just a general post
Work is going pretty well so far, although I'm playing catch-up since it's all new to me. All the people I've met seem genuinely nice. The workload will have its ups and downs but I can roll with it. I can see myself staying here for a while. The only thing that makes me really uncomfortable is the fact that I overheard (not on purpose) that another person in my department is leaving. For greener pastures, for a relationship, for a career change, I don't know. I only accidentally overheard the usual spiel about how working at this place has been great and full of opportunities to be thankful for but it's time to move on. It makes me wonder honestly why this department has lost so many people in the past half-year.
I have been feeling fannish about Stargate Atlantis again, but now it's just making me kinda sad.
Beckett's been unkilled by the writers/producers, but that doesn't mean he'll be back as a regular character. His replacement, Dr. Keller, sounds likable enough yet I can't help but feel she's too much like a younger, female, American version of Beckett. (Gateworld interview with Carl Binder says she's from a small town and is "out of her element" while lost in some woods with Teyla.) Teyla Emmagan will probably be pregnant with a magical sci-fi baby in a storyline that could go badly if it's not handled well. And Weir! Based on comments from interviews and some episode spoilers I've seen, I bet she's going to be turned into a Replicator as a means of moving the character off Atlantis. I really hope there's a backdoor exit for that development, because I still want the character to be able to come back and be human and work with the Stargate program (even if it doesn't happen in the series' run).