The FATE OF THE UNIVERSE wasn't enough motivation for him, show?
Well, that's the crux of it. After Atlantis's combined monkeying around with Replicator programming and Wraith DNA has culminated in the complete collapse of the Pegasus Galaxy -- here in the season finale, I wanted someone to step up just a little bit, and no one did -- except maybe Sam, which is poignant because it wasn't even under her watch that all this shit went down in the first place. And then to find out in Rodney's case that it wasn't because there was nothing he could do, but because the things he could do were simply too much work until there was a chance to reunite with his dead wife in it for him....
Look, I get that very few of us devote our whole lives and every waking moment to righting the wrongs of the world; we're all "selfish" in that sense, barring a very few special people. But on the other hand, most of us didn't personally cause those wrongs to begin with. It really makes Rodney look like a special kind of asshole that for the whole rest of his life, he never seems to view it like that, as something he owed the hundreds of thousands of dead people who now lie in Atlantis's wake.
Well, that's the crux of it. After Atlantis's combined monkeying around with Replicator programming and Wraith DNA has culminated in the complete collapse of the Pegasus Galaxy -- here in the season finale, I wanted someone to step up just a little bit, and no one did -- except maybe Sam, which is poignant because it wasn't even under her watch that all this shit went down in the first place. And then to find out in Rodney's case that it wasn't because there was nothing he could do, but because the things he could do were simply too much work until there was a chance to reunite with his dead wife in it for him....
Look, I get that very few of us devote our whole lives and every waking moment to righting the wrongs of the world; we're all "selfish" in that sense, barring a very few special people. But on the other hand, most of us didn't personally cause those wrongs to begin with. It really makes Rodney look like a special kind of asshole that for the whole rest of his life, he never seems to view it like that, as something he owed the hundreds of thousands of dead people who now lie in Atlantis's wake.
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