Stargate Atlantis: Multichannel article talks about Weir's status

[wraithfodder]

Over at Multichannel today (Sep 10 2007),  writer Kent Gibbons laments the cast changes after watching a review copy of a season 4 Stargate Atlantis episode. While he feels there's room enough for both Carter and Weir, he doesn't understand why Weir had to get the boot (he needs to stand in a very long line that's already formed...).

One snippet from the article: "I remain a Stargate fan, and Higginson has some shining moments in the first two episodes of Atlantis’s Season Four, returning on Sept. 28. There’s still a nice photo of her on Sci Fi’s Atlantis home page. And the long-established (on SG-1 and Atlantis), often adversarial relationship between Carter and Atlantis brainiac Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) always leads to fun dialogue.

But I’m forced to agree with Wilson [About.com reviewer] on this point: “Dr. Weir, as interpreted by either actor, is a great character and it's a shame that she has to fade into the background just so that Atlantis [can] pull a Worf.”

(Translation installing a character from an earlier hit in the franchise, like the Klingon character Worf who was first in Star Trek: The Next Generation then in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.)"

Alas, I think poor Weir's gonna pull a Ford... vanish in an episode, never to be seen again. Not dead, but simply gone. Out of sight, out of mind.

It'll be interesting to see the TV critics/reviewers take on Weir being ousted and Carter being added. 

Comments

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a case of Torri being problematic. I think it's the idiots in charge thinking Amanda Tapping is the be all and end all.

I think the only truly safe people are Tapping and Hewlett. TPTB originally wanted Browder for the Flanigan role. I wouldn't put it past them to bring him in.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Any more casting changes will probably kill the show.

[the-scary-kitty.livejournal.com]

I don't think Torri was ever problematic either. I mean, Joe's been agitating for some significant development for Sheppard as well for quite some time, and they're finally giving it to him. Of course, he is the star, but wasn't Torri second in line right behind him? If she can be taken out, then pretty much any of them are fair game, with the exception of Carter (don't get me wrong, I like Carter, I like AT, but this is overkill), and McKay (ditto, because it's been feeling like SGA is turning more into the McKay Comedy Hour. Argh.).

And as depressing as it may sound, I have to agree that it would serve TPTB right if these games of musical chairs they keep playing with the cast ends up sinking the show.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Alas, I just don't want to see Joe, David, etc. vanish if the show does. I just hope they realize Weir IS liked by lots of fans and will get her back somehow. That, or Torri gets a gig on network TV in a successful show.

[the-scary-kitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, I heartily agree with all of that. :)