but I kind of liked that.

Oh, I liked it too. It was in response to ita's "they were so hot when" comment. He gets the whole sexy librarian thing going when the glasses come off.

His comment is ... "Not this time," isn't it? Poor, previously beaten up Daniel.

Yeah, Jack says "Let it go," and Daniel says, "Not this time."

I also laugh at the way they save on the special effects budget by only occasionally showing them doing something impressive, and the rest of the time, just having the "OOF!" and "CRASH!" sounds. It's just like Batman.

Oh good. Sorry for the misunderstanding, Dana, I thought you were nitpicking rather than appreciating the wonder that is The Daniel.

Oh my. Just remembered, I dreamed about two different TV shows with Michael Shanks in them last night. In one he was a bartender/Walgreen's pharmacist. No, really, he gave me a Prozac, a beer, and a bunny-shaped bottle of Pepto-Bismol. I don't remember what the other one was, just that I thought it was odd that he was in both, and hypothesized that the bartender/pharmacist must have been made in the late 90s sometime.

I thought you were nitpicking rather than appreciating the wonder that is The Daniel.

Yeah, no, I've given up on resisting that. Although I still say the resemblance between him and Blair is at times freakish.

Not that I watch this show.

Of course not. Wouldn't want to imply anything different.

he's looking hot as shit and pretty buff, so where the hell is that coming from?

He was nattering on about Sumerian history to Sam for an hour beforehand. t /fanwank

Yeah, no, I've given up on resisting that. Although I still say the resemblance between him and Blair is at times freakish.

No no, the freaky thing is the way that if you get them at the right angles he and Ben Browder look similar. (Daniel is probably the more mentally healthy of the two, which is... alarming, really.)

His eyebrows are also at times freakish. Which is why I prefer him bespectacled.

What's the ep where they're frozen and re-woken and told everyone's dead? He's so not buff in it.

And his hair is in a truly odd intermediate stage.

Daniel is probably the more mentally healthy of the two, which is... alarming, really

Snerk.

Oh, I caught Window of Opportunity last night too, and it made me laugh out loud several times. It's not like the concept hasn't been done before, but it was very funny. The pottery and the golf and the juggling were all great.

So between those two eps I saw last night, it's clear that the Jack/Sam thing isn't just subtext, it's actually text. Which is interesting.

I feel I should point out that Daniel is mentally healthier than John, not than Ben Browder, who I've never met and about whose mental status I have no information. Other than he wrote John Quixote.

What's the ep where they're frozen and re-woken and told everyone's dead? He's so not buff in it.

Out of Mind.

And his hair is in a truly odd intermediate stage.

That's the Hamlet haircut. (No, literally.) It is unfortunate. And then later, with the sideburns... I dunno.

So between those two eps I saw last night, it's clear that the Jack/Sam thing isn't just subtext, it's actually text. Which is interesting.

Yeah, they hit it hard in S4 - new executive producers - backed off in S5 and S6, and have been hitting it again a bit in S7. S4 was all about their Tragic Love That Can Not Be, though.

I feel I should point out that Daniel is mentally healthier than John

I've never seen a single minute of SG-1, and I feel fairly safe in agreeing with this.

Pretty much the only character I can think of who *might* be nuttier than Crichton is Drusilla. And possibly Willy Wonka.