Redial the Gate: Legacy

[fignewton]

redial_the_gate is up to Legacy, the episode which seems to have been written  for the express purpose of indulging in some Daniel whumping and full team hurt/comfort. lokei has written a nicely entertaining recap. Go and enjoy!

In the meantime, some random silly questions and one serious one:

Someone has got to explain the fascination that certain Daniel fans have with his toes. There is a website out there dedicated to his toes. I mean, I've always made it clear that I will never harsh anyone's squee (even if they inexplicably fangirl Maybourne), but - his toes?

On the other hand, blue bathrobes in S3, blue scrubs in S10... clearly the Boys at Bridge have our best interests in mind. :)

If they have now have multiple Goa'uld killers safely in storage at Area 51 - safe, that is, as long as no one stores the tablet together with the page turner devices - why do we never ever hear of them again?

Annoyed at the plot holes that dragged Daniel into a padded cell, even if it did give us bare Daniel toes? Wonder no longer! I have written my first ever parody meta, over at Redial. :)

And on a more serious level, I'm fascinated that the hallucinations that Sam and Daniel suffered both hinged on seeing a close friend as Goa'uld - Daniel watching a reply of sorts of Hathor implanting Jack, and Janet seeing Sam with glowing eyes and phlanged voice, as if she'd failed to rescue her from Jolinar's possession. Do you think that the buggers were actually digging into their victims' psyches for the visions they dreaded most, or was it a manifestation related to the bugger's basic function as Go'auld killers?

Comments

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I think the toes thing come fronm the rare appearance. I think we see them in Maternal Instinct, Fallen (but that is from a distance) maybe Lifeboat and possibly if you look hard enough at the end of the Shroud. Personally I think he has nicely shaped feet but I'm more of a hands and finger girl.

Legacy is my favorite eppisode for the vunerable look of Daniel in all white in that padded cell. It just calls to me.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Sam's toes are equally rare in appearance, yet you don't see people writing barefoot Sam fics in pajamas. At least, I don't think you do...

MS does vulnerable as well as crazy, yes. Twofer for the win!

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I think the ;ack of barefoot Sam fetish is because, lets face it, most fanfic writers are female and therefore more inclined to fantisize about male characters.=)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Okay, then, Jack's toes. Or Teal'c's. CJ has such a beautifully shaped skull - bet his feet are lovely, too.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Actually, I saw a barefoot Sam in pjs fic. I can't remember where. I don't think I finished reading it. Jack was involved, and I think I decided it really wasn't gen after all and headed for the hills.

I think the buggers just triggered a combination of free-form hallucination and anxiety; I think it wasn't so much that they dug into their victims' minds so much as that what Daniel and Janet fear most came to the surface. Much as I can be anxious about one thing and then have a nightmare about a totally different anxiety.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Hee! Maybe barefoot Sam hasn't bled into gen fic, the way barefoot Daniel has...

I initially thought like you: that it was free-form hallucinations, manifesting as their greatest terrors. Daniel saw Jack getting snaked again. Janet saw her best friend as a Goa'uld, either Jolinar or another snake.

But I'm still intrigued by the possibility that the hallucinations were Goa'uld-oriented because of the buggers' primary function. It's not as Janet couldn't have just as easily hallucinated Sam bleeding to death, for example.