You know, I don't like *perfect* characters.
I like when life tries them. Sometimes they learn from their mistakes, sometimes they don't.
I like when you discover some of their secrets, I like when the dark part of someone comes out and you didn't expect it.
I think that McKay was probably the one who got more in this sense, pity they didn't with Elizabeth and they did only a few times with John.
I like desperate situations (especially when I can get a partial happy ending). I think Season 4 was a REAL chance to have an exciting and heartbreaking storytelling, but no, TPTB screwed Elizabeth over and saved the city too early.
(BTW, same mistake different TPTB did with Star Trek Enterprise after the heartbreaking Season 3).
BSG is a real example of how you can write characters: we don't need all of them to be beautiful, perfect, healthy. If someone gets through a really hard situation, part of him/her changes, exactly how life changes us. One loses his temper, another one loses one leg or an eye, another one loses his soul. Battles leave scars, sometimes you move on and sometimes you don't.
I don't believe a man like Sheppard would have forgot so easily what happened to him in Conversion, for example. Or in Commond Ground. God, first he almost becomes a sort of bug and then his life is sucked by a Wraith! Show us insomnia, anger, frustration, ANYTHING to show us he hasn't forgotten (just list he didn't forget is friend in Afghanistan). But we get NOTHING.
We get a smiling and joking Sheppard, brand new like he never was *used*.
Same for other characters. That's another thing that killed SGA and, for crying out loud, they had such good opportunities in their hands to write it right, I still get angry.
I like when life tries them. Sometimes they learn from their mistakes, sometimes they don't.
I like when you discover some of their secrets, I like when the dark part of someone comes out and you didn't expect it.
I think that McKay was probably the one who got more in this sense, pity they didn't with Elizabeth and they did only a few times with John.
I like desperate situations (especially when I can get a partial happy ending). I think Season 4 was a REAL chance to have an exciting and heartbreaking storytelling, but no, TPTB screwed Elizabeth over and saved the city too early.
(BTW, same mistake different TPTB did with Star Trek Enterprise after the heartbreaking Season 3).
BSG is a real example of how you can write characters: we don't need all of them to be beautiful, perfect, healthy. If someone gets through a really hard situation, part of him/her changes, exactly how life changes us. One loses his temper, another one loses one leg or an eye, another one loses his soul. Battles leave scars, sometimes you move on and sometimes you don't.
I don't believe a man like Sheppard would have forgot so easily what happened to him in Conversion, for example. Or in Commond Ground. God, first he almost becomes a sort of bug and then his life is sucked by a Wraith! Show us insomnia, anger, frustration, ANYTHING to show us he hasn't forgotten (just list he didn't forget is friend in Afghanistan). But we get NOTHING.
We get a smiling and joking Sheppard, brand new like he never was *used*.
Same for other characters. That's another thing that killed SGA and, for crying out loud, they had such good opportunities in their hands to write it right, I still get angry.
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