Letters to the Editor
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Not cool
If Starbuck is really dead and that's the end of her story, I may give up on the show. She is/was the largest single reason I became a fan.
She was genuinely interesting & tough & sexy & vulnerable & important to the tribe. I can't think of another woman character in teevee or film with those characteristics. Probably the [boyish] writers/producer don't have the balls to handle the woman they created - so they killed her off. Gutless wonders!
I also think the story structure is just bad. To kill off one of the main (flawed) heros in the story (via suicide no less) with plot development and backstory which takes place over a single episode - that's just bad writing. This is a series people watch for years. It's a shocking misjudgement.
I feel manipulated & I resent it. I also have lost trust in the writers. It seems like they're being dicks just to screw with us - to show us that they can. Or maybe the actress refused someone's couch, and this is the revenge play.
I read that the scene at the end where the Captain destroys the ship he's been building over the previous few years was improvised - he was so pissed off he let loose. And that ship was an antique that cost 100K. Too bad it was insured!