*flail* SGA has taken over my life!

[eliyes]

I still remember when I was staunchly refusing to set foot anywhere near this "Stargate: Atlantis" thing, growling when it came up on my f-list and avoiding it for 2 years as it spread over the internet like the red tide.

But I fell, and fell hard. This is not news; you all know this.

And I mean, sure, I dream about the characters about once a week (I'm usually irritated that I can never retain the stories once I'm awake). And I have far more fanfic ideas than I could ever write.

However, I hadn't really realised just how much SGA has permeated my mind until just now, when I had this epiphany: Maniac Love, the webcomic I've been working on for a few years -- scripts, character designs, plotted story arcs, no strips actually done yet, of course -- the "lesbians in university/love" story, if you will -- would not only work really well as an SGA AU, it would be far more entertaining that way. O__O

...*FLAIL*

(The irony of my icon selection does not escape me.)

Nearly completely unrelated, I like John Crichton better than Cameron Mitchell, but I think I like Ben Browder best. X3

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[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I still remember when I was staunchly refusing to set foot anywhere near this "Stargate: Atlantis" thing, growling when it came up on my f-list and avoiding it for 2 years as it spread over the internet like the red tide.

But I fell, and fell hard.

I'm honestly curious how many of us can repeat this same story as how we got into the fandom. I avoided it for THREE YEARS (I even resisted when David Hewlett opened his site, which I find that resistance amazing now:) But, honestly, I think a whole bunch of us can repeat the same story of "how I resisted the lure of SGA and ultimately couldn't stay away."

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

That's kind of reassuring, actually.

I remember being bitter that a bunch of fan authors had switched focus, but then a combination of a RL friend trying to indoctrinate me into SG-1 Jack/Daniel and an online friend posting an awesome fusion ICBiNtJL!/SGA fic and my mother having raved at me when SGA first came on about McKay (or, as she put it, "that guy from that movie! I can't remember the name, but you know the one. The guy with the eyes! And it didn't make any sense? Anyway, he's Canadian!", meaning David Hewlett in Cypher, which I understood but still resisted because he's FREAKY in Cypher, and also I didn't like the movie overall) wore down my resistance.

And it's just such a good show. *shrugs*

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

"that guy from that movie! I can't remember the name, but you know the one. The guy with the eyes! And it didn't make any sense? Anyway, he's Canadian!"

Knowing David's role in that movie (oh, Vin, how I love it when you and David work together) that description SO sums up his character and that film. I know I should appreciate the movie more, but it never appealed to me. David's character, however, freaked me out. I could never get over the fake eye for the iris scan.

What's weird is, I had come across David prior. He was in Darklight (with Richard Burgi) and in Never Let Her Go (with Paul Michael Glaser), so he had been in things I knew about from other fandom connections, but I never knew it. And I have never been a watcher of SG1 (still am not), so when all my friends were going "oh, you HAVE to see SGA" I was going "uhh, no...I am not about to catch up on 10 years of canon just to watch a spin-off."

Then things, one after the other, just kept pinging me in an SGA-related way and in March of last year David did...something (the last in a long line of somethings) and I finally went "okay, fine, there's a marathon on...I'll TRY it." Yeah, you try it and then it's like crack. One taste will not do you. For the first two weeks of March, I mainlined Season 1, 2, and half of 3 in order to be up to date when the midseason break was over in the middle of March. I've been mainlining S2 and S3 (with the commentaries) again today just because. In the span of 7 months in SGA...I had vidded, done two fics, a WHOLE lot of commentaries, and took over running awesomehewletts. It's hard to explain to people outside the fandom, but once SGA grabs you....it's not letting you go.

And what I adore about SGA is that you don't have to know SG1 canon backwards and forwards. They're in another galaxy, they're making their own rules. The SG1 connections, they usually explain enough so you can get it and then it's like "Pegasus, John, Rodney, far far away from the Milky Way!" That's one of the reasons I could never connect with SG1, I think. They're Earth-based, they're...too safe in a way? At the end of the day, they can go to the grocery store and buy milk or go home and have a cookout.

SGA, umm...not happening. They live in a war zone, constantly under threat, and they're encountering things they have no clue about or have ever seen before, but they're making their way. Plus, they're human, so they screw-up ALOT. John woke up the Wraith. He screwed the Pegasus galaxy from the first time he walked into it. Carson messed with Wraith DNA, so all those bad things that Michael's done (and continues to do), that'd be on his head. Rodney blew up 5/6ths of a solar system, allowed the Replicators to rewrite their base code and obliterate planets, and not to mention the continual Wraith run-ins.

SGA appeals to me because these people are not the golden children of the SGC. They're the rejects of the SGC. They got shipped to another galaxy, with no hope of ever returning. John was not well-liked by the military establishment, Rodney was not well-liked by...pretty much anyone, yet together they've saved countless number of lives time and time again. They're not perfect (and sometimes you gotta wonder about their sanity), but they get the job done.

--That was WAY long...sorry!--

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I'd seen David in stuff, too, like Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (which my mom liked), My Secret Identity, and every now and then when I watched a little bit of Traders just to boggle at Patrick McKenna playing not-Harold Green.

my friends were going "oh, you HAVE to see SGA" I was going "uhh, no...I am not about to catch up on 10 years of canon just to watch a spin-off."

Yes! And in my case, add "but I hated that movie". (I really did. I still do. I've never made it to the end, I dislike it that much, and man, I actually really like Kurt Russell as angsty action dude most of the time.) The irony being that I'm actually rather fond of the original SG-1 team (and Jonas Quinn, but that might be because Corin Nemek is cute), but even so, I can't be arsed to watch much of the show. Like in "Doppleganger", when Sam gives like a one-sentence prècis on where the got their dream-machine? I have a vague memory of reading that episode summary. It doesn't bother me, though, because it's not like anyone there has any more knowledge of it than I do, besides Sam.

I've noticed a lot of fans are very much "rah rah cut them off entirely from Earth" but I'm easy either way, really.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

*cough hack CACKLE AHAHAHAHA*

ilu never change. <3

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Well, it's not like I can do a comparative study of, say, Star Trek's impact on my life. I mean, how does one quantify something that has always been there?