Comments | notshep: SPOILERS: Critical Mass

jenavira in notshep

SPOILERS: Critical Mass

Dec 06, 2005 17:49

Dear Atlantis Writers:

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Comments 11

amaresu December 7 2005, 08:04:53 UTC

I'm somewhat confused by this. Am feared that have been spoiled. But in hopes that I haven't been can you tell me the episode this referres to?

jenavira December 7 2005, 14:35:20 UTC

I'm sorry; I put it in the subject line -- it's Critical Mass. *edits shamefully*

amaresu December 9 2005, 05:16:28 UTC

Yeah, I figured that out. The part of my flist that told me the new episode was named Critical Mass was about forty posts down. Teach me not to look at my lj for any length of time.

castalianspring December 8 2005, 17:29:10 UTC

The correct moral objection to, "Let's torture someone!" is not, "But he might be innocent!" The correct moral response is, "No."

WORD. A thousand times, word. That bothered me so much. Sure, they felt guilty about it in the end, but only b/c Kavanaugh was innocent, not b/c they were willing to torture one of their own people based almost solely on the fact that he didn't play well with others and Weir didn't like him. Letting Ronon do it doesn't absolve them from blame in the slightest.

nostalgia_lj December 10 2005, 04:08:16 UTC

I'm... sort of disturbed by how much of fandom seems to be arguing that Torture Is Perfectly Okay. So the lesson is that we need to get cute people to advocate it, at which point we'll be fine about the whole thing.

jenavira December 10 2005, 05:05:21 UTC

I went through the whole list of reviews on sga_newsletter the day it came out, and there were all of two that even suggested that maybe the whole torture thing was not really cool. I've been too depressed to check again...

nostalgia_lj December 10 2005, 05:12:51 UTC

Thing is, I know that half these people would be up in arms about someone saying torture was okay, so it's a bit of a jolt now that we're all so okay with it. Are we just not okay with characters we like being bad people?

jenavira December 11 2005, 07:37:56 UTC

I think it's possible it's just not registering that the episode itself didn't seem to have a problem with it. I read one review today that was all, "There is no PTB declaring that a character is Omg Teh Evil! They are allowed to be ambiguous!" And I'm thinking, once again, you give them too much credit...

the_ghost_twins December 24 2005, 06:32:49 UTC

I know what you mean I think and I think the one to be tourchered got out of it great, fainting.

planetkiller February 13 2006, 06:44:26 UTC

Not only did they drop the ball on torture, but in this Friday's (10/02/06) episode they dropped the ball on mutually assured distruction. And they dropped the ball on genetic experimentation on people who don't want to be experimented on.

I think I'm going to have to realise that Atlantis is "watch but don't think" tv.