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such_heights) wrote2011-01-20 01:25 am
such_heights) wrote2011-01-20 01:25 am
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Month of Awesome Women: Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica)
"If I wanted to toss a baby out of an airlock I'd say so."
Laura Roslin
Laura Roslin, President of the Twelve Colonies. Where do I even start. In a TV show filled with compelling characters, I latched onto her the most right from the start, and I never stopped loving her even when she was breaking my heart.
Right from the off, Roslin had the most interesting story, to me. She wasn't prepared for this, not the way Adama was or anyone on the Galactica, she was a politician and a teacher and in no way familiar with the art of war or skin-of-your-teeth survival. And yet from the first moment the Cylons attack we see that she is someone possessed with the most magnificent ability to rise above and beyond all reasonable expectation and put aside her grief at the loss of her civilization and her own personal struggle with her newly-diagnosed cancer, and rally everyone around her to protect the remnants of humanity. To me, the gap between where she starts and what she rises to makes her almost the biggest goddamn hero of them all.
The numbers on the board. Throwing cylons out the airlock. Trying to steal a election. Snapping pencils and mystery books and going to Kobol and the Opera House, I was with her every moment of her journey and I loved her more and more all the time. I think she is extraordinary, in no small part due to Mary McDonnell's completely phenomenal performance. There are few characters on TV I have found quite so reliably mesmerising.
Oh, Laura.
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Vid Rec: there's a war going on for your mind, laura bybeccatoria
Laura Roslin and the Cylon Hybrid engage in a rap battle.
Laura Roslin
Laura Roslin, President of the Twelve Colonies. Where do I even start. In a TV show filled with compelling characters, I latched onto her the most right from the start, and I never stopped loving her even when she was breaking my heart.
Right from the off, Roslin had the most interesting story, to me. She wasn't prepared for this, not the way Adama was or anyone on the Galactica, she was a politician and a teacher and in no way familiar with the art of war or skin-of-your-teeth survival. And yet from the first moment the Cylons attack we see that she is someone possessed with the most magnificent ability to rise above and beyond all reasonable expectation and put aside her grief at the loss of her civilization and her own personal struggle with her newly-diagnosed cancer, and rally everyone around her to protect the remnants of humanity. To me, the gap between where she starts and what she rises to makes her almost the biggest goddamn hero of them all.
The numbers on the board. Throwing cylons out the airlock. Trying to steal a election. Snapping pencils and mystery books and going to Kobol and the Opera House, I was with her every moment of her journey and I loved her more and more all the time. I think she is extraordinary, in no small part due to Mary McDonnell's completely phenomenal performance. There are few characters on TV I have found quite so reliably mesmerising.
Oh, Laura.
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Vid Rec: there's a war going on for your mind, laura by
beccatoriaLaura Roslin and the Cylon Hybrid engage in a rap battle.
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