Random Observation

[paraka]

Het ship names in SGA all seem to be really stupid. Really, if it's not something that rolls easily off the tongue and leaves a clear indication of who is involved in the pairing, you're really better off just writing out names.

This was prompted by seeing someone refer to Sheppard/Carter as Sharter. At least it's easier to pronounce than Shweir. Also, I've never understood where Sparky and Spanky comes from. At all.

At least McKay's name lends itself more easily to the mashing up of names.

Comments

[runonmoonlight.livejournal.com]

lol - the Sparky thing? Is actually kind of funny, apparently a few people started calling it that to make fun of stupid mash up names. And then uh, people actually started using it. And they thought it was funny, so no one stopped them. Except now people don't know the origins and just think it's some stupid name people actually thought sounded cool =P

Same with Spanky, it was in retaliation to Sparky. "If they have Sparky, we want something equally stupid!" Kind of thing.

Whereas I am anti name mashing up. I think it's stupid. Unless you're calling Jennifer Garner/Ben Affleck Bennifer Squared. Then it's funny (to me at least).

:D

[paraka]

Yeah, I knew Spanky was done because of Sparky, but the origins of Sparky just make it suck even more. That's such a stupid name (do you now think of the dog?).

I actually don't mind the mashing of names, so long as it's easy to say and you can tell who they're talking about. Like Sharter? Totally had me scratching my head. If you're in the fandom, and have no idea who the hell they're talking about? It's not a good name. Also, if you can't say it out loud? It also shouldn't be used.