But, I mean, when I started watching SG1 I was a big Daniel fan, because he was an archaeologist. And so I think I have a fonder memory of "Fire and Water" than lots of people do -- because they think he's dead omg! the melodrama! and Jack breaks Hammond's car windows!
And a Janet fan on my flist has fonder memories of Broca Divide than I do, because I always forget that there's interesting Janet stuff in it -- I'm too busy remembering the bit where Daniel says that hey, rape was the way of our ancestors.
Actually, you know, I'm not ashamed of that at all. The first ten minutes of "Fire and Water" are great. The team's REACTIONS. Jack stumbling over words and trailing off and things.
When fish guy shows up, it goes way downhill. But the parts that happen back on Earth are cool. So I'm gonna stop being all "look, I know it's a man in a plastic fish outfit, and I know that it's probably because I'm a Daniel fan." Sure, that's part of it, but the RDA's low-key grief and shock is fabulous and I don't need to defend my appreciation of it.
when I started watching SG1 I was a big Daniel fan, because he was an archaeologist. And so I think I have a fonder memory of "Fire and Water" than lots of people do
Ditto, r.e. "Fire and Water." I'm to the point where I even just handwave the bad parts. Fish suit, *handwave*. Plastic brain machine, *handwave*. I loved the parts in the beginning that you pointed out, and I liked Daniel trying to deal with the fish guy - being one part scared, one part frustrated, and, when he started getting the fish guy's full story, two parts geektastic anthropologist.
Totally! And, I mean, the scene with the plastic brain machine would be very cool, if ... well, the plastic brain machine looked less stupid, wasn't being manned by a guy in a fish suit who apparently believes in genetic memory, and if Michael Shanks hadn't (apparently) been told to act somewhere between orgasm, torture, and bad dentistry.
I mean, it might "damage" him! He's been sleep-deprived! He thinks his friends think he's dead! I just pretend we got the fun kind of melodrama out of that, instead of the kind of ridiculous plastic chair and fish guy. Whatever! It was all really tense in the real episode. By which I mean the one in my head.
I mean, it might "damage" him! He's been sleep-deprived! He thinks his friends think he's dead! I just pretend we got the fun kind of melodrama out of that, instead of the kind of ridiculous plastic chair and fish guy. Whatever! It was all really tense in the real episode. By which I mean the one in my head.
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Date: 2007-02-23 06:11 pm (UTC)idiot hackswriters are screwing them up.no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 06:20 pm (UTC)But, I mean, when I started watching SG1 I was a big Daniel fan, because he was an archaeologist. And so I think I have a fonder memory of "Fire and Water" than lots of people do -- because they think he's dead omg! the melodrama! and Jack breaks Hammond's car windows!
And a Janet fan on my flist has fonder memories of Broca Divide than I do, because I always forget that there's interesting Janet stuff in it -- I'm too busy remembering the bit where Daniel says that hey, rape was the way of our ancestors.
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Date: 2007-02-23 06:31 pm (UTC)When fish guy shows up, it goes way downhill. But the parts that happen back on Earth are cool. So I'm gonna stop being all "look, I know it's a man in a plastic fish outfit, and I know that it's probably because I'm a Daniel fan." Sure, that's part of it, but the RDA's low-key grief and shock is fabulous and I don't need to defend my appreciation of it.
*nods*
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Date: 2007-02-23 07:18 pm (UTC)Ditto, r.e. "Fire and Water." I'm to the point where I even just handwave the bad parts. Fish suit, *handwave*. Plastic brain machine, *handwave*. I loved the parts in the beginning that you pointed out, and I liked Daniel trying to deal with the fish guy - being one part scared, one part frustrated, and, when he started getting the fish guy's full story, two parts geektastic anthropologist.
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Date: 2007-02-23 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 07:33 pm (UTC)I mean, it might "damage" him! He's been sleep-deprived! He thinks his friends think he's dead! I just pretend we got the fun kind of melodrama out of that, instead of the kind of ridiculous plastic chair and fish guy. Whatever! It was all really tense in the real episode. By which I mean the one in my head.
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Date: 2007-02-23 10:17 pm (UTC)Exactly! Hee.