I've read people accusing TPTB for liking John more, but I really don't think they do. I would actually agree that they like John more. They think of John as the hero and leave of the show, and want to paint him as perfect and awesome cool. The thing is, they *relate* more to McKay, since the writers are all geeky nerds themselves. I think it's more because they understand McKay rather than idolize him, as they do Sheppard, that he has the more detailed background. They may like Sheppard more, but they have a lot more trouble getting inside his head.
From what I understand, so did Flanigan. I know, I hadn't really thought of it until I heard that JF wanted it, and then it stuck with me. It would have been so much better had the writers gone that route with John instead of Ronon.
I also blame them for the lack of professional tension between John and Elizabeth. She didn't berate John because the writers were too lazy to go there. God, and it made Elizabeth look so weak! Actually, most of Elizabeth's story lines make me sad. She's supposed to be a world famous diplomat for gods sake! I wanted to hit something in, I think it was The Game, when she just kind of threw up her hands and gave up negotiating for them.
While I don't particularly like him, in that very instance I thought Elizabeth was waaaay out of line, both with the original reprimand and the follow up when Kavanaugh called her on it. I'm one of those people who is easily led and takes things at face value, and the writers set Kavanaugh up to be hated and mocked, so I didn't really think about it. Then someone made the point to me that he wasn't really out of line, and it totally made me rethink that scene. I still can't really respect him for following her out of there immediately, he would have done better to either continue to make his point (I'm not worried about getting the blame if this goes wrong, because if it goes wrong, there will be no one *left* to blame! It's not a waste of time if there's a chance doing this will kill everyone, we should take the time to look into some sort of failsafe, or it won't just be them dead, it'll be *all* of us) or else solve the problem and take her aside later. Rodney so would have done the former, just saying ;)
And while we're talking about assholeish characters, can I just say I was shocked at the amount of people admitting in that post that they liked Caldwell? Why is that a dirty secret? Are there people out there who *don't* like Caldwell? Why? He's awesome! I was so annoyed when they brought Ellis (the Apollo guy) in because that's so Caldwell's job! I think the scene where I really fell in love with Caldwell is that time Woolsey was going around checking up on the Atlantis personnel and tried to get the dirt on them from Caldwell, and Caldwell totally shot them down. I love that he started out as totally separate from the Atlantians, and now he's totally one of them :)
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I would actually agree that they like John more. They think of John as the hero and leave of the show, and want to paint him as perfect and awesome cool. The thing is, they *relate* more to McKay, since the writers are all geeky nerds themselves. I think it's more because they understand McKay rather than idolize him, as they do Sheppard, that he has the more detailed background. They may like Sheppard more, but they have a lot more trouble getting inside his head.
From what I understand, so did Flanigan.
I know, I hadn't really thought of it until I heard that JF wanted it, and then it stuck with me. It would have been so much better had the writers gone that route with John instead of Ronon.
I also blame them for the lack of professional tension between John and Elizabeth. She didn't berate John because the writers were too lazy to go there.
God, and it made Elizabeth look so weak! Actually, most of Elizabeth's story lines make me sad. She's supposed to be a world famous diplomat for gods sake! I wanted to hit something in, I think it was The Game, when she just kind of threw up her hands and gave up negotiating for them.
While I don't particularly like him, in that very instance I thought Elizabeth was waaaay out of line, both with the original reprimand and the follow up when Kavanaugh called her on it.
I'm one of those people who is easily led and takes things at face value, and the writers set Kavanaugh up to be hated and mocked, so I didn't really think about it. Then someone made the point to me that he wasn't really out of line, and it totally made me rethink that scene. I still can't really respect him for following her out of there immediately, he would have done better to either continue to make his point (I'm not worried about getting the blame if this goes wrong, because if it goes wrong, there will be no one *left* to blame! It's not a waste of time if there's a chance doing this will kill everyone, we should take the time to look into some sort of failsafe, or it won't just be them dead, it'll be *all* of us) or else solve the problem and take her aside later. Rodney so would have done the former, just saying ;)
And while we're talking about assholeish characters, can I just say I was shocked at the amount of people admitting in that post that they liked Caldwell? Why is that a dirty secret? Are there people out there who *don't* like Caldwell? Why? He's awesome! I was so annoyed when they brought Ellis (the Apollo guy) in because that's so Caldwell's job! I think the scene where I really fell in love with Caldwell is that time Woolsey was going around checking up on the Atlantis personnel and tried to get the dirt on them from Caldwell, and Caldwell totally shot them down. I love that he started out as totally separate from the Atlantians, and now he's totally one of them :)