#but that's not daniel. he's not that person. he recognizes that's not what teal'c is either and he cares

[eddiestattoos]

Teal'c and Daniel are so important actually. Teal'c was directly responsible for the loss of Daniel's wife in pretty much both ways. And Daniel said he wanted to hate him. But he didn't. He saw right through it. He found a best friend, a confidant, someone he put his life on the line to save multiple times, knowing Teal'c would do the same. Someone he felt completely safe with. Someone he was able to forgive for literally killing his wife. And you just know Teal'c feels the same way. They're just really the epitome of the found family in that show. Everyone bonded but they had the most reason for animosity but you'd never know it, not once.

[autistic-crypt1d]

Season 2 SG-1 Live Blogging:

Off to a thrilling start with the team trying to stop a galactic assault on Earth by the Goa'uld!

S1

Updates:

- PFFFFT THE WAY JACK FEELS UP TEAL'C'S FACE

- Sam biting Jack's hand will never stop being hilarious

- Goa'uld busters... I hate that that's kinda funny

- Bra'tac!!! Fuck yeah!!

- ah yes leave the archeologist who barely knows how to use a gun alone to watch your back

- Daniel 😭 I hate watching him get hurt

- seriously? They didn't bother to keep the hole in the uniform? Does the sarcophagus heal clothes now too? Cuz it certainly didn't when Jack was taken by Baal as far as I remember

- let's go Daniel!!!

- the reunion of the team AHHHHH

- In The Line of Duty

- oh shit this episode

- Daniel's reaction to being used as a human shield is so funny "oh geez", the way he says it so softly too XD

- why do I recognize the nurse dude

- Daniel sitting on the bed with her :(

- Prisoners

- oh boy

- I wish we got to know more about The Taldor after this

- "if you once again try to harm me or my companions, my patience with you will expire" love that guy

- good on Daniel for questioning why Linea is there

- "the things I do for these people" for real dude, Hammond goes through the wringer for his 4 kids

- "and this just came to you?" "No this came to me while I was suffocating" PFFFFT

- Daniel's little fuckin point for the team to get food first is so funny, he's so goofy y'all

- I wonder why nothing ever came of her studying the root sample, even without the activators, surely she would've learned something useful

- the marks on Jack's neck :(

- Gamekeeper

- oh hell I hate this episode 😭

- why is there duct tape on the guns and John's knife?

- oh god Daniel's one AHHHHH

- I want to strangle the keeper so badly

- "Daniel! With me!" Ah yes, the archeologist as your backup instead of the 2 highly skilled soldiers XD

- Need

- ugh, skip

- Thor's Chariot

- ooooo this one!!!

- the way they don't just forget about the whole Jolinar thing and incorporate it into the show multiple times is so cool

- THOR!!!!! MY GUY!!!

- BRO SAM LITERALLY JUST REACHED FOR DANIEL'S HAND

- god the Asgard are so cool

- Message in a Bottle

- oh boy this one is INTENSE

- "you think it might be a booby trap?" "Booby?" PFFFFT

- those two have no personal space with eachother

- ah Daniel, sticking his foot in his mouth once again

- I know I've said it like a million times but I love Teal'c and Jack so much. One of them needs something and the other one is already doing it istg

- "undomesticated equines could not drag me away"

- seeing Jack on the verge of sobbing is heartbreaking omfg

- yeah Daniel you get that axe!!

- the Simmons side plot in this episode is so random

- Family

- I really hate when this guy comes back from the dead

- I've always wondered, why do some Jaffa have the metal marking like Teal'c while others have the black tattoo?

- this episode makes me so sad for Teal'c :(

- "but we are with father?" "Yes" "then to me, we are home" AHHHHHH

- Secrets

- oh boy this episode

- "General, Captain, General, waiter" Jack is so sassy I love him

- god Jacob really fuckin irks me sometimes ya know? That whole pushy dad who doesn't really get boundaries thing? Hate it

- Daniel making sure the decision is entirely Sha're's AHHHHH

- what the hell kind of father tells his daughter he's dying and his final wish is for her to completely change her life for him and when she says no, he storms off in a huff like a damn child

- the way Daniel is so excited when he says it's a boy, and then the second time realizing what that means AHHHH

- Jack's expression OUCHYYYY

- Bane

- ah hell this episode stresses me TF out y'all

- "we gotta get outta here" "No, really?" "No. Really."

- poor Teal'c :(

- despite the chaos that ensues in this episode, I feel like they really should've figured out some good protective armor or sent a robot back to investigate the society more. They were obviously advanced, there was probably so much stuff they could've learned from them

- "General, request permission to beat the crap out of this man"

- "I'm not gonna hit you Mayborne, I'm gonna shoot you"

- it really sucks that Teal'c first real experience on the surface is during this shit

- this kid rules but also like, don't talk to strangers dude

- god I love the goofy ass relationship between Teal'c and Daniel

- THE WET SHIRT SOUNDS XD

- The Tok'ra, Part 1

- see, Jacob being unfairly fuckin dickish to Sam once again

- I always find it so weird that she calls DID, Schizophrenia. Was that just the label they lumped it under at the time or something?

