SGA Saturday

This is true about Jennifer helping the female main character ratio. And I adore Jewel Staite. I was/am just pissed about the Rodney/Jennifer storyline. It also felt way too much like the situation when Nicole De Boer replaced Terry Farrell on DS9. It was the last season of the show, in the middle of a WAR that had been going on for several seasons, and they had to take all this time to establish a new character AND a romance with another character when all the audience wanted was to spend the remaining time with the characters we knew and loved.

Um. I know I feel differently than apparently a lot of people in the fandom who wanted independent Atlantis, or at least major power player Atlantis, but I wanted them kept tied to earth. The show already felt way too much like White Savior Saves The Day for me. Making them an actual colonial colony would have been too much IMO. It would have definitely provided good drama and character development but it would have needed much, much better writers than those if it wanted to avoid being even more horribly sexist and racist. I thought the show was a little bit self-aware when they had that episode where the team is captured and put on trial for all the crap that happened when they came...but the way that episode played out convinced me that they were definitely NOT self-aware. And, like you said, this may have been more feasible if half the cast were Pegasus natives and there were more than two PoC. I only trust fandom to do Independent Colony!Atlantis. lol