non-spoilery SciFi Fri comments

[lyssie]

full night: Eh.

SG: ...well, at least Ronny Cox didn't fuck anyone's wife this time around.
SGA: ...all right, who hired the Mary Suethor?
BG: ...tense, not awful... no Kara, no Lee.

sigh. This week did not endear me to any of them.

Comments

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Oh dear. That's...rather harsh. I see your point on the ep, though. Did you enjoy Rodney's banter at all?

Ahh, okay. *nod nod* He's just really good at playing an asshole. *L* The actor is really nice and isn't bad at all. *L*

Why do you say that he has lost his sanity?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Daniel has reached a point where nothing really bothers him anymore. And can you blame him? In eight years, he's lost his wife, seen the child she had ascend, discovered that he has untapped evil potential, died and ascended, descended, lost friends, and realized that while they missed him, his friends moved on.

Now he's back, and he's slowly unraveling. (Timey is much better at this sort of theory than I am)

Seriously. His reactions now are not the reactions of a man who is naive, innocent, and all-together sane anymore (he zatted Vala, for instance).

I get the impression he's also lonely (Affinity, Daniel is not stupid, and yet he doesn't think any of his friends will want to know that he's being dragged off to look at something) -- and possibly feels almost left out.

Now, part of this could just be Shanks. Dunno.

And whether there was anything between him and Janet (or could have been) doesn't matter. Simply watching him in Heroes part 2 is painful. Because he's so incredibly angry. And he never seems to let that anger go.

Honestly, I like Daniel. I like that he's human and broken and flawed, and hiding it from everyone because no one knows him anymore.

(actually, none of SG-1 should be quite sane anymore. Sigh. Stupid writers not doing emotional continuity)

Ah! Think Crichton, circa season three. Moya!John, who was lost without Aeryn and drove himself mad looking for the secret to wormholes (and drove everyone else mad, too).

At least, that's how I look at it. Daniel reached his breaking point, and has never quite recovered from it.

...did any of that make sense?

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I see what you mean now. Okay. I thought that you meant that he was acting insane due to poor writing. *L* You actually mean he's starting to reach his breaking point from all the shit that has come his way. Yes, yes, I am in much agreement with that.

I HATE how the chars aren't allowed any emotional release. Where is the friggin' Sydney? Come on now, every drama needs a Sydney. I don't like the shrink on Stargate; he was all, "Oh, Dr. Jackson is schizophrenic because he's hallucinating. It has nothing to do with what he experienced on that planet." But now we don't even get that.

Daniel being human and flawed is definitely good. I just think the man needs a bloody release and needs to heal. They all do.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*is reminded she's logged into this journal and can comment again*

See, I *like* Daniel. I didn't at the beginning, but that was becuase I only liked Jack, and I really didn't get that it's not just a show about Jack. It's a show about all of them, and as such, Daniel is an integral part of that.

I may not always agree with him.

But I love things. Like The Other Side, where HE was right. Or Prometheus Unbound, where he puts everything he's learned to good use. I *love* that he went all commando.

People growing is good. *kicks the SG writers* And they're really bad at letting that happen. Because it's not supposed to be an in-depth show. (I mean, let's face it, Sam and Jack would both have needed some sort of counseling after New Order. Sam for being tortured, Jack for being frozen and brain-screwed.)

And I loathe Dr. MacKenzie, the psych they've had sometimes. Sadly, I can't imagine them ever bringing one in. sigh.