{"id":155,"date":"2006-02-26T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2008-05-28T17:53:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T22:53:39","slug":"number-6-is-not-what-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/sci-fi\/2006\/02\/26\/number-6-is-not-what-i-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 6 is Not What I Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

After watching Friday’s Battlestar Galactica, I think I have to change my opinion of just what’s up with Gaius Baltar and Number 6. (Warning: spoilers follow.)
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Until now I thought there were two possibilities to explain Number 6’s presence in Baltar’s head:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s all in his head. The guilt has simply driven him mad.<\/li>\n
  2. The Cylons planted Number 6 in his head somehow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    However now that we know Baltar is also in Caprica 6’s head, I think something else is going on. My current theory is that something<\/em> happened to mix these two up together in each other’s heads. What it is hasn’t been revealed yet; but I don’t think it’s a Cylon plot (unless just maybe it was supposed to be a one way transfer and accidentally went both ways) and I think it’s too much of a stretch to claim they’re both crazy in exactly the same way. There’s a reason this is happening (other than simply a plot device) and that reason has not been revealed yet. Perhaps it’s been hinted at, but if so I missed it. However, even though the Number 6 in Baltar’s head is a Cylon, she’s not in contact with the rest of the Cylons. <\/p>\n

    There’s another possibility, which is not necessarily exclusive of the above: Baltar is a Cylon sleeper agent, possibly one not even known to most Cylons, Number 13. I’m not sure about that, but it would explain a lot. Of course if this is true he’s in even deeper denial than Sharon was. And if it is true, why did Number 6 have to subvert him in the first place? This is a long shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After watching Friday’s Battlestar Galactica, I think I have to change my opinion of just what’s up with Gaius Baltar and Number 6. (Warning: spoilers follow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-fi","category-tv","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}