Re: SGA--The buddy cop ep ("Midway" spoilers)

"jayembee" <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "puzzlrr" <puzzzlrrr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> You send McKay in because he's a great character and he knows
>> his way around computer problems (hey, isn't he an astrophysicists?)
>> LOL.
>
> He knows about other things than astrophysics, just like Carter
> seemed to know a lot about medicine.
>

Which makes things very convenient, which I don't mind, because I really 
like Mckay and the show.  But there is no way for any two people to know
as 
much as they about everything.

>> But the whole idea for the bridge and station was Carter's idea
>
> Actually, it was a co-development between Carter and McKay. That's
> why it's called the Carter-McKay Intergalactic Bridge. Nevertheless,
> however much each one contributed to the architecture of the
> system, McKay was the one who wrote the routines for each gate to
> pass all the data to the next one. He knows as much about the
> gate system as she does.
>
>> so she should have been there.
>
> No moreso than he should. And since she's the commander of the
> Atlantis base, she's less expendable than he is.

Huh?  They guy who knows everything about everything is less expendable? 
Okay.

Puzz