OK, so Todd overreacted. He just assumed he'd been betrayed without giving the other side a chance to explain themselves. Assuming he'd been betrayed, he hijacked the ship.
He promised not to kill anybody (and he didn't) if they just let him use it to destroy the Attero device, which had already killed off an entire hive of his men. When he deemed this not viable, he set the Daedalus to crash onto the planet.
Was it cruel? Yes. Would it have killed everyone on board? Yes. But it was not cold-blooded murder.
Then, in this episode, he shows up at Atlantis' doorstep having taken a "cure" Atlantis created and John's first reaction is to demand the Wraith be killed. Yes, Judge Sheppard is out and about again.
No trial, no nothing, just kill them. An eye for an eye and all that. Ronon I can understand. John?
I also didn't like the sub-plot of having to suffocate all of the hibernating Wraith. They were basically human (ish) now, but John just went "We can't take any chances" and immediately decided to kill them all. He seemingly had no qualms about it. I can see that it was necessary, but I'd just liked to have seen him take at least a moment to consider the matter.
Back to Todd. This is a Wraith who's been working with Atlantis for years. When he thought he'd been betrayed, he captured the ship to try to solve the problem and ultimately deemed the people on board collateral damage (and John was so lying. Half of his men were not on that ship).
But he still wanted what Atlantis wanted, a peaceful solution to the Wraith dilemma. He either voluntarily took the therapy himself or had someone under his command take it. Then, when he saw that it was working, he distributed it to his entire hive.
He obviously wanted what Atlantis wants. Then when they show up, Atlantis is all "Kill them. Who cares?".
There were some bumps along the road. But the callous way some non-Ronon-people (because the writers have made it abundantly clear Ronon has no brain and just wants to kill all Wraith) didn't even hesitate to hand down the death penalty on a former ally like that, that was just wrong, IMO.
He promised not to kill anybody (and he didn't) if they just let him use it to destroy the Attero device, which had already killed off an entire hive of his men. When he deemed this not viable, he set the Daedalus to crash onto the planet.
Was it cruel? Yes. Would it have killed everyone on board? Yes. But it was not cold-blooded murder.
Then, in this episode, he shows up at Atlantis' doorstep having taken a "cure" Atlantis created and John's first reaction is to demand the Wraith be killed. Yes, Judge Sheppard is out and about again.
No trial, no nothing, just kill them. An eye for an eye and all that. Ronon I can understand. John?
I also didn't like the sub-plot of having to suffocate all of the hibernating Wraith. They were basically human (ish) now, but John just went "We can't take any chances" and immediately decided to kill them all. He seemingly had no qualms about it. I can see that it was necessary, but I'd just liked to have seen him take at least a moment to consider the matter.
Back to Todd. This is a Wraith who's been working with Atlantis for years. When he thought he'd been betrayed, he captured the ship to try to solve the problem and ultimately deemed the people on board collateral damage (and John was so lying. Half of his men were not on that ship).
But he still wanted what Atlantis wanted, a peaceful solution to the Wraith dilemma. He either voluntarily took the therapy himself or had someone under his command take it. Then, when he saw that it was working, he distributed it to his entire hive.
He obviously wanted what Atlantis wants. Then when they show up, Atlantis is all "Kill them. Who cares?".
There were some bumps along the road. But the callous way some non-Ronon-people (because the writers have made it abundantly clear Ronon has no brain and just wants to kill all Wraith) didn't even hesitate to hand down the death penalty on a former ally like that, that was just wrong, IMO.
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