ferris wheels, college football, & things that go more than 200 mph

[aria]

Jfc I totally just watched the Stargate Atlantis pilot and it was a HUGE MISTAKE because I am full of due South levels of happyglow.

Really, though. John Sheppard is my boyfriend! I friendship him and Teyla so hard, and I leadership him and Weir more than I thought I would, and I am preemptively brokenhearted about both Weir and Ford, augh. (But then there is Ronon! Am I planning to skip like half of s1 in order to get to Ronon faster & have lots of TEAM? Why yes probably!) I am almost helpless to not watch the second episode right now because that's the one with the personal shield and John throwing Rodney off balconies and things! John's speshul speshul Ancient gene and the way the city wants to date him make me so happy. Wraith and their wacky organic hiveships make me so happy. (I want Wraith hiveships and Cylon basestars to hang out.) In conclusion I am screwed, not least because I was (am!) resolutely not taking any TV with me over Thanksgiving break.

I really am completely incoherent about this. When it is a more reasonable hour I'm sure my priorities will be saner and not include things like "Make a list of all the episodes that are not actually skippable." Even when it is a more reasonable hour, though, I'm pretty sure my priorities will still include "Write lots of Sheppard/Kowalski puddlejumper sex," but I think that's okay.

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[sasha_feather]

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!

[aria]

If I tell myself that a rewatch is in fact my sneaky way of preparing to move to Madison because it will assist me in speaking the local language, that makes it a more valid use of my time, right??

[fahye]

HAHAHA. I also leadership Sheppard & Weir ridiculously.

[sasha_feather]

YEEEEEEES. Of course, all my responses on this topic are enabling responses.

[aria]

:DDD

Question! Are there particular episodes that you think I should watch? I went through and made my own list, which covers all five seasons and comes to 29 episodes total and is compiled with complete ignorance re: s5. I am interested in good team interaction and am not much concerned with Wraith and am even less concerned with Replicators, if that helps.

[sasha_feather]

I can certainly make a list! Maybe I will do that tomorrow? It's almost easier for me to make an "avoid these episodes" list. I'll see what I can do.

[aria]

Either works! And no rush, because while I'll probably have some time for watching episodes, I'll be doing it fairly slowly.

[alwayswondered]

MUAHAHAHA. That is all.

(ILU John Sheppard. I…am U Rodney McKay. Srsly.)

[oliviacirce]

I do in fact believe that Sheppard/Kowalski puddlejumper sex is NEEDED IN THE UNIVERSE.

[aria]

I cannot actually articulate how important it is that John and Ray have sex. And that Rodney and Fraser have sex. And that all four of them have lots of it together. ALL THE TIME.

(Hi, I'm watching more s1 right now! I kind of love this stupid show.)

[aria]

I think it is only right and valid!

[aria]

aslsdak :DDD

I confess to being one of those people who adores Rodney without identifying with him even remotely. (I think I'm too busy being in a corner overidentifying with Fraser instead?)

[oliviacirce]

OMG RODNEY/FRASER.

I endorse everything about this comment.

[aria]

Hey, you do know that I wrote John/Ray and Rodney/Fraser ficlets over the summer, right?

And I feel kind of bad leaving Ronon and Teyla out, actually. There must be some people from the dS universe they could get together with! (Completely unjustifiable desire for Teyla/Frannie coming right up. XD)

[alwayswondered]

I'm the other way round. I am totally in love with Fraser and I have some inkling of what it might be like, to be like him, but I'm just not. To be fair, I identify with fanon!Rodney an order of magnitude more than canon!Rodney, but I encountered the SGA fanon long before I watched the show so that puts a different spin on everything for me. *g*

[oliviacirce]

I vaguely recall? I will have to go look again.

Ronon/Meg!

[aria]

sdkdf RONON/MEG WOULD BE SO EPIC. I APPROVE.

[alwayswondered]

OMG, Ronon/Thatcher.

ETA: OMG SIMULTANEOUS COMMENTING IS SIMULTANEOUS.

[aria]

HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THAT YOU BOTH WENT THERE.

[alwayswondered]

I LOVE THAT I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE.

It would totally work! SHE can't talk about her feelings. HE doesn't want to talk about anything ever. No one else in Atlantis gets it (except maybe Weir, because she and Meg sorta understand each other) but who cares?

:D

[aria]

Haha, yes. Meg and Elizabeth hang out sometimes and have coffee together and carefully don't talk about the burdens of leadership. And Weir is very happy for them, in a slightly less bemused way than everyone else.

...Turnbull's not allowed on Atlantis, right?

[alwayswondered]

Turnbull would fail the selection process so hard that Rodney would have nightmares in which Turnbull somehow slipped through the net, made it to Atlantis without anyone realising and, and, touched something.

[aria]

fdslkdkds <333333

By the way, I've figured out how both Fraser and Thatcher end up on Atlantis -- Thatcher requests it, obviously, and meanwhile instead of sending Fraser to Chicago, the RCMP exiles him to another damn galaxy -- but I don't know [a] if anyone else from dS would be on the expedition, and [b] why the hell Ray Kowalski's there. Or even what he does. You don't need a Chicago detective for this. Is it a world where he joined the military instead, and when he divorces Stella, instead of going undercover he joins the expedition? That almost makes sense! (By which I mean help, help, I want to plan a huge plotty crossover fic and want your input!)

[alwayswondered]

Eeee, Ray in the military! That would totally make sense, especially if instead of becoming an attorney Stella went into international diplomacy or something (because their careers were always sort of in the same field, although Stella was the high-flier and Ray was the guy on the frontline). And when they divorce and he's wondering what the hell to do with his life, Stella's old pal Dr Elizabeth Weir happens to mention that her really crazily far-away expedition is accepting applications for military transfers and of course Stella won't be coming now but she thought she'd pass on the message to Ray anyway, just in case…

Of course, if Ray's dad hated the thought of Ray becoming a cop, he liked the Army idea even BETTER. And OF COURSE, Sheppard knows a kindred spirit when he sees one. :D:D:D

[aria]

dssdfdkds I want to marry your brain, omg. That completely makes sense! And makes me want to ship Sheppard/Kowalski EVEN MORE. Meanwhile ... would Meg actually be on the expedition? I mean, she'd be affiliated with the Stargate program somehow, but if she couldn't have Weir's position I'm not sure what she'd do.

Also, okay, I'm just cheating now, but find me a beautifully elegant way for Fraser to get hooked up with Stargate. Unless "exiled to Pegasus instead of Chicago" is good enough.

[alwayswondered]

Haha, believe me, it's a bitch to live with. :P

Meg, I'm not sure about…unless, as it's sorta AU, instead of Simon breaking up with Weir he asks her to marry him and she transfers back to Cheyenne Mountain in some form of advisory capacity and visits on the Daedalus. There must be a way to involve all the awesome female characters in leadership roles at the same time! There must!

I suspect that if Fraser's superiors had had the option to exile him to Pegasus in canon dS, they totally would have. Especially if Thatcher were already there; if anyone can deal with him, she can, and if she can't, hell, they're in space! No one can hear her scream!

[oliviacirce]

I think it is the best idea I have had all day! :D

[oliviacirce]

CLEARLY WE ARE BOTH BRILLIANT! :DDDDD