I guess it makes sense — her character has been ridiculously under-served this season and a poor fit in her current role since day one — but I think I’m still disappointed that Amanda Tapping is leaving Stargate Atlantis.
She’ll stick around as a special guest star for several episodes, but then so will Paul McGillion, and his character was killed off last season. It’s disappointing because, on paper at least, Tapping seemed like a really interesting fit for the show. Not necessarily a good fit, of course — at least not in the way the writers eventually envisioned it — but it could have worked. It was certainly high-profile enough within the fan community, but now it just feels like miscalculated stunt casting. Tapping has barely even been on the show this past year. (Seriously, compile all her scenes and I doubt you’d even squeeze together one episode.) I kept thinking what they really needed was an episode that focused on her and her specifically, but I guess we’re not likely to get that now.
Which is a shame. Because the Stargate SG-1 Samantha Carter was pretty cool.
Oh, and yeah, I went with the lame pun in the title of this post. This is Sci Fi Channel news, after all.