More ranting.
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mice1900.
My Rant of Choice:
Forgive me father for I have sinned.
I'm a traitor to my original fandom.
My history with Stargate stretches far back. My Grandmother watched the movie the first time it came out on VHS and enjoyed it. When they started the show, she watched that too. When I was old enough to enjoy it (I think I was seve or eight), she had me sit down and watch it with her every time a new episode came up.
Skip ahead five years. Little Luce has been a Gater a long time and now discovers fanfiction. She begins in anime fandoms, goes to books, and (now) settles down with her fandom family in the Stargate fandom.
When I grew up with SG, it was sort of a compressed obsession. I knew everything about it, sure, but I didn't become active in the fandom. Hell, I didn't know the fandom was so big.
Then Atlantis showed up. It was like a punch in the gut, how my fangirlism made itself known. I jumped from one fandom to another in one day's time. Lost interest in my Anime and dumped all my old fic archives. Bookmarked about ten different SG sites and signed up for GateWorld's update service. I suddenly was able to put to use the locked up storage of canon facts I had built up. In other fandoms, I knew nothing, always playing catch up. It made me feel terribly inferior.
So I watched 'Rising'. I feel head over heels in love with my shiny new show. Stargate SG1 would always hold a special place in my heart, but SGA was... exciting with new things to learn. And I was learning in real-time. I was on par with the other fandomites. I wasn't having to check reference and info sites anymore. I felt happy and comfortable in my fandom.
So, if I was so dedicate to both fandoms, why has SGA risen (ignore the pun) above SG1? I have a few ideas.
As I stated above: Atlantis is shiny and new. This isn't like my old show. It has a new feeling to it. SG1 was infamous for it's casual feel. It hummed along, telling it's stories, giving us a few laughs. It wasn't ambitious, and that was okay. We weren't looking for too much. Just an endearing show with a sense of humor. But Atlantis, as anyone who's seen the later episodes knows, is ambitious. Heck, I'm still not confident things'll work out okay at the end of this season. Was there ever a time you thought Earth would actually get into deep shit on a end-of-season cliffhanger? Didn't think so.
Also, the Wraith. I actually take them seriously. The snakes in SG1? As McKay pointed out in Redemption, a little over-the-top. The Wraith as a much better enemy. Geniuinely creepy. The whole space vamp thing.
And the people! With RDA stepping away from SG1, the show sucks. RDA made the show, with his chemistry with others and his common-man angle. In SGA, we have tons of cool people. And more too. What recurring characters do you see in SG1? Walter and sometimes Siler and Hammond. In SGA, we have the main cast who are much deeper than the SG1 people and we have cool people who are just as loved (Carson, Zelenka, Peter, etc.).
The series has a real purpose, something I can't say about SG1. SGA is about the pursuit of intellegence and information to make the world a better place, sorry for the cliche. It has a sense of urgency. Also, it uses story arcs. Things are not dropped and never addressed again. We finally have story arcs in the SG universe! If you need proof, watch "Brotherhood", "Letters From Pegasus", "The Gift", and "The Siege". One big arc.
Plotlines inside episodes. So far, they're much better and have a lot of good twists. ANd they're different! (Spoilers for "The Brotherhood") In one episode, we have Sheppard's team off-world looking for a ZPM, Zelenka and Weir finding long-range sensors and a Wraith dart on it's way, Koyla decides the Genii should have the ZPM, McKay is forced to work with Koyla to find the ZPM, the rest of the team have to escape custody, and various ATA-enabled people have to fight off the rogue Wraith. Whoa.
SGA has such great potential. The city is as big as NYC and Joe Flanigan mentioned that it has a more cosmically important purpose. I don't know about you, but I'm intrigued. I want more to happen. Totally in love with the show and the new direction it's going in.
Then there's the fandom. While the people strictly loyal to SG1 are rather rude to the SGA loyal, we have a rather loving fandom. Even the arguements I've seen, the slash/ship flamewars have toned down, the two sides obviously respecting each other, whether they realize it or not. And in SGA, the pairings are more well done, I've discovered. The het still sucks (I'm not a fan of ship. I'm anti-S/J for instance.) but the slash is decidely better. Granted, there's still badfic everywhere, but they's also good!fic.
And of course, my OTP is SGA. Scotch and Canada Dry!
Okay, I'm done.
mice1900.My Rant of Choice:
Forgive me father for I have sinned.
I'm a traitor to my original fandom.
