I fell into watching SG-1 because Theodosia stayed with me one weekend and had to see the current episode, which was some season 6 thing with Jaffa and Tok'ra. It was entirely impenetrable to me, but somehow that got me interested (possibly Jack O'Neill was hot) and I started watching the SciFi reruns.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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Consuela - Jun 21, 2012 6:40:14 am PDT #20400 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2012 6:53:40 am PDT #20401 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jack O'Neill remains the only male character who can compete with Dean Winchester in terms of me loving them through even when they write the character inconsistently, because he's just *so*...so very when written probably.
In my head, they spend lots of time together--if not our O'Neill, maybe his younger clone.
Oh, my. I had not followed that thought through properly. This might preoccupy me more than Dean/Stiles just was.
Theodosia - Jun 21, 2012 7:48:13 am PDT #20402 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Heh. I forgot about that toaster I earned.
beekaytee - Jun 21, 2012 8:45:25 am PDT #20403 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Heh. I loved the young O'Neill like pancakes.
Right now, I'm watching the episodes with the Tolan and Nareem. Mmmm. Nareem.
Ahem. Anyway.
If I had to pick my very favorite regular, it would have to be Daniel.
Imagine my disappointment that Shanks' new show is, so far, so bad.
He did do a great turn on "Endgame", a series I was sad to see canceled. I think you can still catch it on Hulu.
Consuela - Jun 21, 2012 8:52:21 am PDT #20404 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
If I had to pick my very favorite regular, it would have to be Daniel.
I liked Daniel well enough, since so much of the first seasons is his show, but I felt he got smug after season 6, and basically his character arc stumbled to a halt after his return. After that he just seemed to be treading water, since he'd been positioned as The Seeker, and seemed to run out of things to seek.
(He was also damned hard to write, I found--much harder than O'Neill.)
beekaytee - Jun 21, 2012 9:18:50 am PDT #20405 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I liked Daniel well enough, since so much of the first seasons is his show, but I felt he got smug after season 6, and basically his character arc stumbled to a halt after his return. After that he just seemed to be treading water, since he'd been positioned as The Seeker, and seemed to run out of things to seek.
I can't disagree.
Though, I did like him in the episodes where he was an apparition. When he carried the Lifeboat souls. When he held Vala when the Or'i were torturing her. When he yelled at Vala for teasing him because she was bored.
Um. Well. I guess I am a bit of a fan.
Calli - Jun 21, 2012 10:12:03 am PDT #20406 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I liked Jack for the RDA factor. He was my first celebrity crush, back in his General Hospital days, and I've enjoyed watching him through much inconsistent writing and questionable hair styles (*cough*MacGyver*cough) ever since.
Pix - Jun 21, 2012 10:31:44 am PDT #20407 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
I adore SG1. Jack is the best.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2012 10:41:46 am PDT #20408 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
General Hammond is by far my favorite of the SG-1 characters, but of the main four I think Daniel is the best. I'm not at all fond of Shanks, but he's just great in that role.
By contrast I don't think it's possible for me to love an actor more than Ben, but Cam Mitchell only occasionally inspired affection from me.
beekaytee - Jun 21, 2012 11:51:09 am PDT #20409 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Weirdly, I've just come upon an alternate universe episode that I don't actually remember. Given that I pretty much have the eps memorized, this amuses me. Perhaps I'm in my _own_ parallel universe.
Jack's a peach. It does crack me up that various characters are consistently contrary about things like pronunciation. It's a neat quirk of character building and directing.
Example: O'Neill insists on calling the Snakey folk "Gooolds"...like the mustard...while it seems the 'correct' pronunciation is "Go-Ah-ULd." I'm pretty sure he says that word roughly 10,000 times and never wavers.