Re: your other post, it's been a ton of fun talking fandom with you, too. I never do it as much as I should, considering how much I enjoy it.
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...(and I'll admit, that while I love fandom!John, I don't really care for canon!John). I wonder if some of those scenes though will be less dorky once you have the dramatic music to back it up, since right now he often just looked squinty instead of emotional.
That kind of makes me wonder if JF is the key to the John Sheppard mystery. I vacillate between loving, hating, and just not getting Sheppard at all and a lot of people seem to think it's as much JF as it is Sheppard. Without all the accoutrements of a finished episode, he seemed like, well...not the world's greatest actor. I also found it hilarious that while he's the one who seems to detest looping the most, his was the dialogue I constantly had trouble discerning.
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I just didn't trust the writers to be able to handle Carter, and certainly not the Carter/McKay dynamic.
I've never seen SG-1, save for the occasional episode DH was in, so I know next to nothing about Carter. I'm sure that translates into much lower expectations for her, but I can definitely see your concerns. It may just come down to the writer for any given episode, since they don't seem to have the most cohesive of visions when it comes to individual characters.
This has really gotten me thinking about Carter, though. On the one hand, I love that Rodney has finally come up against something unattainable for him and that it happens to be something as ridiculous as a woman. Grand unified theory, Nobel prize? Got it in the bag. Women generally and Carter specifically? So not in the bag. And while I love that idea, I'm starting to wonder if I like the idea of Carter more than Carter herself. Because honestly, I can't quite see what Rodney sees in her (perhaps because I don't know the character all that well). It could go either way, I suppose, but I'm crossing my fingers.
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That kind of makes me wonder if JF is the key to the John Sheppard mystery. I vacillate between loving, hating, and just not getting Sheppard at all and a lot of people seem to think it's as much JF as it is Sheppard. Without all the accoutrements of a finished episode, he seemed like, well...not the world's greatest actor. I also found it hilarious that while he's the one who seems to detest looping the most, his was the dialogue I constantly had trouble discerning.
I've never seen SG-1, save for the occasional episode DH was in, so I know next to nothing about Carter. I'm sure that translates into much lower expectations for her, but I can definitely see your concerns. It may just come down to the writer for any given episode, since they don't seem to have the most cohesive of visions when it comes to individual characters.
This has really gotten me thinking about Carter, though. On the one hand, I love that Rodney has finally come up against something unattainable for him and that it happens to be something as ridiculous as a woman. Grand unified theory, Nobel prize? Got it in the bag. Women generally and Carter specifically? So not in the bag. And while I love that idea, I'm starting to wonder if I like the idea of Carter more than Carter herself. Because honestly, I can't quite see what Rodney sees in her (perhaps because I don't know the character all that well). It could go either way, I suppose, but I'm crossing my fingers.