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Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
 
Again, I really like the character of Dr. Beckett. When are they going to get him off the "guest star" list and add him to the permanent cast in the opening credits?

Sheppard named the Wraith "Steve". That just has a nice ring to it. Steve. LOL!

At the end, Beckett quoted Churchill saying "Victory at any cost." (right?) And followed it saying "never thought I'd disagree." Clearly he doesn't think killing half the population to save the other half is worth it, but Sheppard made the point that the rest would be wiped out by the Wraith as retribution. I know we haven't seen every single one of their exploits through the gate, but what makes him so sure of this? I didn't think we knew the Wraith that well yet.

B.J.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
beard guy: "...they may simply leave us alone once they learn we are... unpalatable."
Sheppard: "'Cause they're such an easy-going, live-and-let-live kinda race."

The Wraith are your typical villains. They aren't complicated. They eat humans. If they can't eat them, they kill them. That's about the extent of them, and the Atlantis team seems to know it. After all, even though they haven't met a lot of Wraiths, they've had plenty of time to hear plenty of stories.
 

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
 
"Steve" was brilliant.

And I'm forced to wonder why nobody notices that we really have no idea what the effect of the drug will be on the half of the population it DOESN'T kill. It may do nothing to the Wraith at all to feed on them.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Omega: The actual title of the... work... quoted in your signature is "Where's God When I'm S-scared?". We have some of those videos at the library, and I've occasionally wondered if being S-scared has an intensity between being R-scared and being T-scared.

Seriously, people watch those things? People are awful.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
There's a very good reason why Sheppard thinks that the Wraith will wipe out all the surviving people on that planet -- all you have to do is look at the second- and third-hand accounts of their previous attacks.

The Wraith not only attack to capture Humans to feed on them, but they also attack to destroy the civilization of their "herds". They view the Humans as animals, remember? They don't want their herds to become too advanced, because then the prey will be able to challenge the hunters.

When the Wraith find out that these people have developed enough scientific knowledge to not only defend against getting eaten, but also to kill the Wraith, they will come down on that planet like a ton of bricks and wipe out everything, just to prevent that knowledge from spreading.

This is more speculation from here on, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Wraith would even end up destroying that planet even if the "vaccination" didn't kill the Wraith. After all, they would come to the obvious conclusion that the ability to make Humans "unpalatable" to the Wraith was a scientific development, and something that could be used all over the galaxy to prevent them from eating, anywhere.

The only reason that the Wraith left those kids alone in "Childhood's End" last week was because they were just one herd out of so many, and because the field that kept them from using their ships there was just a localized phenomenon. But a vaccination, even a purely defensive one, would be something that could be spread to all of the humans in the galaxy, thus wiping out the Wraith's entire food source.

I don't think they'd want that.
 

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
 
Seriously, people watch those things?

*shrug*

They can be funny. I find my sig rather amusing, obviously. Also: "How much stuff do you need to be happy?" "I don't know. How much stuff is there?"

As for the title.... I don't care. But thanks.
 

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Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
 
I was probably the only one that noticed Chancellor Druhin was played by Alan Scarfe, the same guy who played Talmadge in Seven Days.


Then again, I'm the only one who watched Seven Days.
 

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Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
 
Alan Scarfe also played a couple of characters on TNG, notably a Romulan admiral in "Data's Day".
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
Yeah, I recognized Alan Scarfe too... though the beard and the lack of pointed ears made it a little difficult.
 

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Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
 
He'll always be Mendak to me.
 

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Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
 

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Originally posted by Wes:
I was probably the only one that noticed Chancellor Druhin was played by Alan Scarfe, the same guy who played Talmadge in Seven Days.

Then again, I'm the only one who watched Seven Days.

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