That’s one theory out the airlock
I’d noticed, actually, that the podcast for “Islanded in a Stream of Stars” hadn’t come out after that episode had aired. Indeed, I only noticed that it had been added to my downloaded podcasts this morning. And while I haven’t listened to it yet for myself, the good people at TPR have done so…and apparently, Ron Moore puts a big kybosh on at least one avenue of fan speculation therein:
The podcast for Episode 417 (“Islanded in a Stream of Stars”) has been released finally and around the 34″ mark, Ron Moore addressed the persist rumors about Daniel by saying that not only is Daniel NOT Kara’s fathe nor does he have any role in the greater mythology. In essence, when Daniel’s line was eliminated by Cavil, it was completely ended and so all the theories swirling around that involve Daniel are wrong. From Ron Moore Podcast [So much for that neat fit to explain Kara. Now we have even less hope that there will be any more explanation over what Kara is. We still hope (though it iswaning) that the (false) rumors we posted to the spec section last week don't turn out to be more appealing than the actual finale.]
The nice thing about this is that it puts to death one particularly “eeeeew” rumour that I had reported on previously which would have had the show reveal that Gaius Baltar and Kara Thrace were, in fact, siblings by a common father, the last extant Daniel model.
Which, given this episode, would have been just gross. As in: “Luke and Leia, eat your hearts out,” gross.
So that danger is, at least, gone.
Still, several new questions open up in the wake of all of this. Daniel was a convenient means to tie Kara Thrace to the Final Five, by means of her father; if he wasn’t Daniel, who was he and how did he know the song that Samuel Anders claimed to have written? Who then is Kara, and what is the nature of her connection to the Cylons, and to Hera Agathon?
This final episode has a lot of ground to cover. I hope it is up to the challenge.
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I’d heard that, but hadn’t seen the direct reference to it, so thanks for that. I am quite relieved there will be no Luke and Leia moment.
I still think the Lords of Kobol are the head characters. Maybe one of them — the One Whose Name Cannot Be Spoke/OTG/Jealous God — might be working at cross-purposes from the rest. Or maybe that Lord is a kind of messenger for the other 11. I like this because it doesn’t introduce a whole new element and it fits with a re-imaging of the Beings of Light. Also, if it is the Kobolians then they’re not aliens, but an earlier version of Cylon (Moore said there would be no aliens).
We don’t know where the Kobolians come from (or who made them) or where they went. What if they are from our universe and have been communicating with the Colonials from there?
I’ll second that.
Mind you, now that I think about it, I don’t know if we’re out of the woods yet. Adama hasn’t called Kara his daughter in a while, and the reference in the last episode was alarmingly “out of the blue,” I thought. Especially since it also involved the “I know who you are” motif that we saw, previously, in Gaeta’s “confession scene” with Baltar.
C’est possible.
Were it me, I’d nominate Kara’s Head Leoben as the manifestation of the OTG.
I believe I mused about that possibility previously. Certainly, it would fit the recurring history motif that has defined the show’s backstory.
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