It's a good point, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a single Baltarian ship captain. Especially given that Captain last week wanting to know what he made of the Galactica situation.
It's interesting that you view this as his selfless act - you could really be right. I can't quite bring myself to believe he did really want to go on a probably suicide mission though, since this is Baltar we're talking about.
I think it's interesting in that if he had gone, it would have looked like grandstanding, potentially gotten his cultists killed, and like another of those Gaius Baltar acting out and not considering the consequences in order to seem magnanimous moments.
If he doesn't go, it looks like he's looking out for his own skin.
I mean, it's totally his own fault everyone views him like that, but really, I'm not sure there's ANYTHING he could do at this point, however selfless, that wouldn't seem like a calculated "selfless" move to buy himself credibility.
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Date: 2009-03-14 11:50 pm (UTC)It's interesting that you view this as his selfless act - you could really be right. I can't quite bring myself to believe he did really want to go on a probably suicide mission though, since this is Baltar we're talking about.
I think it's interesting in that if he had gone, it would have looked like grandstanding, potentially gotten his cultists killed, and like another of those Gaius Baltar acting out and not considering the consequences in order to seem magnanimous moments.
If he doesn't go, it looks like he's looking out for his own skin.
I mean, it's totally his own fault everyone views him like that, but really, I'm not sure there's ANYTHING he could do at this point, however selfless, that wouldn't seem like a calculated "selfless" move to buy himself credibility.