#sga michael

[sga-owns-my-soul]

who wrote michaels backstory. who's job was it to come up with a backstory for the wraith they were experimenting on

was it carson? was he sitting there writing notes like "progress is going well, patients name will be Michael Kenmore, maybe make him military, retrovirus seems to have run full course"

did he have to walk up to someone and say "we need a backstory for the wraith"

was it a focus group? did the senior staff get together and brainstorm?

i need answers

[autistic-crypt1d]

SGA + text posts pt 5

[stargatesg-1obsessed]

More of my favourite Stargate BTS photos! (All found on Pinterest)

Back by popular demand! (A few people)

Me and my mum have been watching SGA recently, we’re currently on season 3. So expect more SGA BTS in the next one 😄

[autistic-danieljackson]

If they wanted Michael to be a villain they shouldn’t have had Atlantis do ambiguously ethical experiments on him, gaslight him about it, and then have him bring Carson back. Michael Kenmore the Wraith they could never make me hate you

[orion-kenobi]

I liked stargate atlantis more than sg-1 but I think sg-1 outperforms atlantis in terms of story complexity and variety of storylines. Part of this is because sg-1 is twice as long as atlantis but I also think the Jack/Daniel dynamic has a lot to do with it. Daniel is inherently going to call into question things that aren’t typically questioned in the action/military genre. Because his and Jack’s viewpoints/what they represent are so different sg-1 explores the nuances of various situations in a way atlantis doesn’t.

[josephmallozzionx]

[spockvarietyhour]

Hmm. "The Lost Tribe"

[carsonsweebabyturtles]

A Series of Unfortunate Screen Caps (part 29)

[dailystargatebooty]

[cinerins]

Michael really is a prime example of an Atlantis episode that is so good and so, SO bad.

The core concept of his character and initial framing of the episode from his perspective are honestly brilliant, but the entire rest of it is... well. Calling it frustrating would be putting it mildly.

I suppose what bothers me the most is how much potential his character arc could've had, if they had done literally anything else with him. Plus, the fact he was honestly the one in the right and while they acknowledged what our guys did was incredibly messed up, it still ended up framing Michael as the monster.

(I could well make another whole post about the writers' arguably weird handling of the Wraith as these people, who are all somehow inherently "evil" and the fumbling of the few examples proving the contrary...)

Best chance to turn the situation around, would've been to keep the truce with him during No Man's Land — as an outcast, he very easily could've made a compelling not-quite-ally*. Instead, they chose to make it all worse, by subjecting him to the retro-virus again. Having learned absolutely nothing.

*a role that would somewhat fall to "Todd" (Though I can't say I'm too happy with some of the choices for his character, either.)

[autistic-crypt1d]

SGA + text posts pt 4

[stargatesg-1obsessed]

A few of my fav Stargate BTS photos! (All found on Pinterest)

Will do more if requested!

@ten-cent-sleuth

[autistic-danieljackson]

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about what they did to Michael but ultimately I think it may have been the most fucked up thing Atlantis did

[kpetova]

[incoming-wormhole]

If Candy Crush had been around when the Atlantis expedition was going on, the team never would've had the time to do half their war crimes

[spockvarietyhour]

Stargate Atlantis "First Contact"