Re: 4th Season Stargate Atlantis - Trio - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

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 Andrew Venor <alvenor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Martin wrote:
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> > "David Chapman" <jeditojanen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>From the Collected Witterings of Ken from Chicago, volume 23:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I thought there was some kind of long-term damage / danger to using
the
> >>>sarcophagi repeatedly, to explain why they didn't. Or it makes a
person
> >>>addicted to it.
> >>
> >>Both.  The Goa'uld turned evil because repeatedly using a sarcophagus 
> >>turns you into a sociopath.
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry but that myth has been done to death. Both Daniel and Jack were
put 
> > into them multiple times, in fact Daniel did have some effects but
he's 
> > clearly back to normal. Hey, if you were dying what would you choose?
It's 
> > not like you'de be in it every week is it?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> The SGC doesn't use sarcophagi because the writers could kill our heroes

> off every week like Kenny only to have them resurrected for the next 
> episode.  If the characters can't die then there they will never be in 
> peril.

Okay, that explains the practicalities but it still leaves a huge gaping 
hole in both the continuity of the show and the characters' behavior.

Introducing technology into the story and then ignoring it for the sake 
of writer's convenience is downright poor storytelling.