They really messed up Doctor Weird character
she is not just killed, is worst, she is gonna be frozen forever, unbelievable
The stupid have one thing in common.They alter the facts to fit their views not the other way
I felt terrible for her. I'm sure they did it in order to possibly revive her for another episode later on, but since the show ended and no movie has been made since, she's gonna float there for all eternity. I try not to think about it. It's awful, I agree. :(
shareYou guys weren't paying attention. When they retrieved Niam, who had been floating in space for months, they weren't sure beforehand if they would be able to reactivate him. His power levels were extremely low and he was taking damage from stellar radiation. The Weir replica would degrade the same way. After a couple of years, she wouldn't be salvageable, although I suppose they could have come up with some technobabble to change that. It wouldn't be "all eternity."
shareYes, per the Niam incident if she's left out there too long she would eventually be unsalvageable. However, Joe Mallozzi had made references to a possible replicator episode in season 6 so there may have been some idea of returning to her in an acceptable timeframe.
Also, although the inability to get a movie made pushed back when they intended to have Atlantis return to the Pegasus galaxy, Weir being salvaged in time is not dependent on the expedition being there. Most likely the expedition would not have been the ones to recover them (assuming they would have said to have been salvaged in that hypothetical season 6 episode). I would assume, instead, that they'd have gone with the idea that a third party found them and because of that they are back, which could still be the case.
Of course, they like to have it both ways. With Ford, they had Sheppard end his last non-dream appearance with an implication that he could have escaped the Hive despite not being able to pilot a dart as an opening to possibly return to him in the future. Then, though, they decided not to do that and it became pretty clear that they thought of him as having died. The same could have been the case with Weir; they wanted that opening to be able to say someone salvaged her within a few months but then they could have decided not to do anything about it had they been allowed to continue to write stories.
The point of contention here is not whether or not the writers would have brought her back. The OP is assuming she will be marooned forever in space, neither alive nor dead. That is wrong. Since we know she was never recovered at least by Atlantis in the final season, the cybernetic version of her has presumably been irreparably damaged, i.e. "dead." No floating for eternity. That was my point.
shareRight, and as I said it's absolutely correct that she needed to be recovered within a certain time frame or she'd be truly dead. I just think it's also worth noting that she's technically in a Schrödinger's cat type situation, not because she could still be salvageable in space but because it's not unreasonable to assume that the original idea for her possible return might have involved her being collected by a third party and that still could have happened.
We don't really know if she's dead (which is quite possible) or if she's spent the last few years in one of those Wraith force fields or if she was recovered by an advanced human civilization that they hinted were on the verge of coming out of hiding due to the Wraith civil war and may be one of the ones who the replicators ghosted (leading to that civilization trying to track them) or even recovered by the Asgard who used their access to Ancient tech to find Weir and company in the hope of reviving the replicators for their second attempt at taking out the Wraith since the idea of the replicators doing so by targeting humans is just fine with them.
But I get that that's separate from your core point, which I have no argument with whatsoever. People forget that line about how they got to Niam just in time to be able to revive him and it's important to point that out.