Originally posted by Skie
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Originally posted by WraithRichard
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As far as our guys being 'the good guys', part of the narrative style we're using is character POV, so they're always going to be on their own side. I don't think anyone doubts that Atlantis has made mistakes and poor choices from an objective perspective, but for the expedition members, it was the best they could do.
In the initial arguments by Shen and Strom in RTP I, they more than once point out to Woolsey that the battles won by Atlantis were more luck than skill. That was my contribution to recognizing that fact. Their perspective, of course, comes from reading reports and not surviving the battles from first-hand experience. Carson, on the other hand, has seen Rodney and John pull those last minutes saves more than once personally, so his confidence in their abilities is from knowing what they can do. It's happened one to many times from both Rodney and John for it, in his mind, to be simple luck.
As far as the Wraith--I enjoyed them as an enemy, but I think how we approached them was trying to untangle all the knotted plotlines we had with them by Season 5. With Todd, Michael's experiments, the Hoffan plague, civil war, etc, they seemed to fan out in different directions with no clear explanation as to what went where anymore. So we're trying to sort it, and I think in everything we compiled the realization sort of became 'us or them'. To keep the story flowing, we needed to develop a story about the Wraith that became more than just what they were in Season 1. Honestly, I really enjoyed their 'badness' in S1, I liked the Queen evolution backstory in S2 and I liked Todd's character in S3, especially the 'Wraith brothers' bit. It's a shame we didn't get more evolving those aspects of them. But now, to keep everything flowing, we felt we needed to continue the evolution of the Wraith.
As to Todd--honorable went out the window for me when he stole the ZPMs during the Replicator battle. I think Todd is out for Todd and what benefits him in the same way Atlantis puts itself first. For me, it was established in CG that Todd and Sheppard are parallels of one another. John took the first trusting step; Todd reciprocated, but neither does what they do because it's the right thing to do. Todd has been used by the Atlantis crew, but I also think Atlantis has been used by Todd as well. And what it kept coming back to for me is that Todd keeps returning, so he sort of keeps asking for it. Because I think he knows its to his benefit to take the gamble.
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