Worst. Aliens. Ever.

I’m loving that the Stargates have returned... Well, I’m loving that Stargate SG-1 is back, and that it continues its reinvigoration by getting more aggressively anti-religion: last week’s episode, with the whole “the gods cease to have power once you stop believing in them” theme, gave me a real atheistic tickle.

But Atlantis? Bah. One of my major issues with the show is how incredibly badly the Wraith suck -- pun intended -- as the Big Bad Guys. Vampires have been done to death -- or undeath -- whatever. This iteration of them simply isn’t scary, and it doesn’t help that I can’t look at them without thinking this:

For the uninitiated, that’s an Ogron, from Doctor Who, on the right in the second pairing. The Orgons were supposed to be funny. But I don’t imagine we’re meant to be laughing at the Wraith.

(Geek out over the Stargates at GateWorld.)