If you have been watching BSG, then this isn’t really a spoiler. All the clues have been there, so it is just a matter of connecting the dots. If you have not been keeping up with the show, or you just haven’t figured it out and are waiting for show to spell it all out, don’t read any further; or at least don’t bitch at me if you can’t stop yourself from reading.
Starbuck is the first Cylon-Human hybrid. She beat Hera by a couple of decades.
The clues:
Ever since she was a little girl, Starbuck has been drawing and painting something that looks very much like the pre-supernova that marked the way to earth.
Leoben has long sensed that there is something special about Starbuck, but he hasn’t known quite what it is.
Starbuck came back from the supposed grave. Oddly, she died in a storm on a planet they were exploring, and her body wound up on Earth a long way away; and nobody can call that ‘normal’.
Starbuck’s father taught her, as a little girl, the very song that united the ‘final five’ and restored their memory of being Cylon.
Starbuck spent almost an entire episode talking to someone who wasn’t there. Her father. Who can only be a Cylon:
Yes, Starbuck’s father is the ‘Thirteenth Cylon’, long separated from the ‘Twelve Cylons’ much the same way the Thirteenth Colony was removed from the Twelve Colonies. (All this has happened before, and will happen again…) Technically, he is referred to as the Seven, but the symmetry of him being the Thirteenth Cylon revealed to us is too meaningful to ignore. In Episode 15 of Season 4, it was revealed that the ‘final five’ helped the Cylons build eight humanoid Cylons. They referred to the missing Cylon model as “Daniel”. Daniel is described as artistic. Music is an Art. The amniotic fluid used to grow the Daniel copies was poisoned, and the DNA template was corrupted; but I think the original Danial escaped and lived as Starbuck’s father. At least, that is where he lived until Starbuck’s mom tried to make him give up music and he left.
So, where did he go after the split? I have an idea about that too. I think he moved on, and had at least one other child. At least one other Human-Cylon is out there. One that also has conversations with people who are not there, which was explained in Episode 16 as ‘Cylon Projection’. Yes, you guessed it: Baltar
Baltar was considered the genius of his generation, far smarter than other humans.
Baltar has mental conversations with a Caprica 6 Cylon who isn’t there, just like Starbuck.
Caprica 6, real and projected, feels that Baltar is special; much the same way Leoben feels about Starbuck.
Baltar and Starbuck are Human-Cylon hybrids. It’s the only thing that explains their strange experiences and maintains narrative consistency.
As further support of the link between Hera and Starbuck, as fellow half-breeds: Hera just happens to draw on a piece of paper the notes to the song that Starbuck’s dad is trying to coax from here memory as they sit at the piano. The very song that makes the Final Five come running over to her demanding to know where she learned it.
Oh, one more thing… That makes Baltar and Starbuck are half-brother/half-sister to each other.
Anyone want to bet a shot of scotch on it?
Very interesting theories!
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I actually did wonder about what made the two of them so unique.
Hmm… was thinking something similar with Starbuck, but not so sure on Baltar. In so many other ways, the two couldn’t be more different.
Only a few more episodes… and… then we’ll have to wait for a movie!
Good vs Evil siblings. Such a cliche that it hurts.
I’ve thought this for some time now myself.
I hope we’re right.
I’d love to be right about one of these things for a change.
By the way …
Starbuck and Baltar do not need to be similar at all.
Even siblings with the same parents are very different.
And what are the odds that Starbuck and Baltar have the same Mom.
Does Rosalyn project?
Could she be a Cylon too?
If this has all happened before and will all happen again.
Who’s to say that there isn’t Cylon DNA in the human genome period.
We’re all Cylons.
I mean they.
They are all Cylons.
(Dumb stupid blurring reality with fiction.)
– Duder
Damn it… I was SOOOOOOO wrong. But, then, I never expected a great science fiction show like this re-imaging of BattleStar Galactica to take such a complete fraking cop-out at the end.
Starbuck still doesn’t make sense: God did it!
Why does Rosalyn share a dream with the cylons: God did it!
Every loose thread: God did it!
Bah! That final episode soured the whole damn series for me.
-Chris
What about Starbuck and Baltar sleeping together in season one or two..can’t remember. That’s pretty gross….
To MB: Well, as you know, I was dead wrong. Apparently I was thinking too much, and not having enough faith in the divine…
Baltar had a father an old farmer, he is shown alive in one of the episodes, he liked farming not music… that pretty much spoils your Baltar theory, however, I thought myself Daniel could be Starbuck’s father, but it could not have been that way since it would have catastrophic consequences on the rest of the story line, since Hera then was not important and didn’t require saving…
Using real input from the series you can just say “it was in God’s plan” that Starbuck father played that song and Kara Thrace is in fact an angel which was merely given the tools to help human kind and the harbinger of death to the Cylons she took them to their end, since they could not reproduce and they didn’t know how to build another hub, even the ones that stayed on earth since they could only reproduce with a human being.
Also Kara vanished in the end of the series, unless this half Cylons can teleport your theory doesn’t fit, the facts.
Dude… Dude… Dude… Perhaps you didn’t notice that I wrote my post before the final episode was shown. I was speculating about the path of the show before they ruined it with the whole ‘God Did It’ finale. Frankly, that last episode spoiled the entire series for me. Throwing God into the story line lets them throw logic out the window and do whatever the hell they want, which is exactly what they did. Bastards.