novalis comments on Rationalist Fiction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: novalis 05 June 2011 06:22:15AM 2 points [-]

Actually, a lot of Stargate's plots are about who has the idiot ball this week. In particular, their grasp of security is just terrible. They've never even heard of a duress code! I keep waiting for someone to do for Stargate's security what MoR has done for HP's rationality. Also, whoever does this should probably take the opportunity to play up the S&M subtext of Stargate (how many times can Teal'c be tied up and tortured?).

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 05 June 2011 07:36:09AM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, that's probably the thing about SG-1 that annoys me the most: despite how central the military is to the stories, the writers do not understand security, nor do they consider it important enough to have a consultant help them with it.