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Does anyone else hate the Michael episodes?

posted 8 years ago by jsabatkefacebook
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I found Michael to be so annoying so I generally skip those episodes. Those stories are so full of plot holes that they can be painful to endure.

One hole big enough to fly a Hatak through was why did they leave the fusion bomb as a fail safe device on the treated wraith planer close by so Michael could find and disarm it? It could have been buried, or placed far enough from the camp they it would have been difficult to find. Close is unusually more than good enough with nuclear weapons of that size.

[–] mihaicosmin2007 8 years ago

Yea, they were annoying, but I am not sure about the plot holes. I think the writers wanted to make the Atlantis expedition look dumb.
I just remember when Ronon, an outsider, said they should kill him and forget about the failed experiment, he repeatedly points out that Michael is a mistake and has to be dealt with accordingly.. Everyone repeatedly refused to do it, everyone kept considering him one of their own because for a very short amount of time, he really was a human, kind of like their own little baby, and in the end it costs them many more lives. They even tried doing the experiment twice, which tells a lot about their inability to face failure.

[–] blakgard 8 years ago

I liked Michael until they turned him into a superscientist that was creating his giant bug race.

[–] TandyMan (10404) 7 years ago

This exactly. Michael was a really cool character at first. Then Oh Nos, neither side wants anything to do with him and he goes rogue, a new threat that Atlantis itself created. Cool. Then he comes back, and back, and back again. And each time more nutty and crazy than ever until we're in Saturday Morning Cartoon territory.

[–] jsabatkefacebook 8 years ago

Yeah the first Michael episode wasn't so bad, though it seemed strange to try to integrate him into the Atlantis crew rather than treat him as a potential danger, just like Ronin said. After that he kind of became the annoying character that wouldn't die. Kolya became similar to me. Maybe they just ran out of stories, though only for a couple episodes. The real salvation for the series was the Todd arc.

[–] Navaros 8 years ago

The Michael episodes were not groundbreaking, but they were a whole heck of a lot more entertaining than the dozens of "we are stuck in a hole/room/ship/forest etc. for 41 minutes, at which time McKay will technobabble us out of here until next week when we will recycle the same exact 'plot' again!"

All of those episodes should be skipped...but then the series would only have about 30 episodes in total. Minus from that the recycled "space delusion" plot episodes which are also worthless filler... and likewise the often-repeated worthless filler 'plot' of "our consciousnesses are in the wrong bodies" --- that leaves what, 15 real episodes in the whole series? LOL EDIT: Oh darn, I didn't even minus out the Replicator episodes yet, almost all of which are as unwatchable as everything else I've mentioned.

Given all of that crap that absolutely overloads this series, the Michael episodes are pretty much the least skippable ones. Michael wins by default solely because he has little to no competition. LOL!

EDIT 2:

The real salvation for the series was the Todd arc.

I'll agree that the Todd episodes are some of the best. But they are too few in number to come anywhere close to saving the series from its massive amounts of unwatchable & endlessly-recycled filler.

[–] Volley (3374) 5 years ago

Michael was surrounded by plot armor throughout his introduction all the way to series end, and besides that, Connor Trinneer is extremely annoying.

It's so ridiculous how Michael is able to amass so much power and resources in such a short little time, and is always one step ahead of the main characters.