Redial the Gate and Bane, and Ark of Truth

[fignewton]

Do you know what I love most about Bane? It's the only Teal'c-heavy episode that isn't Jaffa-based. Love Teal'c bodily lifting the punk aside while he tells him how the tattoo was formed! And, of course, Maybourne being pointedly informed that he stinks. :)

holdouttrout will be recapping Bane later tonight over at redial_the_gate. Come and join us for the squee!

And speaking of squee...

I'm not the first one to mention this, but it's well worth repeating. Delighted as I am for the SG-1 fans in America who are excitedly looking forward to getting their copy of Ark of Truth today, please remember that SG-1 is an international fandom. Most other countries have to wait a month or more before Ark of Truth is available. So yes - squee and post reviews and create icons and music vids and fic, by all means.  But put it behind a cut, and post spoiler warnings.

I have selfish reasons to be particularly anxious about this, as I'm privileged to tag for sg1_debrief. That means that I look at a very wide spectrum of LJs in the fandom. The only thing I know about Ark of Truth is that it wraps up the Ori storyline. I've even refrained from watching the promos that came with the boxed set of all ten seasons. But I'm worried that someone is going to spoil me before I get the chance to enjoy it myself.

I hope SG-1 fandom will show its usual class in our corner of LJ and that everyone will remember to use LJ cuts and avoid using spoilerish-icons for their posts.

Comments

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

The odd thing is that in that SciFi SG1 special, the often boring one about the tapeworms and other weird stuff that supposedly related to Stargate, AT is the "host" of it, and when she appears at the beginning, she introduces herself as the actor who plays Sam Carter, who she says is The Leader of SG1 in season 10 (? I only rewatched bits of this, maybe she said 9 and 10).

I don't know if TPTB watched that and agreed with it, or what.

My own take is that they decided to bring Ben Browder on and to have his character replace Jack, regardless of logic or continuity in the series--Sam was supposed to be leading SG1 during season 8. We don't see much of it, but she was. Then season 9 comes along, they retool everything, and she is off in Area 51 for some time, so when she comes back it's not so surprising that Mitchell, who dragged SG1 back together, is the supposed leader, though I never thought he did too well at that, either, generally.

Just one more reason why seasons 9 and 10 did so little for me.

Melissa M.