Helen Krummenacker wrote:
It may be that Hal Mellanby is trusting and confides all to people
he barely knows.
It might be a good idea if you went back into the archive and reread the emails between Tavia, Dana, Harriet, Fiona and myself on the
subject
of Hal Mellanby
I believe Ellynne was putting out the 'trusting' options as *unlikely*. So far, I like [Ellynne's) version better than the lying hypocrite
version.
Why?
And none of the arguments about Dayna gleefully killing Sarrans counters the possibility that Lauren was the last survivor of a persecuted group on Sarran.
But it is not supported by any of the evidence we are provided with in the episode.
Imagine the last Jews in Nazi Germany manage to escape a
concentration camp and find refuge in the homes of some technologically superior aliens living among humans. Imagine they become friends-- the parent dies but the baby girl is raised like a sister to the alien.
You can "imagine" all you like; if there is no evidence then it did not happen.
And like Ellynne, I find Lauren's murder/execution bizarre without further explanation. "Welcome to your people" means, in Ellynne's theory, they are sending her to join her ancestors; consistent with their actions. If they are merely killing her because she has been 'contaminated' by outsiders, why do they verbally acknowledge her as one of their own?
Because she is. Which makes her a traitor. That's probably why Chal doesn't just kill her there and then, but instead "crucifies" her. They are making an example.
Jenny who is now going to bed!
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