The deathtrap city of Atlantis, then, could be another embodiment of this dilemma. Does the wisdom you gain from exploring it outweigh the harm you'll suffer from pushing buttons at random? Even in this episode, the mention of leukemia-curing plants seemed as if were inserted specifically to offset the perils of the Exploding Tumor Installer.
Interesting. I hadn't picked up on that, but I think there's something to it.
But what I meant with the Atlantis analogy was that I started feeling fonder of the show when I decided that the Atlantis crew weren't super-competent studs like the SG-1 cast, but a bunch of also-rans who were muddling along as best they could.
I remember that, and I also find the show much more entertaining when I look at it that way. But sometimes the writers break my suspension of suspension of suspension of disbelief by asserting that they're writing Serious Stories About Heroes, and that makes me sad. (Then again, I like Mitchell quite a bit in his own right--I think watching RDA disengage during Seasons 6 and 7 and then phone it in through much of Season 8 left me ready for a change, no matter how fond I am of Jack, and Mitchell has developed into a strikingly different character; Landry I just dislike, because I feel like the writers are telling me he's awesome but showing me he's a clueless jerk.)
Interesting. I hadn't picked up on that, but I think there's something to it.
But what I meant with the Atlantis analogy was that I started feeling fonder of the show when I decided that the Atlantis crew weren't super-competent studs like the SG-1 cast, but a bunch of also-rans who were muddling along as best they could.
I remember that, and I also find the show much more entertaining when I look at it that way. But sometimes the writers break my suspension of suspension of suspension of disbelief by asserting that they're writing Serious Stories About Heroes, and that makes me sad. (Then again, I like Mitchell quite a bit in his own right--I think watching RDA disengage during Seasons 6 and 7 and then phone it in through much of Season 8 left me ready for a change, no matter how fond I am of Jack, and Mitchell has developed into a strikingly different character; Landry I just dislike, because I feel like the writers are telling me he's awesome but showing me he's a clueless jerk.)
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