Shocking New Development...
Jan. 12th, 2005 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyI always find it vaguely odd when I have just one pairing in common with someone and all of our other fandom politics are pretty much opposed. Because there's this web of connectivity with all the things I like, so it's weird to think that other people's webs are connected differently.
Okay, not so much 'shocking' as 'obvious'. Or 'new'... well.
'Obvious and Trite Truth' is just a less exciting headline.
I've been watching more Hercules and it's so hilarious. I love it. The cheese will suffocate me one of these days.
I'm very impatient about the return of SG-1. I have the feeling that I will enjoy it, because there has been very little of the show that I haven't enjoyed.
I suspect that had I joined Stargate fandom at an earlier point, that I might have joined the SDJ thing. Because that was happening right around the period in my life where I was really very needy about caring for things. So, it's a good thing that I didn't hear about the show until later. Because I seriously, completely adore Daniel. I think he's a multi-faceted, growing character played by an absolutely amazing actor. I have much respect for Michael Shanks. At a different time in my life, I could see that going to an unhealthy place.
I've definitely been enjoying Sam in S8. There are periods set earlier on, though, where she does annoy me. Actually, it's the Jack thing, because I always wince because it really does feel one-sided. She's giving him longing looks and he looks like he wants to run away. I do think that he's probably wondered what she'd be like in bed, because... well, many people do. I often wonder what the people I meet would be like in bed. I like her with Pete, though that relationship has serious crash-and-burn potential. But at least he's not an alien who looks down on her species for being 'primitive'. Amanda Tapping isn't as funny as she thinks she is, though.
Jack's made a pretty good general in the eps that I've seen (up to Endgame). He's not playing dumb so much anymore, which is a plus. And RDA continues to be unfairly hot. He also continues to sparkle the most around Daniel, which is why I 'ship them in the first place, of course. One of the commentators on Abyss mentioned that every actor has another actor who makes them work that much harder and Michael just brings out the best in RDA. I 'ship them because I see the most chemistry between them and because I think that if they were to start a relationship, it would have a good chance of working out.
Chris Judge is much sexier when he isn't Teal'c. And while Teal'c is woefully understudied, I know that I probably won't ever write that essay about Teal'c and his quest, because the Rebel Jaffa bore me so incredibly much. God, just rebel already. Though at least they stayed far away from the potential comic goldmine of having a real Jaffa revolution. We'd have been calling them the Revolting Jaffa all this time.
I may one day finish that essay on Sexism in Stargate, though, and Teal'c will be right at the top of the list.
Along with Rodney 'dumb blonde' McKay, of course. I love them both, yet also want to smack them for some of the things that they say.
Maybourne is one of my favorite reoccuring characters. I probably like him more than I like Jacob or Ishta, though slightly less than Doctor Lee or Oma.
I'm not a huge fan of Hammond. I don't dislike him, but also don't see him as irreplaceable. And like I said above, I've been pleased with what I've seen of General Jack so far. The reason that I got hooked on the show... well, the selling point was Daniel, but the first character that I actually saw, was, of course, Jack, because I started with Children of the Gods. So I'd already fallen for Jack by the time I met Daniel.
Sam, sadly, made a rather negative impression with me in that episode. She was very pushy and narrow-minded and it took me a while to like her. I liked Teal'c right away, but not as strongly as Jack and Daniel. I like Jonas, but suspect that I would have hated him had I been watching 'real time', with no foreknowledge of Daniel's return.
I'm also vastly amused by the fact that Michael Shanks voices Thor. It means he gets to be two of the most popular characters on a show, which isn't a claim most actors are able to make.
Mostly, I'm just incredibly in love with the show. It's fantastic and just what I needed, fandom-wise.
Okay, not so much 'shocking' as 'obvious'. Or 'new'... well.
'Obvious and Trite Truth' is just a less exciting headline.
I've been watching more Hercules and it's so hilarious. I love it. The cheese will suffocate me one of these days.
I'm very impatient about the return of SG-1. I have the feeling that I will enjoy it, because there has been very little of the show that I haven't enjoyed.
I suspect that had I joined Stargate fandom at an earlier point, that I might have joined the SDJ thing. Because that was happening right around the period in my life where I was really very needy about caring for things. So, it's a good thing that I didn't hear about the show until later. Because I seriously, completely adore Daniel. I think he's a multi-faceted, growing character played by an absolutely amazing actor. I have much respect for Michael Shanks. At a different time in my life, I could see that going to an unhealthy place.
I've definitely been enjoying Sam in S8. There are periods set earlier on, though, where she does annoy me. Actually, it's the Jack thing, because I always wince because it really does feel one-sided. She's giving him longing looks and he looks like he wants to run away. I do think that he's probably wondered what she'd be like in bed, because... well, many people do. I often wonder what the people I meet would be like in bed. I like her with Pete, though that relationship has serious crash-and-burn potential. But at least he's not an alien who looks down on her species for being 'primitive'. Amanda Tapping isn't as funny as she thinks she is, though.
Jack's made a pretty good general in the eps that I've seen (up to Endgame). He's not playing dumb so much anymore, which is a plus. And RDA continues to be unfairly hot. He also continues to sparkle the most around Daniel, which is why I 'ship them in the first place, of course. One of the commentators on Abyss mentioned that every actor has another actor who makes them work that much harder and Michael just brings out the best in RDA. I 'ship them because I see the most chemistry between them and because I think that if they were to start a relationship, it would have a good chance of working out.
Chris Judge is much sexier when he isn't Teal'c. And while Teal'c is woefully understudied, I know that I probably won't ever write that essay about Teal'c and his quest, because the Rebel Jaffa bore me so incredibly much. God, just rebel already. Though at least they stayed far away from the potential comic goldmine of having a real Jaffa revolution. We'd have been calling them the Revolting Jaffa all this time.
I may one day finish that essay on Sexism in Stargate, though, and Teal'c will be right at the top of the list.
Along with Rodney 'dumb blonde' McKay, of course. I love them both, yet also want to smack them for some of the things that they say.
Maybourne is one of my favorite reoccuring characters. I probably like him more than I like Jacob or Ishta, though slightly less than Doctor Lee or Oma.
I'm not a huge fan of Hammond. I don't dislike him, but also don't see him as irreplaceable. And like I said above, I've been pleased with what I've seen of General Jack so far. The reason that I got hooked on the show... well, the selling point was Daniel, but the first character that I actually saw, was, of course, Jack, because I started with Children of the Gods. So I'd already fallen for Jack by the time I met Daniel.
Sam, sadly, made a rather negative impression with me in that episode. She was very pushy and narrow-minded and it took me a while to like her. I liked Teal'c right away, but not as strongly as Jack and Daniel. I like Jonas, but suspect that I would have hated him had I been watching 'real time', with no foreknowledge of Daniel's return.
I'm also vastly amused by the fact that Michael Shanks voices Thor. It means he gets to be two of the most popular characters on a show, which isn't a claim most actors are able to make.
Mostly, I'm just incredibly in love with the show. It's fantastic and just what I needed, fandom-wise.
