*shrug* I would be more apt to see Laura as the scapegoat if the subtext weren't what it is. Like, if they don't just admit she was the one running Adar soon, I'm going to roll my eyes hard, because they're saying it without saying it. The Cylons not only didn't try to frak her prophethood, they were like, "go, little prophet, go!" and sent help. In comparison to say, the Callies and Dees and Billys of the world, she was never really low. I would read her position as more of the hidden treasure than the low made high. Which is not to say that at some point, they won't be screaming for her tasty, scapegoaty blood...
...and that, coupled with the part where she's not just a prophet, she's their leader, and she tops all of them, including Adama-Zeus? Makes me suspicious that there's more to her than that. Or will be. I mean, at the very least, Adama's little show at the end of Home 2 suggests that she's potent not just as a prophet, but as a symbol of hope. Stuff like, "every day is a gift...from you" makes me go, "oh. That's a little...oh." Because as far as it goes, her access to divine knowledge has been limited at best. Baltar may have a better claim to it than Laura (what his inner voice/Six tells him is a lot more direct and useful), but what Laura has done with a) a vision of snakes, b) a dream with Callum Keith Rennie, c) some flashes of things on Kobol, that's very...interesting and somewhat creepy.
I think it's one of those cases where the prophecy is part of the package, a la Joan of Arc, but not the whole package. And it makes me suspicious, especially with little anvils like, "the price you pay will be too high" and so on. I mean, I also think we're all well-indoctrinated into the cult of Artemis-as-Savior, and so we're all expecting Starbuck to have her Saving the World role to play? But yeah. I think the relationship to the divine is slowly being built up, in weird ways that say to me there's more to it than that, especially because Roslin's story arc has been far, far too smooth. Her visions work, and the cost is isolation for Laura (a price she'd willingly pay to save the world), and a few dead redshirts (a price she'd willingly pay to save the world). So...you know, that says to me there's something more going on there.
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...and that, coupled with the part where she's not just a prophet, she's their leader, and she tops all of them, including Adama-Zeus? Makes me suspicious that there's more to her than that. Or will be. I mean, at the very least, Adama's little show at the end of Home 2 suggests that she's potent not just as a prophet, but as a symbol of hope. Stuff like, "every day is a gift...from you" makes me go, "oh. That's a little...oh." Because as far as it goes, her access to divine knowledge has been limited at best. Baltar may have a better claim to it than Laura (what his inner voice/Six tells him is a lot more direct and useful), but what Laura has done with a) a vision of snakes, b) a dream with Callum Keith Rennie, c) some flashes of things on Kobol, that's very...interesting and somewhat creepy.
I think it's one of those cases where the prophecy is part of the package, a la Joan of Arc, but not the whole package. And it makes me suspicious, especially with little anvils like, "the price you pay will be too high" and so on. I mean, I also think we're all well-indoctrinated into the cult of Artemis-as-Savior, and so we're all expecting Starbuck to have her Saving the World role to play? But yeah. I think the relationship to the divine is slowly being built up, in weird ways that say to me there's more to it than that, especially because Roslin's story arc has been far, far too smooth. Her visions work, and the cost is isolation for Laura (a price she'd willingly pay to save the world), and a few dead redshirts (a price she'd willingly pay to save the world). So...you know, that says to me there's something more going on there.