Jeremiah Tolbert

Wow, was there a really big rev­e­la­tion tonight, or am I read­ing too much into things?

The cru­cial thing in this episode for me was Baltar get­ting the shit knocked out of him by that sol­dier, and the Six in his mind haul­ing him up and forc­ing him to take more of a beat­ing. The first time she does so, we get a shot of Baltar alone and he looks con­ceiv­ably as if he’s doing it himself–pulling a Fight Club so to speak.

But that sec­ond time, we get a shot of a clearly dan­gling Baltar. His knees are bent, and when he moves, it’s com­pletely unnat­ural. The Six in his head appears to be an actual entity that can inter­act with the world.

The ques­tion of the Baltar-​​in-​​head and Six-​​in-​​head has been one of the cen­tral, fun­da­men­tal mys­ter­ies of the show to me. We had the red her­ring that Baltar saw Six because he was a Cylon. We know now that he is not. Since then, the ques­tion of what these enti­ties are, exactly, has been left open. I was work­ing under the assump­tion that it was just a writer’s device mostly, Baltar’s sub­con­cious or some­thing like that.

The lat­est seems to con­firm to me that they are real, and they are work­ing towards a pur­pose. They appear to be agents of the one true God. Are they stand-​​ins for Angels? Is one an Angel and one a Devil? Remember in an ear­lier episode this sea­son when Baltar saw him­self, which pre­vi­ously, only the Six saw the invis­i­ble Baltar? What was that scene hint­ing at?

I remain con­vinced that there’s a third party in this war, and has been from the start. We have the Cylons and the humans and.… some­thing else. Aliens, or a more advanced human civ­i­liza­tion is what I am guess­ing. Apparently, there was some­thing like this in the old BSG. Ship of Light?

I believe this third party is respon­si­ble for the return of Starbuck as well. I don’t believe Starbuck is a Cylon. Cylons wouldn’t make the mis­take of send­ing her back in a pris­tine ship. Whoever revived Starbuck did so want­ing the fleet to know that things were not nor­mal. Why?

I am start­ing to think about the recur­ring motif of “this has all hap­pened before, and before.” I have a devel­op­ing the­ory that humans make cylons who even­tu­ally become humans and then make new cylons and there is this never-​​ending cycle of master/​slave/​freedom/​rebellion that goes on. A strug­gle between Cylons and humans already hap­pened on Earth, long ago. The humans fled, the Cylons pur­sued. Eventually the Cylons assim­i­lated with the sur­vivors and what we have is–the entire pop­u­la­tion of Kobol basi­cally being human-​​cylon hybrids from an ear­lier cre­ation. And then, the hybrids made new cylons, start­ing the cycle again.

Thoughts?

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