Again, I think this was addressed in the first arc of this season. Mothma has tried again and again to find common ground with her daughter. She sees her future because it is her past. She reaches out. She tries so hard. And again and again her daughter rejects her.B wrote:I don't see how his future actions would change her guilt now.epilogue wrote:What if, in the next arc, we see Perrin disavow Mothma to the Empire? Would that change any of this for you?B wrote:I've watched season 1 twice, and I've seen nothing that makes me think she wouldn't feel guilt about him, but putting him aside, she should be racked with guilt over her daughter. An empire that just slaughtered an entire planet worth of people isn't going to think twice about trying to torture information out of her and killing her when she has nothing to give. Mon must know that, and for this to all happen without even a mention of her guilt, is weird to me.
But look, I'll concede that she may not feel guilt over Perrin. She was obviously unhappy in the marriage and keeping secrets from him. I didn't feel it was to the point of carelessly abandoning him to the whims of an Empire bent on finding her, but I'm willing to surrender this point.
But is she not at all concerned that the Empire will arrest, interrogate, torture, imprison, and/or kill her daughter? She should have been refusing to go to Yavin without assurances that someone would keep her daughter safe.
Mothma is so tender and beautiful in the way she tries to save her daughter from a loveless and potentially dead life and, again, her daughter rejects her. She insults Mothma and figuratively slaps her down. In that moment, Mothma gives up. We see it. There's a literal moment in which is stops. She decides the relationship cannot be saved, that her daughter will make her own choices, but there is no saving their relationship. I'm sure Mothma is torn up about it. But we're also 2 years removed from those events by the time she gives her speech. That's a long time to deal with all of this and let go.
Has she talked to her daughter in those years? It's implied that she has not. Again, Gen O'Reilly is acting her ass off and there is so much happening in those fast moments. Her expression implies a lot. Maybe we don't get an explicit mention of her daughter but that didn't seem weird to me given all that came before and how fast everything is moving now.
They are estranged. Her daughter hates her and dismisses her and rejects her. Again, I'm sure Mothma thinks about that and it bugs her, as it would any mother, but I don't think that necessitates a scene or a even a line of dialogue about it. This show trusts it's audience. There's nothing in the show that says she DOESN'T think of her daughter. So just imagine that it's all wrapped up in what's she's doing. It adds to the stakes, honestly. And we can feel/know that even if it isn't spoken.
That's just my take. I'm sure others, like you, feel differently. But I think the show has done a masterful job setting up exactly why it isn't necessary in the moment. And, again, we have 3 more episodes left. Maybe something comes in those episodes.
