Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-10390252-20181110172908

I should add that there is no doubt that Salem used the wrong means to attain to her goals and there was definitely some selfish motivation to her plea for Ozma's life. However, in the end, she is as much a victim as a villain, tormented by emotions that she clearly was unable to confront and driven beyond despair into insanity.

It is curious, in a way, how Salem and Ozma's thoughts, goals and philosophies during their time together so closely reflected the Dark Brother and Light Brother's own ways. I wonder if either of them realised that irony and whether any of them ultimately had the inkling that the way to achieve their mutual goals was to find a middle path between their extremes.