The Prophet took over her body and forced her to both. And yet we're supposed to regard the Prophets as the good guys in their fight with the Pagh Wraiths.
That got really frustrating towards the end. Didn't help that the majority of those Pagh Wraith cultists seemed harmless and actually like quite nice people. I haven't seen B5, but Sisko rejecting the conflict and ending it by destroying them both, that would have been a better ending. Of course Bajor would never have forgiven him – that could be his only sorrow thing. Or, some kind of indication of what the future would be like if the Pagh Wraiths were freed would have gone a long way to making me more sympathetic to the Prophets = good idea (Then again, I'm reading the Millennium trilogy of DS9 books at the moment, which does something like that, with the Pagh Wraith following Bajoran Ascendency lead by Kai Weyoun out to bring about the end of the universe, but even with that, I still don't feel that the Prophets are the good guys. But then, there are some scathing criticisms of the Prophets made by non-believing characters in those books, so ambiguity seems to be what they're aiming for).
Is in a way Laura Roslin written as a tragic villain, or Laura is Winn written as the heroine of the story.
They really are two different sides of the same coin (although, there's also a bit of Sisko in Roslin to, or at least, Sisko's more Roslin than he is Baltar or Starbuck). That thought makes me wish Roslin's role of the dying leader hadn't been so dreadfully sidelined in 4.5 *Sigh*
I see what you did there with Felix Gaeta, Ron Moore.
I did notice that. I'm thankful Nog decided building a fictional casino was a better outlet than leading a mutiny. (Poor, poor Gaeta).
All Good Things... remains unbeaten as the best Trek finale episode, because there is no such stupidity here.
I agree. All Good Things... remains the champion. While it's not the best, I do have a soft spot for Endgame, as Admiral Janeway and the Borg Queen destroying each other was really a quite fantastic way to end Voyager. And, actually, thinking about it, was done far better than Sisko vs. Dukat. But as with most of Voyager, the good undermined by quite a few mistakes.
Do you want a link or do you want to remain in squee mood for a while longer?
I'll let curiosity be the undoing of my happiness. Could I have the link?
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That got really frustrating towards the end. Didn't help that the majority of those Pagh Wraith cultists seemed harmless and actually like quite nice people. I haven't seen B5, but Sisko rejecting the conflict and ending it by destroying them both, that would have been a better ending. Of course Bajor would never have forgiven him – that could be his only sorrow thing. Or, some kind of indication of what the future would be like if the Pagh Wraiths were freed would have gone a long way to making me more sympathetic to the Prophets = good idea (Then again, I'm reading the Millennium trilogy of DS9 books at the moment, which does something like that, with the Pagh Wraith following Bajoran Ascendency lead by Kai Weyoun out to bring about the end of the universe, but even with that, I still don't feel that the Prophets are the good guys. But then, there are some scathing criticisms of the Prophets made by non-believing characters in those books, so ambiguity seems to be what they're aiming for).
Is in a way Laura Roslin written as a tragic villain, or Laura is Winn written as the heroine of the story.
They really are two different sides of the same coin (although, there's also a bit of Sisko in Roslin to, or at least, Sisko's more Roslin than he is Baltar or Starbuck). That thought makes me wish Roslin's role of the dying leader hadn't been so dreadfully sidelined in 4.5 *Sigh*
I see what you did there with Felix Gaeta, Ron Moore.
I did notice that. I'm thankful Nog decided building a fictional casino was a better outlet than leading a mutiny. (Poor, poor Gaeta).
All Good Things... remains unbeaten as the best Trek finale episode, because there is no such stupidity here.
I agree. All Good Things... remains the champion. While it's not the best, I do have a soft spot for Endgame, as Admiral Janeway and the Borg Queen destroying each other was really a quite fantastic way to end Voyager. And, actually, thinking about it, was done far better than Sisko vs. Dukat. But as with most of Voyager, the good undermined by quite a few mistakes.
Do you want a link or do you want to remain in squee mood for a while longer?
I'll let curiosity be the undoing of my happiness. Could I have the link?