[spoilers] Harry and Ruth. The Wonder Years.

[Silktie]

You make a very interesting point about Ruth. She seemed to feel a modicum of disgust towards herself for being able to cope so well with killing someone. As you say, perhaps starting to wonder whether the job - and Harry, to a certain extent - is worth losing her compassionate nature over.

What I'm wondering, is how this will impact on her evaluation of what Harry chooses to do in 9.8.

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If he chooses to save the many, and sacrifices her as a result, he will be doing what she rationally believes to be the right thing. And yet, I'm sure on some level she will be disappointed that he chose to sacrifice her, and perhaps see it as a sign that he doesn't love her quite enough for them to have a successful relationship in future.
If he chooses to sacrifice the many in order to save her, she will be angry at him for making the wrong choice, and maybe resenting the fact that he makes this choice now, but wasn't willing to make it when it was George and Nico's lives on the line, rather than hers. But will she on some level be touched that he is willing to sacrifice everything he believes in to save her? Or will she see it as weakness?
If he chooses neither option, but rather tries to sacrifice himself, thus saving her and the many, will she respect him for that? Or does she still believe, like she did in 5.5, that in the great scheme of things Harry is more important than her, and that he is a fool for depriving the country of his leadership in order to save a less important person such as herself?

One thing is certain, though, it's going to be an interesting parallel between Harry/Ruth and Lucas/Maya. Lucas has already made the choice to save the one, no matter what the cost thereof. Will this colour Ruth's perspective on what Harry should do?

Argh, so many questions...