Stargate: Atlantis: If we were running the show

[meganbmoore]

lesbiassparrow and I have expressed our displeasure, both in our LJs and in IMs, over our, ah, "displeasure" over certain aspects in Stargate: Atlantis, primarily over the severely messed up gender politics.  Let's face it, at least in season 1, most episodes can be boiled down to these 3 formulas:

1.  Sheppard stupidly acts without thinking and makes a bargain/performs an action he has no authority to make, ignores Teyla's being the only one with common sense, problems are caused, he dumps his screw up on Weir and the show acts like it's her fault, because heaven forbid the stupid heroic men ever be responsible for any of the problems they cause.  They meant well, after all.  She's just the female, non-military boss.

2.  McKay does something stupid that causes problems, ignores Teyla's being the only one with common sense, problems are caused, he dumps his screw up on Weir and the show acts like it's her fault, because heaven forbid the stupid heroic men ever be responsible for any of the problems they cause.  They meant well, after all.  She's just the female, non-military boss.

3.  Sheppard and/or McKay royally pisses someone(like, an entire race...) off, cause problems, ignore Teyla's being the only one with common sense, problems are caused, he dumps his screw up on Weir and the show acts like it's her fault, because heaven forbid the stupid heroic men ever be responsible for any of the problems they cause.  They meant well, after all.  She's just the female, non-military boss.

WE HAVE COME UP WITH A SOLUTION!!!!!!!

In our perfect version of SGA, Sheppard and McKay's stupidity gets them sucked into a black hole.  Without their stupidity around to screw everything up, Weir, Teyla, Ronan and Ford are able to wipe out the Wraith within two weeks.  Somewhere in there, Daniel hopped over to the Pegasus Galaxy and found a way to cure Ford.  Weir and Teyla take over the Pegasus Galaxy with Ford and Ronan as their chief flunkies.  Eventually, Ford and Ronan manage to find two nice girls in the Pegasus Galaxy who somehow manged to escape having their brains devoured by the manly stupidity of McKay and Sheppard before the black hole tragically took them away for all eternity.

Sadly, Weir and Teyla were turned off of men for eternity.  It is unclear whether or not they switched teams or just decided that celibacy was the way to go, but they did open a string of orphanages.  All children born between the time the Atlantis team arrived in the Pegasus Galaxy and one year after what eventually became known as the Salvation Via Black Hole Incident were kept away from all weaponry and machinery until thoroughly tested, just in case.

Also, 30 years later, Sam and Jack's son and Daniel and Vala's daughter (or the reverse) fled to the Pegasus Galaxy to escape demands for grandbabies.  Because you know they're so getting married.

Guys...I'm probably watching either Season 2 of SGA after Super Gals!  Unless I watch one of the few doramas I have waiting instead.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I approve of this post.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Of course you do. You gave advice while it was being formulated.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

You have to also add that Weir suddenly starts madly supporting McKay and Sheppard's crap decisions against all reason and her 'I believe in civilian control' enthusiasm of the first season and a half.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I lack the strength of will to do that. The thought makes my sould sob.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

!!!

I HIGHLY APPROVE OF THIS SOLUTION.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I thought you might. Now, how do we make it a reality...?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Well, first we make Weir a man, and Teyla white...

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

You are so right, and yet I adore McKay, mistakes and all. I would be sad to see him go. And I have to warn you that in later seasons Weir makes some jaw droppingly awful decisions. Not on a let's-wake-up-a-race-of-killers scale, but horrifically unethical. Ignoring Teyla's being the only one with common sense.

Seriously, why do I like this show?

Sheppard, you can jettison into space as far as I'm concerned.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I loved McKay in SG1 after his first couple of appearances, but it's like everything I liked but couldn't pt my finger on is gone in SGA. I tried really, really hard in season 1 to still like him, and to like Sheppard, but I couldn't. I think if the show weren't so in love with them and convinced they were flawless and that I'd love everything they do, I could like them more.

I got the first 2 seasons for really cheap(about $33 combined) assumng that the series would be a go since I like SG1 so much, but season 2 will probably have to awe me for me to get past it to seasons 3-4. Really, the only reason I'll likely even be watching it is because of Teyla, and because I'm promised I'll like Ronan. (I'd list Ford as an incentive, but I know what happens to him in vague turns. Conceptually, Weir is just about the best thing ever, but I don't know if the writers just dislike non-military authority or don't know what to do with a woman in charge-given Teyla's relations with her people, I suspect both- but in the end, Weir just makes me kind of sad.)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

And I have to warn you that in later seasons Weir makes some jaw droppingly awful decisions.

I have to agree here, sadly, having just seen the end of season 2. The problem for me is not as much the poor decisions as the terrible refusal of the show to acknowledge them as poor decisions and to say the characters have any responsibility for them.

(I don't know why I keep watching this show either. It compells me somehow.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You keep watching because you know it gives me incentive to continue and see if it's really that bad.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

You have pinpointed exactly why I rarely watch SGA.

I'd like that show a lot better if it was the Teyla and Ronon Show.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'll watch at least through season 2 because I have it.

I have high hopes for Ronan.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I like the idea that instead of Daniel coming that Janet is still alive and cures Ford.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

So do I. I just could make myself go quite that AU.

Hmm...we could always kidnap that one AU Janet from the SG1 ep with all the AU SG1s...