Tonight, on "Bastards in Space" ...

[sholio]

Uh-huh. Not that I expect medical realism from Stargate. But I'm pretty sure that the medical-profession approved treatment for a crushing injury is not leaving them lying there to bleed to death. There have been actual, documented cases of trapped people amputating their own limbs with improvised tools and surviving! I'm just sayin' -- if you've got nothing to lose, why not slap a tourniquet on him, get a pile of rocks and an improvised lever, and go to work? What's the worst that can happen ... he dies?

"Sorry your foot got blown off by that land mine, Private Bob, but you're probably not going to make it, so we're going to have to leave you here. See ya."

I suppose where I'm going with this is that it's a lot easier to buy the ~tragedy~ and ~drama~ of it all if they'd picked an injury that was 100% lethal. Like, say, a big rebar spike through his chest or something. As it is, it just kind of makes the characters look like they can't be bothered to do anything about it. It's not the euthanasia angle that bothers me -- I can believe in that under appropriately desperate circumstances; heck, it worked for me in Defiant One, because they made us believe that Gall was a goner anyway, and managed to set up his suicide as a somewhat heroic act under the circumstances. Here? Not so much.

Sitting around being depressed = NOT A GOOD RESPONSE TO A MEDICAL CRISIS. Especially from trained military and EMT personnel!

Also, why is it that the one Stargate show that doesn't have the cojones to actually kill a main character -- as opposed to knocking off a string of recurring minor characters and redshirts -- is the supposedly "darker and edgier" one?

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And this episode was even written by Rob Cooper, who has written some of the best SG-1 and SGA episodes. Of course, he's written some of the worst, too. But as one of the lead producers, I expected at least a WATCHABLE show from him. I had to fast forward when Young killed Riley--it just about made me ill to think of how the writers actually think this is GOOD TV (TM), when it is just garbage.

I am still watching, but as I have often said, purely so that I can KNOWINGLY say it's a pile of crap. And if my watching gave them one penny of income (ie, DVD's or Netflix, or if I had to pay separately for the SyFy channel, or if I was a Nielsen family), I wouldn't watch.

Also, was this the episode that all the actors uniformly were gushing over, that it was their "favorite episode ever" at the Chicago Creation Con? It seems to me that Smith said the episode name was Aftermath, but I forget. If this is their best, I shudder to think how much worse it will get.

PS. I managed to find my con notes, and the favorite episode is called Malice--DIRECTED by Cooper. Let's hope it's at least watchable.

(Sorry for the several edits!)

[sholio]

Yeah, I must admit the one thing I don't feel guilty about when it comes to this show is downloading it. *g*

I find it entertaining, but in a mockworthy kind of way.