How do you/Do you want Weir back in Season 5? Spoilers for BAMSR'd

[Skydiver]

How would you like to see Weir come back in season 5?

Not at all – 0 episodes

Real Weir (Recurring): 1-3 episodes
Real Weir (Recurring): 4-6 episodes
Real Weir (Recurring): 7 or more episodes

Real Weir (Full time): Old Job
Real Weir (Full time): New role

Good (Recurring): 1-3 episodes
Good (Recurring): 4-6 episodes
Good (Recurring): 7 or more episodes

Good (Full time): Old Job
Good (Full time): New role

Evil (Recurring): 1-3 episodes
Evil (Recurring): 4-6 episodes
Evil (Recurring): 7 or more episodes
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This is an updated version of an old and closed thread
http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=49371

so please continue the convo from that thread to this one

[Skydiver]

And let's remember please, respect others. Let's NOT bash others for their opinions. Let's not bash the characters. This is NOT a Carter vs Weir thread. Leave the rhetoric at the door and simply discuss 'How/Do you want Weir back'

[Ruined_puzzle]

I'm confused. Does good mean the Weir we saw in TMC?

[jelgate]

I hate to complain Sky but isn't good Weir mean she is the real Weir.

[Killdeer]

I hate to complain Sky but isn't good Weir mean she is the real Weir.

No, the RepliWeir/DupliWeir could be good.

[justhere1971]

No, the RepliWeir/DupliWeir could be good.

Right. There's been talk that the Weir we saw could be the new baddy repli/duply Weir.

[ToasterOnFire]

Oh damn, I can't vote for multiple choices. I'd like to see real!Weir in any capacity or good repli!Weir in any capacity, no real preference as to which one or how many eps she has. I didn't vote because I couldn't narrow it down further than that.

Evil Weir (and I mean aggressively evil and not just "bugger off, we're trying to learn how to ascend here") doesn't really appeal to me.

[Ruined_puzzle]

I honestly don't know which option to pick. Ideally I would want Weir full time in her old role. But that's not going to happen so the next best thing for me would be the real Weir, full time or recurring(10 or more), as anything but evil.

Decisions, decisions. Too many options. I can't choose. lol.

[poundpuppy29]

I voted for Real Weir 7 episodes or more I almost voted for old job but if it is Real Weir she is good.

[RepliHawk]

I say evil 7 or more

[Killdeer]

LOL - after all that discussion in the other thread, I can't make up my mind either.

Real Weir, recurring or full time, old or new job, at least 4 episodes, and not evil.

[toomanysides]

RepliWeir can do more of the show then real Weir can. I DO NOT want her back as leader, that just defies logic in my mind. But I like to see here in a few episodes in season 5, depends entirely how the storyline works. Good/Bad Wier? Bad Wier seems contrived, comone we had RepliCarter, while cool - no to repeating it. Good RepliWier is way more interesting. Actually deal with is RepliWier, Wier? Is it possible to accept it, can they, must they?

[Killdeer]

OK. Here's the thing...I really like the Elizabeth Weir character. I liked all the Atlantis characters, but if I had to rank them, Elizabeth would have been third, behind Rodney and Sheppard, and with Carson running a close fourth. I liked the dynamic that she had with the cast, those three guys in particular. And I thought she did a fine job as a leader.

Would it be unrealistic to have her take her old job back? Probably. But frankly I really don't care. Sorry. I don't think she should come back exactly like it was before - the experience should have changed her, and I don't think she should be a lead again, but I ideally would like to have her back in her old job.

Realistically....that's not going to happen. Realistically, I think we'll be very very lucky to get 4 episodes. So, given those limitations, I would like to see her as a recurring ally, in at least four or five episodes but I'd gladly take more. And for me, it absolutely MUST be the real Weir. The biggest reason I had such a hard time with TMC was not because it was a bad episode in and of itself, it was because we weren't dealing with the real team or the real Weir, and I couldn't really make myself care that much about either one. If the real Weir really is dead, then I'd rather not have any Weir at all.

Just my perspective! And no, I haven't voted yet - I can't decide which option best fits.

[Ltcolshepjumper]

I'm confused as well. I don't want her back as definitively good or definitively evil. I do want the real Weir, but she could just be self-serving, rather than a straight out ally or a straight out enemy.

[Killdeer]

I'm confused as well. I don't want her back as definitively good or definitively evil. I do want the real Weir, but she could just be self-serving, rather than a straight out ally or a straight out enemy.

Hmmm. I can't imagine Weir being self-serving, not the Elizabeth we know. I can see her being evil, if she's controlled by the nanites. I could see her being self-serving if she were a replicator. But I think the Real Weir would always have Atlantis' best interests in mind.