Season 4 casting spoilers - who will be in command of Atlantis

[wraithfodder]

They're totally changing the dynamic of SGA and it's not for the better. Read at your own peril.

Just a few quotes from the latest issue of SciFi magazine.

 

"...Amanda Tapping and her character, Col. Samantha Carter, who'll be taking over as the new leader now that the TV series SG1 is coming to an end."

 

Cooper said "It's about time she [Carter] got a command, and we had to keep that from happening to SG1 becuase we wanted her to be part of the team."

 

Bad news for Weir fans: "I can't make people feel better who just love Torri and Dr. Weir and want to see her on the show," sighs [Robert C] Cooper. "Unfortunately, that's just not going to happen. All I can say is that Sam Carter is a wonderful character, and Amanda Tapping is a wonderful actress, and i think she will fill the role on Atlantis admirably. I'm excited about seeing the evolution of her character. Brad and I created the character Dr. Weir and we love the character and torri, but the change needed to be made."

 

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Why not just cancel Atlantis, and make the third series and put Carter in command? The people at Bridge seem obsessed with having Tapping in every project they do (SG1, SGA, Sanctuary, etc.) I have nothing against the actress, but the "change needed to be made" comment is just pure crap. The people who created the show didn't know how to write Weir, so, hey, let's bring over technobabble Carter from SG1 to take her slot. The article says what TPTB have been denying - that Carter IS going to be in command of Atlantis. Sucks. Sucks. Sucks.

WHY did the change need to be made? Do they explain that? Nope.

 

This is going to change the dynamic of the show. Weir is out, Carter is in charge, McKay will act like an idiot around her. God, I can only hope that Shep's team gets stranded offworld for most of the season just to avoid Atlantis.

 

This is just my kneejerk reaction from reading the article (posted over at http://ailurophile6.livejournal.com/29013.html)

Comments

[marimba26.livejournal.com]

You hit the nail on the head. I think I'll watch the eps with Weir but otherwise, I'm all done. I don't know what they think they're playing at but it's going to backfire on them bigtime. I think they're trying to bring over the SG-1 folks who don't watch SGA (no, I don't understand that either :) ) and I think they're going to end up alienating their SGA fans in the process. Just MHO.

Thanks for posting this so we're all prepared at least.

[veracity]

And they seem to have missed the memo where majority of the SG-1 fans know of the show's existence, and either watch or don't. This isn't brain surgery. *sigh*

[marimba26.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they seemed to have missed that the ones who want to watch already do...but then again, we're not important, right? Because it seems that most of us aren't teenage boys after all...huh, who knew?

[veracity]

I bet they skipped Common Sense 101. Probably snuck into How To Reuse A Plot 101 instead.

You know, it's all my parents fault for not being a boy. Nooo, my dad had to let the wrong little guy out the gate. As a boy, maybe I'd salivate and they'd
listen to me.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I dare say virtually all SG1 fans are aware of SGA if they watch SG1 on Skiffy. I mean, hello, yes, commercials for the upcoming show. Fans have made up their mind after three years. They'll watch or they won't, but TPTB are calculating that if they dump an SG1 character on the show, the fans will watch for that character, so I suspect Carter will appear after certain time periods so they can get their Neilsen rating numbers.

[veracity]

Yes, and the fact both share the Stargate intro, so it's not difficult to figure out they're related. People, from what I can tell, watch each for different reasons. What they're *not* banking on (and boy, do they fail at their jobs for it) is that pissing off people in a very small niched community is a very bad idea.

Supernatural/Sci-fi shows aren't market dominators. It's not like ER, Grey's, House, or Bones (What is this? Doctor explosions lately?), where they have an easy to find market. Specific niches have to work at keeping their viewers, not pissing them off weekly. A wise person would keep the fans they have, get better scripts, and expand that way. Intentionally causing a ruckus won't work out well in the end. With only being on one channel here (Skiffy), new episodes are vital to keeping it afloat. However tv's not the only way to see a show nowadays. In any shape or form. People can view without handing over those ever so important Neilsen ratings.