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From verdande_mi:

Do you want a TV revival of SGA/SG-1?

Well, I would certainly like a TV revival much more than a reboot movie (you know I try to stay positive, but it just sounds like a terrible idea).  The thing is that revivals don't have a very good track record, so I'm not completely sure.  I love the characters on both shows and I'd like to see them again, and also I'd be so happy to have a sci-fi show I could watch regularly again, but it's so hard to know what it would really be like.

I would maybe enjoy a new spin-off set later, as long as it returned to the tone of the first two shows (Universe didn't do anything for me before I got super tired of "gritty" storytelling, and now it really really doesn't appeal to me).
  

So, I've been rewatching Stargate SG-1 on a station that runs two episodes of it a week, right?  I was busy the day they did "Meridian" and the one after it, and it's probably best that I missed those because they tear me up, but anyway now I'm in S6, and I've just realized how much I've missed Jonas Quinn.

I love that guy.  I really do.  i mean, if it's him or Daniel it's no contest, but it's always made me sad that they didn't keep him around after Daniel came back.  Jonas is great.  
 

And I just saw "Upgrades" again.  It has a lot of funny moments, but to me it's always really going to be the episode with the bit where Sam is trapped on the other side of a forcefield and Jack won't leave her, which is later used as proof of their great love.

Here's the thing about that:

( If you ship Jack/Sam I wish you joy of it, and I'm not trying to bash your ship, but this plotline really gets my goat, so it might read that way )

  

Character you like with several others:

Oh, but there are lots.  My beloved Daniel, of course, and also Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Remus Lupin.  I can see those three with most of the major people they have interactions with in their various canons.  I have favorites (like Illyria/Wes or Lupin/Snape) but I like all kinds of ships for them, het and slash.  I also like Claire Bennet with lots of different people (mainly Gretchen or Sylar, but I also have an unfortunate weakness for all the sides of the Claire/Nathan/Peter triangle.  Blame the fandom, people).

Emma Swan, too, although I wouldn't quite call that shipping, I'm just undecided.  Graham, August, Neal, Hook (and of course Regina too)... I don't really have a preference.

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From verdande_mi, Stargate: SG-1

Favorite characters: I love all of SG-1 (any incarnation), but Daniel, Sam and Cam are particular favorites; also General Hammond, Doctor Frasier and Jacob Carter
OTP(s): No OTPs, really, I like Daniel/most people (Jack, Sha're, Cam, Sam, Teal'c, Vala, Jonas, Janet, Paul Davis, you get the idea); also, Sam/Martouf
Funniest character: Vala.  She's a great character and she always cracks me up.
Prettiest character: Maybe Doctor Lam (I totally fell head over heels for Lexa Doig the first time I saw Andromeda; she's just lovely, though she does lose something without the fabulous Andromeda hair); also Daniel is actually really pretty.  I remember watching that first episode where he got kidnapped by a Unas, and thinking, "How did I never notice how blue his eyes are before?  They might just be the bluest eyes I've ever seen."
Most badass character: Bra'tac.  Teal'c is awesome too, naturally, but Bra'tac is just so cool.  I love how he's always talking like he's on death's door, and yet he still kicks ass and lives to fight another day.
Most annoying character: Felger?  Maybe it's because I'm a female geek, and female geeks tend to be portrayed badly if they're portrayed at all in films and tv, but the ascended fanboy trope does nothing for me.  Galaxy Quest was the first and last time that was cool.  Felger's saving grace as a character is that SG-1 only respects him in his head, but even so he gets on my nerves.
My favorite thing that has happened so far: Jacob Carter's character arc had a sad end, but the whole idea was so cool.  I loved a lot of the ideas in the Tokra plotline, but Jacob and Selmac were my favorite parts of it.  Whenever they showed up, I was happy.
What I would most like to see happen next: Since the movies were a little disappointing to me, I'd say I'm happy with SG-1 as is; something I wish had happened was more of the Sam/Jolinar and Martouf plotline.  Her struggles with having memories that weren't hers and how those memories effected her relationship with Martouf were so interesting, and I don't feel they were explored as fully as they could have been.  In S3 she could use all this Goa'uld technology because of Jolinar, even though she was pretty much human, and though all that was mentioned occaisonally later, I would have loved more.  (I'm not counting the Martouf bits of "Ripple Effect" because that was more shutting the whole thing down than doing anything with it, and the fact that scenes with an Alt!Daniel who had gotten his wife back were cut in the name of that business annoys me to no end).
 

Favorite male character

Imma make this easy for you guys, okay?  It's Daniel Jackson.  (I love Rory Williams and Nathan Petrelli a lot too; you get a cookie if you know off the top of your head what all three have in common.)  For one thing, I love characters who change a lot over the run of the show- and I've never known a character to grow as much as Daniel did, and yet- despite becoming a tougher, darker character- still keep the inner core of decency and optimism that I loved about him in the first place; after everything that happened to him, he stayed the genius who thought with his heart more than his head.  He's the guy who once got kidnapped by a giant lizard monster and decided to try to learn its language so he could communicate with it.  He's the guy who was always willing to give the things he needed up for others, from his best chance to save his wife to his own life.  He's the guy who got kicked out of heaven because he wouldn't stop helping people.*  I love Daniel.

*I'm blanking on who said this first, but it wasn't me.

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An episode you've watched more than 5 times

This is phrased like there's only going to be one.  Why would there only be one?  I'm doing five, but there's definitely more than five- these are just episodes I won't get the chance to discuss anywhere else, and want to talk about.

( Cut, for lengthy squeeing )

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Since I caught up with the rest of the SF fanbase and watched Farscape.

I'd seen isolated of episodes of Farscape here and there but I could never get into it, because as you know if you've ever seen just an isolated episode of Farscape it seems like it's written in code by people with strange chemicals in their systems.  And 200 was always my favorite of the comedic Stargate episodes- I loved all of it, but the Farscape bit was one of my favorite parts because for a few seconds they perfectly duplicated how it felt for me to watch Farscape.

Now I've seen it, and I love that part of 200 all the more.  Because there's a logic to Farscape that makes all the craziness come clear, and that part of the episode is the same way.  Suddenly that slice of out-of-this-world bizarreness becomes- "Oh.  They're all just swearing."  I love it.

And Vala's little smile when Marty tells her he has no idea what she's ripping off there is classic.
 

The AO3 Major Character Death warning should have qualifiers?

I mean, I try to avoid stories where main characters die, and maybe I should stop because one of my favorite fics ever, The Night of the Setting Sun is a) a death-fic and the kind of the death-fic that makes all the others seem trite and overdone in the face of it's gorgeous simplicity and b) not sad so much as true, exactly everything the canon was telling you would happen if everything one day went very, very wrong.  Also, it probably would have benefited from not having to declare itself.

Okay, I was getting away from my original point there.  My comment is this: shouldn't some fandoms have a canon-typical character death tag the same way there is a canon typical violence tag where you can get away with leaving out the graphic depictions of violence warning because it's Cabin in the Woods or whatever and it's unlikely to be worse than what people already signed up for?

I mean, fics that at certain times in their respective series killed Rory Williams/Daniel Jackson/Nathan Petrelli would really just be business as usual, right?  And he'd keep coming back, wouldn't he?

Anyway, I happen to think a character who gets killed and then brought back again should get a free pass for a while, but if the canon has already gone there...