Wow! Finally a fic of the type I was expecting to read heaps of after that ep. (And a good fic too! Thank you so much!)

I've actually just mainlined first season again, and once you've seen the dodgy ethics of the second so very very visible, it's hard not to see the series of unethical decisions that lead them into hotter and hotter water for no actual benefit as the key S1 story arc too. Even eps that don't focus on it, like Hide and Seek, make sure the theme is there (eg Beckett happy to do stuff to his non-informed-consent-providing friends in Atlantis that no Earth ethics committee would let him to do fully consenting subjects without a lot more research and animal trials and safeguards).

I'm hoping we'll get more of Kavanaugh next season - and that we'll find out what he was actually up to, since the circumstantial evidence does seem to suggest he was doing something, just not helping the Goauld... Maybe reporting back to a human rights watch organisation or something. Or - it could be interesting - to someone who does care about the ethical issues at SGC? He seemed in Letters from Pegasus to have some expectation that reporting violations of the Geneva Convention to O'Neill would be received seriously...