Poisoning the Well Week
Jun. 29th, 2012 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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sga_squeeSheppard facing off with Steve the Wraith -- again.
Sheppard has a complex relationship with the Wraith throughout the series. While he's very aware of the danger they present, face to face, he taunts them, resists them, defies them to the point of irreverence. He plays mind games with them: sometimes, he wins; sometimes, it's a draw; he never loses, not even to the queens. He'll bargain with them, make use of them, work with them when necessary, but he never forgets what they are, never takes them less than seriously.
Given what we learn about John Sheppard and his family in "Letters from Pegasus" and "Outcast", I wonder if he sees the Wraith as the ultimate authority figures and he's using the skills he learned in dealing with his father to defy the Wraith.
Yes, rebellion is strong with this one. Why not rebel against a whole species?
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"Poisoning the Well" 1x07
Sheppard has a complex relationship with the Wraith throughout the series. While he's very aware of the danger they present, face to face, he taunts them, resists them, defies them to the point of irreverence. He plays mind games with them: sometimes, he wins; sometimes, it's a draw; he never loses, not even to the queens. He'll bargain with them, make use of them, work with them when necessary, but he never forgets what they are, never takes them less than seriously.
Given what we learn about John Sheppard and his family in "Letters from Pegasus" and "Outcast", I wonder if he sees the Wraith as the ultimate authority figures and he's using the skills he learned in dealing with his father to defy the Wraith.
Yes, rebellion is strong with this one. Why not rebel against a whole species?
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"Poisoning the Well" 1x07
