Subject: Examples of 2)
Author:
Posted on: 2010-09-10 20:28:00 UTC

I'm more familiar with SGA than with SG-1, having only seen the odd episode of the latter. Haven't noticed much insubordination, but that's probably because the military presence in SGA is less strong: in the first three seasons only one main character was military. He usually ended up having arguments with people who were not subordinate to him in the first place, and therefor could not be insubordinate.

Sues that claimed to have a military background (along with their scientific background, as do the characters from SG, but not the characters from SGA) were charged with insubordinace when they were. For instance, when showing up late for a meeting because of a bet or when a captain argued with Shepard that he gave her a small gun when giving everyone else a P90. Other military characters (or scientists for that matter) wouldn't have gotten away with that kind of behaviour, and thus neither should the Sue.

That's what we do: point out that the Sue is getting away with behaviour that the characters would not let others get away with.

As for fixing things that are wrong on the show: it has annoyed me to no end that Carson Beckett had a Scottish flag on his sleeve, while all the other personnel from the UK had the union flag on their sleeve. When my agents first did a mission in SGA I drew attention to that point by giving one of my agents the flag of England on her sleeve and have her argue against that.

Reply Return to messages