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I think Starbuck's "funny how we're right back where we started" speech was an apology from the writers for that stupid affair with Lee Adama plotline.

More importantly, though, a sharp-eyed M noticed that when Lee finally gets a visual on Starbuck right before her ship explodes, there was a third ship present. We freezeframed (frozeframe?) it, and without a doubt there was a Cylon ship present. This camera wasn't showing Starbuck's perspective, so I am sure the ship was real. I don't think Lee noticed it, though I suppose at some point somebody will review his ship's visual record and spot it. My favorite theory right up until the end of the episode was that we were going to see Starbuck coming to in a regeneration tank, especially given not-Leoban's urging her to explore the space between death and what comes after (which is what Deanna was doing to find the lost five), but I suppose the Cylon ship could have grabbed her out of the air, since they pointedly showed her holding the seat ejector control just before the explosion.

So is Starbuck a Cylon, one of the lost five? It could explain her flying skills, and more notably her ability/willingness to fly the Cylon ship a couple of seasons ago. Or maybe Hera is not the first human-Cylon hybrid. Starbuck's (frakking insane) mother served in the first Cylon War, so there could have been an opportunity of some sort for her to get together with a Cylon, perhaps unknowingly as the colonists didn't know what the humanoid models of Cylons looked like until recently. She did say Starbuck was special and was guiding her towards something, even as she seemed to hate her. Maybe knowing her daughter was indestructible made it easier for her to slide into that horrific abuse.

Anyway, tormented Starbuck (my crush is back!) plus freaky religious stuff plus metaphysical Cylon babble makes me pleased, so I liked the episode quite a bit. I think it's very possible that most of the team's creative efforts have gone into these last few episodes of the season. We'll see, I suppose.

Had a lot of fun dancing last night. Great crowd (thanks, those of you who were in that crowd!), music I love, plenty of sleep the night before--I felt unstoppable :-) Tekitoi worked really well for veil and was a definite crowd-pleaser, something to reuse for sure! I don't hear people using Rachid Taha that often, I should give more of his stuff a listen and see what I can use. His newest album is a collection of classic Arabic songs; that could have a lot of potential for me, the songs I love with his nightclub-appropriate energy behind them...

Generally, I had a low key weekend but that was just what was needed. M and I spent a lot of time together, and I got some very satisfying yoga sessions in. I thought I had lost some flexibility over the last couple of weeks, but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself able to look at the ceiling most comfortably in cobra pose. We splurged on fancy cheese and fig preserves and rewatched The Peacekeeper Wars on Saturday. Yes, the weekend was that exciting!

And now it's Monday. I'm pretty much alone in the office today so I'll be able to catch up on some work at a relaxed pace. And probably eat too much chocolate while doing so, but something has to make up for the sleep deprivation and keep me awake!

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Last night's episode was frakkin' AMAZING.

I am sure that we'll see Starbuck back, but she'll have to decide if she's sticking with the humans (like Athena) or with the Cylons (Leoben might get a hard grip on her psyche).

It's not actually Leoben though--she said "You aren't Leoben" and he said "I never said I was." If he's one of the lost five, we don't know what their agenda is--I'm guessing it's not destruction of the human race, since they split off from the seven who do (or did) want to destroy the human race. She might end up following a third path altogether. I'm sure it will be exciting no matter what!

I definitely was going with the whole "she's one of the final five" ideas even before the ending, so I actually had no reaction whatsoever to her "death" because I thought the whole point of the episode was to bring her to that so she could be resurrected. I thought the idea was that she was meant to die (to be reborn) but that her mother's unresolved death was keeping her from it, yet that recurring desire was expressed in her destructive behavior.

I did briefly consider the Cylon War aspect (otherwise, why mention it?) but I didn't really pay attention to the complete absence of her father, so clearly that's significant too. I agree that her mother's behavior implies some kind of blame, and knowing that Starbuck is not quite human would have made it easier to apply the physical abuse.

I have some vague sense that the early human colonists and the final five have some kind of a relationship, even if that doesn't make sense chronologically.