pre-S2 - "It's like lots of relationships, you can't simplify it. There's nothing easy about it. They are indisputably attracted to each other. But it's latent. There's so much guilt for the dead brother and dead fiancé between them. Then arguably, she's more responsible for his death than anybody else, yet he blames his dad for it. Can they get together knowing there's the dead brother between them? That's really awkward.

And [Commander Adama] really really relies on her, she's like a daughter to him, he's close to her and Lee resents that. On the professional side, lee's a pretty damn good pilot, but [before this] he's never paid his dues. Starbuck is sort of the go-to officer to pull irons out of the fire. He's working hard to do his job, but he's sort of overshadowed by her.

But then at the end of the first season, when she sleeps with Baltar, he doesn't even know why he's so angry, why he has all these feelings about it. It's a great thing to play, it's not on the surface, it's not really vocalized. He has no idea how much he needs Starbuck and how much he feels for her."