On a somewhat more meta level, a big reason Baltar is such an interesting character is that his weakness led to the betrayal of the human race in the mini. If they made him a Cylon, the writers would just be throwing that interesting part away.

If Baltar were a cylon, why did the sexbot have to seduce him?

I've been wondering when the human beings were taken before copies were made. They weren't always cylon, were they?

Consider the counter example of the clueless version of Boomer, who blacked out, did stuff, and then blacked back in in private locations where she could re-orient secretly.

Sure. but what if all activated cylons don't quite act like Boomer.

I only "buy" lucky guesses inasmuch as, sometimes writers have more sense of the dramatic than they have common sense.

Okay, I buy this. :-)

I've been wondering when the human beings were taken before copies were made. They weren't always cylon, were they?

Why not? Have we ever been told anything that would indicate otherwise?

Hmm. Interesting. Okay. I had another assumption.

I thought they were switched with their human bodies at some point. I cannot recall why I think that.

I've been thinking this since the miniseries so I need some correction if I'm just flat out wrong.

I thought they were switched with their human bodies at some point. I cannot recall why I think that.

We've never seen evidence of this. Could be, but....

They made a point that the civilian guy in the mini who turned out to be a Cylon had only been on the ship for two weeks. Sharon had been there longer, but she did mention that both her parents were dead, which would make sense as a background story for a Cylon that just appeared at some point.

Well, we've seen inferrable evidence that nobody has any good facial-recognition software, or else Copies 2, 3, 4 and Infinity of each model would not be able to get driver's licenses. Identity theft/creation from scratch seems to have been easy-peasy, even before print records in the Bureau of Vital Statistics got blowed up.

So, no need to disappear someone, do a copy job, and reappear that person. You can just push that person into public life, with or without a backstory, with or without that backstory personally believed to be true, and viola!

Thus, it was in the cylons' interest that a large number of humans survived. If there were only 100 humans, people would start to notice that ten of them were identical.

Wow. Okay, then my Balthar theory goes to hell. It was built upon him possibly being switched out.

Sebastian Bach's character is one of my favorite parts of Gilmore Girls. He's really a hilarious and wonderful guy. I love him a lot.

I saw SB play Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar in Vegas, on Thanksgiving day, a few years back. (Carl Anderson was playing Judas). It was fun, and there was even some HoYay.