Stargate -- Moebius (2)

[butterfly]

I'm not talking about The Siege. I just want to cuddle certain people involved and make things all better for them. And then let them cuddle each other.

I wonder if RCC and Co. realize what they did with the fish at the end? I mean, you can definitely fanwank to say that the team at the end is our original team, and that the first team was an Alt team, but they definitely made certain that the two teams aren't the same. Definitely 2010, not 1969.

It doesn't matter to me all that much. If the Daniel in the 'new' universe is still Daniel, then I'll love him.

The AU kiss didn't bother me... because it just struck me, no offense, as way too stupid. Ah, yes, let's kiss because I've discovered that we're going to be trapped here for the rest of our lives and you are now officially the last woman from my world. And then sparks fly! Because that's only way those two can generate sparks (actually, Jack was pretty hot with the whole "hey, you're hot" thing, but then Sam was all bizarre, so... yeah, it kinda faded). It struck me as maybe the kind of thing that an asshole would do, to be honest. But Jack's always capable of acting like a jerk, it's just that in our reality, he's not actually one, most of the time. It's just hard to take it seriously when that's all that the show ever does with AU Sam and Jack. It just points out all the (good) reasons that they aren't allowed to do it with the real ones.

Daniel's section broke my heart, as one might guess. I mean, I've already written "Oh, God, poor Daniel was trapped in Ancient Egypt and his friends were executed!" fic. Seriously, though, I'm glad that the timeline got set right, but my heart still aches for poor Alt!Daniel 1, who'll live out the rest of his life with mockerys of his friends, and poor Alt!Daniel 2, who got to play the parts of Kawalsky and Sha're in his timeline.

I wonder if the time without his friends at all was the hardest, or if it was worse to see these people who haven't... reached their potential. Teal'c might be the easiest -- this Teal'c is basically CotG Teal'c. He just didn't get his tipping point until eight years further on. But Jack... Jack survived past whatever happened to him, probably Charlie's death, but he stopped living. I look at the Alt!Jack we meet in the Dorkverse, and then our Jack at the very end... our Jack is genuinely happy. He has his Earth, he doesn't have to travel into the past, and his team agreed to come up to his cabin. Sam's the one that's the least like herself, so it might be easiest for Daniel just to pretend she's someone entirely new. He was definitely making a fairly game attempt to do that to all of them.

Oh, huh, if this episode is set during the ending of Threads (in between the naked Daniel and the fishing), Catherine's not dead yet. Of course, she's about to die, so it's not terribly relevent, I suppose.

I liked the short little preview for season nine. I don't mind the facial hair, either. Which is actually pretty amusing, because I am not a fan of the facial hair in general.

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[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Right, my heart breaks for poor dead Jack and Sam and Teal'c, and Daniel, who lived who knows how long with the mockery of his friends, but I'm so happy for our Jack and Daniel and Teal'c and Sam. Who have each other, and fishing, and Earth. I'm kinda torn, but willing to go with the happy ending on the show. The sad and bitter one is better left for fic. At least for me.