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If you could bring back one cancelled show, which would you choose and why? (from megan_moonlight)

This is a tough one because there have been so many great short-lived and/or otherwise cancelled shows, but it's made a little less tough by the fact that a lot of shows end up lasting just long enough to really go off the rails.

Anyway, to pick just one I might actually go with Stargate Atlantis?  I recently rewatched it, and that definitely plays a part, but Atlantis and SG-1 are among the relatively few long-lived shows that I never thought of as having fallen apart on a larger scale.  There might be a dud episode here or there, but I always enjoyed watching how the universe developed and where the larger plot went next.  And the characters coming and going never bothered me in Stargate the way it does in some shows (not that the writing out of characters couldn't have sometimes been better.  I mean... Elizabeth Weir?  She was never my favorite but wow writers, have some respect), I just loved meeting new people and watching the old ones grow and change.

So anyway, I think Atlantis had a huge amount of potential left after the final season ended, and the characters were so great, and it would be wonderful to see where it would have gone next.
  

From verdande_mi: What was your favorite stargate plot or subplot? (can be SG-1 or SGA, can be one episode or a long-term storyline). Go top 5 if you prefer.

My favorite episodic plot was "The Changling" from SG-1 (the one where Teal'c keeps dreaming that he's a firefighter in a "real world" setting and can't tell which life is real; I love the premise and the performances everyone gives, and all the fanfic people ended up writing set in that universe).  On SGA my favorite was probably "Midway" but not really for any intelligent reasons, Teal'c and Ronan fighting the Wraith together was just really awesome.

I loved the multiple episode arc with the Unas.  I think I've talked about this before, but all of those episodes were amazing examples of why I love Daniel so much.  Also I think the Unas were really interesting as a species, and I loved what the show ultimately did with them.

I also want to mention how much I love Jacob Carter's story arc.  He was such a great character, and seeing a regular real-world human become part of the larger universe just hits all my buttons.  (It's probably my favorite SF trope, and probably another of the things I love so much about Daniel)

On SGA, I think the whole Todd the Wraith plotline was my favorite.  I love the compexities of his not-friendship with Sheppard, and the way the show juggled having a not-completely-evil Wraith with the general concept of the series.
   

Couple you like, but it overshadowed by another couple in the fandom:

Well, this would be slash ships more than couples, but: I always liked Carson Beckett/Rodney McKay.  A lot.  McKay/Sheppard never did anything for me.  I don't know why, I just never "saw" it.  So yeah, I liked Beckett/McKay, which let me tell you there is hardly any of in the Stargate Atlantis fandom, and didn't go for the main slash pairing at all.

Also I always wanted Sheppard to end up with Teyla.  The one time I thought I could count on Male Lead + Female Lead = Love going my way, no dice.

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