Beast of Burden is one of my all-time favorites! I have reams of meta about how that ep epitomizes the way Jack and Daniel have both evolved as a result of working together for so long.... yeah. (Plus, I dig Unas, too. ;-) Two of my other favorites are Ascension (Sean Patrick Flanery as Sam's alien boyfriend -- yum!) and Between Two Fires (great Jack and Daniel, but oh, no! The Tollans!). And I think Wormhole XTreme is pretty damned funny, too. Best is Christian Bocher's riff in the outtake in the end where he metas about being an actor playing an actor playing a character based on a character.
Season six has even more snoozers, but it's well worth it for Abyss and Changeling and Full Circle (yes, the Daniel eps!), and the Rodney eps, as you say. There are also eps that set up important plot points for later, and there are eps that I enjoyed on their own merit, like The Other Guys (another slapstick ep), Cure, Smoke and Mirrors and Paradise Lost.
I really wondered now why they never contacted Daniel about what was happening to Rodney!
Wait, are you spoiled for SG-1 s10? SPOILER:
Well, I think that was during the time Daniel was in the hands of the Ori.
END SPOILER
As for the Daniel and Carson deaths, I think, unfortunately, Carson gets more of the Doctor Fraiser death. If it had been John or Rodney, I think (I hope!) we'd see lasting impact, but losing a doctor rather than a frontline team member gets played differently.
And speaking of lasting impact, have you seen synecdochic's gorgeous vid Talk Show Host? Gorgeous, sad vid about season 6 Jack missing Daniel, and oh, so tired of it all. Since you are about to watch the season, you might want to wait 'til after.
Season six has even more snoozers, but it's well worth it for Abyss and Changeling and Full Circle (yes, the Daniel eps!), and the Rodney eps, as you say. There are also eps that set up important plot points for later, and there are eps that I enjoyed on their own merit, like The Other Guys (another slapstick ep), Cure, Smoke and Mirrors and Paradise Lost.
I really wondered now why they never contacted Daniel about what was happening to Rodney!
Wait, are you spoiled for SG-1 s10? SPOILER:
Well, I think that was during the time Daniel was in the hands of the Ori.
END SPOILER
As for the Daniel and Carson deaths, I think, unfortunately, Carson gets more of the Doctor Fraiser death. If it had been John or Rodney, I think (I hope!) we'd see lasting impact, but losing a doctor rather than a frontline team member gets played differently.
And speaking of lasting impact, have you seen synecdochic's gorgeous vid Talk Show Host? Gorgeous, sad vid about season 6 Jack missing Daniel, and oh, so tired of it all. Since you are about to watch the season, you might want to wait 'til after.
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