Sorry! ^^; I can't help the meta, it just comes...
Because Joe M. thought she was wonderful in Instinct and wanted her back at the first opportunity, which was as a replacement for Carson. Would an older actress have worked better in that role? Absolutely. But TPTB are desperately trying to hang on to that 18-24 year male audience and hoped it would work.
More than the male audience - Jewel Staite could potentially bring the Firefly fans, of both sexes. And she is a fun actor, I like her. The thing that gets me is that they could, if they'd thought for like 5 minutes, come up with some reason for her to be on Atlantis despite her age. It's not like she's the first youthful doctor on TV! They just needed to give her some special ability or personal connection or history or something. Instead of just *handwave*
Well okay, that made perfect sense to me. They needed a setup so she could reminisce about her worst nightmare and Sheppard wasn't there, so I didn't feel like she was intruding on the team.
I didn't mind it that much at the time, but in retrospect it bugs me just because we never see anyone else eating with the team - and then in "Quarantine" Keller is going on about how she never fits in anywhere, and it's like, um, you seem better socially adjusted than any other character on Atlantis, please be quiet?
I know there were production issues last season, reasons for them to use her character a lot, but they're giving Keller an even bigger part this season, and they just aren't providing the characterization to back it up. Especially since now they think forced romance is a perfectly good substitute for developing actual character relationships. Argh!
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Date: 2008-09-25 12:35 pm (UTC)Because Joe M. thought she was wonderful in Instinct and wanted her back at the first opportunity, which was as a replacement for Carson. Would an older actress have worked better in that role? Absolutely. But TPTB are desperately trying to hang on to that 18-24 year male audience and hoped it would work.
More than the male audience - Jewel Staite could potentially bring the Firefly fans, of both sexes. And she is a fun actor, I like her. The thing that gets me is that they could, if they'd thought for like 5 minutes, come up with some reason for her to be on Atlantis despite her age. It's not like she's the first youthful doctor on TV! They just needed to give her some special ability or personal connection or history or something. Instead of just *handwave*
Well okay, that made perfect sense to me. They needed a setup so she could reminisce about her worst nightmare and Sheppard wasn't there, so I didn't feel like she was intruding on the team.
I didn't mind it that much at the time, but in retrospect it bugs me just because we never see anyone else eating with the team - and then in "Quarantine" Keller is going on about how she never fits in anywhere, and it's like, um, you seem better socially adjusted than any other character on Atlantis, please be quiet?
I know there were production issues last season, reasons for them to use her character a lot, but they're giving Keller an even bigger part this season, and they just aren't providing the characterization to back it up. Especially since now they think forced romance is a perfectly good substitute for developing actual character relationships. Argh!