*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.
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.
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.
He was advertised consistently as “The ship’s brilliant Machiavellian scientist[8]”—to the extent it was about the first thing mentioned in any description of the show. But that past tense is there to stay—the show flopped so he’s going nowhere now!
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.
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.
He was advertised consistently as “The ship’s brilliant Machiavellian scientist[8]”—to the extent it was about the first thing mentioned in any description of the show. But that past tense is there to stay—the show flopped so he’s going nowhere now!