[CaptainCrunch]

My thoughts

It was nice to get away from the human's bad everyone is flawed story board that they had locked themselves into lately. It was also nice to see that the show hadn't blown thier special effects budget, as the Viper seens were the best I've seen since the show started.

Starbuck jumped back into the forefront, as she went from being a screwup to a full born crazy. But they gave some underlying reasons for her behaviour as her mother a former marine, was basically a horrible mother who eventually sucumbed to cancer after driving her daughter who spent a lifetime trying to please her away.

Leobon made several appearances in her dreams and kept talking about not only her destiny but her fears.

We also saw the repeated use of the symbol that we had seen in the temple and in paintings, and Starbucks desparate attempts to push it away. We saw a huge storm in the shape of the symbol and Starbucks attempt to go into it before pulling away.

In the end Starbuck conquers her fears and flys into it following a Non-existant raider that if you think of it could have been a spirit guide.

Starbuck dies declaring that she's not afraid anymore and Apollo see's her ship explode.

Now there's only one of three ways thats she can come back. Whoops sorry four.

1) She's a cylon and will pop up again as a representation of one of the missing 5.

2) There really was a raider out there, and they picked her up and will use her as a way to bridge the gap to her humanity.

3) She's some sort of diety, and if you flash back to the original 70's series will return in the "Ship of Light"

4) She only returns in flashbacks

Some nice symbolism with the god statue that Adama was going to attach to the front of his ship model. could the statue represent Starbuck?

Looks like we start the Baltar trials next week, and I'm sure that the writers will make sure that we forget about Starbuck's death over the rest of the season so she can make a surprising return next year.