what may or may not be hard reality

So I just saw Christina's episode of Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, and I gotta say, never have I ever seen such a pointless character. Especially not considering she was only in this one single episode. We talked about it afterward, and we could not figure out one single reason for the character to exist. Because the thing is, she's featured fairly prominently. She has probably 5 scenes, or something, hangs out with all the main characters, has quite a few lines, but none of them are relevant. She basically stands around, speculates and offers commentary, but never does anything. Now, if she'd been an established recurring supporting character, it would have made sense, much like a lab rat on CSI might stand in the hallway and offer some pointless but slightly amusing parting comment at the end of a scene, but that's not the case. She's an unknown character, only in this one episode, and she does nothing (to use the CSI comparison, imagine if a random person walking their dog past the crime scene stops to tell the CSIs that they're sure to solve this, and then shows up again at a bar at the end to pat one of them on the back for doing a good job). It was weird.

Positively surprised by how solid the show was, though. And Kelly Rowan is very very pretty (and for some reason reminds me a whole lot of Scully... it's probably the hair.)

And also, I really really loved Christina's hair and outfits. Follow the cut for some screen caps.