I can understand the annoyed by the stupid bits, I am too. But I was specifically regarding the way a lot of the reviews I've read seem to be about the humanized Wraith and how they should get a fair shake. Hell, I even tested the theory out and had a friend who only knows the episode as "the really white people in prison jumpsuits" and nothing about the show before giving her back story. And she saw the same thing I did, that a lot of people found it morally appalling to kill the defenseless when the Wraith look at humans as "Happy Meals with legs" (to borrow Spike's phrase from Buffy).
Perhaps the expedition tried to make them human, to see if it would work. Remember, the gas had been intended to make a bigger feeding ground for other Wraith. It would behoove them to see how their experiment worked, and if it didn't why not? If you're going to create a weapon that can be used to kill them all, you need to know how it works and why.
And I'm not sure that John really wanted them to be human, either. I don't see the "they're better than that" defense in my viewings of the episode. I see it as a "we need to make this work, here we have some great guinea pigs to test out on. Free of charge."
And to be fair, they couldn't exactly perform the experiments anywhere else, either. The D was dead in the water and the Hiveship had suffered a lot of damage too. I also don't think it's fair to say that they're not dealing with the aftermath, either. We don't know that for certain. It ended on a pretty open note, if you watch Elizabeth watching Woolsey leave. She knows there will be hell to pay for this, on her own crew and nothing to do with the IOA.
Perhaps the expedition tried to make them human, to see if it would work. Remember, the gas had been intended to make a bigger feeding ground for other Wraith. It would behoove them to see how their experiment worked, and if it didn't why not? If you're going to create a weapon that can be used to kill them all, you need to know how it works and why.
And I'm not sure that John really wanted them to be human, either. I don't see the "they're better than that" defense in my viewings of the episode. I see it as a "we need to make this work, here we have some great guinea pigs to test out on. Free of charge."
And to be fair, they couldn't exactly perform the experiments anywhere else, either. The D was dead in the water and the Hiveship had suffered a lot of damage too. I also don't think it's fair to say that they're not dealing with the aftermath, either. We don't know that for certain. It ended on a pretty open note, if you watch Elizabeth watching Woolsey leave. She knows there will be hell to pay for this, on her own crew and nothing to do with the IOA.
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