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His name is Dreilide Thrace. In German, “drei” means three. So the name is clearly* a reference to the Holy Trinity. So Starbuck – or her Dad, or possibly Daniel – is, like, some kind of figure that represents something in some kind of mythology, sort of.
kidding
And regarding Starbuck being the key, pianos have keys. LOTS of keys. So there you go – symbolized![/QUOTE]
well… ilide is basically Iliad which is the Homer* song about Trojans… Which is “pertaining to Ilios”.
Their last name is Thrace. And … I don’t know what Dre is…
Spouse also thought that Hera and Boomer are dead because they crashed into the Galactica, but I thought they just jumped. We’ll see next week, I guess.
This is one of my favorite episodes of the whole series. I love the Starbuck episodes, and this one is amazing. Just amazing. (Plus I love music and playing and emotional memories, etc etc)
The Chief/Boomer stuff broke my heart. This isn’t going to end well, not at all.
i haven’t had time to watch yet, and i have to leave for work soon. should i listen to the podcast even tho i haven’t seen it yet? AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH@!++7
I’m still in the middle of watching this episode but I was struck by something pretty intensely. The reconnecting of Chief and Boomer meant a lot to me. In life, there is so rarely an epilogue to relationships than end badly.
I’ve written before about how impacted I was as a little kid reading X-men comics when Colossus and Kitty Pryde broke up and only many years (in real world time) later they reconnected.
The concept of having someone be the center of your world, then disapear from it for a long time and then somehow finding each other again is, for me, one of the most profound human experiences. There are people in my life who i’ve been estranged from for years and I’d like nothing more than to reconnect with them, heal old hurts and move on.
This has always been a very personal thought for me and to see it played out so well on BSG tonight was frakking cool for me, again on a very personal level.
Not sure if anyone can relate to this but that’s what it meant to me.
We all have people in our lives that we wish we could make amends with but sometimes we have to deal with the fact that we never will but sometimes we get that chance to make things right and that is wonderful but rare…
I was recently able to get back in contact with my ex who is in her first year at a local communtiy college, We went out for coffe and were able to talk things out. She’s doing great and we both have someone else now…
I can say that the idea of healing that hurt was something that kept me up at night for awhile and to see that happen on the show even though it ended so sadly was a wonderful thing…
Nice to see someone else gets it! I guess it really is a universal experience after all. I have one person in my life, an ex who I treated pretty badly when we were together, who has refused to speak to me in 7 years. The thought that he thinks of me and hates me (or worse - feels nothing) is maybe the greatest regret of my life.
I know I’m getting way personal here but that’s how this show works on me! it’s almost like therapy haha.
I would have liked to have seen at least a scene or 2 of Hoshi reacting to Gaeta being killed. nothing over the top but just something to close that circle a bit.
Me and my ex have a slight age gap which made it hard for her when we started dating. She’s older then me by two years. Nothing big for some people but it was for her parents…They are part of the reason things got screwed up…
I’ll spare the drama but it was not good… So when she called me up I was so happy at the thought of putting things right. This show is a personal story on so many level’s which is why we watch!
and on yet another level, it shows us that we have much more in common than we have in opposing views. Race, sexuality, gender, culture, etc, are foils that wrap around a common human experience.
For example, you’re straight, I’m gay. We could allow that to divide us and assume we have nothing in common. Then we look at the theme we’re discussing tonight and realize we all share these core experiences and feelings, and the minor details that divide us are on the shallowest level of what we look like, who we bang, which gender we are, etc.
In the BSG world, it’s Cylons/humans realizing and how much they have in common - In ours, we see that we have infinitely more in common that we have that separates us.
Not round these parts…but we know that, it just feels pretty good to appreciate that fact every now and then.
I have had a few of these in recent years…people from my past resurfacing (thank you Facebook) that have opened a dialogue that has healed very old wounds. Friends. Ex-girlfriends…as I grow older I slowly begin to realize that we are all just people. Flawed. Insecure. Hopeful. Measured, and Divine.
Some of my favorite art, I feel like it was made specially with me in mind. The good stuff hits you like that.
Over this season, often while listening to GWC or reading the forum, I keep flashing back to your earlier comment about how awful it was to watch shows like Twin Peaks alone back in the pre-innernet day, then have a head full of ideas and WTF? questions, but not have any outlet to discuss.
Re: Hoshi reaction, I think the lack of it was more logistic than artistic. If I understand right, they had the season in the can, and THEN they did the webisodes, which introduced the Gaeta-Hoshi relationship. But, you’re absolutely right: In a perfect world, it would have been nice to see that play out, at least for a note or two.
There is something in the story of the show that echos true within us. Something we ALL are able to share no matter what.
It’s a human element in the story that we all get drawn into. Something that we love.
I highly doubt there will be another show like this for awhile. This is once in a life time. This is the most human drama I have had the joy of waching.
I’m damn happy I get to share it with the GWC.
Go ahead and laugh now…:o
Rgearding Daniel and Starbuck, it looks like we might find out what happened to Starbuck and her ressurection in the next episode. It should be an interesting revelation if she is indeed the daughter of Daniel. I’m curious if following Starbuck, who might be able to “hear the music,” is what the hybrid in the Basestar (during Razor) tried to warned them about - regarding Kara’s role as the harbinger of death.
As a Boomer fan, especially since Downloaded, I’m hoping she gets redeemed.
You want an example of how much this show can bring people together?
One day at school I was talking about the show with a friend while in line for lunch and suddenly this girl with the greenest eyes I have ever seen is telling me how much she loves Lee.
