that SGA tie-in novel Exogenesis...

[ratcreature]

I've finished reading the SGA tie-in novel Exogenesis by Sonny Whitelaw and Elizabeth Christensen, and I mostly liked the action-adventure part, though I keep getting surprised by just how more creepy and morally corrupt the Ancients are in the tie-in novels even compared to the series where they are of somewhat dubious character to begin with. However the strong presence of emotionally damaged woobie!Rodney really wasn't my thing. Also, I continue to find the way the expedition treats the Athosians when the former once again triggered a disaster that affects everybody disturbing.

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[iamza.livejournal.com]

I think to a certain extent, that moral corruption on the part of the Ancients comes through on the show as well. It's part of why I love the series so much. The Ancients start out as this mystical super-powerful race who, if the Stargate teams can only find the Ancient city, might offer the SGC a way of defeating the Goa'uld once and for all. And then, as time goes by, the Ancients stop being this marvellously angellic race/deus ex machina, and become petty and human and maybe not so very evolved after all.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, sure, but IMO the novels have just more horrific experiments.