After having his nose rubbed in Rosen's ignorance, yes.Again, Marcus was pretty clearly recovering. During the episode he showed an ability to recognize that Rosen had not, in fact, masterminded everything (which would have been an understandable conclusion for anyone, given that Rosen was the one who got him sent to a secret prison).
Which is, in fact, a valid reason for putting her into protective custody. At least in the short term.They planned to put her in "protective custody" before they knew literally any of this. When Sullivan stated that plan, Skylar was still just being chased by "unknown thugs."
You'd have better luck pushing that Sullivan was already discussing ways to exploit her abilities, while Rosen was clearly trying to protect Skylar whether she wanted it or not.
She's a mom and it's her choice. No one on the show specifically denies the existence of flying rainbow hippos either, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for an episode with one.The entire team acts as though her view is completely, 100% valid. No one goes "oh come on, the government wouldn't do that" because they all work for the government and know it would do exactly that.
Besides, it's entirely possible that the NSA (or elements thereof) would do it. The government does not offcially recognize the existence of Alphas or have nay sort of policy in place regarding them. this may be a good thing sometimes (every moment Gary is alive and conscious, wiretapping laws are being broken) but it also means that virtually no one besides Dr., Rosen and his team are looking to prevent government abuse of Alphas and/or their abilities.
To confining the dangerously insane? Well, I guess you can shoot them out of hand. I wouldn't say it's a better option but it IS an alternative.1) There are always alternatives.
Binghampton was a psychiatric hospital long before it became the de facto prison for Alphas. At least during the first season it seemed fair to assume everyone sent to Binghampton was receiving therapy. Also, we saw why those people ended up in Binghampton, because they hurt people. Some of them killed more than once.
Rosen tried. He showed great personal courage (given what the government can do to you for breaking NDAs) in revealing the existence of the Alpha program and calling on the American people to force the government to behave ethically. And the American People gave a resounding 'meh.'2) If you repeatedly do a bad thing that you think is bad, this is because you have not thought about the alternatives. You do it once, sure, you had no idea it was coming. You do it twice, sure, you had no idea it was a repeat phenomenon. But after a couple times, you have to accept that this is a thing that will keep happening unless you stop it, and then BEFORE A NEW SITUATION ARISES take action to prevent it from happening again. Rosen does not do this. He just acts surprised and sad every time that these situations spiral out of control and wind up with people dead or in an illegal holding facility.
Again, what are his alternatives to sending crazy and dangerous Alphas to Binghampton and praying the situation there isn't as screwed up as he knows it is?
Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. My mind skipped right past 'misguided' as reason for a person to do evil things and not feel bad.3) You act like the only reason to do bad things is because you enjoy them. A character who does bad things because he thinks they are right is much more sympathetic than a character who recognizes that the things he is doing are bad but just keeps doing them... because. A character who does bad things and doesn't care is well known to be "cool" (see for example: Spike, every other bad boy character ever).
I wouldn't say, at all, that a misguided character who does ill is any more sympathetic or interesting than a character who does ill because he sees no alternative. But that comes down to personal taste.
Who's talking about everything the government does? I'm sure the government does tons of things that don't relate at all to the Alphas or WoT (which the show increasingly seems an allegory for.) I do however, hold that all of the things the government does specifically in response to Red Flag's terrorism is... wait for it... in response to Red Flag's terrorism. That doesn't excuse the abuses in the least, but it helps to explain them.People have to take responsibility for their own behavior. You can't blame literally everything that the government does on Red Flag. That's ridiculous.
That, and it rather firmly shuts down the notion of Red Flag being the 'good guys.' They are the instigators of this conflict, whatever their motives (and I believe a fear of Black Helicopters features big there) and they are consistently the ones escalating things.
MKUltra, which IRL was a cold war CIA project studying the possibilities of brainwashing, here seems to have been a sort of "supersoldier program." In which Stanton Parish was head researcher. Permit me to repeat, Parish was in charge. Any crimes committed were committed by him, and decades later he had everyone involved killed to prevent any of them from ID-ing him (and possibly to keep them silent about other, undocumented things he did in this time.)The MKUltra project was a great big war crime (against Alphas) which no one was tried for.
They may well be coming. But who, in this TV series, have the feds assassinated?So the United States government doesn't employ any assassins?
