Oh, Atlantis fandom... Never stop sucking.

[lyssie]

Anyway. In response to this "best team evah!" thingie which contains 3/4 of said team, not all of it, I made this.

1. Contains spoilers for Atlantis season four.
2. I stopped watching over four weeks ago. If any of this has changed (yeah, right), it's not my fault.





eta: Edited Teyla's for clarification

Comments

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

You did post this (either in the comments or on the comm), right?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I have now. (You only live once, after all).

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

And I expect that you heard the news that the lovely Ms. Tapping was heading off-series as well, as her starring/produced show got the green light, so she's off on her own now.

"Sanctuary Pickup - SciFi has picked up the web series Sanctuary,
starring and co-produced by Amanda Tapping. As a result of this,
Tapping will move back to an occasional guest star role on
Stargate Atlantis. The initial batch of Sanctuary episodes done
for the web will be reworked and expanded to make a two hour
pilot movie opener for the series. For more on the series in its
web form, visit www.sanctuary4all.com . For an interview with
Amanda Tapping about the pickup and plans for the series, visit
gateworld.net/news/2008/02/tapping_talks_isanctuaryi_iatlan.shtml

Stargate Atlantis Gets new Boss - With Amanda Tapping committed
to Sanctuary, she will no longer be a regular on Stargate
Atlantis. Taking over as the person in charge of the Atlantis
outpost will be Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo). Paul McGillion
will return for five episodes as Dr. Carson Beckett. Joining
the cast as a recurring character is Leela Savasta as Captain
Alice Vega, who will be commanding her own recon team. Savasta
also has a recurring role in Battlestar Galactica as Tracey Anne."

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yup, I knew both of those. Well, not who they'd cast as Captain Vega.

[morwen_peredhil]

BRILLIANT. It explains why SGA now makes me feel dirty and used, and not in the fun way.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Ahahah. Yes.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think you make me stare in horror at the 2 seasons sitting in my DVD backlog...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It's not all bad.

[annerbhp.livejournal.com]

I love you right now more than I can say. :D

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Whoot! ;)

[havocthecat]

Lyssie, I love this pic, and want to pet it and cuddle it and offer to have its photomanipped little babies. I'm so linking this in my LJ.

[angelqueen04.livejournal.com]

This rules, and it's so true! I'm definitely going to link this on my lj too. :)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you. =) (also, bouncing bunny rabbits! so cuuute)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, the Teyla thing wouldn't bother me, if it weren't so couched in utterly sexist terms. Sigh. But, yeah, I knew it was time to let the show go when I couldn't think of anything nice to say about it anymore. And I missed the women.

[rihansu.livejournal.com]

Top pic is beautiful. Bottom pic depresses me something fierce. It really brings home the whole sorry business seeing it all laid out like that. I think it's time for an angry mob.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

When I was putting it together, I honestly wasn't sure it would work, and then it did, and I really did just sit there, going, "dude... this sucks." at it. Because, man. I should not be able to pull that kind of indictment of the treatment of female characters out of my ass in five minutes.

[stef94.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the =exact= same thing: wear this as a badge at Gatecon in August. Or have as many people as possible sending this in as a flyer or a postcard to the studio, with all of them being signed "No love,"
Even if they get 50, they might take notice at some level.

[hyari.livejournal.com]

Wow, I kinda glad I never started.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*steals Jonas's banana and throws it behind her whilst fleeing*

Dude, sometimes, I wish I hadn't started (and that goes double for this fandom)

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

I have nothing but a massive WORD to this. except I still flagellate myself by watching every week

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you. =)

Even if I'm still wishing it wasn't this easy to do it. Sigh.

I hope you have lots of alcohol whilst doing so. Though, if my babygirl Larrin ever comes back, I might have to have a drunken one-night stand of my own.

[lanna-kitty.livejournal.com]

I come via angelqueen04's lj.

I <3 you and I <3 this picture

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you. =)

*pets your icon*

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I get the point your making, but using "barefoot and pregnant" for Teyla comes across wrong. If the writers had written in a pregnancy just for story purposes, then yeah. But since the storyline was written to actually accommodate the actress, not diminish the character, that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's hard enough for women in career fields, especially television acting, to have kids and maintain their jobs without slapping that label on her character.

