Zuul wrote:
No, Baltar has become Jesus, not a mouthpiece for the writer's religious beliefs, have you not been paying attention?
Yes, I have. And I don't disagree that he's being used as a Jesus character, though I point out that Jesus wasn't a fucking atheist turned religious person. This kind of "I was an atheist, but I realize now that there is something more" is very much a Moore meme. I've always had a sneaking suspicion that Baltar was Moore's alter ego long before now.
But yes, no shit he's being used as a Jesus figure. But that's not all he is.
[Does it strike anyone as StarTrek syndrome that they put so many important people in the fleet on the Garbage Scow Demetrius? I mean, a whole lot of important faces were put under the command of someone that Adama was clearly humoring out of affection in order to cover all possible bases.[/quote]
It shows, like you said, that she's likely to be right in some way. Her mission will be vitally important, otherwise they wouldn't bother putting those important characters on there.
In universe, I imagine Adama said he wanted people he could trust on the mission. People who could stop Starbuck
clearly Adama overestimated this group, since we see her make it next week. I actually wonder if she just lets the Demetrius go and takes a Raptor herself if she got out of hand. He probably didn't offer Ensign Ricky a spot on the crew even if he volunteered.
For instance, what if Starbuck is leading the fleet to Earth AND their own destruction?
I'm wondering how Roslin will fit in it. Presumably she dies before they reach Earth, but she (in my view more than Starbuck) is very high on the gods and her very status as a prophet hangs in the balance over what Baltar is doing. I almost feel as if there is 3 religions going on. The OTG, the gods, and Starbuck's wackiness, who really isn't attributed at this point to either.
I just remember that I liked the whole god/gods thing better when it was far less literal. When Baltar repented in "33", it could have (and probably was) just coincidence that he repented just as Roslin chose to blow the Olympic Carrier out of the sky. When he guessed the right spot to hit in the Tyllium refinery, again that could be due to dumb luck. Even when Baltar tried to strangle himself with his tie, while harder to justify, still was in the realm of "well, he put his arm up and tried to strangle himself thinking it was Six". But that kind of lurching way in which he got up when Six helped him up last week, the miracle fever break of the child, all have pushed past the boundary of being one or the other. You can't wish it away, something else is going on. It was more interesting when you weren't sure. Now that it's clear something else is going on, we should just get on with what it is, because I'm no longer interested in the "maybe it is, maybe it isn't" question.
It's Jodan, not Jordan. If you can't quote it right, I will mock you.
