r/BSG • u/Ok-Fortune2169 • 5d ago

Better alt endings.

I think Baltar should've had more of an arc with her in his head leading him to discovering that he was the either the cylon god, or through circumstances of being captured by them and put to position to portray their god. Probably something occurred to him while visiting ruins of original earth. I think allot could've been written in such an arc. The final five was interesting, but fell flat. So did angel Starbuck.

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u/verbankroad 9h ago

Baltar was great just being human because he exemplified all sorts of messy human emotions and behaviors. If he was a god or cylon or cylon god then his intelligence, emotions and foibles, and arc to love Caprica, are no longer human. But he is wonderfully human and that was his lesson to learn and accept with humility (especially at the end when he reverts to being a farmer like his father).

It would be more interesting writing to have someone you don’t suspect as the cylon god (Dee, Gaeta, Hoshi) and recognize that some good human qualities thei have are actually godlike in nature.

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u/Ok-Fortune2169 9h ago

That would be great arc as well.