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Aug. 7th, 2004 12:14 amSo. Stargate.
Part of me is pretty much overcome with joy. This is such a great series. I mean, it really is. Like Buffy and due South, it's so quickly become a world entire to me. I've been watching Smallville since near the end of first season and it still doesn't feel like a believable world (I enjoy it quite a bit, but it's soap. Good and evil, comic-style soap, but soap. Fun soap, but soap.). Stargate managed it... actually, I think I was hooked the second time in Children of the Gods that Jack O'Neill pointed out that he was retired (some day, I should write out my tenets of what constitutes a believable world, because I do know what it is that makes me believe).
And I want to know it all, now. Want to have seen it, so that I can be all opinionated (though I'm managing quite nicely at the moment, really).
I want to write multi-fandom comparative essays about the Geeks Who Turned Soldier -- featuring Daniel Jackson, John Crighton, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, and Willow Rosenburg (all of whom share certain sharp qualities, even in the beginning). I'd add in Blair Sandburg, but I haven't seen that show, so it'd be entirely off fanfic, which, no, I can't base an essay off. At least three of those characters could also feature in an essay on the dangers of intellectual arrogance.
I'd also love to write something about alien reflections -- what it means to write about aliens or demons, about exploring the Other, what different shows have to say about the Other. Sci-fi and fantasy are good bases for exploring the Other, because so many times, the stories are written by people who have felt that they are the Other.
A multi-fandom essay on the treatment of powerful women would also be fun to write. Just in Stargate, I'd love to what it might mean that each one of the male main characters was once married, what Sam's Black Widow status implies, and something about the snaking of Daniel's love interests and his general attraction from the Others represented on the show. An entire essay on Daniel's will to life would also be fun.
Part of me is pretty much overcome with joy. This is such a great series. I mean, it really is. Like Buffy and due South, it's so quickly become a world entire to me. I've been watching Smallville since near the end of first season and it still doesn't feel like a believable world (I enjoy it quite a bit, but it's soap. Good and evil, comic-style soap, but soap. Fun soap, but soap.). Stargate managed it... actually, I think I was hooked the second time in Children of the Gods that Jack O'Neill pointed out that he was retired (some day, I should write out my tenets of what constitutes a believable world, because I do know what it is that makes me believe).
And I want to know it all, now. Want to have seen it, so that I can be all opinionated (though I'm managing quite nicely at the moment, really).
I want to write multi-fandom comparative essays about the Geeks Who Turned Soldier -- featuring Daniel Jackson, John Crighton, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, and Willow Rosenburg (all of whom share certain sharp qualities, even in the beginning). I'd add in Blair Sandburg, but I haven't seen that show, so it'd be entirely off fanfic, which, no, I can't base an essay off. At least three of those characters could also feature in an essay on the dangers of intellectual arrogance.
I'd also love to write something about alien reflections -- what it means to write about aliens or demons, about exploring the Other, what different shows have to say about the Other. Sci-fi and fantasy are good bases for exploring the Other, because so many times, the stories are written by people who have felt that they are the Other.
A multi-fandom essay on the treatment of powerful women would also be fun to write. Just in Stargate, I'd love to what it might mean that each one of the male main characters was once married, what Sam's Black Widow status implies, and something about the snaking of Daniel's love interests and his general attraction from the Others represented on the show. An entire essay on Daniel's will to life would also be fun.