I know I’ve already said this already (probably too many times) on this blog, but Gertrude Robinson is truly the Most character of all time. Her defining characteristic is the belief that The Ends Justify the Means, and she’s placed in a situation where the stakes are so high that absolutely Any means are justified. The world will end if she doesn’t take action, so of course she’ll sacrifice the people closest to her, and she’ll chop that astronaut into pieces and toss him in a pit, and she’ll plant explosives in a historic gnostic temple without worrying about who’s inside. And she’ll do it all seemingly without malice, or satisfaction, or any emotion other than maybe a grim sense of duty. AND THEN she finds out that actually the stakes were NEVER that high, the world was never in danger, every terrible thing she did was pointless, because things would have worked out fine if she’d just done nothing.
And then she fucking dies, before the show even starts, before any of the main characters ever get a chance to really meet her, but the shadow she casts looms over all of them until the end of the series.
Truly, who is doing it like Gertrude Robinson