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SGA 3.02 Misbegotten thoughts
Maybe it's just me but at the cringe-worthy "You would have made the same choice" moment between Woolsey and Weir, I didn't only see it as a gender issue, but as a problem with Weir's overall role in Atlantis. She's not a scientist. She's not military. She's a negotiator. And you can't negotiate with the Wraith. They eat people; they don't talk to them.
One of my favorite Weir moments is when she got the nuke from the Genii. But moments like that are few and far between on Atlantis. Weir rarely leaves Atlantis, and their increasing isolation means few if any outsiders are coming to the city. As I said, she's neither military or scientist and her people are competent enough that bowing to their choices is often the smart thing to do. The resource problems are largely gone, so she doesn't have allocation choices to make.
I get the feeling that the choice of a civilian leader for SGA was made so that the show wouldn't seem like a simple rehash of the original series. But it wasn't very well thought out. What probably looked good on paper hasn't worked so well in execution. Only they're reluctant to ditch the character for one that would work better. So now we get this whole heavy-handed plot to make us try to overlook the fact that the character is a bad fit for the show.
One of my favorite Weir moments is when she got the nuke from the Genii. But moments like that are few and far between on Atlantis. Weir rarely leaves Atlantis, and their increasing isolation means few if any outsiders are coming to the city. As I said, she's neither military or scientist and her people are competent enough that bowing to their choices is often the smart thing to do. The resource problems are largely gone, so she doesn't have allocation choices to make.
I get the feeling that the choice of a civilian leader for SGA was made so that the show wouldn't seem like a simple rehash of the original series. But it wasn't very well thought out. What probably looked good on paper hasn't worked so well in execution. Only they're reluctant to ditch the character for one that would work better. So now we get this whole heavy-handed plot to make us try to overlook the fact that the character is a bad fit for the show.