Reading SGA fic in which Torren plays a significant role always makes me nostalgic for Cassandra Fraiser. Watching Sam Carter totally losing it in the elevator in "Singularity" (1x15) was what finally converted me into a Stargate fan, and I always, always come back to that episode as the moment SG-1 became a family
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I don't get that vibe off SG-1 fandom at all. For example, browsing through the new AO3 archive, I see lots of gen and lots of different pairings. There's a lot more emphasis on all the relationships in the team, on a more wholistic view.
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I can't remember where we'd discussed it, but there's the theory that SGA fandom is 90% the John/Rodney buddy show due to fannish migration. A few Big Name Fans from other buddy shows (e.g. Due South) migrated to SGA late S1, early S2 and everyone followed along. So even though SGA S1 was not at all a buddy show (though SGA did, at times, become the John and Rodney show), fandom became skewed that way.
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