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

[equusentric.livejournal.com]

I don't generally like ship names at all. I like McShep because it sounds neat, and Porne because it's the most awesome ship name ever. Otherwise, I just use the abbreviations (like B/J, which I reckon is also a nice, porny ship name).

Sparky is, to me, totally off the mark anyway because I've never seen any sparks there. Sure, every once in a while Elizabeth showed a bit of a crush on John, but I never saw anything going the other way. They always seemed to be too familial for romance. But then I think the same thing about John and Teyla when others don't, so *shrugs*

[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