Started watching it on Pluto and only in the first season but I’m liking it. I’ve seen random episodes here and there and my dad rented the movie once it was available at blockbuster. Plus it’s cool to see a show with Air Force members as an Air Force vet. I assume since it ended before the woke era there aren’t any major girlboss moments.
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That exactly what sprung to mind as the worse aspect of the show's decline. The Replicator arc(s) and how they dealt with Elizabeth. Stopped caring. A clash with Replicators had good potential, they screwed it up.
Very much so.
Similar mishandlings between the Wraith and the Atlantis team were also a major issue. The only exception to that was maybe "Todd", but I think the way Todd was overused as time went on ended up ruining the mystique and threat the Wraith represented. Sort of mirrors how Baal in SG1 grew increasingly underwhelming as time went on.
Also, the entire plotline with the retrovirus was just awful, all the way through.
Oh no, I had blissfully forgotten Todd existed.
I find it annoying when SciFi shows go the route of "akshually, this extremely brutal, overwhelming, demonic enemy which only kills, consumes and destroys has the same struggles as humans and are relatable! Aren't your expectations subverted by our deep, super smart plot twist?" No, it's been done to death and you twist the lore the show set up to introduce that, likely specifically to build up an "ah ah, expectation subvertion!" trick that degrades the "aura" around the enemy.
To use another show with a terrifying all-powerful enemy Startreck : The Borg should just remain The Borg. I don't need my "expectation subverted" with a story arc about teenage Borgs having some highschool drama at Borg School.
To me, the worst offender was Michael though.
He should have died from a "cure-inflicted auto-immune disorder" or something, because by the second time he came back in the story, I didn't want to watch that anymore.
I am 100% on-board with everything you just wrote. I actually LIKED Todd, at least in the first few episodes he was in, but they really should've kept his character at a proper "distance" after that. Like any form of subversion or "surprise" is best used in rare and tantalizing doses. Otherwise it becomes bland noise that has no substance or flavor. Or maybe overspiced might be one way to put it.
And yes, Michael would've actually proven to be a more interesting character if he'd died tragically. As a consequence of a failed retro virus. A rash and reckless experiment. Heck, the "hybrid" plot MIGHT have worked if it carried over after his death.
His character was just a broken mess that hinged on the usual "Oops, we accidentally deceived you in a backhanded way, and now made your our enemy" cliche. A cringey cliche I have hated for years, since it's always predicated on heroes suddenly making asshole decisions, usually coming almost out of nowhere. And yes, by the time he made his second come back I was pretty much done with the show as well.
(Sorry, didn't mean to write so much there, just had to get some of that off my chest lol)