Elizabeth Weir for the character ask meme
hi hi hi! thank you for the follow and the ask! <3 I love finding other weir fans!!! this made me so happy!
I love how this is sort of a complicated answer for Weir, since she was played by two actresses, hah. Let me do both:
SG-1 Weir: I was very impressed by her immediately. I really liked her. She was a civilian, so out of her element, but so willing to rise to the challenge of leading the SGC. She was intelligent, fair, diplomatic, and a little funny. I thought she held her own against the established cast so well, and I was SO excited to have another woman in the cast. Even though she would end up leaving for her own show, lol. But I immediately liked her. Weir was exactly my kind of character. I LOVE COMPETENT WOMEN!!!
Atlantis Weir: She was the same character and I don't think there was a huge difference in character traits or anything like that between actresses, but I have to admit, when I first saw her in action in her first appearance on SG-1, I was SMITTEN. I loved her even more than the original Weir's actress. Torri Higginson brought such an adorable charm to the role, a warmth that I didn't really realize was absent until she brought it. I think Torri was the perfect replacement choice of actress. She brought such a depth of emotion to the role of Weir that was so evident right away. And I will never forget how hard I laughed when Weir tried to become the next system lord during the Goa'uld negotiations, LMAO. I was so in love with her right away.
To this day Elizabeth remains one of my favorite characters of all time. She retained all those character traits I first noticed of her - obviously her diplomacy, her leadership, her warmth, her charm. But as Atlantis went along she also gained some new aspects to her character - being part of a team, a family. She'd always been something of a solo leader, being a negotiator and diplomat. She wasn't always used to being challenged by her underlings, and she wasn't used to working with the military, and she wasn't used to having to corral a bunch of scatterbrained scientists. We really see Elizabeth come into her own as the leader of a huge, international, multifaceted mission to another galaxy. She grows SO MUCH and becomes such a strong leader, and it's so evident by the loyalty she garners from everyone under her. And through it all, she has just a terrible love life. So bad. So, so bad. I love her so much, my sweet Queen of Atlantis who can't keep her personal life together.
Hands down - in The Return, when everyone is kicked off Atlantis and Weir isn't even chosen to be the liaison to Atlantis and she just becomes this depressed shell, holed up in her messy, uncleaned apartment, not showering or eating right. It's such a picture into her mindset about Atlantis. Leading that expedition became EVERYTHING to her. It was her reason for being. And without it - who was she?? How could she go back to negotiating some arms deal or whatever when there were wars being fought across galaxies and she wasn't there? I love that so much, that we get to see her break down over this hugely disappointing life change and see just HOW MUCH Atlantis means to her.
Ooh gosh. I haven't thought about Atlantis fanfic in a while. I mean obviously any fixit fic. Anything. Anything at all to prevent her being killed off (and she was killed off. To me.). Other than that, I had this idea once for like, an Elizabeth Weir and Sam Carter buddy action plot type story once because they're my two favorite Stargate women and I wanted to see them together.
Probably the most unpopular opinion I have about Weir is that I fucking love her and I think she's the perfect leader for Atlantis. I think in our fandom corners a lot of people agree with me but I've been out there.. in the Wider Fandom. And a lot of people hate her. People see her as weak, but she's not weak, she's just not military! Her instinct is to always come at things from "how can we solve this non violently? how can we reach an agreement that makes as many people as satisified as possible?" and I mean that's the fun part of her character arc is she does regularly bump up against the problem of she can't always achieve that. But it doesn't make her weak that she always TRIES. That's what makes her a strong leader!
I am simple Sparky trash and it is Sparky forever, to me. Oh god how I love this ship. The incredible head-butting that comes between Diplomatic Elizabeth and Let's Shoot Them John. The way their relationship goes from a rocky, uneven, shouting-on-the-balcony, not-quite-trusting uneasy alliance to a rock solid union of absolute trust in each other. The way they learn and grow with their leadership styles alongside each other, until they become this incredible leadership unit. The way John respects the hell out of her and her opinion, the way he becomes like, her loyal knight. He fights for her, he ~defends her honor, he is thankful every day that this woman took a chance on him, an outcast. And the way Elizabeth looked through his spotty past, his irreverence, his disrepect of authority, to see the diamond shining way.. way.. way down there, lol. God these two just loved each other so much, how could they not? Stranded in another galaxy, the leader and her second in command, fighting a war they never expected to, both of them learning to be the best leaders they could be, together. Ohhhh I love Sparky so much.
Elizabeth and Teyla have a standing once weekly morning tea hangout time. Teyla taught Elizabeth how to make the Athosian tea, and they take turns making it, and they sit together and watch the sun rise and drink tea, and they share their burdens with each other of being the female leaders of their respective tribes, so to speak. They unload their fears and worries and challenges on each other, things only the other could really grasp being in the same situation, and they give each other advice and support. And just become good friends.
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