But but but... creepy! 'Cause, Narim! Who is dead!
I know! And they aired Enigma earlier that day too, just in case anyone forgot.
I cherished a brief hope, as I was wondering what else could be creepy, that instead of Garwin Sanford looking up from under the hood, it would have been Sean Patrick Flanery -- but that was just a lust for meta creepiness, not anything that would actually serve the plot.
I admit, I didn't watch the previews past getting the impression they thought they were going home.
They didn't try and convince us they were ever really home (as Theo said -- brilliant use of Don Davis to tip us off), and it never even occurred to me it was alternate -- just because it picked up from precisely what they knew to have been true.
I just found ship_manifesto on LJ, and there's a lovely Jack/Daniel essay complete with screenshots to illustrate the synopsis of their more slash-inspiring interactions.
Even if you don't buy the /, it's very sweet.
Okay, I give up. What does the little symbol with the < and then a 3 (which won't show up if I type it straight here) mean? Is it an erect penis? A barebreasted conehead? Something non-sexual? (Seems unlikely, since this is fandom after all...)
...oh. Right.
I really have been in fandom too long, haven't I?
I've been seeing "XD" a lot. I've been assuming it's something like a laughing face, but I have no particular evidence for that assumption. Anyone?
I just saw a bit of a skit on an old Saturday Night Live with Paul Reiser as guest. There was a Superman sketch, set at the Daily Planet.
Michael McKean was in the cast that year (1994-1995) and in the skit, he played....Perry White!
a lovely Jack/Daniel essay
I enjoyed that. And I see Katie got a rec in the comments ... excellent! (I love that one; among the first I ever read, I think.)
Though, I have to say, the example from Shades of Gray (Grey?) leaves out the best part ... which is the "No, it doesn't. We drew straws. I lost." That right there? Perfection. (OK, exaggeration. Still.)
And I think I must have forgotten a significant chunk of Devil You Know, because I can't place it for a damn.