Comments on: Stargate Atlantis Rewatch: Sanctuary http://kathyhassinger.com/2009/07/stargate-atlantis-rewatch-sanctuary/ Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Martin S http://kathyhassinger.com/2009/07/stargate-atlantis-rewatch-sanctuary/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Martin S Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:27:56 +0000 http://kathyhassinger.com/?p=376#comment-29 I only partly agree on McKay here. Yes he went over the top with being a jerk on Proculus, as he often does when he meets technically not very advanced cultures, but I think he was completely reasonable when back to Atlantis. I mean how often have they endangered earth and Atlantis by just not being sceptic enough about something or someone? It's one of my major issues with the whole stargate franchise how easily they are convinced to believe something or how fast they are to give up all caution even if the consequences might be catastrophic for billions of human beings (in case of SG-1). So I really like that McKay stays a sceptic right until the end. He doesn't save the day, because there was never any threat from Chaya, but that is not the point. And for the ancients to take scepticism as some kind of personal insult really just takes the cake, after THEY first allowed the whole pegasus galaxy to be overthrown by the wraith, condemning hundreds if not thousands of planets to 10.000 years of suffering and gruesome death and then returning to the milky way, just to leave again for greener pastures (=higher plane of existence) and in the wake let the goauld take over and enslave world after world. All those worlds filles with human being seeded there by... THE ANCIENTS! So if anyone is even remotely responsible for all that suffering and in consequence everyone being very sceptic when meeting someone from another world it is the ancients. I wonder why no one ever shows them their responsibility for the countless horros in the two galaxies they once "ruled over"... the asgard seem to care for "their" galaxy and the Nox obviously never felt the need to colonize anything at all. It may be suffering of "lesser beings" from their high-plane-perspective, but it is suffering cause by them nonetheless. I only partly agree on McKay here. Yes he went over the top with being a jerk on Proculus, as he often does when he meets technically not very advanced cultures, but I think he was completely reasonable when back to Atlantis. I mean how often have they endangered earth and Atlantis by just not being sceptic enough about something or someone? It’s one of my major issues with the whole stargate franchise how easily they are convinced to believe something or how fast they are to give up all caution even if the consequences might be catastrophic for billions of human beings (in case of SG-1). So I really like that McKay stays a sceptic right until the end. He doesn’t save the day, because there was never any threat from Chaya, but that is not the point.

And for the ancients to take scepticism as some kind of personal insult really just takes the cake, after THEY first allowed the whole pegasus galaxy to be overthrown by the wraith, condemning hundreds if not thousands of planets to 10.000 years of suffering and gruesome death and then returning to the milky way, just to leave again for greener pastures (=higher plane of existence) and in the wake let the goauld take over and enslave world after world. All those worlds filles with human being seeded there by… THE ANCIENTS! So if anyone is even remotely responsible for all that suffering and in consequence everyone being very sceptic when meeting someone from another world it is the ancients. I wonder why no one ever shows them their responsibility for the countless horros in the two galaxies they once “ruled over”… the asgard seem to care for “their” galaxy and the Nox obviously never felt the need to colonize anything at all.
It may be suffering of “lesser beings” from their high-plane-perspective, but it is suffering cause by them nonetheless.

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