>the writers meant to get rid of Stephen pretty much right away. ITV insisted they keep the actor for the season. That could explain a lot: the writers are stuck writing half a dozen or so extra episodes for a characters they just want to be rid of. Still: grow up, writers! Don't wreck the show because you're ticked you have to keep one person on!) well, if they'd written the entire season, they'd probably prefer not to write the entire season from scratch, so they make MNC (minimum neccessary changes)
Helen doesn't get punished? 1) has to work with Leek (all s2) 2) gets shanghaied and locked away (s1.03-4) 3) nearly gets burned alive (1.05) 4) is trapped away from her own time for at least 8 years (1.01)
>Heck, Stargate has done a better job with the secrecy issue! Stargate tends to take two basic paths to ensuring secrecy: * the whistle-blower suddenly gets a crush on / begins hero-worshipping one member of or all of SG1 * the Asgard show up (and pretty much any potential whistle-blower will know, from urban myths, that the Greys have probes aplenty) ...though some, like Kinsey, turn evil.
>She kept her affair secret from Nick (here we go again). so did Stephen.
there's an old saying - "two can keep a secret if one of them is dead"...for all intents and purposes, Helen was dead.
> (and how many people think Stephen was the only one with whom she had an affair? at no point did anyone say "so, when you/she was assisting Prof. Middleton...?" (yes it'd be a throw-away line - so was the line about Stephen having a girlfriend in Brazil, or Connor's penpal)
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>the writers meant to get rid of Stephen pretty much right away. ITV insisted they keep the actor for the season. That could explain a lot: the writers are stuck writing half a dozen or so extra episodes for a characters they just want to be rid of. Still: grow up, writers! Don't wreck the show because you're ticked you have to keep one person on!)
well, if they'd written the entire season, they'd probably prefer not to write the entire season from scratch, so they make MNC (minimum neccessary changes)
Helen doesn't get punished?
1) has to work with Leek (all s2)
2) gets shanghaied and locked away (s1.03-4)
3) nearly gets burned alive (1.05)
4) is trapped away from her own time for at least 8 years (1.01)
>Heck, Stargate has done a better job with the secrecy issue!
Stargate tends to take two basic paths to ensuring secrecy:
* the whistle-blower suddenly gets a crush on / begins hero-worshipping one member of or all of SG1
* the Asgard show up (and pretty much any potential whistle-blower will know, from urban myths, that the Greys have probes aplenty)
...though some, like Kinsey, turn evil.
>She kept her affair secret from Nick
(here we go again). so did Stephen.
there's an old saying - "two can keep a secret if one of them is dead"...for all intents and purposes, Helen was dead.
> (and how many people think Stephen was the only one with whom she had an affair?
at no point did anyone say "so, when you/she was assisting Prof. Middleton...?"
(yes it'd be a throw-away line - so was the line about Stephen having a girlfriend in Brazil, or Connor's penpal)