Thank you so much! I was listening to the show from scratch as I wrote this-- it's funny (or, you know, heartbreaking) listening to it that way, because it gets rougher for them all, but they also become more themselves and that (with the except of Hilbert) is a good thing.
I love Minkowski because she is a genuinely good person-- and she puts the work into it as well. I think it's actually pretty meaningful that she's the only commander to keep all of her crew alive, right up til the season finale-- Lovelace didn't manage that, and (despite being one of the powers that be), neither did Kepler. Minkowski is good at her job, and it matters to her, but she's also a good person-- not a smooth person, and awkward with people, but fundamentally good. And on the long list of the worst things Cutter and co ever did, taking Minkowski's dream and turning it against her is definitely on there.
Hera and Maxwell... I loved writing that scene, even though it was kind of painful at the same time. I mean, the last few episodes of this season broke me, in multiple ways (and were airing as I tried to write this, which, never again). Maxwell does acknowledge Hera's personhood (none of Hilbert's insistence that she is a machine), but then she did what she did, because she was someone that would do things like that. I think she genuinely liked Hera and worked to save her life because she didn't want to see it over.. but she was still sympatico with Jacobi, Kepler ("Shh, don't struggle, it'll just make this harder. If it helps, by the time I'm done, you're not going to remember any of this."). Maxwell was someone that would do that to another person. "Let's go be monsters," as Jacobi says.
(And at this point, what I really want from the show is just for Eiffel, Hera and Minkowski to have nice things-- just an episode of kittens and puppies and dancing on Cutter's grave with Mr Koudelka, that's all I want.)
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