True. I don't think I ever considered Machello to be a 'villain' in the conventional context. After all, despite what he did (and, remember children, swapping your dying body with a younger person's is wrong), his motivation for doing so was incredibly powerful; and the older he got, the more desperate his need to act. Nothing gags your conscience faster than desperation.
It would have been great if Machello could have been saved at the end - though how they could possibly hope to have done it I wouldn't know. By the sound of it, all his organs were failing one by one, and there simply was no way to keep him alive once he returned to his body. In some ways, that added to the power of his gratitude once he finally accepted that what he had done to Daniel was totally at odds with the principles that prompted him (and his people) to stand up to the Goa'uld. After that, I guess he treated his brief sojourn in Daniel's body as a time of insight into the benefits his sacrifice had brought to another race; and that brought him (we hope) some peace.
It would have been great if Machello could have been saved at the end - though how they could possibly hope to have done it I wouldn't know. By the sound of it, all his organs were failing one by one, and there simply was no way to keep him alive once he returned to his body. In some ways, that added to the power of his gratitude once he finally accepted that what he had done to Daniel was totally at odds with the principles that prompted him (and his people) to stand up to the Goa'uld. After that, I guess he treated his brief sojourn in Daniel's body as a time of insight into the benefits his sacrifice had brought to another race; and that brought him (we hope) some peace.
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