Sister Clarice walks through the alleyway with her minion behind her, umbrella up protecting her dark hair and piercing eyes from the rain.
The image of Laura Roslin pops immediately to the mind. Her minions are the military, marching through the aisles of Battlestar Galactica. She is smaller in stature compared to Clarice, but of similar coloring. Laura too has those piercing eyes. Through them is a soul of a fanatic.
Laura Roslin does not hesitate to kill for the protection of the greater good. Sister Clarice will destroy for her religion. Kill without hesitation and much thought to achieve their goals, which makes being in their heads a very scary place to be.
Amanda has gone through a slight change in Caprica Retribution. She has finally shaken off the mantle of flakiness and irrationality. Has learned to wait and observe, to consider information without jumping to extraordinary conclusions. She realized shooting Clarice would not suffice and I think she now knows there’s a bigger stake involved surrounding Clarice and supposed friendship. When the time comes when she learns of Clarice’s part in her daughter’s death, there will be consequences.
The females in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica are some of the toughest on television. Admirable in their dedications. Immoral to the extent that life is of no importance if it impedes to desire results. For Laura, cylons were simply machines. For most viewers of BSG, we’ve come to realized cylons may have been built as machine but in effect, the skinjobs were just as human as any human existing in the 12 colonies.
Laura’s one redeeming quality, she didn’t destroy Hera.
Sister Clarice is a thug and terrorist through and through. A representation of history throughout time of religious fanaticism that destroyed human life for the sake of religion. How Sister Clarice will fair is yet to be told.
In the dark corner of friendship sits a mother waiting, watching, and learning, and the least likely suspect of retribution.
