So i just finished watching the series and i think this is the only thing that didn’t get resolved to my satisfaction. Baltar mentions several times something he knows about Felix Gaeta that implies he did something bad. First before his trial and later during the mutiny, but this is never explained as far as i know. Did i miss something?
I think I remember something about him being in the closet. But that’s hardly a big secret.
Felix Gaeta was President Baltar’s right hand man on New Caprica and thus complicit in every arrest warrant and death order.
Did you watch the webisodes? It’s revealed there.
And, as we saw in the webisodes, Felix was stupidly feeding information to an Eight that he thought was saving people from the death squads. Turns out he was actually making them disappear.
The whole thing in the webisodes was that Felix knew, deep down, what was happening, he was just too much of a coward to act on it.
-Joe
Plus, IIRC, he was boning the Eight.
Nothing wrong with that! 
I watched all the webisodes that came with the DVDs, some were about the resistance in New Caprica and the others about young Bill Adama during the first cylon war. The dvds for the second half of the last season aren’t out yet though, i bought those episodes from xbox live, maybe the ones are missed were supposed to go in between the halves of the last season?
Are the webisodes worth watching?
Are they still available?
Where do I get them?
There’s another set of webisodes that go with the 4th season. I couldn’t find them on Amazon, but it looks like they’re still on Scifi.com as Face of the Enemy.
Ah. Thank you for answering my question.
Fucking webisodes. I’m annoyed by TV shows creating content only available NOT on TV.
More that he was willfully naive/overly-hopeful. Him being a coward makes no sense, since he was doing something about 500 times more dangerous by feeding real, valuable intelligence to the resistance.
I imagine this webisode set will be on the 4.5 dvd release, and presumably on the entire-series blue-ray release.
Nah, he was in denial and refused to question the situation because it challenged his idea of himself as heroic. Also, he didn’t want to compromise his relationship with his Eight. He was able to make himself willfully blind, even when things were literally happening right before his eyes, as in the webisodes. But we’ve been through this.
A person can have paradoxical impulses, beliefs, and behaviors. Felix was both cowardly and brave at the same time. It was brave to work for the resistance, but it was cowardly to refuse to see his own very real role in his people’s oppression. There is no contradiction here and it makes total sense.
Didn’t he also perjure himself at Baltar’s trial? I believe he said he saw Baltar sign the execution order, when in fact he wasn’t in the room.
Haha, the Transmedia industry is my family’s bread and butter. My family and some of my closest friends are directly responsible for encouraging more and more franchises to branch out like that.
Although the explanation from the webisodes described above is correct, these were all written and shot after the series was over. What really happened was Moore thought it’d be cool to have Felix stick a pen in Baltar’s neck (which it was!), so he just did it, neither knowing nor, probably, caring, what it was Baltar whispered. Moore did this stuff a lot, which led to a lot of cool stuff, and also to the complete breakdown of logic in the show’s last couple seasons.
–Cliffy
Not as cool as Baltar calling him butterfingers for not managing to kill him though.
Entirely correct. Of course Baltar did sign it;’ what Felix lies about is that Baltar did so willingly, which he did not.
Baltar actually could have been referring to one of several possible things, though I believe it is accepted that he was referring to Gaeta’s giving information to the Eight.
Felix Gaeta’s just another reason the show was so damned good; here we have a supporting character, certainly not one of the show’s ten most important characters, and yet he’s given a level of complexity, depth and realism that beats the lead characters of many series. He isn’t good or evil, good guy or bad guy; he’s human.