Why are Stargate personnel too stupid to take a head shot unless the enemy is a Kull Warrior with helmet on, in which case a head shot becomes futile?
Episode after episode they're fighting Jafah or Wraiths or Unas, and the badguys always have body armor or super healing powers or both, and the SG soldiers will empty clip after clip futilely center-of-mass then be captured or killed when they inevitably run out of ammo. Adding insult to injury the Wraiths generally leer at their mentally challenged victims just before they go down, as if mocking the foolish humans for not using their last couple of bullets to try for a head shot.
Add Colonel Everett to the roster of idiots who died because they inexplicably didn't think to take a head shot. If our military people are really this stupid I should be a general as apparently I'm a tactical genius the likes of which no writer of either Stargate show has ever encountered.
Episode after episode, battle after battle, soldiers who are supposed to be elite special forces are captured or killed because it doesn't occur to them to take a head shot. Some who are captured have escaped only to repeat the exact same mistake under the exact same circumstances all over again.
In one case it's even with the exact same enemy. There's Rodney McKay with a loaded pistol and an injured Wraith limping ominously toward him, and McKay asks Sheppard, "What should I do?"
The selfsame Wraith has already been shot several times, BY SHEPPARD, although never in the head, of course, but does Sheppard possess even the tiniest mote of intelligence required to adapt and learn from his mistakes? What does he tell Rodney? "Shoot him!"
"Head Shot!" are the two words that would save McKay's life, but you'll never hear them, because even the heroic protagonist Sheppard lacks the intellect or resourcefulness to think of shooting anywhere but center of mass. McKay empties the clip into the Wraith's body armor, and once again it doesn't work, just like it didn't work for Sheppard earlier this episode, nor did center-of-mass work last episode, either. And yet nobody ever adapts.
Does anyone else occasionally get the feeling that these idiots deserve to die in Darwinian disgrace? Maybe with enough Sheppards weeded out of the gene pool we can maybe get someone like Jack Bauer up to bat for humanity, and for once we in the audience won't have to sit through yet another infuriating repetition of the "emptying the clip center-of-mass" death scene.
It's like the family that keeps letting Toonces drive the car. Yes, shooting center-of-mass works, but not very well. After a dozen episodes or so the main characters should have figured it out, but the only people who seem to have a clue are in the audience.
I theorize that the only way to get Sheppard to shoot a Wraith in the head would be to put the Wraith in a Kull Warrior helmet.
Episode after episode they're fighting Jafah or Wraiths or Unas, and the badguys always have body armor or super healing powers or both, and the SG soldiers will empty clip after clip futilely center-of-mass then be captured or killed when they inevitably run out of ammo. Adding insult to injury the Wraiths generally leer at their mentally challenged victims just before they go down, as if mocking the foolish humans for not using their last couple of bullets to try for a head shot.
Add Colonel Everett to the roster of idiots who died because they inexplicably didn't think to take a head shot. If our military people are really this stupid I should be a general as apparently I'm a tactical genius the likes of which no writer of either Stargate show has ever encountered.
Episode after episode, battle after battle, soldiers who are supposed to be elite special forces are captured or killed because it doesn't occur to them to take a head shot. Some who are captured have escaped only to repeat the exact same mistake under the exact same circumstances all over again.
In one case it's even with the exact same enemy. There's Rodney McKay with a loaded pistol and an injured Wraith limping ominously toward him, and McKay asks Sheppard, "What should I do?"
The selfsame Wraith has already been shot several times, BY SHEPPARD, although never in the head, of course, but does Sheppard possess even the tiniest mote of intelligence required to adapt and learn from his mistakes? What does he tell Rodney? "Shoot him!"
"Head Shot!" are the two words that would save McKay's life, but you'll never hear them, because even the heroic protagonist Sheppard lacks the intellect or resourcefulness to think of shooting anywhere but center of mass. McKay empties the clip into the Wraith's body armor, and once again it doesn't work, just like it didn't work for Sheppard earlier this episode, nor did center-of-mass work last episode, either. And yet nobody ever adapts.
Does anyone else occasionally get the feeling that these idiots deserve to die in Darwinian disgrace? Maybe with enough Sheppards weeded out of the gene pool we can maybe get someone like Jack Bauer up to bat for humanity, and for once we in the audience won't have to sit through yet another infuriating repetition of the "emptying the clip center-of-mass" death scene.
It's like the family that keeps letting Toonces drive the car. Yes, shooting center-of-mass works, but not very well. After a dozen episodes or so the main characters should have figured it out, but the only people who seem to have a clue are in the audience.
I theorize that the only way to get Sheppard to shoot a Wraith in the head would be to put the Wraith in a Kull Warrior helmet.
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