If you want to know Gaeta’s “secret,” watch the webisodes

In reading some of the comments about last night’s Battlestar Galactica, I was surprised to find out that a lot of viewers didn’t know what Baltar was talking about when he mentioned knowing what Gaeta’s “secret” was. What’s actually more surprising, to me (and I’ve said this before already) is that something relatively big was revealed in the webisodes, something not every viewer of this show is necessarily going to watch.

First, I’m going to embed the webisode in question where we learn Gaeta’s secret. Then, in case you’re really frakking lazy, I’ll just tell you what it is.

Now, if you couldn’t sit through all 3.5 minutes or so of that, here’s the scoop. Remember the episode last season when Baltar whispered something into Gaeta’s ear, causing him to go berzerk in the holding cell where they were talking? Well, that whisper is revealed in the above webisode. Baltar says, “I know what your Eight did.” As it turns out, Gaeta was sleeping with one of the Cylon Eights, and not until this webisode did Gaeta learn that she was using Gaeta to help orchestrate a mass killing of citizens on New Caprica.

This also might help you understand why Gaeta is acting so hostile toward Cylons in the past couple of episodes. He was completely betrayed by one and now has to live with what he helped to happen. He’s no better than Baltar now, and he really doesn’t like the thought of that.

Baltar know’s Gaeta’s secret, so will that be what ultimately takes him down?

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Jan 31, 2009 @ 15:20 EST5EDT