I’m ready to walk the path the Pah wraiths have laid out for me.
I have a lot of sympathy for Adami Winn. In a society where their gods take an active role in the society. Where pretty much any schlub fresh off a transport can have a life changing conversations with their gods (If Nagus Zek is worthy to talk to the Prophets, anyone is). Yet she it cut off from them.
She maintains her faith in them, scours the prophecies for guidance, a second hand source at best. And until this moment never betrayed them, never gave up on them. Sure her own ego did blind her at times, but she didn’t have the benefit that every other Bajoran could have, an orb experience.
And why did the prophets never speak to her her whole life? Why were they silent over the decades of service and sacrifice. Because of this decision. By experiencing linear time, she reached this point through a series of cause and effect, but the Prophets don’t experience linear time. Because she allies herself with the Pah Wraiths at the end of her path, the Prophets lock her away from them at the beginning.
Her tragedy is operatic when it could have easily slipped into a joke or cartoon villainy, and Louise Fletcher plays it with excellent depth.
