Seven of Thirteen.

Of course, Thirteen is Olivia Wilde from House...sooo....okay...actually that's awesome.

Ha! This was like the MY DINNER WITH ANDRE episode of BSG?! They couldn't have SHOWN us all that CRAP they were talkin' in the first 3-4 episodes where NOTHING happened! Sheesh!

Also, at one point I realized I was yelling, "Fuck you Doc Cottle! Why are you cock blocking me? LET ANDERS TALK YOU DICK!"

So I had to take a time out.

best theory I've heard: Daniel is Starbuck's father

Here's a theory I just read that I really, really like.

The first thing I thought: "Daniel is Starbuck's Pops." I liked it. Good stuff. Kara is the first hybrid baby. Kara/Hera, it works, at least superficially, in the way that seems genius when you're buzzing off beers in a crowded theater as the episode is unfolding.

Read this theory over at the Penny Arcade forums: "The batch of Daniels was not in fact destroyed, but instead damaged and randomly mutated wildly. It's clear that Daniel was an artist that could perhaps be slightly prescient. Perhaps Starbuck, Baltar, and Roslin might all be different mutations of the Daniel line that survived, which was seeded by Ellen secretly, and all their collective visions are due to having the underlying Daniel programming."

I really, really like that.

And YES, I thought I was the only one who thought Stockwell was channelling classic Shatner in a couple of his little back-and-forths. Specifically the "GELATINOUS ORBS IN MY SKULL" argument. Which made me enjoy BSG even more: The BSG version of Captain Kirk is a shitty, mom-fucking genocidal drama queen who looks like Al from Quantum Leap.

I like seeing the Centurions be a bit more personified... When it turned its hand into an actual hand versus those scary ass claw things.... Pretty rad. Hopefully we get to see more shit like that in the Caprica series.

And, I guess the 5 can't mate with the 5, and the 7 (8?) can't mate with the 7 (8.), but if they hook up with a Cylon from the other generation it's all good? Maybe there's more to it? Dunno. I wonder if when a Cylon has a baby Cylon if it comes out the same every time... Like... You know...since they're robots and shit. Maybe that's why there's more than one Starbuck? I mean like... assuming there is more than one. ... Say... Every time a Daniel had a baby he just popped out a Starbuck? (If he was the daddy) That would explain the fact that there's more than one Starbuck even though there's no "line" of Starbucks? Naw. That sounds like fan fiction.

I need water.

Okay- so all the "humans" are really the cylons of the lords of kobol. They rebelled. Got kicked out to the colonies. Had their resurrection stuff taken away. The ones on earth create their own artificial slaves who wipe all but five of them out, because the five have figured out resurrection and they head off to warn the folks in the other colonies to knock off the whole creating artificial life thing. They are too late, the Five hang with the other colonists cylons and try to stop the war by teaching the cylons to be nice. But the new lifeforms they create lack mercy and John kills Daniel and banishes the original five to the colonies.

Thoughts:

So where does Starbuck fit in? Perhaps she is connected to the Lords of Kobol and the original "humans" who could resurrect?

The BSG itself is the "dying leader" of the fleet, since it is falling apart.

Daniel will be the son of Tigh and The Six. He is hidden inside the other cylons.

How will the "humans" react when they discover they are simply the artificial creations of another race?

Oh snap. I like that mutation theory. Maybe that's why the Cylon blood cleaned her cancer out?

I believe what they are talking about with the "sub-luminal speeds" bit is the idea that the closer you get to moving at the speed of light, the slower you would age. So to them their journey only took tens or hundreds of years, even though for the rest of the universe thousands of years had passed.

I guess it's a way of getting around the fact that these five (six? seven?) people have been on a road trip since basically bible times and yet haven't solved all their emotional issues through sheer process of elimination.

Oh yeah... I think I've seen too much CSI type shit where the detectives break out a blacklight and then they're like "BOOYAH. GLOWING JIZZ!"... Cause when Chief busted out the blacklight and the whole ship was glowing, I almost lost it, cuz that would have been a major load.

Um. Relativity or something.

I'm putting my money on Starbuck being either some version of Daniel or somehow related to him.

In a way, having a lot of these story elements spat at me at the last minute makes me feel sort of cheap, but I guess I'll just have a cigarette and leave the hotel room without complaining. Seems like they're definitely setting the stage for a final conflict.

And now we have a sort of Creator figure and a Lucifer figure, eh?

PS: If it's not Starbuck, then my money is on Akroyd, but I guess I'll go with the Potter kid, too, as long as he comes naked and brings the horse. Talk about a photographer with a sense of humor.

That's from Equus Will. The play.