I've noticed a group think among the main characters. Whenever they encounter a new character the audience is supposed to dislike, all the main characters have the same outlook toward that person immediately, before we even really get to know that other character. They all treat them with some degree of disdain or hostility or are put off by them in some way. This strikes me as unrealistic. In the real world, even among a group of friends, some people will like one person while someone else may not. If a person is bad, one person might catch on right away and it might take others longer to catch on.
This has happened more times than I can remember, but a couple examples would be Vala and Wier. When Wier first shows up to run the SGC everyone is all skeptical and mildly hostile toward her being able to run the place, but when Hammond 2.0 (Landry) shows up it's no big fuss, the group uniformly seems to like him by default. Vala is a little harder since she stole the ship, but she's clearly not a serious threat or a bad person, you'd think at least someone on the base would like her and think she's kind of bubbly and fun, even if she can't be trusted. But the group think seems to be that she is annoying and everyone is so serious about her. No one seems to warm up and give her a chance until after she's saved their butts. She isn't the best example admittedly, but there are others who immediately it's like the whole crew gets the same vibe about them before we even really know them. It's clearly the writers trying to steer the audience's view of a character through the reactions of other characters we trust, rather than let us decide on our own by seeing the actions of those characters first.
I love SG-1, I've been watching since it first aired and it was my favorite show for easily a decade. I've watched the entire series all the way through at least a few times. But as I've gotten older I've started to notice some of these things more.
This has happened more times than I can remember, but a couple examples would be Vala and Wier. When Wier first shows up to run the SGC everyone is all skeptical and mildly hostile toward her being able to run the place, but when Hammond 2.0 (Landry) shows up it's no big fuss, the group uniformly seems to like him by default. Vala is a little harder since she stole the ship, but she's clearly not a serious threat or a bad person, you'd think at least someone on the base would like her and think she's kind of bubbly and fun, even if she can't be trusted. But the group think seems to be that she is annoying and everyone is so serious about her. No one seems to warm up and give her a chance until after she's saved their butts. She isn't the best example admittedly, but there are others who immediately it's like the whole crew gets the same vibe about them before we even really know them. It's clearly the writers trying to steer the audience's view of a character through the reactions of other characters we trust, rather than let us decide on our own by seeing the actions of those characters first.
I love SG-1, I've been watching since it first aired and it was my favorite show for easily a decade. I've watched the entire series all the way through at least a few times. But as I've gotten older I've started to notice some of these things more.
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