I don't know if I'm just getting hyper-critical because I'm upset about the looming end of the series or if these last couple of episodes have really sucked as massively as I'm thinking they did.
Yes, Jervis does seem like a pretty dim bulb. Unfortunately he was also a selfish bastard - which meant he had to die, one way or another. I'm semi-ok with him and his merry band of vigilantes being used to lure the Wraith in and them all being blown up - it's the whole sacrificing the few for the safety of the many thing. I'm kind of wishy-washy on Sheppard having the Head Guy (whose name I have forgotten) doing the double-cross. That's even more morally ambiguous than what he did in Miller's Crossing (talking Wallace into being a Wraith snack).
But this was the best plan Sheppard could come up with? What if McKay and Beckett hadn't managed to escape? Waiting for Atlantis to call in and then send a jumper would have alerted the Wraith and blown that plan. Holes, holes, holes... Or just lazy writers. grrr....
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Date: 2008-10-18 04:33 am (UTC)From:Yes, Jervis does seem like a pretty dim bulb. Unfortunately he was also a selfish bastard - which meant he had to die, one way or another. I'm semi-ok with him and his merry band of vigilantes being used to lure the Wraith in and them all being blown up - it's the whole sacrificing the few for the safety of the many thing. I'm kind of wishy-washy on Sheppard having the Head Guy (whose name I have forgotten) doing the double-cross. That's even more morally ambiguous than what he did in Miller's Crossing (talking Wallace into being a Wraith snack).
But this was the best plan Sheppard could come up with? What if McKay and Beckett hadn't managed to escape? Waiting for Atlantis to call in and then send a jumper would have alerted the Wraith and blown that plan. Holes, holes, holes... Or just lazy writers. grrr....