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

I don't think it comes across as wrong at all. Dozens of shows have written around the pregnancies of their actresses. They didn't have to write it into the show just because the actress was pregnant. It may have been Rachel's preference that they did it this way, but it wasn't mandatory. We don't know. But they didn't write around it, they made it her entire existence all season. I'm not saying it was badly written, but after 3 seasons of her having no function other than to be the Exotic Alien Babe (Xena Edition) with the freakish mutant DNA power, we got "barefoot and pregnant."

[bluebanrigh.livejournal.com]

Best team thing?

[the-scary-kitty.livejournal.com]

Also spotted this via angelqueen04's lj. And am linking to it on mine.

Because this is frakkin' priceless! :)

I am sooo tempted to print a couple dozen BOXES of copies of this and hand them out at Comic-Con in San Diego this summer. Like, right as people are walking into the SGA discussion panel. *evil grin*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you =)

As I mentioned further up, I'll poke and see if I can get a good black-and-white version for printing purposes. Because color is pretty, but more expensive and less likely to copy well when you run out and need to make a Kinkos run.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Man, I go to work for one day... (actually, Torchwood killed my brain last night).

Anyway.

Teyla is pregnant, which I wouldn't mind if it weren't the worst-handled pregnancy since, since... dear god, I can't even think of one worse right now.

The baby-daddy is a random Athosian we've never met.

And, yeah, Rachel was pregnant, and they decided to work it in (not like I mind. Both Amanda Tapping and Claudia Black did it first, and Claudia actually says that if AT hadn't shown it could be done, she couldn't have).

[tielan]

*cheers like a big cheering thing*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you =)

(now I need to finish this fic so it can be all a-posted for the Teyla loveathon)

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I don't agree with the original image you liked to (that John, McKay and Ronon make the best team EVA) but I don't really agree with this, either. Obviously I'm in a different category of viewer because the female characters as a whole were never the reason I watched... or at least never the sole reason I watched. I liked Cadman and wish she was still around, but I never really connected with Kate, I don't miss Lizzie, I've enjoyed Sam this season but understand Amanda wants to branch out from the SG franchise, and I'm glad that Keller will be a regular next year. Plus Vega and Porter, although the size of their roles remain to be seen.

I also don't agree with the label of 'barefoot and pregnant'. Sometimes women DO give up their careers for family related reasons, and I don't think they should be demonized for that. Not every pregnant women is Aeryn (especially when the actress is actually pregnant).

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

I also don't agree with the label of 'barefoot and pregnant'. Sometimes women DO give up their careers for family related reasons, and I don't think they should be demonized for that.

I agree that women should never be demonized for making an independent choice, although I of course hate the mere fact that we have to talk about women having to choose in the first place. But then I don't think this image demonizes Teyla or Rachel. It demonizes the writers/producers who have 1 female character remaining on the show from S3 and having managed to do almost nothing with Teyla for three years, they chose to incorporate the actress' pregnancy into the show as her only major storyline ever.

[hoperomantic.livejournal.com]

*HR nods with vigorous agreement*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you =) (I am running out of things to say! Gah. Um, I'm sorry there are no cookies)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I loves me some Kate, you know. I once said she was the secret snark queen, and I blame Havoc and A.j. A LOT. (thank you =)

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

And in those two images, you've thoroughly encapsulated why I can't watch the show anymore either.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I'm just heartily wishing it wasn't true. Sigh.

[musing-mia.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching the show when I learned about Elizabeth's demotion. Nothing I've read in the year since has convinced me to give this show another chance. What a shame all those talented ladies have been sacrificed so Mallozi and Mullie could have their mid-life crisis.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It... It's hard to explain, but it's frustratingly annoying that they can't write this show well.

Instead, I am going to go make dinner.

[egeanin.livejournal.com]

This is awesome! And so true...which is really sad.

*wanders away to watch seasons one and two*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you =)

(have fun! =)

[haildorothygale.livejournal.com]

This rocks. Losing Elizabeth pretty much broke my fangirl heart. That, coupled with the way female characters have been treated in S4, is retroactively ruining my love for the 3 seasons we did get. Which sucks. Hell, I may have had my issues with how both Stargates dealt with race and gender when Wright and Cooper had the reins, but at least I wanted to watch the damn show.

Anyway, sorry, I meant for this to be a happy, puppies-and-kittens type comment in appreciation of your coolness, but apparently I'm still too pissed off.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* No worries. puppies and kittens are useful for soup, but bitching is also what this post was here for.

I think you've actually hit part of the reason I don't watch anymore on the head: it's not fun anymore. I used to look forward to it, every weekend, to count the scenes my girls had, and be gleeful, and... season four wore me down, a lot.

Thank you =)