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[bluflamingo]

Or, with the more realistic end-point of 80,000 words:



Most of this week has ben about Teyla and the Athosians (though I did get to write movie night on Atlantis, which was a lot of fun), which has, of course, led to a whole lot of stuff that I wasn't anticipating when I started that story-line, like what Michael would do if he went to capture the Athosians and couldn't get them. For which I actually have a solution, but, gah, changing the plot of an entire season is a lot more work that it seemed when I started.

Oh yeah, that whole, then Cam and John have sex thing I was talking about this time last week? Still haven't written it. It's totally in the next scene or two, I swear. Maybe.

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[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I dunno - I think that's what the show's writers wanted us to think, but I'm not sure they ever did a convincing job of showing it. Or at least, I never felt convinced by it. It was like they thought that if they just said she was a kick-ass negotiator often enough, we'd believe it.

Although I love the way she gets written in fic, so that she actually does fit with what you've said. I think I would have been more interested in her if she'd been that way.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

I think that they were pretty convincing about it in those scenes from "The Siege, Part 2" where she went to the Genii and ended up brokering a deal while blindfolded in an interrogation room. That's really the only time I felt her diplomatic skills were effectively highlighted, although we did see some strong leadership out of her in other instances. Usually when one version or another of her was performing self-sacrifice to save the people under her command.

I do wish that instead of just telling Sheppard and McKay to "fix it" in "The Game" she had pursued the tactic of revealing to the respective government representatives that for two years every aspect of their societies had been unknowlingly shaped by men behaving like squabbling twelve-year-olds, and appealed to them as responsible adults to find a more mature way to settle their differences.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I think that they were pretty convincing about it in those scenes from "The Siege, Part 2" where she went to the Genii and ended up brokering a deal while blindfolded in an interrogation room.

True, I tend to forget about that one. But then there's a lot of stuff like The Game, where, okay, I can see that the episode wouldn't have worked if she'd been successful, but it seemed like she spent five minutes with them before deciding it wouldn't work - that doesn't exactly scream exceptional negotiator to me.