OT: BSG Discussion - Page 6

geoschmo · #51 March 8th, 2006, 10:56 AM

Baltar could just be crazy. He suggested as much when his "Mind 6" showed up originally. The more we see the more I suspect it's true.

TurinTurambar · #52 March 8th, 2006, 12:06 PM

So this elaborate story is all in his mind? And solely written to explain his eventual governance of the Cylons? I think not.

geoschmo · #53 March 8th, 2006, 03:02 PM

Who said Baltar will end up governing the Cylons? Was that in the spoilers somewhere?

Hunpecked · #54 March 8th, 2006, 04:02 PM

Black_Knyght: "Anybody else think that maybe this isn't a Cylon thing, but that someone, something, else is doing this ??? Some as yet unknown third party, perhaps ???"

Of course: the show's writers!

[Spoilers]

Seriously, though, the writers can pretty much make up whatever they want. A Cylon, for example, is supposedly anatomically indistinguishable from a human, yet he can transmit his entire "mind" elsewhere at the instant of death. Sharon/Eight can interface with human computers by sticking a probe up her forearm, but an X-ray apparently wouldn't reveal any connectors. The fact that Baltar has no detectable "chip" in his skull means nothing; Six might have extruded some of her artificial neurons into his brain (e.g. along the optic nerve) and "wired" him that way.

As for Caprica Six, her "Baltar" may be a psychological artifact resulting from a conflict between her programming and her experience. Creating a "mind" more or less as intricate as a human's is an incredibly complicated process; the Cylons may have failed miserably to forsee the consequences of direct interaction with humans. The only remedy may be Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

Incidentally, with Caprica Six and Eight going rogue and maybe contagious, the writers seem to be setting up a basis for peace between the Cylons and humans, and one possible ending for the current series.

Six of Twelve? Eight of Twelve? Why do I get the feeling that Jeri Ryan may guest star on a future Galactica episode?

Daynarr · #55 March 8th, 2006, 04:31 PM

Speaking of guest stars, what number was Lucy Lawless character in that episode where she played journalist interviewing Galactica crew?

Hunpecked · #56 March 8th, 2006, 08:22 PM

Number 3. As far as I'm concerned, the Cylons could have stopped right there.

Atrocities · #57 March 8th, 2006, 09:31 PM

I think its all just an illusion, a made up adventure designed to captivate audiances around the world with a story of human stuggle against impossible odds.

Suicide Junkie · #58 March 8th, 2006, 11:55 PM

Indeed.

At the end, we will discover that everybody is still hooked up to the matrix, and the Cylons just let the humans think that they had escaped, so that they don't really try to escape.

Will · #59 March 9th, 2006, 01:02 AM

Quote:

geoschmo said:
Who said Baltar will end up governing the Cylons? Was that in the spoilers somewhere?

From the original series, I believe. I don't remember if he got full control, but he did boss around quite a few chrome-domes.

Randallw · #60 March 9th, 2006, 02:12 AM

As far as I know in the original series he was originally executed after the Cylons had no further use for him, however they changed that soon after and he became a sort of advisor for the Imperious leader who was hunting the Galactica. That Imperious leader was destroyed, if I remember correctly its base star was ambushed on the surface of a planet, and he became the leader of the cylons hunting Galactica, with the help of Lucifer, a Cylon assistant.