48 Hours -- oh, yes. My first reaction was, "Oh my god! Rodney is SG-1's Kavanagh!" It was kind of startling. I'm glad I got to know Rodney through fanfic and Rising, otherwise I may not have liked him quite so much!
Also, re: Daniel's ascension and Tao of Rodney: fanfic binds SGA and SG-1 better, frankly. For example in Come Back Later by cottontail73 there is interaction between the casts. (It's an AU of Tao of Rodney, but still.) Often when I've compared the show and the fics I've felt that fics use the characters so much better, the dialogue is better, the plots, how to give screen time to all of the characters, etc. (Characters actually mourn Carson, would also be a good example of the differences between the fanfic and canon.) It's a matter of resources, of course, and of different media -- and how lucky are we, to have it both ways, both the fics and the show? I shouldn't be complaining. :) Anyway, I should also mention that I haven't really watched a lot of SG-1 (Rodney episodes, mostly), so I don't know if it's very
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I am in the middle of rewatching all of SG-1 myself. Season 5 at the moment -- Last Stand -- And with every episode, I am thinking "I just love this show." It never gets old. Never. *hugs her DVDs* I am waiting anxiously for S2 of SGA (we just can't catch it on SciFi because of scheduling changes, and I refuse to watch Eps out of order) and S10 of SG1 (same reason). *sigh* S6 - hmmmm - Abyss (obvious reason there), The Changeling (also obvious), Frozen (for the connect to SGA), and Metamorphosis (cause I love seeing Jack get all squishy over Sam's eminent demise).
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
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interesting, to read your opinions. I just recently rewatched Red Sky, and I enjoyed it greatly for some reason. I always enjoy the Unas episodes, because that is one of the very rare time the aliens don't speak the name, and to see Daniel struggle to communicate and hear his snarky remarks is just a hoot.
I rewatched Meridian again too, and cried again. It is really a good episode. You're right with the comparison with "Sunday", it was done very differently.
I liked Season 6 a lot, Jonas Quint is really nice, and there is some hilarious dialogue with Tealc. Also there is a lot of action, and you see spectacular pictures.
I recently caught on the latest SG-1 episode, and was totally caught off-guard when Rodney appeared in "The Road not taken". Ha, ha, he and Sam were really cute together.
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Also, re: Daniel's ascension and Tao of Rodney: fanfic binds SGA and SG-1 better, frankly. For example in Come Back Later by cottontail73 there is interaction between the casts. (It's an AU of Tao of Rodney, but still.) Often when I've compared the show and the fics I've felt that fics use the characters so much better, the dialogue is better, the plots, how to give screen time to all of the characters, etc. (Characters actually mourn Carson, would also be a good example of the differences between the fanfic and canon.) It's a matter of resources, of course, and of different media -- and how lucky are we, to have it both ways, both the fics and the show? I shouldn't be complaining. :) Anyway, I should also mention that I haven't really watched a lot of SG-1 (Rodney episodes, mostly), so I don't know if it's very ( ... )
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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.
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I rewatched Meridian again too, and cried again. It is really a good episode. You're right with the comparison with "Sunday", it was done very differently.
I liked Season 6 a lot, Jonas Quint is really nice, and there is some hilarious dialogue with Tealc. Also there is a lot of action, and you see spectacular pictures.
I recently caught on the latest SG-1 episode, and was totally caught off-guard when Rodney appeared in "The Road not taken". Ha, ha, he and Sam were really cute together.
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