it's a ship. it goes through the gate.

[aria]

I am taking a break from being almost disgustingly productive in order to conduct a VERY IMPORTANT POLL. And if you've been paying any attention to me for the last ever, you'll know that by very important poll, I mean I love asking arbitrary questions!

Today's are born of my continuing reaction of being completely weirded out by the fact that finding Sheppard/McKay fanfic is easy: you just find someone who wrote Fraser/Kowalski way back when and click forward a little. I have convinced myself that there must be some deep mystical connection here, partly because I want fandom to be less shallow than "pretty boys! yay!" and partly because I'm fighting a losing battle against plotting a massive crossover instead of writing my Yuletide. In the spirit of that, by which I mean deep mystical connections, I want to see if there is a favorite character pattern! (For example: Fraser & Sheppard are kind of One True Characters for me. Maybe this means I have a thing for The Heroes? Maybe you like Fraser and McKay best! Snippy Canadians for the win? I don't know what I'm trying to prove here but, by god, I am going to skientifically prove it.) So!

For the purpose of this exercise, you do have to choose. Also, I'm not going to lie, I'm just kind of curious to take a headcount on how many people actually know wtf I'm talking about.

Poll #1879

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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CHOOSE

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Rodney McKay
12 (42.9%)

John Sheppard
16 (57.1%)

CHOOSE

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Benton Fraser
14 (48.3%)

Ray Kowalski
15 (51.7%)

Comments

[missfuneralsong]

YOU ARE ASKING ME TO CHOOSE BETWEEN FRASER AND RAY WHAT HOW CAN I DO THAT.

[aria]

I AM CRUEL THAT WAY.

I think -- uh, Fraser is my favourite by the very, very slimmest of margins; maybe it's because they're both incredibly complicated but I'm sort of comfortable with Ray, whereas Fraser makes me fight him? I'm not articulating this right.

BUT ANYWAY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE BECAUSE I NEED THIS FOR SPURIOUS STATISTICAL PURPOSES. (Unless you haven't seen SGA! I have no idea if you've seen SGA.)

[missfuneralsong]

ARGH OKAY I CHOSE RAY. Idk, it just kind of continually amazes me what a fantastic character he is? But Fraser is too. But. THAT WAS VERY CRUEL OF YOU. Anyway, Ray.

And I have seen SGA! One episode of SGA. That still qualifies me, yes? :D?

[aria]

:DDD *is cruel*

Okay, I'm curious: do you remember the title of/what happened in the episode you saw?

[missfuneralsong]

Um. Well, it was a while ago. I know it had Jewel Staite in it because I spent most of it going "EEE KAYLEE", and I think there was amnesia involved?

[aria]

Possibly sadly, right away I go, "Oh, it must have been 4x06, Tabula Rasa!" Of course it's easy to remember the amnesia episode's title when it shares one with the Buffy amnesia episode. :D

[missfuneralsong]

It also shares one with a Lost episode! No amnesia there, though. But that's ... not important.

I really need to pick me up some SGA DVDs, don't I. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR POSTS ABOUT IT. I AM INTRIGUED.

[aria]

Well, for the record, I think due South is a much better show, and on the theirloveissotrue end of things I think the Fraser/Kowalski love is a lot truer than the Sheppard/McKay love, BUT, that said, SGA is pretty fun (it really hits its stride mid-s2, but there are some good bits s1 also) and the fic is kind of mind-bogglingly amazing. So, y'know, give it a shot!