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What's The Deal With The Woolsey Jokes?

posted 8 years ago by mcdemuth
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In Season 5. Woolsey takes command of Atlantis.

In One Episode he is the last one in the conference room, and the doors close on him. Then he can't get them to open.

In another episode, he gets up to leave the conference room first, the doors wont open. Then when the next person gets near them, they open.

Another time, Teyla hands Woolsey her baby, to go on the mission to save Ronon from the Wraith, and tells him to go to the Mess Hall. Woolsey then seems to have trouble remembering where that the Mess Hall is. It has no bearing on the episode.

Then there was the very funny time, The "Ascended" Replicator Elizabeth Weir took over Atlantis, and sent Woolsey to the East Pier, by causing a program error in the Transporter, and strands Woolsey there. Hilarious! Then Woolsey has to walk all the way back. While this last one was intentionally meant to be funny, and meant to torture the character... it wasn't Woolsey's fault, but still...

(There may have been more...)

In addition, there was also the time, Woolsey could not remember Chuck's name, and called him Chet.

What was the deal with the writers creating ALL of these scenes... Did they hate Woolsey or something? Was there some grand plan here?

[–] skoobydoo6789 8 years ago

I think the writers were having fun at the expense of the character.

If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now.-Loki (Marvel's Avengers)

[–] blakgard 8 years ago

Woolsey was the extreme fish out of water.

[–] mcdemuth 8 years ago

Well I get that...

But that doesn't explain why the conference doors won't open for him.

There just seems to be too many on purpose jokes, that I just thought that maybe there was some grand plan to create a character that had an Anti-Ancient Gene or something. Like Atlantis was able to detect this Anti-Ancient Gene in him, and the city closed doors on him, or intentionally sent him to a pier instead of the control room, in order to protect the city...

[–] blakgard 8 years ago

He just didn't know how to work them.

[–] lissatap 8 years ago

I think another reason stems back to the SG1 series. He is such an un likeable character there that they just dog him in the Atlantis series. A bit of an inside joke for watchers of both series. Just my opinion though.