After much gushing, I finally got my girlfriend to watch SGA with me - we're currently about five or six eps into season 1.
Even with having seen so little, she's already pointed out the way that all the 'primative' races are portrayed as Noble Savages - their speech patterns are all unnatural, with highly formal speech (even between two NS characters, not in hearing of the Atalanteans, with whom they might be formal), lack of contractions etc.
She also got very riled up about "Poisioning the Well" - and although she's a socialist who's anti-imperialistic-american-view-being-imposed-on-everying, I totally saw her point in that episode. I still can't figure out why - or by what right - John got so pissed off....and pissy. Carson, I could understand. The other Atlanteans, not so much.
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Even with having seen so little, she's already pointed out the way that all the 'primative' races are portrayed as Noble Savages - their speech patterns are all unnatural, with highly formal speech (even between two NS characters, not in hearing of the Atalanteans, with whom they might be formal), lack of contractions etc.
She also got very riled up about "Poisioning the Well" - and although she's a socialist who's anti-imperialistic-american-view-being-imposed-on-everying, I totally saw her point in that episode. I still can't figure out why - or by what right - John got so pissed off....and pissy. Carson, I could understand. The other Atlanteans, not so much.