Judith Proctor wrote:
...if you have to send one of your people into a dangerous situation, then can you be certain that you will not discriminate in
favour of
someone you are in love with? (or maybe that's a new reason for Jenna
always
ending up on teleport duty...).
I always assumed it was because she was the pilot and it was safer for all for her to stay on board, unlike in ST:TOS where the captain, doctor and science officer always left the ship.
My own personal theory as to why Carter seems to come out of it better
than
Cally and Jenna is *uniform*. In Stargate, everyone dresses the same. If O'Neill's in camouflage gear, then Carter's in camouflage gear. If he's
in
uniform, then she's in uniform. Stargate seems to be the one show where
the
main female character isn't dressed in mini skirts/skin-tight
leather/bondage
gear/brightly coloured pastels. I suspect this may have had an influence
on the
way the writers approached the character.
A very good point. I always wondered how the females on B7 could manage on those stupid high-heels.
It certainly affects the way I react to her. An intelligent female character, an astrophysicist, who gets to
do all
the interesting things with everyone else. Where was she when I was
growing up?
Yep! When I was a kid, I always dressed in trousers or shorts if at all poss and had short hair (actually still do). On holiday where I met other kids who didn't know me, I could be Stephen and play my favourite war games with them. My parents were surprisingly supportive. In fact for my birthday last year I got WW2 fighter plane and Star Wars walking tank model sets to assemble. Grow up? Me?
Unlike Jenna and Cally, she also gets called by her second name as a rule.
Is Cally her first name, or her only one?
I guess it's a bit like (what I see as) the class distinction in Blake's
7.
Upper grades like Blake and Avon are called by their second name, whereas
lower
grades like Vila are called by their second name.
Unless Vila preferred it that way, either because it was friendlier or he didn't like being called by the name on his wanted posters. But you're probably right. I noticed the other characters use his name a lot, in almost every remark addressed to him. A class thing again, like saying 'boy'?
For anyone who's got this far and hasn't seen Stargate, the series is just starting from the first episode on Sky 1 on New Year's Day. Each episode
is on
twice a day - 6am and 6pm. It's an episode each weekday. It's a good opportunity to watch it from the beginning.
Hey, thanks so much! We have different scheduling here in NZ but I checked our Sky 1 and we're getting Stargate from the beginning, and also Andromeda which hasn't been shown here before.
Nico