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skoosiepants ([personal profile] skoosiepants) wrote2006-07-22 01:07 pm
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I'm going to be totally honest...

This is simplifying a lot, but...

Okay, so when Mike and the other Wraiths-turned-human confronted Lathon in the woods? I totally thought it was going to be a we're human looking but we still act like Wraith when one of our own pisses us off type of thing. Because it's not like they're loyal to one another. We've seen that enough. And you know what? I think that storyline would've been cooler than the we've stopped taking the medicine and remember thing. Because then they would've been addressing the issue that even though they look human, they still are innately Wraith, and now what do the Altanteans do with them and they're messed up social moralities? Or something like that.

Also, Beckett was a complete idiot the entire episode.

Also, also, I have no problem with them killing off the Wraith-turned-humans. I'm sorry. They're still Wraith, they're still a threat, and it's still war. Probably not everyone's opinion, but eh. *shrugs* The Wraith are pretty evil, and I don't think anyone comes out smellin' like roses in war.

[identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com 2006-07-22 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see the experiments as torture in any sense of the word. What Beckett is attempting is a way to neutralize a creature (sentient or not) that has prayed for millennia on human beings without the least trace of compassion. Now they're even completely depopulating entire planets. For a sentient species that's incredibly vicious and stupid. If the Iratus DNA can be permanently eradicated, then there is hope for co-existence. The only other answer would be complete genocide of the individuals that make up the species of Wraith. At least with the retrovirus, the individuals live even it they are not longer Wraith.

As for all the hand-wringing about the morality of Beckett's retrovirus, I guess I have a pretty low moral standard because I have no problem with my own species doing whatever is necessary to protect itself from these predators.

[identity profile] skoosiepants.livejournal.com 2006-07-22 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the only thing I had a problem with is the way Beckett handled it. I mean, is he deluding himself? He can't honestly think they're human with his drug, can he? *shakes head*

I have no problem with my own species doing whatever is necessary to protect itself from these predators. Completely with you.

[identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com 2006-07-22 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Beckett was stupid, and as was also said, so was Sheppard. And now I'm wondering if Beckett isn't compromised somehow by whatever Michael did to him. I have a feeling we're going to have a Manchurian Candidate-esque plot happening.

[identity profile] skoosiepants.livejournal.com 2006-07-23 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooo, I didn't think of Carson being compromised. Interesting...

[identity profile] lillian78.livejournal.com 2006-07-22 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to be repetitive but again that's *our* reaction as a high end predator. Something tries to eat me? Kill it and destroy all the rest! Sort of puts us on the same shaky moral ground as the imaginary Wraith. Mind you, I'd fight just as hard to keep from being lunch but I don't see us as somehow in any way "superior" to the Wraith. :-D