I read that post the other night and had a WTF? moment. I completely agree that Michael is responsible for his own actions.
I'm chuffed that I'm not the only one who sees a comparison with Todd. I used the same argument on GW with those who wailed that the Lanteans are responsible for all the people Michael killed. I didn't see Todd exterminating the Genii (or even Kolya) after what had been done to him.
I must be alone in my opinion that Carson's retrovirus was a humane way to end the war with the Wraith. The choice between making them human and just slaughtering them seemed pretty obvious to me. And as Teyla said, "They are Wraith". Even after Michael helped them, he still couldn't be trusted. They couldn't let him go. He knew too much about Atlantis. He needed to feed. They couldn't keep him imprisoned forever. The only choices they had (unless I'm totally overlooking something) was to either give him the retrovirus or kill him. Again, I'm voting for retrovirus. At least he'd be alive. Of course, hindsight says they should have killed him.
I don't think Teyla was seriously offering to go with him (although I think she would have if that was her only option). In some ways I thought it was a test - would he keep his word. The answer - a resounding NO. He had no intention of turning off that self-destruct. It told Teyla all she needed to know. I LOVE that she was the one to dispatch him (after a rather fabulous beat down of John). She slowly and deliberately kicked him off the balcony, no doubt to a sea of faces in her mind - all of the Athosians he killed, the torment of Carson, the thousands of Hoffan plague victims, Kanaan's experimentation, the threat to Torren, the months she spent as his prisoner. I was reminded of Daniel in the ep about Anubis' son - sweet, gentle Daniel being the first to think they should just kill him. Because he knew what the alternative would be. Teyla knew what would happen if Michael lived. She wanted it over. Someone on GW compared it to The Phantom of the Opera. "The tears I might have shed for your dark fate/Grow cold and turn to tears of hate." In Missing, Teyla promised to make whoever took her people pay. She kept her promise.
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I read that post the other night and had a WTF? moment. I completely agree that Michael is responsible for his own actions.
I'm chuffed that I'm not the only one who sees a comparison with Todd. I used the same argument on GW with those who wailed that the Lanteans are responsible for all the people Michael killed. I didn't see Todd exterminating the Genii (or even Kolya) after what had been done to him.
I must be alone in my opinion that Carson's retrovirus was a humane way to end the war with the Wraith. The choice between making them human and just slaughtering them seemed pretty obvious to me. And as Teyla said, "They are Wraith". Even after Michael helped them, he still couldn't be trusted. They couldn't let him go. He knew too much about Atlantis. He needed to feed. They couldn't keep him imprisoned forever. The only choices they had (unless I'm totally overlooking something) was to either give him the retrovirus or kill him. Again, I'm voting for retrovirus. At least he'd be alive. Of course, hindsight says they should have killed him.
I don't think Teyla was seriously offering to go with him (although I think she would have if that was her only option). In some ways I thought it was a test - would he keep his word. The answer - a resounding NO. He had no intention of turning off that self-destruct. It told Teyla all she needed to know. I LOVE that she was the one to dispatch him (after a rather fabulous beat down of John). She slowly and deliberately kicked him off the balcony, no doubt to a sea of faces in her mind - all of the Athosians he killed, the torment of Carson, the thousands of Hoffan plague victims, Kanaan's experimentation, the threat to Torren, the months she spent as his prisoner. I was reminded of Daniel in the ep about Anubis' son - sweet, gentle Daniel being the first to think they should just kill him. Because he knew what the alternative would be. Teyla knew what would happen if Michael lived. She wanted it over. Someone on GW compared it to The Phantom of the Opera. "The tears I might have shed for your dark fate/Grow cold and turn to tears of hate." In Missing, Teyla promised to make whoever took her people pay. She kept her promise.