I'm going to be totally honest...

[skoosiepants]

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.

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[veracity]

I don't know if I touched this in my review or not, so I'll put it here.

Basically, I have no problems with killing the humanized!Wraith. Why? Because you can't change a leopard's spots to stripes. Eventually they will revert, they will have the knowledge of Atlantis, and they can carry that tidbit to other Hives and not only endanger the expedition's galaxy but others as well, including Earth. Now call me crazy, but neutralizing the enemy before it becomes a even bigger issue is a good thing. I could be kooky like that though.

It makes sense in war, and Carson's waffling between that god-like complex when he made Michael to the "but they're people now" attitdue is starting bug the piss out of me. They're not human! They're not, no mater how dress them up, they're still Wraith with thousands of years of evolution that can't be taken away by a drug. Sorry, you can't change evolution overnight. It's not that easy, and being from Earth and all the knowledge of the inability to fix our own planet's diseases should have weighed in on that.

I get neutralizing them and then killing them. It sucks, but war is never nice or fair. It's about winning to survive the next day.

Them turning back overnight was a dumb plotline in my opinion. It should have been better, focused more on the point so it couldn't be wrapped up in a two-parter. There should have been more far reaching reprecussions than the "Ooh, miss a shot and we're back to being Wraith in no time!" Really unbelievable plotline there. Also, why in the hell did Sheppard leave him there? At least let Ronon stay. Because now Carson is going to be a spy, inadvertently. Saw that coming a mile away. Before they go giving the character more complex material, they need to thread it in with the previous.

The whole episode felt off, and it was because of that storyline. It was a stilted attempt a moral dilemma that was unnecessary because as Ronon said, they're just causalities of war. It happens and it sucks, but anyone from Earth know that. Hell, John should know better than anyone, considering his own blackmark.

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

Them turning back overnight was a dumb plotline in my opinion. Okay, yeah. What's the point of the retrovirius if they have to take it every hour or whatever for it to even work??

[veracity]

Exactly! If they have to give it every hour, it's clearly going to uneffective. You'd think Carson would have been concentrating on that little fact when creating it.