what the frak is kara thrace?
So Mark Sheppard told me that Kara dies and doesn't come back, but something does. And nobody honestly knows what that something is. She's not a ghost because she's corporeal. She's not Cylon because we have all the Cylons.
I have various theories.
One, that she is half Cylon and that the missing 7 is her father. The artistic nature of 7, the way that he was boxed (thus leaving--although this presumably was way before Kara was born--then again her mother was in the first Cylon war), and Kara's father being very artistic (not to mention Kara herself) just straight-up lead me to be believe that 7 was her father for most of Season 4. (My parents, by the way, are adorable when they're watching this show. In 1.08 when she gets sent to interrogate Leoben they were like "It's her lover!" "It's her father!" "It's someone that she knows!" And I was like "Well, it's just a Cylon. Sorry." Love them.) At any rate, although half-Cylons can't resurrect (I imagine?) I just really felt like--since half-Cylons are such a huge deal--that she could easily be one of them. The Cylon-Human hybrids were obsessed with her. Leoben was obsessed with her. She thought she was a Cylon. She was married to a Cylon. I just... it would make so much sense to me if she were half Cylon. And she very well could be. The narrative gives us no answers. Oh, cult television. You will be the death of me. And the genesis of my Master's Paper. So I guess we're even. I will die in a fiery Viper explosion and my Master's Paper will be reincarnated from my ashes.
My other theory has to do with the way Six shows up and disappears in 1.07. Since nobody ever finds Six again on any of the ships I'm just dead convinced that Baltar conjured her up out of his own head. He had enough desire and willpower and strange conflicted emotions that Six actually became something physical that the others could see, hear, and feel. Only to then go back into his head. I don't know what you'd call her--an apparition, or a conjured spirit, or some kind of wishful thinking group hallucination? But I feel like Lee was in enough pain and conflicted enough and missed her enough that he could have conjured Kara the same way that Gaius conjured Six. Because she played out her role--the role that everyone else needed her to play. She led everyone to New Earth. And then she disappeared. And who did she disappear from? Lee Adama. Since they never explain Six and her disappearing (or appearing) act, and they never explain Kara's disappearing and appearing acts and they are both so painfully similar, this is the only conclusion that I can draw. And I'm just a fairly hopeless romantic to think that Lee's miserable angsty pain could conjure Kara back out of the ether.
I have various theories.
One, that she is half Cylon and that the missing 7 is her father. The artistic nature of 7, the way that he was boxed (thus leaving--although this presumably was way before Kara was born--then again her mother was in the first Cylon war), and Kara's father being very artistic (not to mention Kara herself) just straight-up lead me to be believe that 7 was her father for most of Season 4. (My parents, by the way, are adorable when they're watching this show. In 1.08 when she gets sent to interrogate Leoben they were like "It's her lover!" "It's her father!" "It's someone that she knows!" And I was like "Well, it's just a Cylon. Sorry." Love them.) At any rate, although half-Cylons can't resurrect (I imagine?) I just really felt like--since half-Cylons are such a huge deal--that she could easily be one of them. The Cylon-Human hybrids were obsessed with her. Leoben was obsessed with her. She thought she was a Cylon. She was married to a Cylon. I just... it would make so much sense to me if she were half Cylon. And she very well could be. The narrative gives us no answers. Oh, cult television. You will be the death of me. And the genesis of my Master's Paper. So I guess we're even. I will die in a fiery Viper explosion and my Master's Paper will be reincarnated from my ashes.
My other theory has to do with the way Six shows up and disappears in 1.07. Since nobody ever finds Six again on any of the ships I'm just dead convinced that Baltar conjured her up out of his own head. He had enough desire and willpower and strange conflicted emotions that Six actually became something physical that the others could see, hear, and feel. Only to then go back into his head. I don't know what you'd call her--an apparition, or a conjured spirit, or some kind of wishful thinking group hallucination? But I feel like Lee was in enough pain and conflicted enough and missed her enough that he could have conjured Kara the same way that Gaius conjured Six. Because she played out her role--the role that everyone else needed her to play. She led everyone to New Earth. And then she disappeared. And who did she disappear from? Lee Adama. Since they never explain Six and her disappearing (or appearing) act, and they never explain Kara's disappearing and appearing acts and they are both so painfully similar, this is the only conclusion that I can draw. And I'm just a fairly hopeless romantic to think that Lee's miserable angsty pain could conjure Kara back out of the ether.