(Seriously, we ought to be able to think up something good for Elizabeth!)

you'd think so, wouldn't you? I feel bad, now. I mean, it's all well and good to make fun of the writers and bitch about the boring, sexist girl-plots, but what is elizabeth actually good for? has she actually been written as so boring that there is no conceivable interesting plotline for her?

maybe they should start by showing her using skills. I mean, john gets to fly, rodney and radek get to play with technology, ronon and teyla get to kill things and bum around pegasus...why have we had a linguist as head of atlantis for two years and seen her translate something, like, twice? she's boring because she's a leader who never evidences being a leader in an interesting way. why has she never had to resolve a dispute between random expedition members of various nationalities, all babbling in various languages? where is the stock-standard racism-is-bad episode where she stops someone from being discriminated against? or the one where she orders someone to their death - for real - to save the city and has to deal with it? it's not like I'm asking for much here.

sigh. poor girls in scifi. I think I miss Cadman.