While it was good to see Kathleen Quinlan deviate somewhat from her usual portrayal of Christina as one-dimensional and wooden, this episode left Christina's motives unclear. She apparently came up with a hare-brained plan to start a global war in order for these battling countries to realise that their modern defence systems needed to be revamped, so that she could profit from using Scylla to create environmentally friendly weapons and systems for these countries in return. According to the General, Christina's plans were for defensive solar weaponry and water desalination, which is hardly an area of major concern for warring nations! Why would a country at war think about the best environmentally friendly weapons to use? So, these countries supposedly would be eager to kill their enemies, but have some kind of conscience about hurting the earth in that pursuit? Why would countries at war even care about the environment? And why would Christina have to start more wars when we already have half the world embroiled in some type of conflict or other?
Wouldn't it have been easier for Christina to just meet with world leaders and introduce her environmentally friendly weapons and systems during peacetime? Wouldn't she get a more affirmative response if the countries of these leaders were not at war? Christina is either terribly foolish and dim-witted, in which case it is pointless trying to portray her as another "Scofield", or she is a mentally deranged psychopath! Either way, the writers have fuzzed up her motivation and her intentions with a lot of insensibilities and nonsense.
And of all the nations in the world that would bring a lot of financial rewards should they go into battle, Laos, one of the poorest nations on the face of the earth, was thought to be a good choice? It was thought to be a choice? Perhaps The General and Christina should forget about world domination and return to high school, because it's perfectly clear they missed a few lessons on history and logic! Or rather, the writers did.
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