

And I think that there's a lot of parallels between Drummer and Marco,” Alexander said. His methods are horrid, but does he have a point? Is anything he does justified, even a little? He deals with the “oppression of the inner planets” that Gee spoke of in a completely different way, and he's proved to be a complicated antagonist. Marco Inaros is also advancing the cause of his people, but he’s doing it through a campaign of terror and fear. She's got that warrior mentality where she's going into battle already dead and will do whatever it takes to advance the cause of her people.”

“In a lot of ways, I think she's almost, in the season, she's already dead. The personal costs do not matter to Drummer, and this was something that Gee was quick to add: “So if it costs her something personally, so be it,” she said. Where does Drummer get this strength from?Īs Gee said, “I think that growing up under the oppression of the inner planets, the oppression that she has experienced, the traumas associated with that, I think that her singular focus is the liberation of her people and that is just at the absolute core of who she is, and everything she strives for is to that end.” Things would be much easier for Drummer if she took a simpler path with less virtue, but she continually refuses every easy path that she is given. I think for her, there's a void of hopelessness.” And you really get a sense of how vast the expanse truly is.

God, the universe feels so cold and empty for her. “Her family has been fractured, there's so many people who are dead, she has nowhere to go. Drummer started Season 6 in a very low place, and though she’s been in bad spots before, we asked Gee if this was truly the lowest place that Drummer has ever been.
