Battlestar Galactica returns from its hiatus with the second half of Season Three later this month, and the Chicago Tribune has an interview with Ron Moore and David Eck that indicates something major coming for Starbuck:
Speculation about a major character death has been rampant in the ?Battlestar Galactica? world of late. (By the way, don’t read further if you don’t want to know more about upcoming “Battlestar” plots.”)
Rumors abound that character will die in the second half of the Sci Fi drama?s third season, which kicks off Jan. 21. And much of the ?who will it be? speculation centers on hotshot pilot Kara ?Starbuck? Thrace.
In an exclusive interview, executive producers David Eick and Ron Moore say that a ?profound? event involving Starbuck does occur a pivotal Season 3 episode called ?Maelstrom? that is scheduled to air March 4. In fact, Moore says it ?will be one of the most surprising things that?s happened in the history of the show so far.?
What happens to Thrace ?will jump out and grab you,? Moore says.
The two also make clear that we may be on the verge of another major plot reshift:
There?s also speculation about whether during ?Maelstrom,? or some time around then, that Earth is found, or that there?s a major clue about where Earth is.
DE: ?Well, if you think about the end of Season 1 and the end of Season 2, both of those conclusions, both of those cliffhangers ? they weren?t just of the ?Who shot J.R.? ilk. They actually turned the storytelling in a new direction. Season 2 dealt with this new reality, that Sharon Valerii had been a Cylon in our midst all along. Season 3 dealt with a new reality, we?re now a year later and we?re an occupied people on a desolate planet. Those things were not inherent story elements to the prior seasons.
?So what we?re doing at the end of this year, which involves Kara Thrace and others, is [taking the storytelling] in a different and unique direction from what?s come before.?
So you?re setting up another radical reshift.
RM: ?That?s correct.?
DE: ?A reshift as radical as what we?ve done before.?
Everything that’s happened on this show has been so unexpected that it hardly seemed like it work at the time. Take, for example, the jump ahead in time by an entire year that happened at the end of last season. But it’s worked, and the show is, I think better than ever.
