I thought it looked like cheesie fun.
What I want to know is why SGC didn't destroy the poison if they weren't going to use it, rather than just leave it for the unethical?
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sumi - Sep 18, 2004 7:27:45 am PDT #7418 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Katie M - Sep 18, 2004 8:19:55 am PDT #7419 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
They said they'd only use it for "defense"--presumably in case of a full-scale invasion of Earth.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2004 8:34:16 am PDT #7420 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
why SGC didn't destroy the poison if they weren't going to use it
Here's a question. Where was the poison and how much of it was there? If it was at Area 51, how did the Trust get it out of there, and if they beamed it up to the ship, why was there any of it in that warehouse?
Would the SGC really keep enough of the stuff on hand to kill millions of Jaffa? (Side note: disposing of unused chemical weapons is very difficult, costly, and dangerous. It's a good idea not to make more than you're pretty damned sure you're gonna need.)
I really didn't like Jack's uncertainty there at the end, although he didn't have the information he needed about the Trust -- no, wait, that's not true. Daniel had seen the chemical weapons at the warehouse. So he did know, or at least suspect, what they were doing with the gate and the poison. That makes it even worse, really.
I can't say it's entirely out of character, but. Hmmm.
Katie M - Sep 18, 2004 8:47:01 am PDT #7421 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
(Side note: disposing of unused chemical weapons is very difficult, costly, and dangerous. It's a good idea not to make more than you're pretty damned sure you're gonna need.)
Well, it's not a chemical weapon that can harm anyone currently on Earth, right? So they could just pop the seal.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2004 9:13:20 am PDT #7422 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, it's not a chemical weapon that can harm anyone currently on Earth, right?
I kinda doubt they tested it for its effects on wildlife and flora, though. Or to see if it has long-term impacts on air or water quality.
Just because it doesn't kill human beings immediately doesn't make it nonhazardous to every other Earth-based organism.
DXMachina - Sep 18, 2004 9:40:59 am PDT #7423 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Just because it doesn't kill human beings immediately doesn't make it nonhazardous to every other Earth-based organism.
They could just shove it through the gate to a world that's already a mess, like the original Tollan homeworld. Easy peasy.
What?
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 18, 2004 9:53:24 am PDT #7424 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hell, they have ships that can fly to other planets in the solar system, don't they? I doubt Mercury has much of an ecosystem to endanger.
Thomash - Sep 18, 2004 11:05:57 am PDT #7425 of 10000
I have a plan.
Or, you know... the sun. Doesn't even have to be ours either.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2004 11:14:00 am PDT #7426 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, to be fair, they could dispose of all hazardous waste that way. But it would be kind of expensive...
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2004 11:44:25 am PDT #7427 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would the SGC really keep enough of the stuff on hand to kill millions of Jaffa?
The Trust wasn't using what they stole -- they were using a new formula. No, I have no idea how they got what they got -- was it being stored in Area 51?
I kinda doubt they tested it for its effects on wildlife and flora, though.
They're evidently doing a bunch of stuff with retrieved artifacts behind our backs. I don't know if we can confidently posit what was or wasn't done without onscreen evidence.
As for the original Tollen homeworld, the gate's buried. But there must be others.