Goodbye Carson

I posted this in my old blog, but I thought I’d repost it here:

When I first heard that Dr. Beckett was going to be killed off in season 3 of Atlantis I was pleased. To be honest he always annoyed me, I thought that the creators were just trying to keep to a similar format to SG-1, where a doctor is a main character. I must also say that Dr Frasier in SG-1 had never been a favourite character of mine either.

The strange thing is that during that episode ‘Sunday’ I was actually starting to feel sorry for him. He was just trying to have a day off where he could relax and connect with some of his colleagues (friends), but his attempts were either brushed off or too late. I then realised that the previous few episodes had started to make me like him. It suddenly hit me ‘this is it’ he’s going to die in this episode, and I did genuinely feel sorry for him. It wasn’t exactly the most dignified of deaths, an exploding tumour, but at least it was noble. Carson was self sacrificing to the end, and will be remembered by fans of the show.

We can learn from this not to take for granted those that we have around us on a day-to-day basis. Some people may irritate or annoy us at times, but at the end of the day the world is a lesser place without them.

Tags: atlantis, carson beckett, Stargate