Friday night sci-fi

[mari4212]

I'm catching my shows oddly tonight, because we were watching some of the olympics. So I caught Atlantis first, and Stargate's on now.

Atlantis, "Michael"
Okay, anyone else totally freaked out by this episode? This just scared me, the idea of forcing a sentient being to undergo biological tests against their will. And the idea of genocide, destroying a species. Okay, I understand that with the wraith as they are there might not be any alternative, but still, this is scary.

And what is with the moral response of the Atlantis crew? McKay seemed nervous and apprehensive, which could have been either dealing with the wraith himself or being unsure about the morality of this choice, depending on how you want to interpret it. He's rather behind the scenes in this episode. Weir and Beckett seemed to be well aware of the moral ambiguities of what they were doing, but had decided that it was necessary, and I can kind of see where they were coming from, because right now it looks like a choice between killing all the wraith or changing them, but they still seemed to make this decision too easily. Teyla was the only one who I really agreed with, because she did seem to be uncomfortable with what was going on, and was the only one who seemed to see Michael as a person.

And both Ronon and Sheppard frankly scared me stiff. Ronon I can at least understand where he's coming from, since he has the most bad experiences with the wraith, but Sheppard? His morality seems to be entirely situational, and if it helps his little group, it's okay. Does that freak anyone else out?


Stargate

This episode I like. Okay, Mom and I had to think up a totally nuts explanation to figure out why they didn't fall through the floor before I felt comfortable really watching, but hey, it's lighter fluff for the SGC side. Of course, Teal'c is out with the more serious side.

And it's the return of Sam's all-nighters and science geekery. Anyone else really miss this? Especially where she's sitting there with the problem figured out trying to coach the other science types through the situation and getting fed up with their slowness?

I know I'm supposed to be interested in the Sodan plotline, but for some reason it isn't capturing my attention.

Comments

[trill100.livejournal.com]

I completely understood Ronan and McKay and Sheppard. They reached a point where it was bad for humanity in general to keep 'Michael' alive. Moving him to the alpha site was a horrible idea, too, imo.

I mean, I don't agree at all with them turning him into a human, or basically anything else they did. This epsidoe was full of bad decisions and most of them were fueled by the guilt over the first bad decision. Michael was still a wraith, and if he'd still looked like one, they would have had absolutely no problem killing him.

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

I can almost understand them, from an objective standpoint, in killing him when he became a threat.

It just scares me from a moral standpoint to see them doing this kind of experimentation and contemplating genocide, because all my alarms are going off.