wedrifid comments on Rationalist Fiction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 May 2011 07:22:29PM 0 points [-]

*More or less all of SG-1, including the directed to DVD movies and the parts of Atlantis that I've actually seen.

Stargate: Universe doesn't meet the same standard, unfortunately. The authors try to set up Rush as a brilliant, ruthless Machiavellian rationalist but fail terribly. He is to a Machiavellian genius what Spock is to a rational agent. Utterly incompetent.

Comment author: novalis 05 June 2011 06:17:55AM 0 points [-]

I've only seen about 2/3 of Universe so far, but I actually think Rush is being set up as brilliant at physics, but basically insane when dealing with humans. Which is not at all the same thing.