I didn't enjoy too much what they pull out at the end with the VR and stuff. I mean i don't even think they can do that, downloading personalities and writing original vrirtual enviroments is a little outside of our skill set. It was an SG-1 episode though with personalities transfers but no kind of conscience interaction and no VR, just stocking. And in 'Aurora' that vritual enviroment required a working body to cary a personality and as i remember with Aurora destroyed there were no life pods left so from where did they get one?
Then very important is the moral-philosophical aspect of phisicaly disposing of a sencient and peacefull being with a superior moral code and civil behavior than 90% from the black suits from IOA (for example). IOA looks more and more like a nazist organisation and Bates could play any time a Hitler reincarnation (this is a compliment for his acting skills). For the first time in SG series, a being is disposed for what she is made of and not for her behaviour, if i remember corectly, never happened before. I don't like us to look like the ancients, who even not so ovious, they were suffering from a little god complex. When a member of Earth societiy creates a life, we should take responsability for it and treat it as such, especially when there is no clues to indicate that can be a treat to other citizens, by the contrary. There is no wonder that the replicators, even if not programmed as such, usualy became agressive, with this type of treatment. I don't even know if Dr Lee VR trick was sanctioned by the IOA or he gone unofficial.
I just hope that in the future we will not fill that VR with all the personalities inhabiting bodies we don't feel confortable around and if we are so good with transfering personalities we should do it in a clone-organical body. I mean if we create repicator shells from scratches how hard will it be to make a clone. If those dumb life-suckers aliens can do it i think that we can too.
Apart from this issue, i really enjoyed the episode like all Earth based episodes and i think it was the best from this category both SGA and SG-1.
Then very important is the moral-philosophical aspect of phisicaly disposing of a sencient and peacefull being with a superior moral code and civil behavior than 90% from the black suits from IOA (for example). IOA looks more and more like a nazist organisation and Bates could play any time a Hitler reincarnation (this is a compliment for his acting skills). For the first time in SG series, a being is disposed for what she is made of and not for her behaviour, if i remember corectly, never happened before. I don't like us to look like the ancients, who even not so ovious, they were suffering from a little god complex. When a member of Earth societiy creates a life, we should take responsability for it and treat it as such, especially when there is no clues to indicate that can be a treat to other citizens, by the contrary. There is no wonder that the replicators, even if not programmed as such, usualy became agressive, with this type of treatment. I don't even know if Dr Lee VR trick was sanctioned by the IOA or he gone unofficial.
I just hope that in the future we will not fill that VR with all the personalities inhabiting bodies we don't feel confortable around and if we are so good with transfering personalities we should do it in a clone-organical body. I mean if we create repicator shells from scratches how hard will it be to make a clone. If those dumb life-suckers aliens can do it i think that we can too.
Apart from this issue, i really enjoyed the episode like all Earth based episodes and i think it was the best from this category both SGA and SG-1.
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