[i have some concerns]
Jan. 14th, 2012 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tellitslantSo I am kind of watching Stargate SG-1: the Sam Carter remix. But I keep asking myself why.
Episode One: Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, women can serve in the Air Force? And you're making us manly manly men put one on our team? Well. As long as she wears a short skirt.
Episode Two: Well, women can serve in this man's Air Force, but they're also the first to be taken hostage!
Episode Three: We discover that women are a liability on alien worlds! Sam gets kidnapped and sold (and kicks a remarkable amount of ass, but still).
Episode Four: Sex pollen! Men become aggressive and caveman-esque. Sam gets slutty and makes out with O'Neill.
Episode Five: Sam's ex-fiance goes insane and it is her responsibility to figure out what's gone wrong. (Though again she does get to be really awesome.)
Seriously why am I still watching this show? Man. The twin powers ofsophia_gratia's ficcish persuasion and Amanda Tapping's Stupid Face are strong.
Episode One: Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, women can serve in the Air Force? And you're making us manly manly men put one on our team? Well. As long as she wears a short skirt.
Episode Two: Well, women can serve in this man's Air Force, but they're also the first to be taken hostage!
Episode Three: We discover that women are a liability on alien worlds! Sam gets kidnapped and sold (and kicks a remarkable amount of ass, but still).
Episode Four: Sex pollen! Men become aggressive and caveman-esque. Sam gets slutty and makes out with O'Neill.
Episode Five: Sam's ex-fiance goes insane and it is her responsibility to figure out what's gone wrong. (Though again she does get to be really awesome.)
Seriously why am I still watching this show? Man. The twin powers of
sophia_gratia's ficcish persuasion and Amanda Tapping's Stupid Face are strong.
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GIP
Date: 2012-01-17 02:24 am (UTC)2) Terrible writing.
3) It's 1997. The sexism is real. Women are still not allowed in combat. In 2011. And this is 1997. Sam Carter's career trajectory, even as an astrophysicist (not a "soldier"), is ridiculous and unrealistic. She is of the Troi/Crusher era, not of the Starbuck era. Stargate through its 16-17 years reflects changing culture. It becomes increasingly reactionary to the Bush-era depiction of the US military, for instance, after the Farscape/NASA-esque romanticism of its beginning years.
4) Amanda Tapping, educated and outspoken in women's rights, demanded a "genderless" characterization as the show developed. She insisted on the utopia, she had weight behind her, and she got what she wanted.
5) It's season one!
Re: GIP
Date: 2012-01-19 12:24 pm (UTC)And, I mean, I know it gets better, and I am probably going to stick it out, if only because a) AMANDA TAPPING and b) I want to write/read allllll the Sam/Janet and Sam/Vala. But man! The mind boggles a little at some of what's in the show, is all. :P