My history with Stargate stretches far back. My Grandmother watched the movie the first time it came out on VHS and enjoyed it. When they started the show, she watched that too. When I was old enough to enjoy it (I think I was seve or eight), she had me sit down and watch it with her every time a new episode came up.
Skip ahead five years. Little Luce has been a Gater a long time and now discovers fanfiction. She begins in anime fandoms, goes to books, and (now) settles down with her fandom family in the Stargate fandom.
When I grew up with SG, it was sort of a compressed obsession. I knew everything about it, sure, but I didn't become active in the fandom. Hell, I didn't know the fandom was so big.
Then Atlantis showed up. It was like a punch in the gut, how my fangirlism made itself known. I jumped from one fandom to another in one day's time. Lost interest in my Anime and dumped all my old fic archives. Bookmarked about ten different SG sites and signed up for GateWorld's update service. I suddenly was able to put to use the locked up storage of canon facts I had built up. In other fandoms, I knew nothing, always playing catch up. It made me feel terribly inferior.
So I watched 'Rising'. I feel head over heels in love with my shiny new show. Stargate SG1 would always hold a special place in my heart, but SGA was... exciting with new things to learn. And I was learning in real-time. I was on par with the other fandomites. I wasn't having to check reference and info sites anymore. I felt happy and comfortable in my fandom.
So, if I was so dedicate to both fandoms, why has SGA risen (ignore the pun) above SG1? I have a few ideas.
As I stated above: Atlantis is shiny and new. This isn't like my old show. It has a new feeling to it. SG1 was infamous for it's casual feel. It hummed along, telling it's stories, giving us a few laughs. It wasn't ambitious, and that was okay. We weren't looking for too much. Just an endearing show with a sense of humor. But Atlantis, as anyone who's seen the later episodes knows, is ambitious. Heck, I'm still not confident things'll work out okay at the end of this season. Was there ever a time you thought Earth would actually get into deep shit on a end-of-season cliffhanger? Didn't think so.
Also, the Wraith. I actually take them seriously. The snakes in SG1? As McKay pointed out in Redemption, a little over-the-top. The Wraith as a much better enemy. Geniuinely creepy. The whole space vamp thing.
And the people! With RDA stepping away from SG1, the show sucks. RDA made the show, with his chemistry with others and his common-man angle. In SGA, we have tons of cool people. And more too. What recurring characters do you see in SG1? Walter and sometimes Siler and Hammond. In SGA, we have the main cast who are much deeper than the SG1 people and we have cool people who are just as loved (Carson, Zelenka, Peter, etc.).
The series has a real purpose, something I can't say about SG1. SGA is about the pursuit of intellegence and information to make the world a better place, sorry for the cliche. It has a sense of urgency. Also, it uses story arcs. Things are not dropped and never addressed again. We finally have story arcs in the SG universe! If you need proof, watch "Brotherhood", "Letters From Pegasus", "The Gift", and "The Siege". One big arc.
Plotlines inside episodes. So far, they're much better and have a lot of good twists. ANd they're different! (Spoilers for "The Brotherhood") In one episode, we have Sheppard's team off-world looking for a ZPM, Zelenka and Weir finding long-range sensors and a Wraith dart on it's way, Koyla decides the Genii should have the ZPM, McKay is forced to work with Koyla to find the ZPM, the rest of the team have to escape custody, and various ATA-enabled people have to fight off the rogue Wraith. Whoa.
SGA has such great potential. The city is as big as NYC and Joe Flanigan mentioned that it has a more cosmically important purpose. I don't know about you, but I'm intrigued. I want more to happen. Totally in love with the show and the new direction it's going in.
Then there's the fandom. While the people strictly loyal to SG1 are rather rude to the SGA loyal, we have a rather loving fandom. Even the arguements I've seen, the slash/ship flamewars have toned down, the two sides obviously respecting each other, whether they realize it or not. And in SGA, the pairings are more well done, I've discovered. The het still sucks (I'm not a fan of ship. I'm anti-S/J for instance.) but the slash is decidely better. Granted, there's still badfic everywhere, but they's also good!fic.
And of course, my OTP is SGA. Scotch and Canada Dry!
Okay, I'm done.
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Date: 2005-01-30 04:22 pm (UTC)BTW, I have the first "real" chapter done on my LJ. Once I get a little farther and start mentioning SGA, perhaps you could link it to your friends?
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Date: 2005-01-30 04:49 pm (UTC)*smirk* Perhaps. Impress me and they'll hear it.