edit: ok, this one is the best, because it’s the one time in the whole show where you really see Winn with the WTF face. she’s been betrayed I way she’s never thought possible. this is her SHOOK face. it’s a half-second later she shouts - with a quiver of incredulity in her voice - “NO!”
but you can tell she already knows it’s true.
honestly, even when I rewatch this…. I feel a little badly for her. because I’m not a fucking psycho, I feel terribly for any woman who is manipulated like this by a man, but especially by Dukat. I mean, Winn Adami is a horrible person, but nobody deserves what he did to her, and especially nobody deserves to have it done to them by their planet’s version of Interplanetary SuperHitler. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still… at the end of the day (end the episode and the series…), when it comes down to it, she had a lot of bad karma coming to her. And, when the moment came, she got hers. Even after trying to get a last-minute redemption - which she did by calling out, “Emissary! THE BOOK!” what she earned was a quick and satisfying-for-the-viewers death:
and exactly how do you tastefully immolate one of the most powerful women on the show? a controversial religious leader, ahem?
make an even meaner villain do it and keep it under 5 seconds, apparently, then make sure to cut away to an even more high-stakes battle of ultimate good vs evil battle for the fate of the galaxy. for further evidence Ronald D. Moore knows what he’s doing, I present Battlestar Galactica (2004)
❤️
Backstabbingly good!
edit: ok, this one is the best, because it’s the one time in the whole show where you really see Winn with the WTF face. she’s been betrayed I way she’s never thought possible. this is her SHOOK face. it’s a half-second later she shouts - with a quiver of incredulity in her voice - “NO!”
but you can tell she already knows it’s true.
honestly, even when I rewatch this…. I feel a little badly for her. because I’m not a fucking psycho, I feel terribly for any woman who is manipulated like this by a man, but especially by Dukat. I mean, Winn Adami is a horrible person, but nobody deserves what he did to her, and especially nobody deserves to have it done to them by their planet’s version of Interplanetary SuperHitler. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still… at the end of the day (end the episode and the series…), when it comes down to it, she had a lot of bad karma coming to her. And, when the moment came, she got hers. Even after trying to get a last-minute redemption - which she did by calling out, “Emissary! THE BOOK!” what she earned was a quick and satisfying-for-the-viewers death:
and exactly how do you tastefully immolate one of the most powerful women on the show? a controversial religious leader, ahem?
make an even meaner villain do it and keep it under 5 seconds, apparently, then make sure to cut away to an even more high-stakes battle of ultimate good vs evil battle for the fate of the galaxy. for further evidence Ronald D. Moore knows what he’s doing, I present Battlestar Galactica (2004)