Rewatch: The Ark

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On a distant moon, Sheppard, McKay, Ronon Dex and Teyla find an elaborate subterranean base. The technology is anything but up to date and the base seems to be abandoned, until McKay decides to restore power. When he does so, a scientist materializes and it would seem that he had developed a means of using transporter technology to store a person's essence. The technology was developed to save as many of their people as possible from the Wraith culling and there are several thousand of them in stasis. As the decrepit station begins to fail, Teyla is pulled into stasis by one of the surviving scientists forcing Sheppard to risk his own life to save all of them. [Poll #1848954]

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[that-which.livejournal.com]

They are really unsympathetic characters, and I thought they wrote Teyla's response dreadfully - seriously, she didn't go all wooby about the wraith getting the people from the planet that fed their prisoners to the wraith, how is she gushing with compassionate zen for this guy, who fed them an entire world? OTOH, the choice the scientist made wasn't really all that different from the deal Ronon tried to cut to get his wife away from Sateda, was it?

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

the choice the scientist made wasn't really all that different from the deal Ronon tried to cut to get his wife away from Sateda, was it?

Nope. I'd say it was pretty much the same. When it failed, though, Ronon focused his rage on where it belonged - with the Wraith. The scientist tried to kill himself in a way guaranteed to take everyone with him (except for the resourcefulness of our team). Instead to focusing his rage on the Wraith for being the true enemy, or even Jameson for making the decision, he included everyone in his wrath. That's why I don't have much sympathy for him.