yet more Laura Roslin thoughts

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I promise, someday I will stop making multiple BSG posts every week! Today is not that day, however.

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She's not so happy or fulfilled, no. But what is she? I think that's my biggest problem right now. We got these scenes where she seemed almost manically happy in this way that pinged very strongly "Not Right" to me, and then we got understandable anger at the mutiny, and then we got sitting around and dying. How did we get from a to c?

I mean, yes, I can work through an explanation that works, but it's work, and that's what I find most frustrating at this point. Even if the writers have a consistent arc that they're trying to convey for her in these recent episodes (and it's entirely likely that they don't, given how all over the map it's been) they're not conveying it very well. I suspect it's mostly what dionusia points out above--that they've just got more story to tell than time in which to tell it, and for reasons surpassing understanding, people like Ellen and Cavil turn out to be the movers and shakers of the whole series, whereas people who have been major figures all the way through, like Laura or Lee, hardly get any screentime.

I agree with you about the diloxin. That needed follow-up: I understood why she declined the treatments in the immediate aftermath of Earth, but she's not still in that mental state, is she? So why is she still not having the treatments? Or is she and they're not working? Or were they not working so she didn't resume though she might have done so if they had been? Or...yeah. *sigh*

Mostly I'm just so disappointed by the way Laura has been handled in this last half season, and if they don't redeem it in the end with good Opera House stuff, I'm going to be a very unhappy camper!