this, that, and the other thing

[seperis]

I've decided I'm allowing myself today as my last day of self-inflicted misery and self-pity. It's this entire--laziness issue. I don't want to work to be happy. I don't want to work at unhappy either, but I will say this--it so does not require much work.

So think of this as my virtual fannish dump.

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For a

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Like I said, I totally get when they *do*--but the negotiation makes me far more uncomfortable than outright killing them. Destroying them on that planet was the first time I breathed easy in that episode. I undersatnd why they do, and about limited choices when they do make alliances, but that doesn't change my instinct of their absolute wrongness.

I'm not sure it's that simple. The Wraith, right now, appear to need to eat humans (how often?) to survive. They don't need to dominate the entire Pegasus galaxy to do so. Now, working out any alternative would be, to say the least, extremely logistically and ethically complex. But the Wraith are not mindlessly committed to the extermination of the human race. Quite the contrary, in fact.I don't know. Physically, no, they aren't exterminated. But they're--they're *kept*, for food, for amusement. It's--they hit the strongest button in me, even more than survival, but living, the freedom to exist. And the Wraith give survival with caveat, that the survival depends on dinnertime. It

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Ooh, going there next!

[rivier]

On Michael, you're not alone. I just wanted Ronon to execute him and have done. I didn't think they owed the ex-Wraith a bean. their only purpose was to get carson tied to a bed and menaced, which entertained me cruelly!

On the warnings thing - just my guess, but I think it did start with the darkfic challenge, and with people starting to read stories marked simply' dark', when the dark in question got to be a whole lot darker than they were reckoning on. My impression is that a lot of the responses and debate followed emrinalexander posting at length and with some force about her desire for warnings... stuff cascaded from there.

[rivier]

::nods firmly:: Sounds eminently reasonable to me.

[seperis]

*smirks* Carsons' not my favorite, so totally with you there.

Okay, I did read that post, so that was origin point. Okay. That helps with the escalation of the posts. Awesome. Thanks!

[sageness]

Dude, you just totally made me realize one thing the ep totally got right! Michael is acting like a whiny petulant bitch (and his fake-Hamlet soliloquy cracked me up so much), but that's exactly the point! He's been entitled for his entire LIFE. The Pegasus Galaxy has been like one great big China Buffet for the Wraith to gorge themselves on whenever they wanted. It was theirs for the taking. And now a group of people whom he's already emotionally manipulated with success are trying to tell him No.

He's gonna play the Hamlet card.

And the pathetic thing is that he's not really having to fake it. He really does feel that entitled and totally get why mountain lions who eat hikers are tracked down and killed. (You'd think that someone would have bothered to tell him this...)

Also, yay brownies! :D

[sageness]

...totally DOESN'T get why, rather.

*kicks typo*

[seperis]

Oh man. China buffet. You are *killing me*.

Yeah, Michael's speech was the funniest thing in *history*. Poor wraith was told they weren't going to let him go out and kill more people! Oh the tragedy of his life!

I love your mountain lion comparison. Rock on.

[shusu]

I must rec this to you - I Feel the Earth Move by janusglance. Long futurefic, scary aliens, PTSD, and gives good Sheppard. Read it and thought of you! :)

[seperis]

Oh *man*. I love you!