Ardhanarishvara Part Twenty-Seven
Previously: Sheppard and McKay were held hostage after being captured on a mission without Teyla or Ronon along (that'll teach 'em to go off on their own), rescued themselves in true Sheppard and McKay fashion and left a large hole in the ground behind them as well as an enemy that was probably but not positively dead. Elizabeth was afraid of lice
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I actually missed Kate while editing this. Or at least, our Kate, who had a few more ethics than canon Kate. But I do sort of miss canon Kate and I'm still sad for the way she died, suffering such terror.
Well, our Kate lives on at least.
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I did not like canon Kate, the person, if you will. I thought she was bad at her job, had lousy ethics, and vaguely creepy at times. That said, it isn't necessary to like the person for them to be a good (in other words, useful to the telling of the story) character. I found her to be a good character, I didn't mind seeing her show up in an episode, I thought she expanded the society of Atlantis.
On the other hand, not only did I dislike canon Carson (I thought he had a worse grasp of ethics, biomedical or just every day morals, than Kate), I disliked the character and thought that the Carson character was often injected into an episode because he was main cast and not because it furthered the story. So I was pleased to see him go for objective and subjective reasons.
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I think with Kate though I was mostly "whatever" which was what I meant with not warming up to her, because -- I guess I'm a bad fan, but I rarely develop strong opinions about minor characters either way. They don't register that much. I'm almost always most into the hero characters, and about the minimum screen time for me to be invested in a character is someone like Radek Zelenka, unless there are exceptional circumstances making a minor character really cool.
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I love recurring supporting characters. Zelenka is the finest example, with Lorne a close second. Miko and Chuck also. I want Stackhouse and Bates back. I want the characters in the backgrounds to be played by the same people so that they become familiar to my eye, even if I never hear their names.
What I hate is Nameless Redshirts, shuffled in and out, like I'm too dumb to notice they're different. And that's why almost all my SGA is crossed with SG-1, because I plunder their backstory for recurring supporting characters.
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his new guy in Criminal Minds that replaced some previous profiler guy, I have seen him in thirteen episodes as a main character and I still can't recall his name...
That's not your fault, the character sucks! I had it on last night and could not be bothered to watch the second half of the ep, because he brings the boring.
And while I have a really good memory for names? I can only remember the actor's name, not the characters, in this case. A clear sign he's big old blank.
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