Todays Stargate episode
Hated it.
Seriously- I mean... who kills off a character without bringing the actor who played her back? You can only do that if Torri actually died. That had better not have been Elizabeth Weir. Because my God- if they brought her character back (and even if they never developed her character well, they established she was part of the family) only to have her mistrusted and disliked, and then KILLED her, I'm going to hate this.
And then a part of me was wondering about the logic. Why treat her so much worse than Carson or Kanaan? It's not like they weren't created/altered by the enemy? And if Teyla was telling the truth about her son- um, did I miss the episode where that was decided?
As it is, it reminded me of why I liked Star Trek better for a scifi message, why I can appreciate Doctor Who more too. Those shows established that life, sentient life, didn't have to be life as we know it in order to exist and cherished and fought for. Those shows would have accepted a truce and given Elizabeth's group a chance to live, especially when they established that even the "villain" of the group was doing what he was doing for the chance to ascend.
Like the SGA hasn't risked the lives of other people to survive. Hello- waking up the wraith? They wanted to go out and explore and the city was drowning so they unwittingly woke up people who committed genocide.
That's what it became. Elizabeth's group (if it was her), like it or not, were an actual race. And their deaths killed them off. But if they had treated her with compassion, as someone who only wanted to do the right thing, things might have ended differently. And that scene at the end, where they basically lead people to their deaths, like they're luring kids with candy sent shivers down my spine. I can't ever see that episode again, and I'm a little afraid I'll never like those characters nearly as much ever again either. They made me cry, and this time it wasn't for them.
I think what's especially hard is that I've been working on war crimes, and then a friend of mine got bad news about a parent- so I kind of think that self-aware, sentient life is something we need to fight for, is special enough to sacrifice to preserve, and well- suffocating in space just seemed so wrong
I really, really hated it.
Seriously- I mean... who kills off a character without bringing the actor who played her back? You can only do that if Torri actually died. That had better not have been Elizabeth Weir. Because my God- if they brought her character back (and even if they never developed her character well, they established she was part of the family) only to have her mistrusted and disliked, and then KILLED her, I'm going to hate this.
And then a part of me was wondering about the logic. Why treat her so much worse than Carson or Kanaan? It's not like they weren't created/altered by the enemy? And if Teyla was telling the truth about her son- um, did I miss the episode where that was decided?
As it is, it reminded me of why I liked Star Trek better for a scifi message, why I can appreciate Doctor Who more too. Those shows established that life, sentient life, didn't have to be life as we know it in order to exist and cherished and fought for. Those shows would have accepted a truce and given Elizabeth's group a chance to live, especially when they established that even the "villain" of the group was doing what he was doing for the chance to ascend.
Like the SGA hasn't risked the lives of other people to survive. Hello- waking up the wraith? They wanted to go out and explore and the city was drowning so they unwittingly woke up people who committed genocide.
That's what it became. Elizabeth's group (if it was her), like it or not, were an actual race. And their deaths killed them off. But if they had treated her with compassion, as someone who only wanted to do the right thing, things might have ended differently. And that scene at the end, where they basically lead people to their deaths, like they're luring kids with candy sent shivers down my spine. I can't ever see that episode again, and I'm a little afraid I'll never like those characters nearly as much ever again either. They made me cry, and this time it wasn't for them.
I think what's especially hard is that I've been working on war crimes, and then a friend of mine got bad news about a parent- so I kind of think that self-aware, sentient life is something we need to fight for, is special enough to sacrifice to preserve, and well- suffocating in space just seemed so wrong
I really, really hated it.