Battlestar Galactica Season 3 (Oct 06) (1 Viewer)

[Paul_Sjordal]

I can't see it either, which is precisely why it would come as a delicious surprise if she does. Then again, he did spurn her for D'Anna....

 

[Michael Harris]

Actually, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by de Gaulle. Maybe that is what is in the cards for Baltar.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Better student of history than me. Good catch. I don't see him safe floating about the general fleet considering what he's done anyway. What do you think Baltar's Île d'Yeu will/would be?

 

[David S. Peterson]

In listening to Ron Moore's podcast this episode was originally intended to be a more lighter episode with a bit of comic relief. This was how it was originally pitched to Sci Fi.

It morphed into a more darker episode.

When the Sci Fi execs saw it they were taken aback a bit since this was not what they were expecting.

It was also directed by Edward James Olmos.

 

[Paul_Sjordal]

I have a feeling that this discussion happens a lot between RDM and the suits.

 

[TheLongshot]

The episode goes to prove that Baltar isn't an evil man, just a weak one. He's mainly motivated by his own personal survival, and has various internal defenses protecting his psyce from what he's done to insure his survival. In a way, it is sad, because you know that if he just manned up and took responsibility, he'd be all the better for it. But, Adama is right. Baltar can never do that.

Even with a trial, Baltar will continue to survive because he always knows when he's valuable, and he's valuable again because he can help them find Earth. Baltar will always find a way to survive.

Jason

 

[Paul_Sjordal]

We should be thankful Baltar never "manned up," or he'd have been killed a long time ago, and we'd have one fewer crazy person to watch every week.

 

[Holadem]

Um... Why did Gaeta want to off Baltar? Please spell it out for me, I didn't quite get why the mild manered Gaeta would resort to such (premeditated even!) extremes (granted Baltar could drive a Tibetan monk to commit genocide).

I admit Gaeta as Baltar's executioner would be fitting, something about it reminds me of (Babylon 5 spoiler): Vir vs Carthagia

But I just don't quite see any justification for the character to do so now.

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[Jason_V]

If I understood RDM's podcast correctly, there was some dialogue cut regarding what could be concretely tied to Baltar. In essence, the deleted material would have Baltar directly linked to the murder of some Sagitarons (sp?) and that would springboard into a whole other plotline in the remainder of the season.

In the context of the story we see, though, Gaeta knows the things Baltar signed off on (mass murder, for one) and is the only human to have direct knowledge of these events. He was seen as a collaborator early in the year and nearly spaced...a trauma I'm sure he blames on Baltar.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Baltar also implies pretty strongly that Gaeta's hands aren't clean, either: "We all have our secrets".

 

[PeterTHX]

Of course it's rumored that Gaeta is Gayta...so that may be it

 

[Andrew Beacom]

Baltar could of easily just been hamming it up for the camera he knew was there though.

If Gaeta did let his guard down and engage in any of the activities we saw Batlar in you can be certain that Baltar remembers and is reminding him.

 

[JediFonger]

great performances are the 'norm' on this show. i can't believe NONE of these performances are recognized WHATSOEVER by any of the award shows. not even a nom in the big categories. no emmies/no golden globe for anything, wtf?

i think this show is better than Lost, 24, and whatever is on TV right now. it's been the consistent perfomer of good TV for the new millennium!

 

[Sam Favate]

There's no new episode this weekend, correct? No one wants to compete with some game that's on another channel.

 

[Jason_V]

Correct. No BSG, no Desperate Housewives, no Brothers and Sisters...Sunday night has been given to the Super Bowl. Makes sense since the game is going to bring in some ungodly number of eyeballs, leaving about three people in the country to watch other stuff. I never could see the point in wasting an episode on a night when Sci Fi KNOWS people are watching football.

 

[Qui-Gon John]

Funny thing is ROME is still on, at least they didn't say 2 weeks.

 

[Dave Scarpa]

Hbo does'nt give a hoot about the ratings for rome, it , like Deadwood is just another Cancelled show playing out the String.

 

[Qui-Gon John]

Also, they know if anyone misses it during the Super Bowl, and is a fan, they'll just catch it later that night on another HBO channel or later in the week.

 

[Everlasting Gobstopper]

He seems to me to look more like Saddam when he was captured. I guess that doesn't bode well for the future of his character...

 

[RickER]

I am positive his characters future bodes well! He is one of the most popular (actor/character) on the show. Unless he just wants to leave it, i dont see him being killed off anytime soon, if ever!