Comments on: Crossing Lines: Stargate Atlantis’ Fifth Season Premiere

By: 12th PoC Carnival | the Hathor Legacy

12th PoC Carnival | the Hathor Legacy — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:10:48 +0000

[...] Gobert Tilahun poignantly reflects on the shifting connotations of Teyla’s labor scenes in SG Atlantis, when situated in the [...]

By: 12th PoC Carnival | Books @ the Hathor Legacy

12th PoC Carnival | Books @ the Hathor Legacy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:41:39 +0000

[...] Gobert Tilahun poignantly reflects on the shifting connotations of Teyla’s labor scenes in SG Atlantis, when situated in the [...]

By: Beeman

Beeman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:43:32 +0000

I like the show but I must say they need to end it with the Wraith and have some more episodes where they go to other planets and find cool stuff which will bring the universe to it’s doom. Anyways I’ve herd that Atlantis is not going to have a season 6. Anyone else hear that?

By: clay harris

clay harris — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:27:22 +0000

stargate atlantis doesn’t interest much much as far as sci-fi goes, more of the same space opera adventure with an ensemble cast… basically it’s another iteration of star trek but with a transdimensional gate instead of an actual starship …

battlestar galactica gets far more props for breaking new grounds & exploring new levels of drama in an science fiction context.(but even in BSG,the colored folk aren’t in charge,& tend 2 get killed 1st in any conflict)

racism in scifi is pretty straight forward in various media. most scifi movies, white males are in charges, they’re the heroes (with an occasional token black sidekick who gets killed by the alien monster in the 1st hour of the movie). so unfortunately, how stargate atlantis poses their characters in advertisements should be of NO SURPRISE AT ALL.

even scifi books (with notable eceptions like octavia butler and tananarive due) are still preoccupied with the standard european protagonists.now maybe this next point is debatable,there seems 2 b more gender equity lately with scifi characters than racial diversity. i see more , read of more female protagonists than men of any color besides caucasian in recent scifi…

i will give credit where its due; in larry niven’s ringworld trilogy, the human race of the future has become so mixed, noone could really be defined by racial categories anymore. (basically ,its the obama effect taken to a global level…)

so there u go.

By: Jeff Beeler

Jeff Beeler — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:41:47 +0000

Good point K. he should be front and centre as leader of the expedition or in the back as a supporting character.

By: K. Tempest Bradford

K. Tempest Bradford — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:29:53 +0000

I have to say, when I had to find a promo image to put with this piece, I was annoyed to find that a lot of the ones for the new season look a lot like this. I like Robert Picardo (oh hologram doctor, we miss you), but why the hell does he get to stand in front of Ronon and Teyla?? He has only been on that show a minute, why doe she get to stand in the foreground? This picture is a hierarchy of importance — white guys first, then women, then people of color. let’s all know our places now! Sheesh.