Redial the Gate poll: Prodigy watch?

[fignewton]

Tomorrow, redial_the_gate will recap The Light, with fun and games for all your angsty needs! Next week, though, is Prodigy. And I must lower my eyes in shame and confess that I have never actually... y'know... watched the episode.

Never watched Prodigy. Never watched most of S6. Never watched the two Daniel-less eps in S10. (Anyone sending a trend, here?) And never watched Avenger 2.0, either.

But, well... I'm a mod. Am I obligated to watch Prodigy for next week's Redial?

Do I owe it to myself to finally see the entire series, from beginning to end?

Or should I give in to temptation to just run away, screaming? :)

So I turn to you, my dear flist, to help me make up my mind with a poll. What do you think?


[Poll #1375007]

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, YES about Daniel. PLUS, unlike Hailey, Daniel even gets the end result of actually being right and saving the day, which does arguably make his rebel-ness more justified.. (and, I do love Daniel dearly but I imagine sometimes he'd would get very, very trying to work with - someone commented on Shroud that Daniel's plans are often "everyone drop their well-thought out carefully-constructed plan and immediately follow my crazy idea that might work").

Of course, as is mentioned in a comment thread below, we often give (well-loved) main characters more slack than we give to minor one-shot characters.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

::grins:: In one of my Sam and Daniel friendship recs, I started the "why this must be read" by saying something like, "Because as much as I love Daniel, being his friend must be absolutely exhausting at times."

Daniel is arrogance personified, yes. I love him for it because he's got foibles and irritants, not because I think the arrogance is a virtue. It's a fault, whereas in Mary Sues the arrogance is considered virtuous and "cool."

To be fair, main characters have the chance to develop to be real. One-shot characters don't. And just like McKay is a lot more likeable (as far as I can tell from fanfic, discussion, etc.) on SGA than he was as a one-shot character in 48 Hours ("Teal'c is toast!"), maybe Hailey could've developed into someone likeable over time, too.