SGA Rewatch: Inquisition and Prodigal
Jan. 31st, 2015 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sgatazmyWe made it through Prodigal. Here are my spoiler-filled thoughts. Trigger warning, I talk a lot about Michael as a stalker:
They finally killed Michael. Seriously, the guy is the creepiest, psychotic stalker I've ever seen. As dark as it was to see Teyla kick his hands off the ledge, I'm also relieved for her that she finally got an end to that storyline. Given that Michael was after her baby and clearly wasn't going to stop for anything, I think she made the only choice she could. There is a reason Sheppard didn't say anything to talk her down from it.
The thing about Michael as a villain was that he was truly and absolutely insane. We stripped him of his identity, leaving him nothing. From his view, his obsession with Teyla was completely healthy and I think that made the Michael storyline more disturbing than any other villain they could have conjured. His mind was so warped and he was so fixated on Teyla and her baby. I think he imagined himself a god near the end of the series. I think he even saw himself as compassionate toward Teyla. (I think this storyline gives me nightmares back to when I had a stalker.)
It kills me to think that the actions of the SGA team destroyed so much of Teyla's people and other Pegasus inhabitants. The entire Michael storyline led to so much death sometimes it just killed me to watch it. SGA was such a dark series compared to SG-1. SG-1 team usually did help people over the long term but I'm not sure we could say the same for SGA.
On that note, we did watch Inquisition and if not for all the filler flashbacks, that episode could have been awesome. The team should have had to defend their actions after everything that happened. What struck me the most was how much they didn't seem to understand why they were on trial. Yes, they didn't mean for any of that to happen. Yes, they are out there fighting the Wraith. Yes, they have good intentions. The reality remains that they leave a lot of death in their path. (How awesome was it to have Woolsey's political dealings used to help the SGA team get out of prison?)
Back to Michael: I am assuming they went to retrieve the body and verify his death?
They finally killed Michael. Seriously, the guy is the creepiest, psychotic stalker I've ever seen. As dark as it was to see Teyla kick his hands off the ledge, I'm also relieved for her that she finally got an end to that storyline. Given that Michael was after her baby and clearly wasn't going to stop for anything, I think she made the only choice she could. There is a reason Sheppard didn't say anything to talk her down from it.
The thing about Michael as a villain was that he was truly and absolutely insane. We stripped him of his identity, leaving him nothing. From his view, his obsession with Teyla was completely healthy and I think that made the Michael storyline more disturbing than any other villain they could have conjured. His mind was so warped and he was so fixated on Teyla and her baby. I think he imagined himself a god near the end of the series. I think he even saw himself as compassionate toward Teyla. (I think this storyline gives me nightmares back to when I had a stalker.)
It kills me to think that the actions of the SGA team destroyed so much of Teyla's people and other Pegasus inhabitants. The entire Michael storyline led to so much death sometimes it just killed me to watch it. SGA was such a dark series compared to SG-1. SG-1 team usually did help people over the long term but I'm not sure we could say the same for SGA.
On that note, we did watch Inquisition and if not for all the filler flashbacks, that episode could have been awesome. The team should have had to defend their actions after everything that happened. What struck me the most was how much they didn't seem to understand why they were on trial. Yes, they didn't mean for any of that to happen. Yes, they are out there fighting the Wraith. Yes, they have good intentions. The reality remains that they leave a lot of death in their path. (How awesome was it to have Woolsey's political dealings used to help the SGA team get out of prison?)
Back to Michael: I am assuming they went to retrieve the body and verify his death?
