Dr. Weir is officially jumping ship, according to Gateworld.
Stargate Atlantis and the actress behind Dr. Elizabeth Weir seem to have gone their separate ways. The actress has turned down an offer to appear in an episode of the show’s fifth season, which the writers hoped would be the start of an on-going arc, according to executive producer Joseph Mallozzi.
It sucks because apparently the writers had come up with a new storyline for her character.
“As Season Four wrapped, Carl [Binder] and Paul [Mullie] got to spinning and came up with a terrific storyline that picked up where that last scene of [”Be All My Sins Remember’d”] left off,” Mallozzi said. “We had a story in place for one episode, the starting point of a potentially bigger arc. The script was written and we eventually contacted Torri who, after much consideration, turned down the offer to reprise the role of Elizabeth Weir for the episode.
I’m now incredibly curious to what this story arc was. Stargate fans, what do you think of this?
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I don’t really blame Ms. Higginson at all. Things don’t seem to be as amicable on the set of Atlantis. Both Weir and Ford were written off the show, and the writers said in both cases that the characters stopped being interesting and they weren’t sure what to do with them.
That sounds like a writing problem to me. I’m sure there’s more going on behind the scenes than we know, but the producers and writers just don’t seem to be the type to inspire loyalty to the show. I’m not surprised she declined to come back.