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To: xm177e2
Haw! I've been on vacation this week, and yes, I saw 3 episodes of Galactica 1980 - they were "hiding from the humans" and "fighting the Nazis" and all that craziness. Phew! Whadda stinker!

BUT - one that I haven't seen, and would really like to, is the "Return of Starbuck" episode. Kinda wanted to see what happened to my favorite cigar-chomping, hard drinking womanizer from BSG:TOS.

14 posted on 01/14/2005 10:41:42 PM PST by FierceDraka ("I am not going to sit here, and listen to you BAD MOUTH the United States of America! Gentlemen!")
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To: FierceDraka
BUT - one that I haven't seen, and would really like to, is the "Return of Starbuck" episode. Kinda wanted to see what happened to my favorite cigar-chomping, hard drinking womanizer from BSG:TOS.

You've actually seen that episode already, and in a far better format. The BSG 80 episode is just a replay of the episode where Starbuck is stranded on a planet and rebuilds a cylon for companionship. The only difference is that it has a BSG 80 intro and outtro. It's supposed to explain the brainiac kid that the bearded Adama looks to for advice.
44 posted on 01/15/2005 2:48:51 PM PST by Thoro (I don't want a rolex watch already! Stop spamming me!)
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To: FierceDraka
BUT - one that I haven't seen, and would really like to, is the "Return of Starbuck" episode. Kinda wanted to see what happened to my favorite cigar-chomping, hard drinking womanizer from BSG:TOS.

That's one episode that I saw.

SPOILER ALERT -- turn away if you don't want to know what happened to Starbuck

After the battle, when he was left behind (because his engines were damaged), he crash-landed on a barren world. He found some Psilon(sp?) wreckage and re-activated a psilon warrior to keep him company.

Then I changed the channel.

When I came back, Starbuck was sort of married to this woman and they had a baby. I have no friggin' clue where she came from. Then Starbuck decides to load his wife & baby into a special escape pod that will take them back to Galactica HQ (he has to stay behind because he's too heavy). Three Psilon warriors approach to fight Starbuck, and Starbuck's Psilon (that he re-activated) dies killing them all. Then the escape pod flies away, but the woman is standing up on the cliff instead of in the pod, and she says some psuedo-religious babble about being an angel and how she was testing him and Starbuck turned out to be "so VERY good" or something like that (I can't tell if it was sexual innuendo).

So the baby is all alone in the pod and it flies off to rejoin the fleet. The fleet finds the baby, and apparently that's who the kid-commander is of the fleet... (the little kid who talks with Adama). And they know this story because it's what the kid tells Adama he was dreaming.

66 posted on 01/17/2005 3:41:00 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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