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OK, upon thinking about it, I’ve decided that no matter how good the season finale two parter of BSG might be, RDM Effect is unavoidable. Look, no matter how they handle the Starbuck thing, it’s going to utterly reek of abject failure of imagination.

Here are the scenarios that could play out:

1. Starbuck appears at the end of the episode alive and well and says she really knows the way to earth and that this was her destiny all along. Based on what I’ve read, this is the most likely scenario. That’s just droll and unimaginative. Mysteriously back from the dead? What a played out drama cliché. You go through the task of killing her only for this? Whiskey, tango, foxtrot, over?
2. Starbuck wakes up in a vat of goo. Whoops, she’s one of the final five Cylons. It makes all the crap they’ve put her through all this time cheap. Besides, why pick such a fractured personality for a Cylon?
3. Starbuck stays dead as a post. That just says “well, we ran out of ideas on where we could take her. Sorry, Katee, but best of luck in the acting world!”

In all seriousness, people, there’s really nowhere to go with any of this but classic RDM Effect hell. The show barely escaped it last season, and we might just end up even deeper in it. Ugh.