SGA - Whispers - Spoilers

[cat_77]

Saw Whispers. Spoilers follow.


Okay, first reaction:
Those bastards. Those little bitchy writers and TPTB. They build up Vega as being the important one in all the spoilers, she has about three lines, and then they kill her and leave her behind. WTF?

I freely admit this (over)reaction is based on the fact I kinda rather like the actress and she is pretty much the spitting image of my main character in my original series I'm writing. Yes, I'm that petty that I will bitch out the writers over this.

Over all, okay ep. Ignoring the "girl" comments and Sheppard not knowing one of his own teams is made up of all females and the subtle little high-five like thing he gives Beckett once he realizes this.

Zombies. Mist. Pitchfork falling as the undead genetic experiments gone wrong attack. Moronic villager begging to be killed. Sheppard saving the day, but it ends up working by pure chance because, come on, it's Sheppard.

I admit it: I liked Dusty. Yes, she was over the top, but she was funny as hell. "Oh, sorry. Just read something funny. And obvious."

Speaking of something funny, and obvious, to me at least, I love that the three survivors of Teldy's team are all lesbian icons: Chistina Cox of "Better than Chocolate" (among others) plays Major Teldy, Janina Gavankar of "The L Word" plays Sgt. Mehra, and Nicole de Boer of "Sure I'll play a bisexual in an alternate universe of DS9" plays Dr. Porter. Sorry, Ms. Savasta, you're just not gay enough to survive.

There is a fairly good chance that I will be writing either an AU where Vega lives, or a fic in which the zombies genetic experiments gone wrong temporarily paralyze you into a near death state and they are able to save her. Not that I've thought about this or anything...

Edit: And how could I forget the somewhat amusing Star Trek reference by Porter? Maybe it was because I was trying to block out the completely juvenile "Go Beavers!" comment she made in the same scene?

Comments

[mikou.livejournal.com]

Thank you! During the entire episode, I was trying to figure out why "Dusty" looked so familiar. How could I not recognize "Papi"?

I wish that SGA had more women like this.

Scratch that. I hope that the show has a lot more of Dusty, Potter and Teldy. I can just imagine Ronon and Dusty becoming buddies.

And I guess Christina's series was cancelled? Too bad. :-(

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, it's pretty obvious we won't be seeing the girl side of things very often, if ever again. On the other, that leaves it open for fic writers to have a whole new playground. :)

The last full series Christina Cox was in that I know about was "FX the Series" - "Better than Chocolate" was a movie where she was one of the main characters who fell in love with another one of the main characters. She was an artist, if I remember correctly.

[mikou.livejournal.com]

I'm not holding my breath, but I do hold a small shred of hope. Totally agreed about the fic writers, though. I hope the women catch on.

Christina was last in "Blood Ties", based on Tanya Huff's books. I checked on imdb.com and it seems it was cancelled. Too bad. It had potential. I bet it would have done better if it had been on SciFi.

[scifigeek72.livejournal.com]

I too was shocked as hell that they killed Vega....I wished at the end it was Dusty they had killed off instead (sorry). Like the episode but definitely not 1 of my top ten faves.

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

It's just... odd... because JM built up her character so much in his blog that I figured she'd stay. I guess that was his way of "being tricky" or some such thing. I've already pretty much promised myself to bring her back in fic in some way. :)

[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

I loved Dusty as well.

"The Pegasus Galaxy had more of what I wanted."

"Which is?"

"Bad guys that need killing."

Now that's a Marine. :D

DragonLady

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

She had her moments of being over the top, but damn was she fun...