Yay! I'm glad I entertained. :) And...I don't know why I found Tigh so creepy! I wasn't expecting to or anything, and I still WUV him but yeah. Then again, I had the same response when I watched the S4.0 deleted scenes and saw him holding Nicky. I was like "OMG TIGH WITH A BABY THAT SO ADORA...actually that's kinda creepy." So possibly I'm just weird...
Yes to every word of this. I was almost relieved that we didn't get more Laura in this episode because I hate feeling so uncertain about her, and at least when they don't show her, they can't screw her up. And then that thought itself made me want to cry.
Oh, honey. *clings to you* I know just what you mean.
And I have to be honest, I really don't want to see Laura rattle off all her mistakes, because, like you, I think she's already killing herself for "failing." And that breaks my heart because she didn't fail. She got them there and it was frakked but that's...not her fault. Who the hell else had a better idea?
I think that Roslin probably would see a lot of the wrong things she's done as 'mistakes' (and some of the right things, like the election) but I only think she really regrets that election. Well...maybe other things but that election most of all.
The point is, Laura Roslin has a strong catalogue of her sins and recounting them to appease the mob, to vindicate the mob in their desire to blame someone helps no one. And will quite possibly shatter Laura. Because she already believes everything they are saying is true in her bones.
As you say, we saw some of her grabbing the wheel again in The Oath because there was no one else. But she no longer believes that she's a good person to be in charge that that's...ugh. Like you, I desperately need vincdication of her character, or her choices. Not a white-washing of the babies she stole and people she airlocked and elections she stole and didn't steal, just...I need the end message to not be: Laura Roslin, destroyed herself getting everyone to Earth so she quit, lay down, and never really got back up again.
Not unless that storyline gets some serious and depressing attention rather than being passed off as some "this is the way of things," "time to retire now," BS.
Also, I would love to read any Laura post you made. I often feel like I'm a little poorly-read in wider BSG fandom circles and I learned early on that my opinion of Laura (as in, I would shamelessly support BASICALLY ANYTHING she did) was not that of many people and kind of didn't go looking for the opposing viewpoint, so I confess that I'm not really aware of what wider fandom thinks of Laura these days. I'm also a little frightened to find out... o_O
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Date: 2009-02-16 11:14 am (UTC)Yes to every word of this. I was almost relieved that we didn't get more Laura in this episode because I hate feeling so uncertain about her, and at least when they don't show her, they can't screw her up. And then that thought itself made me want to cry.
Oh, honey. *clings to you* I know just what you mean.
And I have to be honest, I really don't want to see Laura rattle off all her mistakes, because, like you, I think she's already killing herself for "failing." And that breaks my heart because she didn't fail. She got them there and it was frakked but that's...not her fault. Who the hell else had a better idea?
I think that Roslin probably would see a lot of the wrong things she's done as 'mistakes' (and some of the right things, like the election) but I only think she really regrets that election. Well...maybe other things but that election most of all.
The point is, Laura Roslin has a strong catalogue of her sins and recounting them to appease the mob, to vindicate the mob in their desire to blame someone helps no one. And will quite possibly shatter Laura. Because she already believes everything they are saying is true in her bones.
As you say, we saw some of her grabbing the wheel again in The Oath because there was no one else. But she no longer believes that she's a good person to be in charge that that's...ugh. Like you, I desperately need vincdication of her character, or her choices. Not a white-washing of the babies she stole and people she airlocked and elections she stole and didn't steal, just...I need the end message to not be: Laura Roslin, destroyed herself getting everyone to Earth so she quit, lay down, and never really got back up again.
Not unless that storyline gets some serious and depressing attention rather than being passed off as some "this is the way of things," "time to retire now," BS.
Also, I would love to read any Laura post you made. I often feel like I'm a little poorly-read in wider BSG fandom circles and I learned early on that my opinion of Laura (as in, I would shamelessly support BASICALLY ANYTHING she did) was not that of many people and kind of didn't go looking for the opposing viewpoint, so I confess that I'm not really aware of what wider fandom thinks of Laura these days. I'm also a little frightened to find out... o_O