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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5144282" data-attributes="member: 8863">Wray I think right now is looking to be the worst of the three.Rush was pretty bad, but given what happened to him in the last two episodes, I wonder if he was scared straight, or at least scared enough to cut some of the manipulation.  First, he got marooned on a planet that was at least in the vicinity of the stargate pretty barren.  Then these aliens capture him.  While Rush isn't very sociable, I suspect being held by the aliens wasn't at all pleasant for him.  I think the whole experience probably scared the crap out of him, and he's either too corwardly or smart enough not to want to experience that again.Young's problems are the conflict between the civilians/scientists on the ship and his own personal weaknesses.  He's flawed to begin with.  But his current situation, being stranded on the ship, having marital problems with his wife, the problems with Rush and the other non-military, his problems with Telford, and being in close proximity to T.J. are obviously putting him under a lot of stress.  Another problem is that this is a crisis situation, and Young's acting like his order need to be obeyed without question.  That works okay with the military, since they're trained for that, but some of the scientists clearly resent it.Wray at first was kind of neutral, but in the last two episodes, she's gotten more assertive thanks to that IOA dufus who encouraged her to challenge Young.  She has the least amount of power too of the three, Young's got the chain of command in his favor, and Rush as the biggest expert among the scientists has some respect there.  Wray doesn't have that and she's already abused the authority she has.  She's also letting herself fall into a trap by thinking there's a military vs. civilian situation going on here, and she's probably exacerbate this problem, where she should be trying to neutralize it.  Some of the civilians and military are getting along the best they can in spite of the situation, but I think she's going to end up driving a wedge between the two groups. I think Eli's the type that needs an authority figure to tell him what to do.  I don't it's respect, rather Young gives him the direction he needs.  Also, Eli doesn't really have a sort of knee-jerk mistrust of the military personnel that some of the scientists do.</blockquote>

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