Yeah, the Weir thing is a great shame, but I do like a whole load of other stuff so I can skip her - and she's not on the show as much as Sam is on SG-1 so I don't have as much of an issue as I do with Sam.
Your theory on the Sam-McKay interaction is right, in that Sam has great chemistry with him. But sadly I've pretty much given up on ever liking Sam again so I'd really rather she stayed well away from Rodney so that I can still enjoy him. Give me Rodney and Daniel any day - I'd love to see what would happen between those two.
I'm actually really surprised you don't see McShep. It blazes from the screen, for me, practically every time they're together. I see them as having this feisty, deep relationship that they keep so firmly under wraps that nobody would ever figure out there's anything there except the friends/professional relationship. And yeah, the McShep fic can be brilliant. I stopped watching SGA the first time I tried it, about eight eps into S1. Then I read some fic and I couldn't stay away from the fic writers' view of the characters - it really helped.
I agree with you completely on the friendship stuff, too. And I cannot understand why they can write all that in SGA but seem to be incapable of doing it in SG-1. They need some kind of overall quality check between the two shows.
BTW, when you said "I found Cameron incredibly irritating" I thought, 'yeah, me too', and then I saw you were talking about House and not Mitchell on SG-1. Mitchell was okay at the start of S9, but after a while it's like they've deliberately written him to be annoying. So while I'm really pleased we'll be getting Daniel and Teal'c back, there's also Sam and Mitchell who I'm not fond of. Then there's Vala, and I really have no idea how they're going to fit her into the show. There was an ep that was all about Vala towards the end of SG-1, and it bored the knickers off me (don't know if you've seen that one yet). I'm concerned that Vala's only interesting when she's with Daniel - something that seems to be the case for several characters - and that the writers will change her character this year so that she fits into the team more. I'll wait and see, as ever, but at the moment I'm more confident of enjoying S3 of SGA even though the way Rodney was written (and Beckett) during S2 often bothered me.
It's only telly, I guess, but I want it to be good telly.
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Your theory on the Sam-McKay interaction is right, in that Sam has great chemistry with him. But sadly I've pretty much given up on ever liking Sam again so I'd really rather she stayed well away from Rodney so that I can still enjoy him. Give me Rodney and Daniel any day - I'd love to see what would happen between those two.
I'm actually really surprised you don't see McShep. It blazes from the screen, for me, practically every time they're together. I see them as having this feisty, deep relationship that they keep so firmly under wraps that nobody would ever figure out there's anything there except the friends/professional relationship. And yeah, the McShep fic can be brilliant. I stopped watching SGA the first time I tried it, about eight eps into S1. Then I read some fic and I couldn't stay away from the fic writers' view of the characters - it really helped.
I agree with you completely on the friendship stuff, too. And I cannot understand why they can write all that in SGA but seem to be incapable of doing it in SG-1. They need some kind of overall quality check between the two shows.
BTW, when you said "I found Cameron incredibly irritating" I thought, 'yeah, me too', and then I saw you were talking about House and not Mitchell on SG-1. Mitchell was okay at the start of S9, but after a while it's like they've deliberately written him to be annoying. So while I'm really pleased we'll be getting Daniel and Teal'c back, there's also Sam and Mitchell who I'm not fond of. Then there's Vala, and I really have no idea how they're going to fit her into the show. There was an ep that was all about Vala towards the end of SG-1, and it bored the knickers off me (don't know if you've seen that one yet). I'm concerned that Vala's only interesting when she's with Daniel - something that seems to be the case for several characters - and that the writers will change her character this year so that she fits into the team more. I'll wait and see, as ever, but at the moment I'm more confident of enjoying S3 of SGA even though the way Rodney was written (and Beckett) during S2 often bothered me.
It's only telly, I guess, but I want it to be good telly.