Fic: Team's Day Out (PG)

Title: Team's Day Out
Author: Fig Newton (sg_fignewton)
Rating: PG
Pairing: none
Word Count: ~2,400
Summary: Teal'c is wearing his BDUs. Jack's dressed in blue jeans and leather. Sam's got her jammies. And Daniel's wearing... not much. Good thing the Asgard don't care about clothing.
Warnings: none
Spoilers: Set within the framework of the final screenshot of Fair Game, with vague hints for later Asgard storylines.
Disclaimer: None of them are mine. They all belong to their respective copyright holders.
Author's Note: Written for the sg1teamficathon for katie_m, who wanted an off-world story with Thor in which he was preferably still alive.

Thanks to randomfreshink for the super fast beta and the extra tweaks.

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( Team's Day Out )

Redial the Gate: TBFTGOG

My love for this episode is largely incoherent, but can probably be summed up as follows:

Oh, Daniel.

I came across a discussion in another LJ not too long ago - it might have been merryish - in which she marveled at how panicky and disbelieving and incredulous Daniel et al were about the idea of alternate dimensions. By the time we hit S3, it's par for the course; by S9, alternate realties are met with a shrug and a yawn.

But Daniel in this episode doesn't stop flailing, and it's so much fun to watch. I think he used more gestures in this one episode than he did in the rest of S1 together, particularly in that first scene with Catherine, which is one of my favorite bits. My absolute favorite scene, of course, is when Daniel talks General!Jack into going to Teal'c, appealing through that connection that apparently is cross-dimensional. The friendship between Jack and Daniel was one of the first real draws to SG-1 for me, and I doubt that will ever change.

This episode leads into the four-part arc that takes us into S2, and it's all so good. I really love this ep to pieces.

I adore the way I can watch for the umpteenth time and discover new little bits and pieces. In this case, I noticed two things:

When Catherine and Daniel are first discussing the idea that the odd device he picked up might control the mirror, she asks him, "You got everything from the lab on P3R-233?" Daniel answers, "Yes - well, except the gun and the grenade." And later, when Sam goes to pick up the controller and gets ambushed by the Jaffa - there she is, with a grenade. Heh. That's where she got it from.

When they try to dial the first time, before Sam sets up the accelerated dialling program, "Chevron Two, encoded" is actually the point of origin. Oops.

And a few things I've always wondered:

"Oh, I really hate it when this happens." Huh? What? Are we supposed to believe that SG-1 makes a habit of walking through the Stargate without Daniel? Or is Daniel actually saying, "Oh, I really hate it when something screwy happens"?

How in the world are we supposed to explain the reversal between Jack's rank and Hammond's?

Why couldn't Daniel flee to the Beta Site with the other refugees and make his way to P3R-233 from there? In the end, it was a moot point, but why was it necessary to ask the SGA to make the sacrifice?

My default icon is from this ep. Oh, Daniel, we really do love you. :)