My Ode To SGA
To think, I discovered Stargate Atlantis only a year ago and now... Sigh. I can't even imagine how tough it is for people who have been watching since the beginning.
Two things that made SGA different for me:
1) Before I didn't have a slash OTP by any stretch. Sheppard/Rodney turned around my relatively noncommittal response to slash.
2) I'm not used to getting into TV shows after the fact or mid fact, I guess, (although that changed with the writers' strike) but I did with SGA. And it's a completely different experience. You know bits and pieces of the story already so you don't get surprised. It relieves you from the endless worry about how arc X pans out or what happens to characters Y and Z. You already know the big stuff. And you don't get pissed when plot A pops up because it already happened and you knew it was going to happen so you just accept it. It's very zen.
Then, of course, that all gets smashed into smithereens when you're live with the rest of fandom and BAM you hear the news that this season will be the last. Then it's not very zen at all!
Two things that made SGA different for me:
1) Before I didn't have a slash OTP by any stretch. Sheppard/Rodney turned around my relatively noncommittal response to slash.
2) I'm not used to getting into TV shows after the fact or mid fact, I guess, (although that changed with the writers' strike) but I did with SGA. And it's a completely different experience. You know bits and pieces of the story already so you don't get surprised. It relieves you from the endless worry about how arc X pans out or what happens to characters Y and Z. You already know the big stuff. And you don't get pissed when plot A pops up because it already happened and you knew it was going to happen so you just accept it. It's very zen.
Then, of course, that all gets smashed into smithereens when you're live with the rest of fandom and BAM you hear the news that this season will be the last. Then it's not very zen at all!