nBSG Is Baltar's Six real?

[JEAP]

She was hauling him around by the arm and holding that letter in this last episode. The arm thing could be the chip or the physocis acting, but the letter was different. She was reading it behind his back and several feet away.

So... What is she? A chip with tractor beams? A hallucination in a telekenetic mind? An emisary of the Cylon god? Something else?

[Mayabird]

Say what you will about his emotional stability and his morality, but he's supposed to be a wunderkind genius. Baltar's apparently an expert in not just computers but also biology, chemistry, and many other fields (except for lying). Why couldn't he could be a speed reader? He might have read the entire thing in one glance (it wasn't that long a letter, after all) and then tossed the letter aside. After all, when other people are around, she's never seen to manipulate anything that he isn't doing himself. He throws himself against the bulkhead. He chokes himself with his own tie.

Think of the fight scene at the end of Fight Club where the Protagonist thinks that Tyler is beating the crap out of him. For instance, when Tyler is "dragging" him by the hair, but the security cameras show him actually pushing himself along with his feet. Now think of Baltar with his arm sticking out being "pulled" by Six.

[JEAP]

Mmm, Moore has usually shown that. We see Six doing something and then we see Baltar alone.

Eh, speed reading the letter and tossing it away is probably the best explanation for that scene, though.

At least untill Six gets bored and starts shooting spit wads at Tigh.

[Elheru Aran]

IIRC-- there may be spoilers here for Season 2, so read at your own risk--

On the Pegasus, there's a Six-copy they captured. While I haven't been keeping up with the show, the spoiler threads for the episodes I've seen suggests that she's taking the place of the imaginary Six over time.

[JEAP]

We're not quite there yet. Baltar was on Galatica and Gina-Six was elsewhere.

[Uraniun235]

There's still other possibilities. It could be some sort of "mind-virus" where Six is like an alternate personality running along the same neurons. It could be that the brain-chip isn't a single large detectable chip, but millions of microscopic processors forming a neural net throughout his skull. It could be that Six is an "agent of God".

For them to say, at the end of the series, "Gee, I guess he was just a crazy yet really lucky guy" would be really, really lame. I get the feeling they're trying to build this into something bigger later down the road.

[Mayabird]

There's still other possibilities. It could be some sort of "mind-virus" where Six is like an alternate personality running along the same neurons. It could be that the brain-chip isn't a single large detectable chip, but millions of microscopic processors forming a neural net throughout his skull. It could be that Six is an "agent of God".

For them to say, at the end of the series, "Gee, I guess he was just a crazy yet really lucky guy" would be really, really lame. I get the feeling they're trying to build this into something bigger later down the road.

Hmm, I should have said this before, but I forgot. Six did say IIRC that she implanted a computer chip into Baltar's brain. A brain scan showed nothing. However, the Cylons are big into biotech. Caprica Boomer was able to interface with the Galactica computer with a wire stuck into her arm, so there's obviously some weird biocomputertech weirdness going on. However, the humaniform Cylons are so biologically similar to humans that they can mostly pass off as humans.

What I'm saying is, the scan wouldn't have picked up a biological computer chip that mimics human brain tissue. How exactly Six implanted it I don't know. Maybe it really is a neural net of millions of Cylon bio chips.