If you ever do become The God of Stargate, prepare to be inundated with whining prayers. *g* I'm not actually that big on "they're doing it wrong" when it comes to how characters are used unless I feel the creators are doing some fairly boneheaded things with women or PoCs, being offensive as opposed to not featuring my favorite character or not taking the story in a direction I want them to. I will complain that, based on the info about a character's personality and motivations we've been given, a certain action on their part doesn't make sense to me, but people are complex, and most things can be worked with, unless one has a heavy investment in a particular character being or behaving a certain way. I'm not really about that, either; I like seeing things unfold as the writers come up with them and rolling with it. Bigoted behavior of any kind will stir me up, though, so I walk close to the "they wouldn't do that" line with women, for instance, especially since the writers are not women and I am. I can't speak for all women, of course, but they can't speak for ANY, so. *g*
Sam was a strong third on SG1, but I still think her arc was much less important to the story than either Daniel's or Jack's, especially as a lot of her stories involved her relationships, who is her (soon to be dead) paramour this week, how are things between her and her father, will she and Jack ever get together? The plots and the arcs progressed primarily through Jack and Daniel. And you may be right about their intending to create more of an ensemble dynamic built around the dashing (white guy) lead (and I think Ingram was originally intended to be black?) but, once the John and Rodney dynamic got going, everything else just fell away for them. Or maybe the focus changed as soon as they cast DH instead of creating Ingram; who knows. They went back to the buddy formula because that's what they know how to do, maybe. Keeps them from having to create realistic stories for all those pesky female characters, anyway--gosh, there are so many women in the Atlantis cast, the show would have turned into a soap opera with all those romantic arcs! Because that's what you write for women, right? Better to stick to the white guys. This is SF, after all! It's supposed to be about white guys. And large-breasted alien women in tiny costumes. *sigh*
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whiningprayers. *g* I'm not actually that big on "they're doing it wrong" when it comes to how characters are used unless I feel the creators are doing some fairly boneheaded things with women or PoCs, being offensive as opposed to not featuring my favorite character or not taking the story in a direction I want them to. I will complain that, based on the info about a character's personality and motivations we've been given, a certain action on their part doesn't make sense to me, but people are complex, and most things can be worked with, unless one has a heavy investment in a particular character being or behaving a certain way. I'm not really about that, either; I like seeing things unfold as the writers come up with them and rolling with it. Bigoted behavior of any kind will stir me up, though, so I walk close to the "they wouldn't do that" line with women, for instance, especially since the writers are not women and I am. I can't speak for all women, of course, but they can't speak for ANY, so. *g*Sam was a strong third on SG1, but I still think her arc was much less important to the story than either Daniel's or Jack's, especially as a lot of her stories involved her relationships, who is her (soon to be dead) paramour this week, how are things between her and her father, will she and Jack ever get together? The plots and the arcs progressed primarily through Jack and Daniel. And you may be right about their intending to create more of an ensemble dynamic built around the dashing (white guy) lead (and I think Ingram was originally intended to be black?) but, once the John and Rodney dynamic got going, everything else just fell away for them. Or maybe the focus changed as soon as they cast DH instead of creating Ingram; who knows. They went back to the buddy formula because that's what they know how to do, maybe. Keeps them from having to create realistic stories for all those pesky female characters, anyway--gosh, there are so many women in the Atlantis cast, the show would have turned into a soap opera with all those romantic arcs! Because that's what you write for women, right? Better to stick to the white guys. This is SF, after all! It's supposed to be about white guys. And large-breasted alien women in tiny costumes. *sigh*