She comes up with pretty cute pet names. I'm such a boring pet-namer- when I was a kid, I named three dogs Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla, heh.

Ah, I'd forgotten about the Jessica Steen- avenue of attack. I really like her as an actress [and I like the character she portrayed on NCIS- now if she had brought *that* to Weir, I wouldn't have minded her] but the way she did Weir was way too timid and unsure of herself, you know?

Okay, so she was just finding out about the Stargate program, blah blah, her world was rocked, everything was upside down, she was struggling to adjust, but that's not an excuse. That's like when people were bashing Keller for being a wimp when on the run from cannibals [?] and JM was saying that she was reacting like any normal human being and someone posted that on that reasoning, every single member of the expedition should be wimps who cower in fear from the Wraith rather than facing doom and destruction on a daily basis and demonstrating courage under the most dire circumstances. Does that analogy make sense? Oh, well...

Hmm, I wonder- if they'd had JS remain as Weir, would she have as huge a fanbase as Torri? Would she have been retained longer?