show: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
episode: Downloaded
The Bottom Line: "Superb"
The most interesting episode so far. Turned the whole series on its head. (spoilers follow)
What a set of amazing ideas! Lucy Lawless's Cylon character manipulating and essentially lying to other Cylons Six and Sharon. Baltar in Six's head on Caprica just like Six is in Baltar's head on Galactica.
What I've been trying to figure out is how that latter relationship came about. Presumably, when Six died in the bombing of Caprica and her consciousness was downloaded to a new body, some of Baltar's mind accidentally came along with it and now lives in her head.
But it is still unclear how EXACTLY the same thing could have happened the other way round -- how some of Six's mind would have ended up in Baltar's head. Baltar's consciousness wasn't being moved anywhere.
Or was it? How DID Baltar survive the explosion that killed Six? Is he another "sleeper" Cylon like Sharon, who doesn't know he is one? Was his body killed and his mind downloaded to a new body at the exact same time as Six's, creating the opportunity for a technological glitch that caused part of each's mind to cross symmetrically over to the other?
It seems barely possible. It is unlikely that a Cylon Baltar would have been under such deep cover that Six would have had to be deployed to manipulate him into something he could simply have been compelled to do.
Perhaps Baltar was originally human, but was cloned by the Cylons and then his consciousness transferred to the new Cylon-manufactured
body after his "death". Would there be any reason for them to go to all that trouble? It's hard to say at this point.
But since the Cylon leaders on Caprica apparently don't realize that part of Baltar's mind exists inside Six, do any of them know that part of Six's mind lives inside Baltar on Galactica?
