Dr. Gaius Baltar, Cylon
The next human Cylon model is our very own Dr. Gaius Baltar. Now some of you may be thinking, "But he made a Cylon detector! Something in his programming would have stopped him from revealing his fellow Cylons." Remember that he changed the results of Boomer's test from a flashing red to the nice, bold green, telling her, "You couldn't be more human if you tried." Everyone passes his test, even though it is perfectly effective.
The first clue that he was a Cylon, or at least replaced by a Cylon occured at the beginning of the Mini-series, and re-occurs at the beginning of every episode. A nuclear explosion killed him. There's not much of a way for him to have survived. We see that Six shields him from the blast, but she isn't an impenetrable barrier from explosions and radiation. Helo has to have his radiation therapy or else he dies, and he didn't have the challenge of surviving a nuclear bomb.
If the obvious death of Dr. Baltar is not enough for you, what about Six? She lives inside his head and can be seen only by him, excepting, of course, the episode "Six Degrees of Separation". Not only does this cause moments of awkward and clever humor, it adds one more reason why Baltar is a Cylon. We know that when a human-Cylon dies, its consciousness is transferred to another body. Perhaps this version of the Baltar model has both his and Six's consciousness downloaded into the body.
The first clue that he was a Cylon, or at least replaced by a Cylon occured at the beginning of the Mini-series, and re-occurs at the beginning of every episode. A nuclear explosion killed him. There's not much of a way for him to have survived. We see that Six shields him from the blast, but she isn't an impenetrable barrier from explosions and radiation. Helo has to have his radiation therapy or else he dies, and he didn't have the challenge of surviving a nuclear bomb.
If the obvious death of Dr. Baltar is not enough for you, what about Six? She lives inside his head and can be seen only by him, excepting, of course, the episode "Six Degrees of Separation". Not only does this cause moments of awkward and clever humor, it adds one more reason why Baltar is a Cylon. We know that when a human-Cylon dies, its consciousness is transferred to another body. Perhaps this version of the Baltar model has both his and Six's consciousness downloaded into the body.
posted by (and Ernie) at 3:43 PM
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Agreed. It's getting pretty obvious now that he's some kind of deep-cover Cylon. The "our child" plot line cinches it.
Baltar wasn't subject to the most deleterious effects of the blast; only the shockwave that blew out the windows of his house. At his distance from the explosion he wouldn't have suffered from intense radiation nor was he on Caprica long enough to require the anti-radiation injections Helo did.
I've just started watching it because my friend mentioned how great sci-fi it is. And well, Baltar should have died if he was human because the whole shockwave would kill him and if not he would die very soon because of radiation. He was just too close to the center.
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