Dr. Gaius Baltar - Battlestar Galactica

I think what they are doing with Giaus Baltar in this, final season of Battlestar Galactica is absolutely brilliant. An intelligent but pious and self-centered fool, he bumbles from one mishap to another, but with a unerring sense of self-preservation. At the same time, he also seems to have the capacity for selflessness, or at least he yearns for the possibility of redemption.

Maybe redemption would be more accurate, because that is, when you really boil it down, a self-centered motivation as well.

And given all that, there is a group that now sees him as a messiah figure. And maybe they are right?

Season and episode recaps are available at the Battlestar Galactica site but you're really doing yourself a disservice if you're not watching the show.