[ SECRET POST #2283 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2283 ⌋

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Comments

[lunabee34]

While I disagree with your assessment of Elizabeth (she is one of my favorite characters), I think you are spot on about Kavanagh.

I made my SGA fic debut with a series of fics featuring Bates/Kavanagh; I know the show portrays both characters pretty negatively. We're supposed to think Bates is a hard liner, that he's more interested in military goals than the civilian pursuit of peace, that he dislikes John merely because Sumner had done so, that he's racist and xenophobic because he suspects the Athosians of selling them out to the Wraith. And yet, his objections aren't unreasonable. Somehow the Wraith are being alerted to their presence when they go through the Gate, and as much as the Atlantis expedition might want to trust the Athosians, like any group of people, the Athosians must contain some some examples of moral turpitude. Regarding Kavanagh, as much as I love Elizabeth (and lord do I love that woman, hard hard hard hard, the love it knows no bounds), she's totally out of line in the way she treats him in "Thirty-Eight Minutes," his debut episode. Kavanagh suggests that in trying to save the stuck jumper, they risk blowing up the gate and killing everyone on Atlantis. To me, this is a reasonable objection to make. Possibly they could begin evacuating personnel to the mainland or to space in the jumpers or even to the outer extremities of the city to try to minimize casualties. But Elizabeth treats him as if he's making the suggestion only in the interests of self-preservation. Also, her threat to just chuck him through the gate to an uninhabited world, while clearly one she would never follow through with, is extremely inappropriate.

I think the show really suffers when Bates and Kavanagh leave because Rodney, Elizabeth, and John are generally united in their decision making. I think having a few outside voices of dissent was really important; even though the internal logic of the show consistently dismisses the objections that Bates and Kavanagh make, their objections generally make sense. Like, what would Kavanagh have to say about the whole Michael project? LOL