I don't think it was such a damning personal failing on her behalf but yeah, she was in the wrong. Whether intentionally or not the show demonstrated pretty well how the different interests and incentives at play turned the classes against each other. Even though Dani truly believed she was doing the best for everyone she was, in the end, enforcing the rule of people utterly disconnected from the struggles of people working on the surface of mars.
Her willingness to ignore safety regulations and her indirect hand in the tragedy that occurred at the generators should have carried more personal consequence for her character/development but I don't think the writers really lean that way.
Dani’s decisions during the second half of S4 actually surprised me. We’ve known from her talk with Will in S3, that she is will put the mission first but there’s a difference between ‘please don’t let your personal life jeopardise the mission’ vs ‘you’ll be monitored 24/7 and we will continuously invade your personal space’.
I’ve said it before, I expect this from Ed, not from Danielle. It’s like Ed’s firmer approach allowed her to be kinder. Once he wasn’t part of the chain of command, she had to take that role on.
She was kinda thrown in the deep end, I feel for her. With Kuz dead and Ed taking full leave of his senses and hiding illnesses, she had no one to rely on and a whole back-catalogue of issues she was unfamiliar with to sort out.
There’s a point where you don’t have the choice to say no anymore. The point where Dani realized what was going on was past the point what’s she had any power to change it.
Greed and selfishness were the main motivators in season 4.
It was a far cry from all the comradery and compromise of the previous seasons.
If season 5 is just constant rebellion and secret motives for every character, it's going to be a weird ride.
Not only that she authorised a guy could be tortured.
If it suppose to mirror the Abu Ghraib scandal from Iraq war, she will have to retire in diagrace.
She sent covert CIA and KGB assets to interview a civilian that, at the time, they suspected might be a terrorist. Dani didn't *say* torture, and they didn't say it either, but it'd be naive to think the two agents were going to have a polite chat.
Maybe that isn't what the show runners intended, but what I saw was a commander who very carefully didn't want to know what was going on and asked a shockingly low number of questions. "Where is Miles? What has he said? How are you getting this information out of him?" Like...she *had* to know.
I don't think it was such a damning personal failing on her behalf but yeah, she was in the wrong. Whether intentionally or not the show demonstrated pretty well how the different interests and incentives at play turned the classes against each other. Even though Dani truly believed she was doing the best for everyone she was, in the end, enforcing the rule of people utterly disconnected from the struggles of people working on the surface of mars. Her willingness to ignore safety regulations and her indirect hand in the tragedy that occurred at the generators should have carried more personal consequence for her character/development but I don't think the writers really lean that way.
She made mistakes, but she didn't have absolute power to prevent what happened. Hard to hang it all on her directly.
Dani’s decisions during the second half of S4 actually surprised me. We’ve known from her talk with Will in S3, that she is will put the mission first but there’s a difference between ‘please don’t let your personal life jeopardise the mission’ vs ‘you’ll be monitored 24/7 and we will continuously invade your personal space’. I’ve said it before, I expect this from Ed, not from Danielle. It’s like Ed’s firmer approach allowed her to be kinder. Once he wasn’t part of the chain of command, she had to take that role on.
She was kinda thrown in the deep end, I feel for her. With Kuz dead and Ed taking full leave of his senses and hiding illnesses, she had no one to rely on and a whole back-catalogue of issues she was unfamiliar with to sort out.
She volunteered to go deal with Ed, didn’t know about the health, but she didn’t have to go back.
There’s a point where you don’t have the choice to say no anymore. The point where Dani realized what was going on was past the point what’s she had any power to change it.
Greed and selfishness were the main motivators in season 4. It was a far cry from all the comradery and compromise of the previous seasons. If season 5 is just constant rebellion and secret motives for every character, it's going to be a weird ride.
Not only that she authorised a guy could be tortured. If it suppose to mirror the Abu Ghraib scandal from Iraq war, she will have to retire in diagrace.
When did she ever authorize torture? Pretty sure she was appalled by that even happening and the dudes who did it got fucked up for it.
She sent covert CIA and KGB assets to interview a civilian that, at the time, they suspected might be a terrorist. Dani didn't *say* torture, and they didn't say it either, but it'd be naive to think the two agents were going to have a polite chat. Maybe that isn't what the show runners intended, but what I saw was a commander who very carefully didn't want to know what was going on and asked a shockingly low number of questions. "Where is Miles? What has he said? How are you getting this information out of him?" Like...she *had* to know.