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

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> Andrew Venor <alvenor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Thanatos wrote:
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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?
>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> I doubt that when Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich dreamed up the
>> sarcophagus for their movie they cared how it would effect a future TV
>> series they never approved of.
>
> However, the writers of the series needn't have perpetuated that bit of
> plot. There are enough differences between the show and the film that
> one more would hardly have been determinative.

They could have simply said there were damaging side effects--which they 
did. One every other season or so, you can have an update that they
haven't 
reverse-engineer the technology without the side-effects.

-- Ken from Chicago