Vid rec: OneofAradia

[fignewton]

Whew, it's been a long time since I did a vid rec post! I went back and browsed my older vid recs - sadly, many of the web pages have been moved or removed since then. Sigh.

OneofAradia made two of my absolute favorite vids: From Zero to Hero and Giant. I recced these back in 2007, but the website was down even as I recced them. I asked if anyone had alternate links, but got no takers.

Then I saw oneofaradia posting at stargate_summer last week. It wasn't unreasonable to assume that it was the same person. :) Sure enough, I clicked over to her LJ and wheee! I found the link to her new website!

Here's the SG-1 section. I will warmly repeat my recs for Zero to Hero, a fantastic Daniel vid that features both Shanks!Daniel and Spader!Daniel, and Giant, which is a marvelous tribute to the team, Janet, and Hammond in the face of adversity (aka the Goa'uld). I'll also add another rec: I am Woman, which celebrates the strong women featured on Stargate. This list is impressive: the vid includes not only regulars like Sam and Janet and semi-regulars like Catherine Langford, Cassie, and Lya, but also Gairwyn, Hailey, Markov, Elizabeth Weir, Shau'nac, Anise, Satterfield, Astor, Major Gant, Marcy Wells... and even Sha're, who rarely gets mentioned on those few vids that feature Stargate's women. (Interesting that Oma and Drey'auc are left out, hmmm.)

There are lots of other vids there, too -- team and Daniel and Jack, plus Jack and Daniel (for both goggle styles) and even some Sam/Daniel. Go and browse and enjoy!

Comments

[green_grrl]

I zipped over to snap up the Daniel and Women vids, but I got immediately sidetracked--I couldn't pass up a Ba'al vid to Mr. Grinch! Too funny. :D

[fignewton]

Yeah, I'm one of the bigger non-Ba'al fans, but I knew there would be others who would enjoy that one. :)

[green_grrl]

I feel so guilty, because Ba'al was so horrible to Jack. But ... Cliff Simon is awesome! *wibble*

And, okay, the I Am Woman vid? Made my cry it was so good. \o/

[fignewton]

Oh, I loved the menace of S5-6 Ba'al. I was... wary of the sudden computer expert that was S7-8 Ba'al, although I liked that he was pragmatic enough to follow Anubis when he was winning and break for the SGC when it seemed like the better choice. But the Fortune 500, six-pack-of-Ba'al who whined about the weather in S9-10? Ugh, ugh, ugh.

The I am Woman vid was just awesome, whee!

[green_grrl]

They did get a little kitschy with the Ba'als on Earth in that one scene. But he always was the smartest of the goa'uld. I asked Cliff Simon what he thought the relationship was between the Ba'al symbiote and his host, and he said that he thought the host was an ambitious man who wanted to be implanted, which is my personal canon, too, so I was psyched! I mean, this is the goa'uld who was encouraging his lotars to hope for implantation. I think there's a definite tag that could be written for the end Continuum, with Vala. Heh!

[fignewton]

he thought the host was an ambitious man who wanted to be implanted

Wow. And what did the host think about thousands of years later, I wonder?

I wrote a sort of tag. Not the actual scene, but explaining why Vala wanted to deal with the host. Although it makes you wonder - did the host want Ba'al pulled out, there in the end...?

[green_grrl]

That is the question! Honestly, humans have been known to be pretty damn brutal at times. Someone who was ambitious, and felt his symbiote allowed him to achieve the power he wanted? Might not be as relieved to be goa'uld-free and mortal again.

[fignewton]

ELG touched on this idea in one of her fics - a former goat herder who quite liked the idea of eternal youth and strength and beauty. It does make you wonder, though - would such a host be innocent? What would the Tok'ra have done if Ba'al's host had sat up and accused them of murder?

OTOH, Ba'al's unusual cunning and ability to reason more than most Goa'uld might be the result of an almost blending with his host, similar to the Tok'ra. I still can't stand Ba'al, but I would love to see a fic exploring this!