Honestly, I think your arguments are all very valid (and honestly, I didn't realize how much fanon background I'd given Keller up until these meta posts. Turns out... a lot.) I'm not sure if any of this constitutes as an argument, agreement, or something else. But I think, for me, it boils down to:
the writers believing that Jewel Staite is answer enough
And honestly, everything else aside, I think this is the real answer. This is not meant as a knock against Jewel Staite, Keller's character, or even the writers. This is the way Hollywood works. This is the way it would work even if she were the quirkiest, most well-defined character in the history of television.
She is Jewel Staite, she is a known name in both the science fiction realm as well as regular television -- because of Firefly, and all of the press surrounding the movie. She's also affordable because she's not quite an A-list actor. They can take her name and her face and put it on posters, and someone who's never seen or heard of Stargate, but might have looked up from their coffee during the Serenity media blitz. I can be inundated with all of the hype, but for me, her being brought to the show was purely for marketing reasons. And Martin Gero's publicly admitted crush.
And... I waffle between true irritation at this and resigned acceptance. This is the way the industry works, it's the way it will work for a good time (hopefully not forever, but little has changed in Hollywood politics since the 1930s, so I don't hold a lot of hope.)
Of course, I've taken a little bit of an ostrich approach to this. SGA is my happy place, and I'm very determined to keep it that way.
Why does Rodney say "I love you" to her when we never heard him say it to Katie Brown or Sam or anyone else?
Lazy writing. *wince* I love "The Shrine", obviously with how much I squealed, squeed, and squailed about it. That ending scene, though, MADE. NO. SENSE. I could write an entire essay on how much, the scene as written and directed, both counting and discounting canon, did not belong there. Honestly, as much as I love Brad Wright as a writer, I'm not sure he took into account, because of the situation and issues the episode deals with, how utterly unromantic and wrong that final scene can be read as.
Honestly, it just seemed like a quick, dirty, and very annoying shortcut to take rather than taking the time to do tiny little things that would take like maybe a second to establish as actions are happening in the background. And while it's not the only thing that irritates me, it's a big factor. There's no reason to take these stupid shortcuts.
I mind that she's had three episodes center around her this season
I'm thinking I'm having a senile moment. I can only think of two (Seed and Tracker), what's the third?
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the writers believing that Jewel Staite is answer enough
And honestly, everything else aside, I think this is the real answer. This is not meant as a knock against Jewel Staite, Keller's character, or even the writers. This is the way Hollywood works. This is the way it would work even if she were the quirkiest, most well-defined character in the history of television.
She is Jewel Staite, she is a known name in both the science fiction realm as well as regular television -- because of Firefly, and all of the press surrounding the movie. She's also affordable because she's not quite an A-list actor. They can take her name and her face and put it on posters, and someone who's never seen or heard of Stargate, but might have looked up from their coffee during the Serenity media blitz. I can be inundated with all of the hype, but for me, her being brought to the show was purely for marketing reasons. And Martin Gero's publicly admitted crush.
And... I waffle between true irritation at this and resigned acceptance. This is the way the industry works, it's the way it will work for a good time (hopefully not forever, but little has changed in Hollywood politics since the 1930s, so I don't hold a lot of hope.)
Of course, I've taken a little bit of an ostrich approach to this. SGA is my happy place, and I'm very determined to keep it that way.
Why does Rodney say "I love you" to her when we never heard him say it to Katie Brown or Sam or anyone else?
Lazy writing. *wince* I love "The Shrine", obviously with how much I squealed, squeed, and squailed about it. That ending scene, though, MADE. NO. SENSE. I could write an entire essay on how much, the scene as written and directed, both counting and discounting canon, did not belong there. Honestly, as much as I love Brad Wright as a writer, I'm not sure he took into account, because of the situation and issues the episode deals with, how utterly unromantic and wrong that final scene can be read as.
Honestly, it just seemed like a quick, dirty, and very annoying shortcut to take rather than taking the time to do tiny little things that would take like maybe a second to establish as actions are happening in the background. And while it's not the only thing that irritates me, it's a big factor. There's no reason to take these stupid shortcuts.
I mind that she's had three episodes center around her this season
I'm thinking I'm having a senile moment. I can only think of two (Seed and Tracker), what's the third?