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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5020009" data-attributes="member: 32536">Honestly, I don't see Wray as being so much a middle ground between Young and Rush as she represents a third flawed example. She doesn't share Young's reluctance to take risks or Rush's recklessness, but she has her flaw that may be worse: she refuses to stop and make her decisions. Wray doesn't take command because she wants to, she does because people on Earth are prodding her to do so. When the scientist is hurt by the chair, she simply goes with the first suggestion the medic presents without weighing any of the variables (when even the medic is uncertain about what to do). In many ways, she is the kind of person who just blindly continues the status quo and tries to quickly dodge any important decisions by going with the first bit of advice given to her. She is nothing more than a puppet, which is almost certainly why the people on Earth want her in charge.Also, I am surprised at all the people who think Young was doing the right thing as the commanding officer. Honestly, I don't think his decision to basically try to murder Rush was based on anything but personal hatred and revenge. It was Young the man who tried to kill Rush, not Young the commanding officer. In many ways, the very punches he used made a parallel between his attack on Rush and his attack on Telford. The statement he made to Rush right at the end was "Are we going to stop this now?" (or something to that effect), and Rush's response was "No, we are going to keep at this forever," (or something to that effect). This exchange wasn't a demand that Rush stop endangering the crew, this exchange was a reflection of the fact that they both recognized their extreme mutual dislike and that Rush was smart enough to recognize that getting punched in the fact a few times wasn't anywhere near enough to make that go away.It should also be noted that, as a commanding officer, Young has always been fair and has given people the benefit of the doubt. He avoided even the perception of bias and even was quite willing to undergo a trial for his alleged crime. The one exception to that fair nature has always been Rush. He never once gave Rush the benefit of the doubt. Rather, he always assumed the worst from Rush even when it was completely unwarranted (such as in the initial blackout in "Darkness"). In many ways, he sabotaged Rush's efforts to help the ship just as much as Rush tried to sabotage his ability to command (such as how he stopped Eli from helping Rush and made him spy on Rush instead). He also absolutely refused to let anyone be sacrificed, except for Rush. Sure, Rush may have been unwilling to sit in the chair himself, but was it really fair for Young to only let Rush volunteer to do so?Really, the only good option for the ship would have been for the two to swallow their prides and work together, but instead they sniped at each other and sabotaged each other until they couldn't stand each other anymore, and when push came to shove Young basically got the jump on Rush and was a better fighter. There really isn't any difference between the two in terms of how they have been acting, in my opinion.</blockquote>

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