McKay needing to be taken down a peg or two, plus the rest of the team needed to know he wasn't infallible, so they wouldn't keep relying on him to be their miracle worker. They still could have done it in a way that ended in a *pats* "It's not your fault" thing. Like I think Hoff did that exactly to Carson. And even if they did do it the way they did, they could have *resolved* it. I mean John made snide comments for a few episodes, but then it was kind of forgotten, but you also get the feeling, in eps like Adrift, that John still hold that over Rodney. In Adrift, he demands that Rodney give him his word that the nanites were safe, and they totally didn't believe him when Rodney said they were. And made a spectacle and tried to intimidate Rodney to bring him down that peg. I hate that they can't seem to leave Trinity behind, and I have a feeling, that John is going to blame Rodney for Elizabeth getting away, and Rodney is going to be made to feel for it whenever something happens.
I can't help but think the real reason is the writers aren't completely happy that "the geek" has become one of the most popular characters on the show. It's funny, because I remember hearing someone saying once that the reason Rodney is the most fleshed out, most loved character, is because the writers, all geeks themselves, relate to him the most and put the most into his character. But I can also see the point you're trying to make, although I think I would probably chalk it up a bit more to the fact that we hurt the ones we love.
Carson is a character I still love, despite the fact they often made him do things that made him look like a modern-day Mengele. Granted I don't really see how taking away their only food source is any less of a genocide than turning some into humans to feed the others, but yeah, I get your point. And yeah, they totally left the whole "Ronon couldn't be eaten" thing alone, when they were already halfway there after Hoff, it would have made a much better defense than some of the other shit they've tried.
And has no one raised the question of the Wraith actually being humans, just with a mutation caused by the Ancients tinkering around with the Iratus bug trying to find ways to extend their lives so they could ascend? When did they tell us that in canon? I know that they've hinted at the Wraith's origins, and in The Return? John and that Ancient woman get into a finger pointing thing, and John says they created the Wraith, but I don't remember us ever hearing more on that.
I've been around fandoms a long time, and there are many times where I've just had to drop a show and leave fandom completely. Yeah, I haven't been around too long, but I remember my first fandom, I couldn't imagine ever leaving it, but then a time came, and I just had to. Know I find it kind of weird to look back. And there are a few other shows, like Buffy, where I used to watch it regularly (before I found fandom), but it got to a point where the show was too different, and I just stopped watching.
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They still could have done it in a way that ended in a *pats* "It's not your fault" thing. Like I think Hoff did that exactly to Carson.
And even if they did do it the way they did, they could have *resolved* it. I mean John made snide comments for a few episodes, but then it was kind of forgotten, but you also get the feeling, in eps like Adrift, that John still hold that over Rodney. In Adrift, he demands that Rodney give him his word that the nanites were safe, and they totally didn't believe him when Rodney said they were. And made a spectacle and tried to intimidate Rodney to bring him down that peg. I hate that they can't seem to leave Trinity behind, and I have a feeling, that John is going to blame Rodney for Elizabeth getting away, and Rodney is going to be made to feel for it whenever something happens.
I can't help but think the real reason is the writers aren't completely happy that "the geek" has become one of the most popular characters on the show.
It's funny, because I remember hearing someone saying once that the reason Rodney is the most fleshed out, most loved character, is because the writers, all geeks themselves, relate to him the most and put the most into his character. But I can also see the point you're trying to make, although I think I would probably chalk it up a bit more to the fact that we hurt the ones we love.
Carson is a character I still love, despite the fact they often made him do things that made him look like a modern-day Mengele.
Granted I don't really see how taking away their only food source is any less of a genocide than turning some into humans to feed the others, but yeah, I get your point. And yeah, they totally left the whole "Ronon couldn't be eaten" thing alone, when they were already halfway there after Hoff, it would have made a much better defense than some of the other shit they've tried.
And has no one raised the question of the Wraith actually being humans, just with a mutation caused by the Ancients tinkering around with the Iratus bug trying to find ways to extend their lives so they could ascend?
When did they tell us that in canon? I know that they've hinted at the Wraith's origins, and in The Return? John and that Ancient woman get into a finger pointing thing, and John says they created the Wraith, but I don't remember us ever hearing more on that.
I've been around fandoms a long time, and there are many times where I've just had to drop a show and leave fandom completely.
Yeah, I haven't been around too long, but I remember my first fandom, I couldn't imagine ever leaving it, but then a time came, and I just had to. Know I find it kind of weird to look back. And there are a few other shows, like Buffy, where I used to watch it regularly (before I found fandom), but it got to a point where the show was too different, and I just stopped watching.