Okay, I'm thinking this will be a short answer (::crosses fingers:: *g*), because I think I see the sticking point here.
Once again it's the writing and directing at fault here, if they don't have a proper medical adviser then they should not write medicine at all. [...] 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...
I think you've hit it on the head here. SGA isn't a medical show, and I think they handwave a lot of the med stuff. It doesn't bother me because I know nothing about it, so I take their handwaving and run with it. :) Like I said...(um, somewhere? I've lost track *g*)... when Jennifer jumps up on Elizabeth's gurney while they wheel her to the infirmary, that's enough to tell me she's an excellent doctor. Totally pathetic if it's a field you know about, of course, but there you are. (I know some military knowledgeable people have been frustrated with how that end of the story has been handled as well.)
So I take Jennifer's medical skills as writ, I take her stepping up to be head as believable enough for the circumstances, and then I look at the rest of her character stuff. And it's that rest that I really enjoy. (They could have made her head of anything really -- just something sciency that has an important role in the day to day life of Atlantis and gets her off world.)
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 :).
Thank you. :) I enjoy discussing characters. It's always interesting to see what works and what doesn't and why for different people. At least for me. ;)
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Re: What ? 2 comments ? We need longer comments capability :p. (part 2)
Date: 2008-09-26 03:23 am (UTC)Once again it's the writing and directing at fault here, if they don't have a proper medical adviser then they should not write medicine at all.
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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...
I think you've hit it on the head here. SGA isn't a medical show, and I think they handwave a lot of the med stuff. It doesn't bother me because I know nothing about it, so I take their handwaving and run with it. :) Like I said...(um, somewhere? I've lost track *g*)... when Jennifer jumps up on Elizabeth's gurney while they wheel her to the infirmary, that's enough to tell me she's an excellent doctor. Totally pathetic if it's a field you know about, of course, but there you are. (I know some military knowledgeable people have been frustrated with how that end of the story has been handled as well.)
So I take Jennifer's medical skills as writ, I take her stepping up to be head as believable enough for the circumstances, and then I look at the rest of her character stuff. And it's that rest that I really enjoy. (They could have made her head of anything really -- just something sciency that has an important role in the day to day life of Atlantis and gets her off world.)
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 :).
Thank you. :) I enjoy discussing characters. It's always interesting to see what works and what doesn't and why for different people. At least for me. ;)
And now I'm off to bed. :)