I didn't like the need for fanwank, and that way overwhelmed any pleasure I could have taken from the canonisation of the pairing.

because SG as a show is not so much with the gratuitous angst

Well, and frankly I just don't see the characters having that sort of chemistry. It's like they forget they're supposed to be angsting over each other for seasons at a stretch. Jello, heh.

I'd also have bought it more if Jack hadn't turned into one of the three Stooges in the last few seasons. A little gravitas would not go amiss, but RDA is just leaping after the easy jokes most of the time now. ::shrugs:: I miss Jack circa season 4, when he had the grey (so HOTT) but hadn't gone goofy yet.

Chemistry I definitely see (RDA's pretty good with that, whenever he needs it, in a wistful fashion). I'm very glad they don't dwell, and I really like them ignoring it for stretches.

I think that was the one after Michael McKean took over Mulder's body and made moves on Scully...and cleaned up his apartment, and bought a water bed.

Well, no. The one with the comfy TV-watching is at the end of S7 ("Je Souhaite", I think?), more than a season after the body switch ("Dreamland") two-parter. There was also the episode in which Scully suddenly got a personality transplant and started believing all kinds of new agey mumbo-jumbo ("All Things") which has Scully falling asleep on the couch in Mulder's apartment. Man, I hate that episode, my enormous affection for GA notwithstanding.

I remember too much detail about the damn show. No wonder I don't have any room in my head for non-fannish stuff.

Jack's all, "Ahh, love that daren't speak its name... oooh, jello!"

HA! So true. Was it greensilver who had the list of Ways SG-1 Characters End Relationships?

TEAL'C: You keel my woman! Now I keel you!
DANIEL: Dammit, Jack/Sam/Teal'c!
SAM: *single tear*
JACK: I'll call you. Really.

The one with the comfy TV-watching is at the end of S7

Aha.

I, on the other hand, had abandoned the show soon after the movie and still don't have the timeline straightened out after that. And maybe before that. heh.

JACK: I'll call you. Really.

BHWA! She's right on the money. Although, it's been a while since Jack got laid, the poor fella.

Well, and frankly I just don't see the characters having that sort of chemistry.

There's no denying that RDA has better chemistry with Michael Shanks than Amanda Tapping. I see it *occasionally*, like, in the cafeteria (or whatever the hell you call this in a military base) scene in WoO in which Jack is being all wistful and Sam is being all adorably oblivious, during the argument in "2001" at Jack's cabin, and in the kiss in "Grace", and wow, I realize none of those scenes have actually happened in their timeline. They have romantic tension! Except at no time when both of them can remember it fully! (Which is kind of nos' point, I guess.)

Man, I hate that episode, my enormous affection for GA notwithstanding.

Ah, but it was pretty.

I'm very glad they don't dwell, and I really like them ignoring it for stretches.

Well, yeah, except I fear that they're going to DO something with it. And when they bring it up at all, it feels clunky and out of place. This isn't the right show for that sort of thing, I guess, Daniel and Sha're's tragedy notwithstanding.

the argument in "2001"

Huh. You mean 2010, I think, yeah? And yeah, I liked that bit too. Pissy!Jack is a good thing.

You mean 2010

Right! Brain like a sieve, I tell ya.

Much as I love the cabin scene, the dubbed dialog drives me nuts. RDA is bringing the bitterness and the angst, but you can't hear it as well in AT's voice. But I forgive Sam because she looks dynamite hot in her skin-tight jeans and her long white coat in that scene.