So far those are the reasons I find for Keller's presence on Atlantis : She's young and cute... and that's about it I think... hum let me see.... nope, I think I'm really done.
Despite what TPTB say, I think they had planned the cancellation of SGA to make SGU a long time ago, and Keller was their very first step in that direction. They needed to know how much audience a cute blond could bring to SGA, AND, don't forget, they could begin to train at writing super crappy soap-like "action" (read : romance).
The writers are terrible at writing women to begin with, so give them one that is nothing more than a sexual object and they'll do whatever they can with it (which isn't much).
Because Keller is certainly not CMO because of her talent, nor her field experience, nor her ability to keep a straight head and think fast, and apparently she's not known for having the gene either (forgive me for thinking that it's an important part of the position in a city where most of the medical equipement they discover might need to be gene activated), if anything, Marie was a lot more suited to the position as she had been Carson's assitant and quite competent as that (but alas Marie was not only "ethnic" but also waaaaaaaaay above their demographic (For crying out loud, the woman was old ! At least... 30 or something ! ewwww)!
My main point when I talk about Keller is : Take her off the picture... watch an episode... what does it change ? ... ... ... Yep, nothing (reminds me of Ford). Because she's an object, not a person. And because she's got no special talent (apart from being lucky to be in the right age range), she can't be missed anywhere, anybody could do what she does (see the Shrine, where John has to be the one to find all the solutions for an emergency field-operation; I'm sorry, but after a lot of crap like that this was the final straw for me, if she's completely unable to improvise on her own then she should be sent back to Earth for field training, or be put in an SG team, still for training, and someone needing training to that level should certainly never be made chief of anything).
So yeah, Keller = useless in my opinion. I just wish she wasn't there to take the Team screentime just because Brad Wright and Robert Cooper are having a creepy mid-life crisis.
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Date: 2008-09-24 06:32 pm (UTC)Despite what TPTB say, I think they had planned the cancellation of SGA to make SGU a long time ago, and Keller was their very first step in that direction. They needed to know how much audience a cute blond could bring to SGA, AND, don't forget, they could begin to train at writing super crappy soap-like "action" (read : romance).
The writers are terrible at writing women to begin with, so give them one that is nothing more than a sexual object and they'll do whatever they can with it (which isn't much).
Because Keller is certainly not CMO because of her talent, nor her field experience, nor her ability to keep a straight head and think fast, and apparently she's not known for having the gene either (forgive me for thinking that it's an important part of the position in a city where most of the medical equipement they discover might need to be gene activated), if anything, Marie was a lot more suited to the position as she had been Carson's assitant and quite competent as that (but alas Marie was not only "ethnic" but also waaaaaaaaay above their demographic (For crying out loud, the woman was old ! At least... 30 or something ! ewwww)!
My main point when I talk about Keller is : Take her off the picture... watch an episode... what does it change ?
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Yep, nothing (reminds me of Ford). Because she's an object, not a person. And because she's got no special talent (apart from being lucky to be in the right age range), she can't be missed anywhere, anybody could do what she does (see the Shrine, where John has to be the one to find all the solutions for an emergency field-operation; I'm sorry, but after a lot of crap like that this was the final straw for me, if she's completely unable to improvise on her own then she should be sent back to Earth for field training, or be put in an SG team, still for training, and someone needing training to that level should certainly never be made chief of anything).
So yeah, Keller = useless in my opinion. I just wish she wasn't there to take the Team screentime just because Brad Wright and Robert Cooper are having a creepy mid-life crisis.