Yeah; I think by and large the show is doing much better this year at dealing with the ethical dilemmas inherent in using the stones, or at least, it's been done in a way that works for me. Like, the episode with Camille and Greer and the bomb? That really worked well, I thought -- the show dealt very reasonably with the issues that both sets of characters (the swapped-in pair, and the real owners of the bodies) were having to deal with, and they never let us (or Camille and Greer) forget that their dying bodies were someone else's.

And the big issue in that episode wasn't the body-swapping so much as the planet-snatching, you're right. Still ... it was a horrifying thing to do, on all kinds of levels -- horrifying that they came up with it, horrifying that the government OK'd it. I think Young has been pretty consistently portrayed as the kind of person who would do something like that -- he's very end-justifies-the-means, and Scott is not much better. But that leaves me right back in the same quandary that I struggled with for many of the characters in the first season: if I don't like these people, and have been shown repeatedly that they're unethical people who lie and cheat to get what they want, why should I care what happens to them?