Re: How did Iblis control Baltar?
Actually there is. This is how the dialogue goes.
"I remember that voice. The voice of the Cylon Imperious Leader."
"The Cylon's a machine."
"Yes, now. But once they were a race of beings who allowed themselves to be overcome by their own technology."
"And when did this happen?"
"A thousand yahrens ago. At the onset of the Thousand-Yahren War against the humans."
"And in order for my voice to be that of the Imperious Leader, it would have to have been recorded and transcribed into the machine leader, a thousand yahrens ago. I would have to be a thousand yahrens old!"
The last point is the key. Iblis is superficially putting Baltar down but at the same time he is telling him the truth of what happened. And how this happened at the time the original race of Cylons was overcome by their technology. The technology that overcomes them then creates a machine Imperious Leader with Iblis's voice as the standard, which suggests a devotion or tribute to the one who made the downfall of the race possible.
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