SGA Saturday

The anonmeme is where I get most of my information. Here's a link roundup, and then here are two later threads one and two.

Like, from one of Torri's con interviews,

How did Torri find out, and react, to finding out Elizabeth Weir was being written out of Stargate Atlantis? “Honestly? I found that quite shitty, to be honest (laughs).Oops. But I found out, because I kept going to them, I kept going up to them saying ‘I have a feeling my character, you’re not doing anything with me, and you guys have me for six years and I don’t want to, you know, be here not doing anything. Let me know what’s going on.’ And they kept saying “no, no, no, it’s great. We love you. We love you. Things can be great.’ And I said ‘well, if that’s the case, can we do something with her’ and they kept reassuring me that nothing - and the very last day of filming season three, as I finished filming the last scene on the last day I was called up to the office and was told that my character was going to become recurring if I chose to be. So, I thought that was not very, um, dignified, way to deal with it, and I was a bit surprised. So I was—so my reaction was one of yeah, I was a little bit surprised. I was a little bit upset by how it was dealt with. But I wasn’t upset at the decision because I understood it. I kept going to them saying ‘I get, I get what’s going to happen, just give me some notice so I can pack my apartment and move back to L.A. Really. So I wasn’t upset with the decision. I was upset with how it was handled.”link

Obviously I wasn't there, but all signs point to JoeF being angry on Torri's behalf and at her treatment by the "boy's club" of TPTB. I think if she'd wanted to come back on the show, he'd have fought for her. But I think she did not want that, and JoeF respected her wishes. (The thing about actors is that all their future jobs depend on them putting up a front of being a team player and never badmouthing their former bosses and so on... JoeF does this a lot, and I notice he also doesn't get a lot of work: coincidence? But reading between the lines Torri was way more upset than she'll allow herself to say to thousands of fans. Of course she was upset with the decision! And the assholes who kept dicking her around! So upset that in S5 when they wanted her to come in and do an episode she refused! She hates them all! <-- speculation)

(I deleted off all my LJ icons at one point, and now don't have enough! But I'm too lazy to upload more...)