Can the Wraith be saved?

[Colonel Carter]

We know that the Wraith were once Ancients who came in contact with those big bad bugs and mutated into an evil lifeform. The Ancients were not able to defeat the Wraith. (Did the Ancients even know what the Wraith were?)

So the Ancients lost out and fled back to earth leaving the Wraith alone in the galaxy apparantly unaware of who the Ancients were or that the city had a Stargate going back to their home galaxy which indicates that the bug lifeform became dominant and much of the Ancient was lost since the Wraith seem to have very limited info.

But do you think the Wraith are redeemable? That they can be saved? For example, if Dr. Beckett discovered a drug which would kill the insect dna etc... inside the Wraith and the Wraith would return to Ancient form. Do you see that as a possibility or do you think they are unsavable?

After all, if they were not able to get that bug off Shepard, he would have become a Wraith as well.

[Anissa T]

Hmmm.....that is definately an interesting thought. I think I may have assumed wrong that the Ancients left because of the Wraith. If not, then why did they leave?

Anyhow, I think that would make for a great episode if you ask me.

[Colonel Carter]

The episode where they found a 10,000 year old Dr. Weir in hybernation gave us the impression that the Ancients left because of the Wraith. During Weir's flashback scenes where she described what happened when she went back in time, every indication was that the Ancients were burying their city and fleeing because they could not withstand the Wraith.

Part of me wonders if the Ancients didn't feel guilty and responsible for the Wraith and were not willing to use their full force to defeat them and gave up sooner than necessary. After all, why not just wipe them out once they became Ascended beings? If you were responsible for creating such an evil and you suddenly had unquestionable powers and abilities to wipe such people out of existence, why not do it? Did they feel guilty for creating the Wraith? Have they been trying to find a way to save their friends and loved ones who have become Wraith, caring more for them than for the innocent people the Wraith prey upon?

And again, I don't understand the presence of humans in the Pegasus galaxy. All humans originated on earth. So either Teyla and her people are not human or they are Ancients who have somehow de-evolved.

[Anissa T]

I had wondered about Teyla and her people myself. I don't recall, but I'm pretty sure they didn't say if she is part human or what.

I mean, we do know she has Wraith DNA, but mixed with what?

[cb49747]

I believe they explained the people as being of shoots of acients and wraiths some like tayla being more wraith than acient.

I think saving the wraith would be like saving a gould. We new it was possible but when anubis died the first time remember the old mans mind was messed up from all he saw. Imagine what that would do to your mind if you were a wraith for a 100,000 years.

Chris

[Anissa T]

I was thinking while on vacation (who'd a thought).

They can't save the Wraith because there would be no more storyline. I mean, how many years can you stretch that out?

[Colonel Carter]

I was thinking more towards the end of the series. Is Lt. Ford doomed?

[Anissa T]

I think they will come back around to him towards the end of this season, maybe the begining of next season.

I'm thinking a full wraith couldn't be saved, but perhaps they can figure out a way to save Lt. Ford and then be able to create a vaccine or weapon against the wraith.

[Colonel Carter]

I'm just imagining how if I were a person who had been turned into a Wraith, I would want to be saved. Redemption for the Wraith. I think the idea has tremendous possibilities. After all, they established that there was no chance of that for the Goa'uld, but then the Goa'uld started out as Goa'uld so they were evil from the get-go. But the Wraith were once good people who got bit by a rather nasty bug and turned into evil. The idea of a redemption for the Wraith I think is one that would really set the show apart, namely from SG-1 which they shouldn't try to be just like SG-1.

[Anissa T]

Hmmm....hadn't thought about it that way. Would make a great ending to the show. Years from now that is.