Um. I really hope this isn't the first sign of Atlantis jumping the shark ...

[beatrice_otter]

There's going to be an all-girl recon team! Headed by Dax from DS9! OMGYAY isn't that awsome!!11!!eleventy!

Please, please please please, tell me there is some glimmer of a reason for this besides someone wanted to put more women on the show. I mean, I'm all for having lots of strong women characters ... but there's got to be a reason for it in the plot. And an all-female team? I can find no logical, in-universe reason for it. Not considering the higher ratio of men to women on Atlantis, combined with its relatively small population, a relatively small amount of whom are on regular gate teams. There are more men in the military and more men in the sciences and engineering, both very realistic real-world skews; I may not like them (particularly the sciences one, as there's actually some reason besides prejudice for the military skew--there's still a lot of prejudice, but not exclusively so), but they are facts of life in the real world. One of the reasons I like Stargate is that it deals with a "real world" that could be ours. This ... this just feels like a Hollywood publicity stunt.

If they're only there to be an all-girl team, I hope they're there to be strong female characters, not Atlantis' answer to Seven of Nine. And I really hope they don't take away from Teyla and Ronon's screen time. (Sheppard and McKay get enough screen time we don't really have to worry about them.)

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[vickyocean.livejournal.com]

It just sort of kills me that one of the team members is named 'Dusty'. That makes me think of the character names 70s exploitation films. I can just see the whole all female team walking around in uniforms unnecessarily ripped in strategic places. Oh, well, perhaps her parents were just big fans of Dusty Springfield.

[beatrice_otter]

Oh, man. I hadn't even noticed that. "Dusty!"

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

*boggles*