Yeah, *about* Stargate...
I've been on an SG-1 kick lately. I DON'T KNOW WHY. In fact until recently I'd only ever seen part of one episode, and it bord me enough to stop watching any more. Later, when I got into fandom, I became vaguely interesting in watching some episodes sometime. But. Farscape happened.
Now I have this ridiculous but firm stand never to watch Stargate. It's almost a *principle*. I loved the movie, but for a long time the series has totally turned me off, so it was no big sacrifice. It was like refusing to watch football games that preempted Buffy - whoa, look out, Nielsen! (I've been thinking lately about *why* I didn't like the series when I liked the movie. Some Smart Person (Hth?) was talking lately about how SG is action funny, and I think that's true. But the movie was more action epic or action coming of age. So the lame humor of the series was a very different turn, and rather off-putting to someone who expected the same dynamic as the movie. But after watching Jump St., I think I would understand the SG series dynamic a little better.) I just couldn't betray Farscape that way. I know it's not Stargate's *fault* that SciFi chose it and didn't choose Farscape, but that's like saying it isn't the Prom King's *fault* that everyone loves him. It doesn't stop the Academic Decathalon and Chess Club geeks in the corner from resenting the hell out of him.
I usually don't let fandom politics influence my opinion of art. But then, I'm usually not aware of the politics when I first see the art, so it can stand on its own merits. And when I am aware of them, they usually intrigue me enough to view the source of all the controversy - the art - even if I mightn't have done so were it not for the politics. Like I think it was the mystery of the Ray Wars (They're like an urban legend! I want documents, a historical treatment, a wikipedia entry!) that pushed me into watching Due South.
But this time it's different. This time I'm one of the fans, not just observing their kerfluffles.
And I'm still just so *angry* at Farscape's cancellation.
Then it feels like after SciFi killed Farscape, Stargate raped its corpse and stole its talent. I was watching a Cameron vid last night and - it was a good vid even! - I seriously felt *violated*, like my emotions were being *manipulated* by some Big Brother fascist mind control or something. It's like Stargate is playing a cruel joke on me, twisting my love for Crichton (God, how I love Crichton) and teasing me with this almost-Crichton to trick me into watching their show.
Well, I *won't*. Not for Vala either. I know that Stargate isn't really to blame for Farscape's cancellation, and anyway my not watching it won't change anything. But see, it's like Lent. You choose some random thing to sacrifice to express your devotion to Jesus. And while it might not have been a *sacrifice* when I first resolved not to watch Stargate (Yeah, Jack, Daniel... still only mildly interesting... I want James Spader and Kurt Russell, not these wannabes...), I think it is now. But I'm sticking to it! (for now) Because... my show! And it's not like I don't already have WAY TOO MUCH STUFF to watch. Christ.
I did watch the groundhog day episode of SG recently linked from someone's lj. (I'm more tempted, of course, by the heavy-angst eps myself.) But hell, if you put temptation in my path (in the form of a *link* - as long as it's just *one* and not enough that it looks like "the series," because then I'll be forced to remember that its the series I'm boycotting instead of watching a random ep on the sly) I'd have a hard time resisting. That ep was only mildly entertaining. (And BTW. Hi. How much do I *love* Peter DeLuise OMG I want to squeeze his little teddy bear belly! Ahem. I see his fingerprints all over the show. And it's kinda fun to play Where's Waldo with him all the time.)
But then I stumbled across some anti-Scaper diatribes on the TWOP boards and remembered my Sacred Vow. (Yeah, I will *totally* cut off my nose to spite my face. Their whole "Scapers are just jealous because our show didn't get canceled" thing - shit, that's true, but just fuck them because all the other trash they draw from that isn't.) Acting like Scapers are some sort of snobby immigrants who should be grateful to be given a place in fandom at all...
But all in all, my Grand Total of SG-1 eps is only one-and-a-little-bit. And I think, for now at least, that's where it's gonna stay.
I was willing to let the Vow go for SGA. If the show had been at all entertaining.
