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in which aria is apparently in the midst of a very fast-moving sga renaissance
S2 feels to me like that's when SGA hit its stride, although that might be my brief fandom flirtation circa 2006 talking. Or alternately I just have a huge crush on Ronon. I also had plenty of respect for David Hewlett's acting the first time through, but after watching Jamie Ray Newman on Eastwick for a couple of months, Duet kind of blows me away. 80% of that episode consisted of me going, "Look, Rodney's doing another Kat mannerism!" Crazy.
Like unto due South (wherein I have an OTP but also an OT3), I have found, SGA gives me an OTP but also an OT4. (The only permutation that I can't figure out: Ronon/Rodney. And to a lesser extent Rodney/Teyla. But I have three more seasons to work out the logistics.) Basically I can't stop shipping Ronon/Teyla and John/everyone?
Relatedly, though, I'm enjoying SGA in much the same way that I enjoy due South, and I can't figure out quite why. Where in the Venn diagram of Stuff I Like From Shows do they overlap? With both genre and general tone I got nothing. I'd say maybe it's the fandom overlap but there has to be a reason for the fandom overlap in the first place. While I half-suspect that the answer is "Pretty boys to slash!" or even specifically "An intelligent snippy Canadian with spotty social skills and an American with funny hair and emotional issues and a gun, who frequently save each other, to slash!" which is ... pretty damn specific, actually, it still seems like an easy and shallow answer? Maybe it's just that they're both fun, in the way that you know you're not watching for the plot, you're watching for the character interactions, and unless you're compulsive about your TV like I am, you might as well just read a fandom primer and then all the fabulous fic instead of bothering with the show at all. Maybe that's it.
Or maybe we just enjoy watching characters we love almost die in wildly bizarre ways. :D?
Like unto due South (wherein I have an OTP but also an OT3), I have found, SGA gives me an OTP but also an OT4. (The only permutation that I can't figure out: Ronon/Rodney. And to a lesser extent Rodney/Teyla. But I have three more seasons to work out the logistics.) Basically I can't stop shipping Ronon/Teyla and John/everyone?
Relatedly, though, I'm enjoying SGA in much the same way that I enjoy due South, and I can't figure out quite why. Where in the Venn diagram of Stuff I Like From Shows do they overlap? With both genre and general tone I got nothing. I'd say maybe it's the fandom overlap but there has to be a reason for the fandom overlap in the first place. While I half-suspect that the answer is "Pretty boys to slash!" or even specifically "An intelligent snippy Canadian with spotty social skills and an American with funny hair and emotional issues and a gun, who frequently save each other, to slash!" which is ... pretty damn specific, actually, it still seems like an easy and shallow answer? Maybe it's just that they're both fun, in the way that you know you're not watching for the plot, you're watching for the character interactions, and unless you're compulsive about your TV like I am, you might as well just read a fandom primer and then all the fabulous fic instead of bothering with the show at all. Maybe that's it.
Or maybe we just enjoy watching characters we love almost die in wildly bizarre ways. :D?
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I always found it fun and light--it doesn't ever get very dark, although it does sometimes get painfully stupid-- and also very pretty. It's not just the people who are pretty, the city and the planets are pretty. I could live in Atlantis in a second! All those blues and oranges, the airy windows, the piers out onto the ocean... *sigh*
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Re: the painfully stupid, I am vastly enjoying my rewatching methods, because it allows me to skip things like "Teyla is part Wraith omgz" and "Ford is now a Wraith druggie omgz" and &c, and instead I know the plot arcs well enough that I can go straight from "Our problem is we have no ZPMs!" to "Our problem is that we're trying to harvest Gates for quick transportation between Pegasus and Earth!" without getting confused on the way. :D
Every time they have a wide shot of the city sitting in the ocean with the sky changing color behind? gslskmds my heart.