Kavanagh


How is he still a part of SGC? His actions show a complete lack of any kind of character or cooperation. Surely the motivated person in the series?

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Well there's always the "let's not make the whiny tattle tail who knows all these government secrets disgruntled, so how about we try to find something for him to do?" angle.

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Good point.

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Beware! Spoilers!

The writers obviously wrote the character as a blatant, and mis-leading scape-goat-type to blame for planting a bomb on Atlantis (series 2). Thereby making it slightly more palatable for Weir to order Ronon to torture him for the access codes! (Quite wrongly of course, as Kavanagh was completely innocent!).
In fact, Weir's questionable ethics were correctly pointed out by Kavanagh.

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In my opinion kavanagh was a self centered prick who was only about 10% as smart as he thought he was every thing he did was wrong and when weir was interrogating him he made himself look more guilty

Also wier ordered ronan to get the code she never said how with his fighting skills and short temper he was one hell of of a intimidating person for a snivelling little weasle if he had been guilty and didnt faint i can guarantee that he would have given up the code without the need to touch kavanagh

would have killed him on midway station either by the wraith or a stray bullet


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Spoilers, obviously.

Despite being a total dick head, he is not as stupid as the viewers think he is. Just take into consideration that every time we see him, he is, in essence, spot on correct.

1) In 38 minutes, McKay got to the same conclusion that the puddle jumper could explode due to engine overload, and he was actually quite worried about it.

2) In the case of the bomb in Atlantis, he judged Weird pretty well. His speech about her leadership abilities was a meta commentary of the characters.

3) In MidWay, despite triggering the self destruct, he simply cut off the Wraith reinforcement, which in the end allowed for everyone to get out alive

4) In the series final, he correctly recognizes the lapton radiation and warns about the super powered Hive ship.

He is just portrayed as a dick, not much more different than how McKay was in SG-1 (i.e 48 hours is a pretty good analogy to 38 minutes)

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That's why we all hate his guts - nobody likes arrogant know-it-alls who have the audacity to be right all the freaking time...

"Life is a bitch - and then you don't die!" ~ Nicola Tesla, Santuary

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The first version of Kavanagh was amazing. He was by far the best character on the show. He was tough and strong and intense and he didn't take any crap from anybody. He brought tons of much-needed conflict.

Instead of capitalizing on his potential, the writers wasted it first by giving him hardly any screen-time, and second by degrading him into an entirely different character, the second version of Kavanagh, which was a loser wimp.

The writers say they fired Ford because he was a "yes man" and they wanted to replace him with someone who is not a "yes man" - even though Ford was an infinitely better actor and character than momoa/ronan, and even though after ronan's first few appearances, he became every bit as big of a "yes man" as Ford was.

But long before ronan, they already had the ultimate non-yes-man in the first version of Kavanagh.

By the way, the writers also wasted all of Halling's excellent potential as a non-yes-man too by shipping him out of the show after his first couple of appearances.

TL;DR: as usual, the writers' fubaring of the Kavanagh character displays great idiocy on their parts.

"Science creates fictions to explain facts" – Gilman

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