Yeah, me, too, so much that after reading a bunch of reviews I was starting to question my judgment. I'm pretty sure I'm an unusually ethical person (based on RL stuff I've done and had happen to me professionally), but I know I'd have no problem making the same choice John did.
Seriously, my reaction to that was basically a big "whatever," because as far as I'm concerned, it's a plundered well. We'll just add Wallace's name to the list of however many people Our Wraith Friend has killed since John let him go a year ago. I already knew that John would sacrifice human lives to the Wraith for a tactical advantage (and that's a generous interpretation of "Common Ground," the assumption that he sensed some potential tactial advantage in the move), so he's pretty much the same John to me this week that he was last week. And yeah, given that the decision had already been made (even via Not Talking About It) to keep this Wraith alive for his strategic value against the Replicators, then I don't see what the big deal is that John found someone who at least can be convinced that his self-sacrifice helps redeem some of his own moral failures. If anyone on the whole show had a better plan for how to deal with this Wraith in the long run (it's sheerest coinicidence that the moment past which they could not procrastinate any longer happened to hit at the same time as this particular project), then I'm certainly ready to hear about it. But I don't think anybody does. Which makes John once again the guy whose job it is to take charge of the dirty work on everyone else's behalf, and I think there's something rather more admirable than not about meeting that kind of responsibility head-on the way he does.
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Date: 2007-12-03 09:25 pm (UTC)From:Seriously, my reaction to that was basically a big "whatever," because as far as I'm concerned, it's a plundered well. We'll just add Wallace's name to the list of however many people Our Wraith Friend has killed since John let him go a year ago. I already knew that John would sacrifice human lives to the Wraith for a tactical advantage (and that's a generous interpretation of "Common Ground," the assumption that he sensed some potential tactial advantage in the move), so he's pretty much the same John to me this week that he was last week. And yeah, given that the decision had already been made (even via Not Talking About It) to keep this Wraith alive for his strategic value against the Replicators, then I don't see what the big deal is that John found someone who at least can be convinced that his self-sacrifice helps redeem some of his own moral failures. If anyone on the whole show had a better plan for how to deal with this Wraith in the long run (it's sheerest coinicidence that the moment past which they could not procrastinate any longer happened to hit at the same time as this particular project), then I'm certainly ready to hear about it. But I don't think anybody does. Which makes John once again the guy whose job it is to take charge of the dirty work on everyone else's behalf, and I think there's something rather more admirable than not about meeting that kind of responsibility head-on the way he does.