Hmm. Jen, I'm sure you're a wonderful person, but you have to put more effort into your writeups. First off, two names were spelled incorrectly (something that bugs the hell out of me), Teal'c (apostrophe is at the end of the name) and Mitch Pileggi (two G:s instead of two L:s). Second of all, Ronan was introduced to fill the void that Ford left when he went all loopy from the Wraith enzyme, the same way that Vala was brought in to replace Carter on SG-1. Like him or not, Ronan needs to be there, who could replace Ford otherwise? McKay, in all his glory, can't really fill the shoes of a trained military professional, but Ronan can. He's been killing Wraith for years, his experience and expertise will prove to be very useful to the Atlantis expedition.

Why did rainbow sun leave anyway? I heard it was his choice. I guess Ford will be killed off/return home by mid-season.

Well, theres something about a wraith feeding and the expression on their faces that just makes it exciting, I like the vamping hehe, at least its more exciting than watching Col. Caldwell, the equivalent of drying paint with any luck his role will just be that of UPS delivery man, ferrying supplies and personnel to and from Atlantis. The idea of Sheppard taking his shirt off has no interest for me, however, if Dr Weir took her shirt off then we would be getting somewhere! Ronan is character who, interestingly, fights in exactly the same manner as Ford, which is odd considering their obviously different hand to hand combat training backgrounds, he wouldnt look out of place as one of the last surviving humans in the Matrix city Zion with those dreadlocks. I dont see what he will add to the show that development of the existing characters couldnt though ; but then perhaps character development is harder than just introducing a new character, what do I know. They should introduce some more time travel type stories, the ones that mess with your head when they get nice and complicated about distorting the time line type stuff, or perhaps like the Area 51 mirror that shows parallel dimensions, perhaps there is an alternative Atlantis where the personnel are in different roles or something. Exploring the acting capabilities of the existing people a bit more perhaps. Perhaps it would also be cool if they had a common enemy with Stargate, like the Ori. That could also be interesting, or perhaps not, as the Ori priors are rather boring on second thoughts. Overall, Stargate Atlantis is better than Stargate SG-1 at the moment. Mark my words, Stargate Ascension will be out at some point, a specially trained team of ascended stargate personnel, its just a matter of time.