Colonel Carter
01-14-2006, 03:32 AM
I really like Beau Bridges as an actor. I've never seen him in anything I didn't like (though I haven't seen him in much). The guy just has a good feeling about him, like he'd be a genuinely nice person in real life.
So I really want to like General Landry, but I feel they need to endear him to us and not anymore gushy father-daughter moments like when he had the plague and listened to his daughter speak and tears rolled down his cheeks. I don't like his daughter, I find the doctor annoying, so I really could care less at this point about their relationship.
I think it would have been better not to have her in this season. I think what would have been cool was if there had been an incident that endeared Landry to Carter and though having a professional relationship, he kind of had a fatherly look towards her. So that next season when they introduced his daughter as the new doctor, maybe there'd be some jealousy factor that Carter had a better relationship with her dad than she did.
Or maybe that's silly.
But here's a plot idea I thought of that could help endear Landry to us.
Something happens and Landry ends up off world with SG-1. Something happens and he's knocked unconscious. When he wakes up he's alone in a cell with Sam, they don't know where the other members of SG-1 are, whether they've been captured, whether they escaped, whether they're even still alive. They don't have weapons or radios.
To make matters worse, Landry is severely injured, kind of like Jack in "Solitudes" in the first season. Sam is in much better condition so she takes care of him. Guards come and seeing Landry is far too injured, they take Carter and brutally interrogate her.
She returns in much worse condition which Landry feels frustrated that he can't in any way tend to her as she recovers from her own wounds and continues to try and help her injured commanding officer.
During the time they're prisoners they develop a very strong bond. They share stories of their lives similar to Cameron in tonight's episode, and other SG-1 members in the past, and so we learn more about who General Landry is, his demons, why he perhaps feels he was a lousy father, stuff like that, and we see Sam's compassion for the man shine through.
Of course they're rescued in the end and all of SG-1 has survived but by that time we've been endeared to Landry and we now have a very human connection between him and the original SG-1.
For this plot idea, I think Sam would be better in the cell with him than Daniel or Teal'c, considering Sam's the more sensitive towards others.
Whaddya think?
So I really want to like General Landry, but I feel they need to endear him to us and not anymore gushy father-daughter moments like when he had the plague and listened to his daughter speak and tears rolled down his cheeks. I don't like his daughter, I find the doctor annoying, so I really could care less at this point about their relationship.
I think it would have been better not to have her in this season. I think what would have been cool was if there had been an incident that endeared Landry to Carter and though having a professional relationship, he kind of had a fatherly look towards her. So that next season when they introduced his daughter as the new doctor, maybe there'd be some jealousy factor that Carter had a better relationship with her dad than she did.
Or maybe that's silly.
But here's a plot idea I thought of that could help endear Landry to us.
Something happens and Landry ends up off world with SG-1. Something happens and he's knocked unconscious. When he wakes up he's alone in a cell with Sam, they don't know where the other members of SG-1 are, whether they've been captured, whether they escaped, whether they're even still alive. They don't have weapons or radios.
To make matters worse, Landry is severely injured, kind of like Jack in "Solitudes" in the first season. Sam is in much better condition so she takes care of him. Guards come and seeing Landry is far too injured, they take Carter and brutally interrogate her.
She returns in much worse condition which Landry feels frustrated that he can't in any way tend to her as she recovers from her own wounds and continues to try and help her injured commanding officer.
During the time they're prisoners they develop a very strong bond. They share stories of their lives similar to Cameron in tonight's episode, and other SG-1 members in the past, and so we learn more about who General Landry is, his demons, why he perhaps feels he was a lousy father, stuff like that, and we see Sam's compassion for the man shine through.
Of course they're rescued in the end and all of SG-1 has survived but by that time we've been endeared to Landry and we now have a very human connection between him and the original SG-1.
For this plot idea, I think Sam would be better in the cell with him than Daniel or Teal'c, considering Sam's the more sensitive towards others.
Whaddya think?