repeats in those days. In it, after the pod has left, Angela reappears on the cliff face and says something like, "Father, I am ready to return. And I judge this mortal to be good, so very, very good." And she disappears. That sequence is missing from many recorded versions of the episode. I am planning to see soon if it's the version on Netflix.

So it would make perfect sense that Angela's people would go back and rescue Starbuck from a slow lonely death of cold and starvation.