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[rabbitwrath]

The thing about Stargate: Atlantis - if they had intended to make cut-off-from-earth, lord-of-the-flies sci-fi epic charting the slow, chilling descent into self-justification and general amorality, it might have been a very good show. It did indeed do exactly that. Instead, it was disturbing, because it's very obvious that the writers intended no

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[mary_j_59]

H'mm. Your problems with this show sound EXACTLY like my problems with post-Deathly-Hallows Harry Potter. I simply cannot comprehend people who found that story satisfying - and yet practically all my problems with it would be alleviated if I only got the sense that Rowling INTENDED us to be critical of her heroes. I get no such sense.

Ah, well. I guess it's all just part of the Zeitgeist. How I miss DS9, which could be wonderfully, intentionally complex at times, however much it may have moralized.

[rabbitwrath]

Oh man, tell me about it. I only read DH once, to know how it all ended (and was that ever a mistake; note to self - next time just stick with the fanfic) and I have no desire to read it again, because I didn't even recognise the characters JK wrote into it. I like to think she wrote it after having been woken up by frantic publishers every night for five years and had gone insane from sleep deprivation. (that could also explain the grammar