Quote Originally Posted by ZombieWildfire View Post
But, given the stakes, is this a problem or a virtue? If she didn't try to (And I'm not saying she is succeeding) get the most out of the colonists, they'd all have run out of water, fuel, and goodness only knows what else. Like I said earlier on in this thread, she's damned if she's cautious and damned is she isn't.

As far as I can remember (though I do have an utterly terrible memory), we've only really seen CJ since the outbreak. And it seems to me that she has changed. To me, she seemed a lot more emotional with her tower folk, then she seems to have become harder and more cautious after that got Inked, and as time has gone on and limbs have gone AWOL, and now she's reaching breaking point on account of the colony's situation again, and she's starting to make more emotional decisions. I think how she is with Pegs is a slight indicator of that.

then again, perhaps I am just dead inside, so I get her
I guess I look at it from a different viewpoint. Perhaps if she let others take a little more control and initiative themselves rather than just following her to do list, they could have solved their water problem long ago. Maybe not, but I think it is a high possibility.

And I agree she has changed a little bit, when at Dunbar she had a big portion of people 'escape' and run away (how much more efficient and productive could they have been if those people had stayed?). It doesn't sound like they have had too many people bail on the Colony except Burt and Riley, and maybe if you count those who have left the Colony to be based out of Dunbar too but that is sort of a gray area.

Th thing that hasn't changed and again is the very reason I don't like her as a person/character is that she is still only looking out for herself. She does talk to Pegs, but mentions to Pegs that it might be better if some of the Colony members left so that the food and water would go longer (i.e. more for her and less for them). Look at this vs the contrasting method of Michael and Burt when they were still in the tower. They were running out of food and water, so they started rationing it out, to the point that everyone was complaining about how little they were getting, but everyone was still getting some and everyone got the same; each person was equally important.

There may be some benefits to CJ's methodology, but I think the cons far outweigh the benefits, and those cons become most evident when the crap hits the fan... and I think we are getting there soon.