Well, I hate to say it, but I hated...no, hate is too strong of a word...extremely disliked this episode. Now, I know I have brought up how much I really did not like Carters G.I. Jane attitude in the last two reviews, and I'm sorry, but it's going to come up again. And here it is. The writers once again tried to make Carter strong, but make her the victim. Can you have both? Now, I know some of you must be getting tired at my constant complaining of the Early-Carter attitude, so, seeing that this episode is basically one in which it deals with it the most, I'm going to resolve it now.
I understand that in the military you have to be tough...and that in writing female characters for prime-time TV shows you have to be even tougher. I feel that during the first 14 episodes, they tried to fit too much into Carter's personality. They tried to make her a tough Military Woman, a brilliant astrophysicist, a compassionate mother, a man-healer, a feminist, an undergrade psychologist, and, last but not least, a lousy cook who can't sew. The writers tried to place her into so many different categories I started to think that Carter had multiple personalities:
Carter: Let's blow them up...NO! Let's study their culture...NO! Let's nurture them...NO! Let's save them all...NO! Let's teach them how to fight for woman's rights...NO! Let's give them a lie detector test...NO! Let's teach them domestic arts...NO! Let's show them the meaning of biological warfare...NO! Let's put them in a box with gas, close the box, and see if we can determine their state of an atom!"
And it never ends. But, lately, during Season 2, and later episodes of Season 1, this sort of thing has stopped, and Carter has become more of a regular woman, and less of Super Carter! Able-To-Lend-Her-Personality-To-Anything-The-Writers-Can-Conceive!
THE END
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