Stargate: SG-1

[healingmirth]

This trip down memory lane in honor of the sg_rarepairings 2008 ficathon entries being revealed today!

Fandom: Stargate;: SG-1
Dates: 2005-present
Ships: Sam/Jack, Sam/Cam
I just don't get: Jack/Daniel, Teal'c/anyone

I discovered SG-1 around season...6? Season A Long Time After it Premiered, at any rate. I caught up on the back catalog entirely through reruns on Sci-Fi and in syndication. I printed out a list of all the episodes, so I could mark off the ones I missed, since they were airing them mostly in order. There was a period of several months where a few episodes were routinely skipped. I've since forgotten, but I'm sure there was at least one in early season 1, one or more having to do with the Tok'ra (perhaps Jacob becoming a host? might have been Jolinar episodes), and several episodes including or adjacent to Nightwalkers. Looking back, am Very Confused as to why I didn't get the DVDs of these episodes from netflix.

I fell hook, line and sinker for the Sam/Jack plotlines in the show. I'm pretty sure Stargate was why I first discovered fanfiction.net. I read everything - fluff, angst, godawful schmoop. There was a nearly endless font of "after the events of [whatever episode]" scenarios to pull from, on top of any number of variations on "something goes wrong on a mission and Sam and/or Jack are stranded off-world." And cuddling for warmth in Antarctica. Ah good times.

Sam/Cam is much less... fraught. It's my warm-fuzzy ship, and home to some of my favorite stories to reread (like synecdochic's satellites 'verse. I also love her Christmas series but it's less fuzzy.) Sam and Jack are hindered by so many things - age, chain of command, power differentials, his constant frustration with scientists, not to mention the past wreckage of their personal lives. There aren't nearly so many barriers between Cam and Sam, even without the fanon of their having been friends before the SGC.

To this day, I can't watch an episode and see Jack/Daniel anywhere in it. I can force my brain to accept a scenario where, at the end of his career, Jack realizes that being wedded to the Stargate program was maybe not the best option for a happy retirement, and after taking a long look at what else has been in his life that long, thinks maybe puttering around Earth with Daniel might not be a bad last adventure. And at some point, Daniel would be nattering on about something, and would look up and see Jack staring at him, listening even, maybe, and would be, all, "Oh."

I have a hard time seeing Teal'c as a person. I feel like there ought to be some good Teal'c angst out there, where he has to put honor and the fight against the Goa'uld ahead of his personal happiness, not to mention some good stuff in the aftermath of Unending. I can imagine Teal'c having a family, but not a relationship


To be continued!