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Originally Posted by publius
Of course, Ron D. will leave it ambiguous to the end and never make it clear, and we can argue if they were real or hallucinations to the end of time.
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Actually I think this will be resolved, at least more than it has been to this point.
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And it's clear Baltar is on a redemption arc, and you can thank HeadSix for that (again part of the plan -- take the sleazebag down as low as possible, them redeem him). The child wasn't saved until HeadSix was convinced that Baltar was really willing to sacrifice himself for the child. She smiled.
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I disagree that Baltar is on a redemption arc. In my view he's not going to be a messiah, he's going to be an anti-christ. His philosophy of "God loves you, God doesn't love anything not perfect, therefore you are perfect" is selfishness codified, and leads to exactly Tory's way of thinking "I'm perfect, so I can do whatever sick and twisted things I want without fear of having done wrong." That's a
very dangerous philosophy, on par with the Manson family or Jim Jones.
I view this is the beginning of the end for Baltar, not the start of his redemption.