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There are a whole bunch of AUs out there for which the decision to open up led to the destruction of Earth.
I'm sure there could be a whole bunch for whom the decision resulted in patently better life for everyone -- they just don't make as tense television.
I'm also not of the opinion that public knowledge and consent are required. Couple that with the human inability to investigate, I think it's like inventing the wheel. Sure, there are a whole lot more auto accidents now, but we were going to invent the wheel sooner or later anyway.
When I was listening to Kinsey, I was thinking "Yeah? And we had some troubles with all that coming to the Americas from the European continent, but it happened, and we're dealing with it."
The djin is out of the bottle, and whining about opening it isn't all that constructive.
ETA: or what ita said.
What is Rommie? Andromeda::Rommie as Ship::AI?
Then what's the personality on Andromeda herself called? I mean -- isn't it a tri-fold entity? Is it ship, personality of ship, robot?
I was under the impression that Rommie is to Andromeda as the projections of Pilot in the clamshells are to Pilot. Same person, just differently expressed.
Wouldn't that whole mess with Doyle indicate that the Rommie android/robot does have some individual identity apart from the larger ship's consciousness?
Rommie has disagreed with Andromeda on many occasions, so she's not just an expression. She even fell in love -- wasn't she going to leave?
then I get grumpy, because he gets the "oh, really under all that he's vulnerable!" fannish edit
I have never watched enough of the show to have a strong opinion of the matter, but I was watching one night when McKay said, "I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm an extremely arrogant man. Of course I think it's going to work."
Which made me laugh and laugh. Most of the extremely arrogant people I know are totally unaware that they're arrogant.
Maybe he went to McGill. All of my co-alumni seem to cop calmly to it.
I own a T-shirt that says on the front "Arrogant" and on the back "...and proud of it."
It's from a former employer.
Which made me laugh and laugh. Most of the extremely arrogant people I know are totally unaware that they're arrogant.
Heee. That's Rodney McKay Ver. 2.1, though: post-Russia, and post-all the other stuff that happened in SGA Season 1. He's gained a fair amount of self-knowledge in the last few years.
ita's got a point, but it's really hard to critique what might have happened in the context of the show. What we know happened had the Earth nearly get destroyed several times as a direct result of (a) opening the gate at all; (b) SG-1's actions once the gate was opened.
I do wish we got more sensible discussion in the context of the show about things like public knowledge and consent, as Katie mentioned. But then I've spent ten years in a field premised on public participation in government decision-making, so my perspective is likely to be a bit off-center.
