Starbuck is Special
Oct. 3rd, 2005 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stThis was crossposted at Beyond_Insane and two yahoo groups. But I'll put it here, too. So we can discuss.
It occured to me while rewatching Home 2 why the Cylons might think Starbuck has a destiny. Why her ovaries might be more important to them than those of the other women they simply hooked up to baby making machines. Maybe they were going to hook Starbuck up later...but maybe it's genetic. Pregnant Sharon says at one point during home that "Whatever" Athena was she existed. And that got me thinking okay WHAT was she...an advanced being of some kind? And then I started thinking about the nature of so many of our myths...in them the Gods interact with mankind. Specifically...the Gods gift, curse or impregnate someone.
What if Starbuck's missing father is one of the Lords or Gods of Kobol? It would explain on some levels the brutality of her mother...because most of the mythical women were taken against their will...forced or more commonly tricked in some way into sleeping with the God...and many of the children had to be rescued from the situation later. It would also explain Starbuck's uncanny luck and the burdens she carries as well as some of her sexual appetites. In this scenario she would be more like a demi-god...more Hercules or Perseus than say...Apollo (son of Leta and the Swan...and why wasn't Adama's old Viper called "The Swan"...that would have been so very neat...uh...only to me? Okay!).
Anyway, if all of the Galactica humans have SOME influence (via genetics) from the Gods...Starbuck wouldn't be SO much better than anyone else...just enough to be Starbuck. And important to the whole cylon breeding program because...it is far better to have God dna than plain old human stock. This might even turn out to be why Sharon is helping Galactica escape...maybe some of the cylons hope that Earth has even closer ties to the Gods and better genetic material.
I should go write fic, huh? ;-D
What do you guys think?
Rae
It occured to me while rewatching Home 2 why the Cylons might think Starbuck has a destiny. Why her ovaries might be more important to them than those of the other women they simply hooked up to baby making machines. Maybe they were going to hook Starbuck up later...but maybe it's genetic. Pregnant Sharon says at one point during home that "Whatever" Athena was she existed. And that got me thinking okay WHAT was she...an advanced being of some kind? And then I started thinking about the nature of so many of our myths...in them the Gods interact with mankind. Specifically...the Gods gift, curse or impregnate someone.
What if Starbuck's missing father is one of the Lords or Gods of Kobol? It would explain on some levels the brutality of her mother...because most of the mythical women were taken against their will...forced or more commonly tricked in some way into sleeping with the God...and many of the children had to be rescued from the situation later. It would also explain Starbuck's uncanny luck and the burdens she carries as well as some of her sexual appetites. In this scenario she would be more like a demi-god...more Hercules or Perseus than say...Apollo (son of Leta and the Swan...and why wasn't Adama's old Viper called "The Swan"...that would have been so very neat...uh...only to me? Okay!).
Anyway, if all of the Galactica humans have SOME influence (via genetics) from the Gods...Starbuck wouldn't be SO much better than anyone else...just enough to be Starbuck. And important to the whole cylon breeding program because...it is far better to have God dna than plain old human stock. This might even turn out to be why Sharon is helping Galactica escape...maybe some of the cylons hope that Earth has even closer ties to the Gods and better genetic material.
I should go write fic, huh? ;-D
What do you guys think?
Rae