Do you think Rush and Baltar are too similar?

[Pizerer]

I can't help but shake how similar Rush and Baltar are. What are the major difference in your opinion?

[mi_guard]

I can't help but shake how similar Rush and Baltar are. What are the major difference in your opinion?

maybe a very stupid reply: the actors playing the two characters!

[Pharaoh Atem]

I can't help but shake how similar Rush and Baltar are. What are the major difference in your opinion?

rush hasn't had sex with 3 quarters of the woman on the show

[KEK]

They're completely different. Baltar was essentially a coward who wanted nothing but to enjoy himself and live an easy life, he would worm his way toward that end any way he could. Rush is a driven pragmatist, he's working toward something he believes is bigger than himself, and everyone else. Other than being slightly amoral, I don't see them as being very alike at all.

[Artemis-Neith]

I guess you're talking about BSG 2003.

Similarities

The figures
• both have a thing for numbers
• both have a Phd
• both have not military short hair (in the beginning of the series)
• both aren't the really the heroes of the show

The actors
• both actors have the same high (ca. 1.73 m, don't ask me for feet)
• both actors are british (british actors always play the baddies in american TV shows, right?)

Is there more I missed?

Well I think, that's it.

So, I would say, Nicholas Rush and Gaius Baltar don't have anything in common, aside from those points I've listed.

[xxxevilgrinxxx]

I don't think they have anything in common.

[myhelix]

No

[stargatefreek]

i can see some things that are similar for example both at one point were treated badly by there own side but other than that i really cant see it.

[Pizerer]

They're completely different. Baltar was essentially a coward who wanted nothing but to enjoy himself and live an easy life, he would worm his way toward that end any way he could. Rush is a driven pragmatist, he's working toward something he believes is bigger than himself, and everyone else. Other than being slightly amoral, I don't see them as being very alike at all.

Oh, yeah. Good observations.

[TBA]

Well, they're both egocentric, manipulative *******s, but apart from that they're very different.

[Kermee]

rush hasn't had sex with 3 quarters of the woman on the show

Hahaha! So true! Rush also doesn't creep me out like Baltar did on BSG.

[Pharaoh Atem]

Hahaha! So true! Rush also doesn't creep me out like Baltar did on BSG.

rush was acting creepy in pathogen

[ussrelativity]

Rush doesn't have a cult of followers on the ship.

[wilsontom]

Ya, They are very similar to each other, like their hair style, face shape, personality.

[mi_guard]

Ya, They are very similar to each other, like their hair style, face shape, personality.

could somehow accept the hair style, but really do not see any similarity in face shape and absolutely none in the personality. The two are completely different in my opinion.

[AresLover452]

Rush is WAY hawter than Balter and has a WAY better accent....

[maneth]

Not really. There are some similarities in that they're both rather ambivalent characters, but other than that...