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nandamai has reviewed a couple of season 8 episodes recently, and it's got me reminiscing. The first Stargate episode I watched was 'Full Alert', which was... a really weird one to start on. For a start, it's 95% gibberish without a working knowledge of Stargate history (NID? The Trust? Goa'uld? Al'kesh? Prometheus? Symbiote poison? Ancient outposts? Snakes? ...wtf?). It's not a typical episode, either - mostly set on Earth, lots of political shenanigans, everyone except Daniel spend most of the episode making phonecalls and looking at computers. Sam and Teal'c have so little to do that I didn't realise they were main characters. And there's a very abrupt ending... Still, somehow I found it intriguing. I liked Jack from the start - casually threatening Kinsey when he breaks into Jack's house and drinks Jack's scotch...
Kinsey: "Who are you calling?"
Jack: "Local sheriff’s a friend of mine."
Kinsey: "I may be disgraced, but I’m not wanted for any crimes."
Jack: "Breaking and entering?"
Kinsey: "Jack..."
Jack: "Shh. It’s ringing."
Then Kinsey disconnects the landline, Jack gives him a long, cool look, calmly gets out his cellphone, and I fell in like.
It was the show's underlying sense of humour that caught my interest (I don't like my sci-fi to be entirely serious). For instance, the scene when Teal'c and Carter are sent off on big, important assignments, and Daniel is left sitting at the briefing room table, with Jack ignoring him, and apparently nothing to do... "I have to pick up my dry cleaning." Hee.
I was prepared for a steep plot-learning curve - after all, I'd done the X-Files thing, and the Buffy thing. I didn't watch any more of the series that was on TV - I'd found out that it was quite far along in the show's run. But it stayed in my mind. A few weeks later, and my boyfriend (with whom I live) was away for a couple of weeks. I had nothing much to do in the evenings (social life? What social life?), so I did some research and decided that the 4th season seemed like a good place to start. I didn't want to start from the 1st season - they're usually a bit iffy - and there was this Sam/Jack shippy thing that intrigued me... I bought the DVDs, stayed up all night, serveral nights in a row, watching it, and by the end of the two weeks I was an addict, and had ordered the 3rd and 7th seasons. Watching it in order? For sissies.
That was exactly a year ago - January '06. Since then I've seen watched seasons 1-8 (I don't have cable and live in the UK), read about seasons 9 and 10, written a bunch of fanfics, and generally leapt feet-first into the Stargate fandom world.
I'm sure this'll have been asked before, but anyone else out there care to share their memories of the first Stargate they watched? Or the first one that got them hooked? What first attracted you to the show? If you're a shipper, how quickly did you latch on to your pairing of choice?
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Then I moved to a city that had it in syndication on Saturday afternoons and I'd flip past it occasionally. The first one I ever noticed was Maternal Instinct. I recognized that it must be that show my friends kept going on about, watched about twenty minutes, and wasn't impressed. Sometime later I came across the middle of A Hundred Days, and yeah, the S/J jumped right off the screen at me, so I made a bit of a mental note to watch the next one if I was around -- and it was Shades of Grey, which for a newbie was just confusing and sad.
It wasn't until I happened across Enemies, much later, of course, that I really became intrigued. What were these bugs? Why on earth was Carter's father in space? Wasn't Teal'c a good guy before? Had anything ever happened with the S/J ship? Hey! This is actually funny! Then I went online looking for info and downloads and S/J fic, and I was screwed. I actually had a terrible time finding fic I liked at first, which is the main reason I started writing. (I really, really didn't want to get involved in a new fandom. Whoops.)
In the middle of all this of course was the SDJ mess, which a Danielite friend was obsessed with, and I heard all about the petitions and the letters and the ship/slash wars and how Sam/Jack was ruining the show long before I was a regular viewer. I wish I hadn't known. It wasn't a good filter through which to enter a fandom.
And, heh, I remember seeing Jacob turn up for the first time, and being completely confused, too. That's the problem with watching the show ass-backwards, I guess.