I liked Jonas Quinn, in part because it was hilarious that 'Jonas Quinn' is a way less alien name than 'Corin Nemec'. I was disappointed in SG:U that they had an entire episode on Langara and - after mentioning in SG:1 that the Ori had occupied the planet - didn't use the excuse to bring Nemec back for a cameo. Or, if he wasn't available, at least have an offhend mention of "Oh, Director Quinn's not gonna like this..." at the end or something, just to confirm that he's doing okay.
To be fair, I think that's due to two main factors.
The first being the type of show SG1 was: largely self-contained episodic monster-of-the-week. They need their new team member up and running as quick as possible. Remember, this was the early 2000s, TV didn't really lean into the strong ongoing story until roughly early 2010s. And yeah, there were obviously exceptions, but it was rarer for the time, especially in sci-fi.
And secondly is that we did only get him for 1 season. That leaves very little room to develop his character all that much without focusing too much on him. The only main characters that would be comparable would be Cameron and Vala, the latter of which was directly related to a core story point with regards to the Ori (and hence got more attention to flesh out her character), and the former was a bit of a Gary Stu himself, though he had that extra season (and 2 films) to help flesh him out more than Jonas ever got.
Eh, it's Jonas, even though he was a main character for a bit while standing in for Michael Shanks, it's still not one of the big names from the show.
He was a big character. A lot of fans like him better than DANIELJACKSON. At least SG1 treated him better than TNG treated Pulaski.
I liked Jonas Quinn, in part because it was hilarious that 'Jonas Quinn' is a way less alien name than 'Corin Nemec'. I was disappointed in SG:U that they had an entire episode on Langara and - after mentioning in SG:1 that the Ori had occupied the planet - didn't use the excuse to bring Nemec back for a cameo. Or, if he wasn't available, at least have an offhend mention of "Oh, Director Quinn's not gonna like this..." at the end or something, just to confirm that he's doing okay.
His character was rather Gary-Stuish. It just never really worked with him.
He really was a little Gary-ish but he was a pleasant person
To be fair, I think that's due to two main factors.
The first being the type of show SG1 was: largely self-contained episodic monster-of-the-week. They need their new team member up and running as quick as possible. Remember, this was the early 2000s, TV didn't really lean into the strong ongoing story until roughly early 2010s. And yeah, there were obviously exceptions, but it was rarer for the time, especially in sci-fi.
And secondly is that we did only get him for 1 season. That leaves very little room to develop his character all that much without focusing too much on him. The only main characters that would be comparable would be Cameron and Vala, the latter of which was directly related to a core story point with regards to the Ori (and hence got more attention to flesh out her character), and the former was a bit of a Gary Stu himself, though he had that extra season (and 2 films) to help flesh him out more than Jonas ever got.