Thank you! And yeah, I think one of the reasons why I thought the series was such a brilliant punch in the gut was because it's SO plausible ... well, besides the aliens, of course. :D But you can totally see the government doing what they did in this show -- maybe it's just my inner cynicism talking!

What you said made me think some more. I really can't remember watching action and scifi were they killed someone beside the important cast that made me feel sad. All the time some poor guys get killed but because its so normal on TV I don't stop to think about it. It doesn't matter. So I really thank you for pointing that out, because I think such an attidute is kinda wrong.

*nods* And even having said that, from a purely fannish perspective I would still rather see someone else get killed other than my favorites. But I kinda want my shows to remind me every once in a while that the victims are human beings with personalities and loved ones. Ironically, SGA actually used to be pretty good about that in the first couple of seasons -- they were good at humanizing their redshirts and making their deaths mean something. (Notice how many fans still remember Gaul and Abrams, or Griffin, by name ...) They seemed to quit trying later on, though ...