Cont., because I'm being mouthy to the point of LJ saying my comment was too long. :)
That felt weird to me, because Keller and Carter are now close friends with the team? They hardly know each other.
This is the Boys at Bridge standard operating procedure. They're very much into "show" and not "tell." We're supposed to accept that everyone on Atlantis has not only accepted both Carter and Keller, but they're all just bestest buds. They did this before with Sam and Mitchell, by putting in a back history that they knew each other, instead of having to show them getting to know each other, so they didn't have to deal with Sam maybe having issues over "losing" command and being 2IC again.
I have a feeling the first few episodes were already roughed out in concept, but then tweaked once they knew for certain Weir was out and Carter was in, which may be why some scenes feel like a "cut and paste" instead of a scene written for Carter.
Comments Flanigan made about going to the producers about concerns the transition going too fast leave me thinking they intended to either outright kill Weir, or have her injured and returned to earth, and plop Carter right into command in the first episode. They'd probably use the excuse that a military leader was now necessary due to so many attacks or something along those lines.
You might be interested in this article. TPTB seem convinced all the people with a negative opinion are Weir fans, Sam haters, or shippers/slashers upset over a disruption in their OTPs. But this article is written by a man (and we all know only male opinions count, right?), and he expresses some of the same concerns as the rest of us.
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That felt weird to me, because Keller and Carter are now close friends with the team? They hardly know each other.
This is the Boys at Bridge standard operating procedure. They're very much into "show" and not "tell." We're supposed to accept that everyone on Atlantis has not only accepted both Carter and Keller, but they're all just bestest buds. They did this before with Sam and Mitchell, by putting in a back history that they knew each other, instead of having to show them getting to know each other, so they didn't have to deal with Sam maybe having issues over "losing" command and being 2IC again.
I have a feeling the first few episodes were already roughed out in concept, but then tweaked once they knew for certain Weir was out and Carter was in, which may be why some scenes feel like a "cut and paste" instead of a scene written for Carter.
Comments Flanigan made about going to the producers about concerns the transition going too fast leave me thinking they intended to either outright kill Weir, or have her injured and returned to earth, and plop Carter right into command in the first episode. They'd probably use the excuse that a military leader was now necessary due to so many attacks or something along those lines.
You might be interested in this
article. TPTB seem convinced all the people with a negative opinion are Weir fans, Sam haters, or shippers/slashers upset over a disruption in their OTPs. But this article is written by a man (and we all know only male opinions count, right?), and he expresses some of the same concerns as the rest of us.