//I'd been figuring Elizabeth as being around 40 in season 3, at the outside she's no older than 45, and even that's young for serious menopausal symptoms.//
The perils of fuzzy thinking; Elizabeth reminds me here and there of my mother, so obviously I'd picked up the impression somewhere that she was closer to my mother's age than she is. o.O
//More likely she's got an unrecognized reaction to something local - a substitute grain or a fruit - that has a mild but distinctive effect on her brain chemistry. She's never "off" far enough that others pick up on it, because no one knew her back on Earth when she was "on" all the time; the sleep deprivation may also be getting to her, periodically.//
Yes. I knew someone would be able to come up with something more plausible. And something like that could be affecting other people; if it's also affecting Heightmeyer, that right there is an excellent recipe both for its not being identified for some time and for matters to compound before they get better.
(Also something that, once realized, is going to be quietly hidden by the command staff until and possibly after they get the affected people back to normal -- if most people don't have this reaction, the temptation on the part of Earth would be to replace those affected, and that would be all kinds of bad.)
//I really wish the female characters in Stargate got more regular good exposure,//
Yeah -- the one silver lining of their viciously breaking my OTP was that they then had no further opportunities to do violence to her character.
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Date: 2007-03-14 10:51 pm (UTC)The perils of fuzzy thinking; Elizabeth reminds me here and there of my mother, so obviously I'd picked up the impression somewhere that she was closer to my mother's age than she is. o.O
//More likely she's got an unrecognized reaction to something local - a substitute grain or a fruit - that has a mild but distinctive effect on her brain chemistry. She's never "off" far enough that others pick up on it, because no one knew her back on Earth when she was "on" all the time; the sleep deprivation may also be getting to her, periodically.//
Yes. I knew someone would be able to come up with something more plausible. And something like that could be affecting other people; if it's also affecting Heightmeyer, that right there is an excellent recipe both for its not being identified for some time and for matters to compound before they get better.
(Also something that, once realized, is going to be quietly hidden by the command staff until and possibly after they get the affected people back to normal -- if most people don't have this reaction, the temptation on the part of Earth would be to replace those affected, and that would be all kinds of bad.)
//I really wish the female characters in Stargate got more regular good exposure,//
Yeah -- the one silver lining of their viciously breaking my OTP was that they then had no further opportunities to do violence to her character.
Ah, well, this is why fanfiction was invented.