Rodney is shown repeatedly to be the smartest man we could ever hope to meet, Teyla is a *warrior princess*, Ronon is a fantastic fighter, John is the lone self-sacrifing hero, they are all hero. What has Keller done in her field to be part of the hero team ? Why should we call her extraordinary ? (and anything that can be perfomed by most med school student before they graduate is not a valid argument as it only serves to dumb down a character that is supposed to be the best at what she does [that's how you get on top in real life]).
It just seems like either an impossibly high bar (particularly since it keeps getting raised, imo), or extremely nitpicky (we need to see her actual resume, please).
The bar has never changed as far as I'm concerned. For someone in her position I've never expected less than greatness, and it was never delivered. And I'm not being nitpick either, but honestly, do we even know her specialty ? We know that Carson was a geneticist, what is Keller ? See I'm not asking for a full CV, just the writers were not even bothered enough to tell us what type of doctor she is ! If that's not super lazy writing then I don't know what is. So what, no more mathematicians, physicist, astrophysicist, biologists, from now on we'll call them all *scientists* because who cares what their field are ? It's not like it's important in the character development ?!?
The terrible thing is that I *wish* I could love the character of the CMO, but I can't ! They are not delivering a believable character, no matter how I look at it !
I read your comments on Gnine entry where you said that you were not all that much into medical shows or medicine, could that explain why you feel she's extraordinary when she does anything remotely medical ? (I'm not judging, just asking) I need to be impressed because it's a field close to my heart, just like the mathematicians and astrophysicists I've met also wants to be impressed in their field. And apparently they have a very good advisor ont his point, because people are happy with it, it's impressive *enough* that the people working in that field feel happy about it. The medical stuff (and by the way I felt the same way with Carson most of the time, so this particular point is not *only* about Keller) *never* impresses me, I'm always left wanting the *good stuff* (quite recently in the Queen, wehave some sort of operation going on, but they don't ever bother explaining what was done during this operation ! Was that surgery ? Cosmetic surgery ? Make-up ? Gene therapy ? What ??? And at the end, same thing, we only ever get to see that Teyla has no scar, but we still have no idea of what happened. As far as medicine is concerned here, they should have just shouted "Abracadabra" and be done with it. The irony ? It's one of the rare time where they gave Keller a chance to *do* something, and then they completely ruined it by never telling us what it was ! I cannot express my disappointment enough).
I think the writer put her there so that people could think she's cute and kinda funny and kinda able to do some medical stuff (plus she's less than 30 and they needed her for the ridiculous love-triangle-soap thing). I think the writers should have at lest watched a few episodes of ER (of even watched some medical channel) before trying to write a lead as a doctor. They can't write medicine, and it shows.
As xparrot said, thanks for you patience though, you're obviously teying to prove something to us that no matter what we can't see, very probably because our backgrounds are so different, but you've done it always politely, and I do appreciate it :).
(when did this became long enough for 2 comments ???)
Re: What ? 2 comments ? We need longer comments capability :p. (part 2)
It just seems like either an impossibly high bar (particularly since it keeps getting raised, imo), or extremely nitpicky (we need to see her actual resume, please).
The bar has never changed as far as I'm concerned. For someone in her position I've never expected less than greatness, and it was never delivered.
And I'm not being nitpick either, but honestly, do we even know her specialty ? We know that Carson was a geneticist, what is Keller ? See I'm not asking for a full CV, just the writers were not even bothered enough to tell us what type of doctor she is ! If that's not super lazy writing then I don't know what is. So what, no more mathematicians, physicist, astrophysicist, biologists, from now on we'll call them all *scientists* because who cares what their field are ? It's not like it's important in the character development ?!?
The terrible thing is that I *wish* I could love the character of the CMO, but I can't ! They are not delivering a believable character, no matter how I look at it !
I read your comments on Gnine entry where you said that you were not all that much into medical shows or medicine, could that explain why you feel she's extraordinary when she does anything remotely medical ? (I'm not judging, just asking)
I need to be impressed because it's a field close to my heart, just like the mathematicians and astrophysicists I've met also wants to be impressed in their field. And apparently they have a very good advisor ont his point, because people are happy with it, it's impressive *enough* that the people working in that field feel happy about it. The medical stuff (and by the way I felt the same way with Carson most of the time, so this particular point is not *only* about Keller) *never* impresses me, I'm always left wanting the *good stuff* (quite recently in the Queen, wehave some sort of operation going on, but they don't ever bother explaining what was done during this operation ! Was that surgery ? Cosmetic surgery ? Make-up ? Gene therapy ? What ??? And at the end, same thing, we only ever get to see that Teyla has no scar, but we still have no idea of what happened. As far as medicine is concerned here, they should have just shouted "Abracadabra" and be done with it. The irony ? It's one of the rare time where they gave Keller a chance to *do* something, and then they completely ruined it by never telling us what it was ! I cannot express my disappointment enough).
I think the writer put her there so that people could think she's cute and kinda funny and kinda able to do some medical stuff (plus she's less than 30 and they needed her for the ridiculous love-triangle-soap thing). I think the writers should have at lest watched a few episodes of ER (of even watched some medical channel) before trying to write a lead as a doctor. They can't write medicine, and it shows.
As xparrot said, thanks for you patience though, you're obviously teying to prove something to us that no matter what we can't see, very probably because our backgrounds are so different, but you've done it always politely, and I do appreciate it :).
(when did this became long enough for 2 comments ???)