Yes, mom fixed the internet! Yay!

[melannen]

RE: the current SG-1 episode: why, by Ba'al's balls, aren't they using freaking *Morse code*?

bah bah bah.

On the other hand, m-theory is hot, even if Sam has it completely wrong. I'm sure Rodney would agree with me.

ETA: The SGA episode actually includes less logic than SG1. Bah. If he can design a virus that'll do that, he can design one that'll kill 'em outright and avoid all the sticky moral issues (since we obviously haven't got any qualms about biowarfare and genocide to worry about.)

And why, by the ring-devouring fires of Mount Doom, did they let a Wraith onto Atlantis in the first place? SGA seems to be alternating brilliant episodes with episodes that require every single person to be bloody stupid, and I no longer feel guilty about the fic I'm writing. So there.

ETA 2 ... and now I'm trying to figure out if it's reasonable that the Ancient alphabet is related to the SG Alphabet. (Answer: Heck yes. Clearly descended from the same ancestral forms.)

ETA 3: Ooooh! It's a Six/Baltar 'shipper episode! Now I wish I'd actually been paying enough attention to the show to follow the episode! Oh well. (Because all I care about in nu-BSG is Six/Baltar, and Kara when she gets to play fighter pilot.)

Comments

[siegeofangels.livejournal.com]

Re: SGA:

I had a brief moment of "Wha?" about the "science," but it kind of got drowned out by "When did my entire show become EVIL?"

. . . it was kind of fun watching Carson's SOUL BURN AWAY, though.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

The moral issues in the episode didn't even hold my interest, because ... well, not so much because it was badly done, but because it was obvious that the characters *themselves* weren't interested in them. I could practically see them thinking 'I'm going to put in some lip service because I feel like I ought to be concerned about the morality of what we're doing here, but actually, *he was a Wraith*, I don't *care*. I don't even really care that I don't care.'

Which I find in-character, really, and is probably where I'd be after a year in Pegasus, too. Because, well, they're *Wraith*. It just isn't much to hang a whole episode on, at least not the way they tried to do it there.

[siegeofangels.livejournal.com]

You know, I think that's what creeped me out. If they had just picked one or the other--either you're trying to be compassionate, or you just don't care--it would have been okay.

Like when Caldwell was advocating torturing Kavanagh, he didn't pretend that it was ethically the best thing to do, he was just all, "Yup, it sucks, but we don't really have any other options."

It's the lying (okay, maybe it's less the lying than that they're so incompetent at it). And maybe if they had just said to Michael, "Yeah, we're at war, and our other option is dying horribly," I'd just be like, "Okay, we're evil now. I can work with that."

Argh.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

See, I wouldn't even say 'we're at war' as evil, necessarily, because the Wraith *are* the Wraith, they're alien in a way that none of the other races (except the replicators, and note how little angst was involved in wiping *them* out) that the SGC has interacted with have been, to the extent that I'm not convinced that they *should* count as 'people.' Do we even know to what extent the average not-queen Wraith has a sense of self?

There's some really interesting issues there. It's just that SGA keeps coming close to them, and then shying away at the last minute. I wonder if it isn't that there's pressure from above to keep the show from going to the places that the writers want it to go.

The Kavanaugh situation bothered me a lot more than any of the crap they've been doing to captured Wraith since about the third episode. (Has treating human-shaped Wraith as non-people made it easier for them to classify other humans as non-people, or was it just the high-pressure situation? Good question, too bad that at this rate the show's never going to address it.)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

And actually, the science didn't bother me that much, because for *any* of the 'genetics' in SGA to work, you have to assume that Wraith genetic material is different than human-standard DNA, that their genes have an innate tendency to hybridize and agressively transform, that the Wraith genes can do to an entire macro-organism what Earth viruses do to single cells, able to hijack them and alter them for its own purposes.

Which, given what we know of the origin of the Wraith and the Iratus bug, is actually reasonably consistent. It's wacky, yes, but they did evolve in a whole different galaxy and have magic soul-sucking powers, so it doesn't ping my 'bad science' radar so much as my 'hmm, interesting' radar.