I haven't actually blathered on my lj much this week. I think I unnerved myself by tagging all the posts I felt were blather (i.e. the random thoughts in my head about green tea ice cream, the doors at work, my ankle itching, kitchen cupboard picnics...), and that tag being so damn huge in the little cloud to the left. But, heck, I do blather, and it doesn't seem to have put y'all off me yet, so...
This weekend I is mostly going to be going to Hen Night pt. 2: Revenge Of The Southern Comfort & Cranberry. I need to bring a dish, and I'm trying to think what. I don't really do savouries so much, but I do a mean line in sweet pastries. I might do Eccles cakes, Welsh cakes, something like that - all carefully nut-free, 'cause I don't want the bride-to-be to stop being able to breathe. And, ohh, maybe some Cheesy Marmite Twists (puff pastry, rolled out thin, cut into two equal-size pieces, spread with Marmite, sprinkled with grated cheese, sandwiched together, cut into strips, twisted like twisty things, and baked). They're quite partyish.
I have made myself a Good Omens icon. That book was the reason I chose this username, after all, so I thought I should. It's a bit of a boring icon, but it was a ten-minute job: I may play around with Photoshop some more this evening, I'm quite in the mood for sticking silly captions on photos.
Oh, have now seen Firehouse, and would mostly like to say... WTF? Whoa there a second, back that firetruck up a little and show me what HAPPENED TO MICHAEL, DAMMIT! Also, I totally thought that woman's policeman husband would turn out to be the sniper – all the stuff about wanting her barefoot and pregnant had me convinced he was a psycho. Eesh.
I have been trying to choose a fic (well, it's about time!) for my ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gateverse_remix, but it's not easy. Too much good stuff to choose from. On the other hand, reading through lots of lovely fic isn't exactly a hardship. Oh, and abyssinia4077 tells me I'm allowed to write Jack's lost year (post Stargate film, pre-COTG), as a reward for finishing my remix. *g* I haven't done angst in yonks. Funny, that used to be what I usually wrote, but when I came to Stargate, I gravitated towards the fluffier end of the spectrum.
gateverse_remix, but it's not easy. Too much good stuff to choose from. On the other hand, reading through lots of lovely fic isn't exactly a hardship. Oh, and abyssinia4077 tells me I'm allowed to write Jack's lost year (post Stargate film, pre-COTG), as a reward for finishing my remix. *g* I haven't done angst in yonks. Funny, that used to be what I usually wrote, but when I came to Stargate, I gravitated towards the fluffier end of the spectrum.I may have an Indian takeaway this evening. There's a lovely place near me that does a most excellent vegetable korma.
Okay, I'm done.
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I'm going to have to go back and find which one of the documentaries on the DVDs talks about the putting-together of Stargate, 'cause now I'm curious. I don't remember exactly what they said.
Yeah -- and another problem is that the "origins of SG-1" story has been told and retold a number of times in a lot of different venues, on tv specials and in interviews and stuff. It becomes *really* hard to remember where you heard which piece...
I think - but I'm biased - that SG-1 wouldn't have been as interesting without RDA.
*nods* Of course, like you, I'm wary of concluding too much about this. As you point out, not *all* of the funny stuff was only RDA's contribution -- the writers did a lot of it! (But... well, how much did having him and his influence inspire them or make them feel like they *could* be that casual/funny? So hard to tell!)
I'm *almost positively* willing to conclude, though, that for me, I would not have become as fallen-in-love *fannish* about SG-1, if not for RDA. Which I didn't expect at all. (I had never seen him in anything before I started watching SG-1 during its S5.) I watch a lot of genre shows that I like very much, or sometimes love, and follow faithfully, without making the leap to reading fanfic or participating in the fandom. SG-1 is a big exception for me, and the lightning-strike that caused it was definitely RDA's Jack. I might have watched it, liked it a lot, and so on, but...
(Even then, I hesitate to claim this 100%, because just as I didn't expect RDA to hit me like that, I can't therefore predict who else might have. *shrug*)
For me, though (I went into this in more detail recently in
But you're right -- the writers deserve a lot of love for creating Jack, too. (I am still most fond of Brad Wright's input, I think.) And the directors! They can't be overlooked, because you also get the feeling (when you watch enough behind the scenes stuff) that while Rick can be serious about his craft, and he does make conscious, serious decisions, he also has a self-confessed problem focusing sometimes, and I think that's where a good director comes in.
One of the problems I suspect Firehouse had was a lack of director ability. It didn't feel like anyone was keeping Rick focused, or giving him any drive (or giving the rest of the cast any clue about what they should be doing, for that matter). Just the impression I got.