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Am experiencing withdrawl symptoms.
I sailed through my Stargate box set and reached the end of season 10 last night. *weeps* I have gotten so used to having new episodes to watch, to having more adventures with the gang to see that it's all weird and wrong now that I've reached the end. I was totally spoiled though by it being such a long series. I got into Firefly and had to savour every moment of the 14 episodes and 1 film. With Stargate I could just race through dozens of episodes, still with more amazing episodes and plot lines ahead.
I thought the final episode, Unending, would have made an awesome stand alone. One of those that your mouth just drops open at, much like the Daniel goes to a parallel universe one or the one where O'Neill and Teal'c relive the same day over and over. However, it wasn't awesome when taken as a season finale - no, a series finale. I also hate how often Stargate uses the reset button. They teased us all the time with Jack/Sam, by showing their alternate selves married, or having them make out and then reverse time or what have you. Once Jack leaves, they move on to screwing with Daniel/Vala. Two seasons of Vala jumping Daniel in every episode and Daniel barely batting an eyelid and I was ready to force them to procreate by sticking them with cattle prods.
I nearly had a conniption at what finally happened between them in Unending. Daniel's rant at how he'd never ever choose to be with Vala and Vala crying and refusing to look at him and Daniel revealing his I'm-STILL-a-grieving-widower issues and Vala being all vulnerable and then he swoops down to her, sees her face and realises she's totally serious and totally in love with him and they have hot passionate sex??? So awesome on a magnificent level. And then of course we get the nope, sorry we're gonna RESET it all noq. Only Teal'c remembers. Crap sake. I keep telling myself it has to pan out somehow in the film continuations. All of my various limbs are crossed.
I love Vala so much and don't get me started on Daniel. He's become my favourite character in anything ever... but my GOD he needs a woman. Every love interest in the series went to Daniel, before he ascended that is, yet when he returned, it was like he had no need for passion or intimacy, and was all single-minded and save-the-worldy. Every time a woman propositions him in the last few seasons, including the many times Vala strips naked for him (lol) he turns them down. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM?! When his wife was alive and off being possessed by Amonet he had no problem having flings with other women but when she dies he goes all celibate??? ARGH.
I'm just pouty over not getting my ship to finally sail. It would've eased the sting of reaching the end of the series. Daniel got way too serious and hard in recent seasons compared to the romantic and tender Daniel at the beginning. Okay, character development. Pshaw. Who needs it?
I feel like the powers that be at Stargate kept resisting any kind of romances though. When they finally gave Sam a life outside of the SGC, a love life at that, I nearly fell off my chair. And when they actually confirmed that O'Neill was in love was Sam I did the same. Too bad they never freaking commit to any of the teasers they give us - just like with Daniel and Vala. I am so bitter. Ten/Rose level bitter, ha. My ship didn't sail therefore I must grasp at any straw available and discredit any women Daniel even looked at besides Vala. Must get to that then.