OT: So is Baltar a Cylon or not?

[michaelb]

I can't remember. Can anyone just answer the question or don't we know? I loved BSG, but the ending was a bit flat. I really didn't care about Baltar and had been hoping for a year or two they would just kill him off, so maybe that is why I never processed this detail.

[Mac-A-Matic]

Gaius Baltar was just a guy driven by his ego, greed and lust. His desire (and apparent love) for Six was enough for this ethically-challenged man to give away the Colonial secret codes that allowed the Cylons to launch their surprise attack, nearly wiping out human existence in a system far, far away, over 150,000 years ago.

Throughout the series, Baltar was just this man. A man of greed, lust and excess. A man who also was able to see what, essentially, were angels - or some sort of emissaries of the entity the Cylons believed as The One True God, or the collection of gods as worshipped by the Colonials.

At the end of the series, Baltar and Six went off on their own to form what we can guess is the basis of an agrarian community, based on Baltar being raised on a farm and taught farming by his farmer father.

Baltar was merely a man with whom God's angels, in form of Baltar and Six, appeared to, influenced and relied upon to protect the cylon hybrid child, Hera and deliver her to safety at the right moment.

As the angels said to Baltar at the end of the series, they would never see them again.

Baltar is not and never was a Cylon.

[kj4btkljv]

I liked the way they ended the story with Roslin and Adama. As far as I'm concerned, they could have stopped right there, and not gone into any of the "it's all happened before, and will all happen again" stuff.

Jeff

[honu]

Mac-A-Matic wrote:
...God's angels, in form of Baltar and Six, ...

A-ha! Therein lies my confusion. It was actually the angels being shown 150,000 years later as evidenced by the same outfits they've been wearing at each appearance. In this context, Baltar was merely a man indeed.

[Rolando]

The DVD has an extended by one hour version of the finale! It adds a little bit to the story. If they had ended with Galactica rising over the moon, that would have been great, but its ok as it was. Baltar didn't really betray anyone. He hired a spy who was really good at computers (duh!). Six betrayed him by doing her job. OTOH, he spent the rest of his life trying to save it, until he volunteered at the end!

[MGS_forgot_password]

Rolando wrote:
Baltar didn't really betray anyone.

You forgot the part where Baltar handed over the nuclear weapon to the Pegasus Six which she used to destroy several ships and signal to the Cylons the location of New Caprica.

[Rolando]

MGS_forgot_password wrote:
[quote=Rolando]
Baltar didn't really betray anyone.

You forgot the part where Baltar handed over the nuclear weapon to the Pegasus Six which she used to destroy several ships and signal to the Cylons the location of New Caprica.
Man I hate to admit I am wrong...but he gave a nuclear weapon, I forget why.