What, you mean she's going to sacrifice herself for humanity? Yeah, that one was coming. Now I'm curious what she represents. Does she sacrifice herself to release humanity from destiny in a Destiny vs. Free Will battle? Does she force humanity to Fall so that they can know good and evil (as she seems to fit the trope of a wisdom goddess, and is probably more on the mother/crone side of things)?

I guess what I'm interested in is not so much her doom, because she's been doomed since the first second she showed up, but what she does with her death, because a) we're talking about female divinity here, and there are limited archetypes, b) there's been so much talk of Love and Family, mostly, it's a little curious to me that the Messiah is fairly obviously isolated from both, and c) what she knows and why she's so sad. Most people would have a little bit more of the glow of being special -- I mean, note how the people who Laura touches, the Billys and Lees, feel special, if not in the crazy way Baltar does for Six touching him. Adama views his specialness as a mandate. Kara thinks they're all crazy for thinking she's special. Laura...flinches a lot. Which I can buy, but again, it puts her in a different grouping than everyone else, which screams "Significant!"