The Eye Week Part 2

[em_kellesvig]

Sheppard has the gate shield up and Kolya thinks McKay can fix it even though they're out of power, too far away, and he doesn't have John's codes.

Not that McKay would fix it anyway. Sixty more Genii in the city? No, thanks.



"The Eye" 1x11

Comments

[hilde.livejournal.com]

All I can think of looking at this scene is: OMG they must have been so wet and miserable shooting this...LOL

[em_kellesvig]

I know! It looks just horrible.

[patk.livejournal.com]

I'm always somewhat puzzled when people find it a ruthless act of John that he killed sixty Genii by bringing up the shield. What should he have done? All he did was closing the door in the last second, so to speak, to prevent the conquering of Atlantis by the Genii. He didn't even know how much more soldiers were about to come through. It isn't as if he had killed each single one of them with his own hands and distinct intent.

[em_kellesvig]

Actually, he did know -- "a full company," Kolya said. In US military terms, that's upwards of 180 infantryman, more than enough to take and hold the city. In fact, in that situation, it was overkill.

As for the shield, no he didn't kill each one with his own hands but he did kill them with distinct intent. The shield isn't a door to be closed in your face; you don't bounce off it, stand on the other side, and say, "Hey, wait a minute! Let me in!" You hit it, you die.

Sheppard knew that. He sat there and listened while Grodin explained it in "Rising." He was issued a GDO and an IDC just to make sure it didn't happen to him.

So yes, Sheppard was well aware of the fact that by raising the shield, he would kill a significant number of invading forces like bugs on a windscreen. The Genii were lucky they only lost sixty men. Sheppard was no doubt expecting a higher number. But kill them he did with one push of a button -- not unlike a pilot dropping a bomb, which Sheppard of all people certainly understood.