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Since: Feb, 2011
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This entry gets a number of things in the show factually wrong and ignores other details to paint the protagonists in a worse light.
- The first highlights a Fantastic Aesop; the supposition that the heroes are monsters through the analogy with a species-altering WMD in real life doesn't work because there are no known sentient lifeforms other than humans, so by definition it would be basically tantamount to murder, whereas in the show it doesn't work like that because they're changing Wraith from one sentient species into another.
- Atlantis doesn't fight a war against the Wraith and Asurans for no other reason that they're not human, but because those enemies both engage in campaigns of genocide against humans. It can be described as a Guilt-Free Extermination War, but the motive is misconstrued.
- Weir and those other Replicators didn't just politely ask for help, they established that they could take control of the whole base if they wanted, with all the security risks this entailed. Further, her friends said they couldn't know Weir's identity for sure, and had no guarantee of the other Replicators' motives either or that they might not turn on them in the future. Also, Weir is shown to have willingly made a Heroic Sacrifice, her friends didn't bully her into it.
- The last point is just hyperbole. The heroes' motives in the war against the Wraith are never shown as racism, and there's no way they exceed their enemies' atrocities, which include genocide, slavery, Mengele-type experiments, and killing infants.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"