And uh, I'll also relax it for the Peter Wingfield eps if I ever get my hands on them. Because I will watch that man as the stupidest character in a stupid Disney movie, that's how much my love for him outweighs any "lines" I might have left. I will hunt down and watch an entire Smallville episode for that man. No shame.
I think it's cute the way all the SGA people are getting into SG-1 so many years later now. ::tries to resist fandom pull::
If you gave me episodes right now, I just don't think I'd be strong enough to resist. God, Daniel. OT3! OT4!
BTW if anyone has any sterling OT3 or OT4 fics (lalala we don't need no screwy canon) they want to rec me I would be MOST GRATEFUL. Because I think I've read them all. I have COMBED THE INTERNETS. And while I'll definitely read a well-written J/D or S/D (whoa that's hot - any recs?) or, hell, a good character study, what I *crave* in this fandom is J/D/S or J/D/S/T. And that's why drabbles like this really do it for me more than long angsty J/D h/c epics (while I'm perfectly happy reading long angsty *F/K* h/c epics).
I was musing today on possible names for this threesome. Jamiel? Dackter? Damack? Dackantha? Heheh. And then when you add Teal'c: Dacktereal'c, Sackiel'c - what is that apostrophe *for* anyway? - al'Carckiel, Da'ckter... Wow that's fun. But those are no where near as elegant as the Digimon fandom's Yamachisuke (threesome) or Yamachisuken (foursome). ::shakes maracas:: Man, I was cracking myself up the other day just saying Shweir! in these various high-pitched nasal tones. Seriously, try it! It's addictive. I can't believe people actually take that pairing name seriously.
The thing that I love about both SGA and SG-1 is the whole us-against-the-world thing. Backs to the wall, desperately fighting a losing battle (to save Earth blah blah). How no one else can understand what they've been through except each other. How *much* they love each other. This is why I love the SG-1 abandoned on a planet for awhile thing. But what I love more than S/D/J married and living in a little cabin on a planet somewhere after Teal'c died from tretonin withdrawal, what I love more than that is when they get rescued and come *back* to the SGC, and everyone sees how much they have changed and how they can't give each other up. I want *that* fic. That's why Auburn's SGA fics "The Taste of Apples" and "Legion the Things I Would Give to Oblivion" successfully pimped me into the SGA fandom. Because while I love secret angst, what I love more is the *revelation* of secret angst. Heh, that's obviously why I also loved the Farscape episodes where they went back to Earth. (JOHN!)
But even I think it's strange that as much as I may fangirl some of the SG-1 and SGA characters and relationships, I still don't fangirl the *shows* (at least not yet).
SG Vid recs please!
Because some of the vids in this fandom? At least the J/D ones I've been subjecting myself to lately? Um, yeah. I'd *rather* have a dearth of vids like in Due South or B-5 than have so many *bad* vids. ::shudders:: It's like the same six clips put in a slightly different order over and over again to poppy love ballads that make my ears bleed. God.
Speaking of vids, I'm trying to vid, but Premiere is sucking like a Dementor. I think it just may be *allergic* to Byron. (Seriously, it craps out every time we get to his 3 seconds of vid time.) But the vid is getting clearer in my head. I'm getting itchy fingers. Yay! Now if only I didn't have stupid *job* interfering with my *work*.
Jennghis kahn is writing 100 J/D/S stories for fanfic100. That just. It makes me SO HAPPY. Filled with *glee*, literally. This morning when I discovered her fanfic100, I was just gesturing at the screen incoherently, grinning madly. I mean, I ask, and the universe provides. (^o^)V
How awesome is it that Michael Shanks and General Hammond were both in Suspicious River, probably having sex with Molly Parker? (I don't know; I haven't been brave enough to watch it yet.) So awesome. Canada unite.
I was totally surprised when I was watching one of the aforementioned J/D badvids and Veronica Mars's *dad* appeared onscreen. Total WTF. I guess Stargate really *is* the dumping ground for all scifi and genre actors ever. (Heh, dumping ground.) I heard Peter *Woodward* was on SGA recently. Mmmm, Galen...
::womanfully resists::