- why is it always Daniel walking in on some alien dude flirting with Sam XD

- The Tok'ra, Part 2

- SAM'S LITTLE SMILE AFTER TELLING JACOB ABOUT THE STARGATES BEING ON HUMAN COMPATIBLE PLANET

- Spirits

- another alien race I wish we got to know more about!!

- poor Jack :(

- pffft Jack's reaction

- "are you, you?" "Yeah, you?" "What? "Nevermind."

- Tonané is so awesome

- Touchstone

- "in my culture, it is well within my rights to dismember you" GOLD

- Jack in a backwards hat, AHH

- I'm sorry but Daniel being in a tactical situation wearing that damn floppy archeologist hat is so funny XD

- why is this making me a little emotional

- The Fifth Race

- oh boy

- I love the boxing scene so much XD

- this is honestly one of my favorite episodes

- pffft Teal'c casually restraining Jack

- "I can't leave him like this, and I won't" AHHHHHHHHH

- y'all I STILL get chills during this whole section

- "Chevron 8, is locked." AHHHHH!!!!

- little grey guys!!!

- god I love this scene

- now see, why do we never seen the Asgard use that hand thing again? Wtf is that?

- I LOVE THIS SCENE AHHHH!!!

- "you have already taken the first steps to becoming, the fifth race" AHHHHH

- A Matter of Time

- this is absolutely also one of my favorite episodes

- Major Davis!!! He is absolutely one of my favorite recurring side characters

- I love Janet for slapping tf outta that dude's gun XD

- where did the General get his blues from? He didn't go up the elevator with them on, at least not the jacket and hat

- "Captain, relativity gives me a headache" pffft

- the angst between Jack and Cromwell is so good

- the vortex is so cool ahhhhhhh

- I'm sad Daniel isn't in this episode :(

- yikes, that iris collapsing cgi was bot the best XD

- :(

- all I can imagine is how hard he must have slammed into the wall with the combination of the blast force and the gravity returning to normal, dropping him

- Daniel!!

- Holiday

- Serpent's Song

- I don't really feel like watching this one tbh

- god damn Teal'c is fast!!

- I always forget how much Simmons was in the show this early on instead of Walter. I wonder what prompted the switch

- Sokar is such a cool villain concept, the original Satan. Sucks he ended up being so lame after this

- serious, willing to kill Daniel is something else y'all

- it must be something else to be in the position Teal'c is right now. After spending your life serving what you thought for a long time was a god, turning on that god, and dedicating the rest of your life to defeating him and the others, now he is watching over that same man lying in a bed dying. He's entirely at the mercy if his captors, powerless, I can't imagine how that must feel for him to witness.

- SEE THAT PROJECTION THING IS SO COOL AND SPOOKY

- I can't imagine how good it must feel for Teal'c to get all this out

- the hot iris looks so damn cool

- One False Step

- oh this one!

- pfffft Sam slapping Daniel's shoulder

- PFFFT IT RUNNING AWAY

- I both love and dislike this episode

- Daniel interacting with these dudes is one of the funniest things in this show

- "I am not fond of this"

- Daniel just plopping down on the ground with them is so cute

- PFFFT THEM DRAWING ON HIM

- HIM PRETENDING TO BE A PLANE

- god this is such a good Daniel episode

- PFFFFT the way the dude just flops

- "this, this is nothing to worry about" *alien collapses* "of course I could be wrong"

- the way they're just tapping the collapsed ones 😭

- Sam tapping its arm to try and comfort it AHHHHH SO PRECIOUS

- I'm sad I had a bunch of stuff written after this and it didn't save for some reason :(

- Show and Tell

- this episode is so sad :(

- idk why Mother just stood in the room with the other 2 Reetou, or why the kid didn't tell anyone

- 1969

- idk, it's a good episode but I never really like rewatching it so I'm skipping for now

- Out of Hand

- oh dang it's this one

- they really did 2 time jump episodes back to back? I know this one is fake, but that feels like some bad timing. Surely they were all thinking, again? We just did this

- this is another flashback episode for the first like half so I'm gonna fast forward

- more than half!

- omg Daniel's first haircuttttt

- Teal'c's loyalty to SG-1 😭

- the flashbacks after he escapes are done much cooler

- ugh, Hathor

Season 3

(Link will be added once it's posted)

[starrybouquet]

it’s quiet uptown

So...I did not mean to start writing fanfic, and I never imagined I’d write enough to need multiple chapters. It just sort of...happened.

This fic started off as a what-if story for season 6's Redemption, based on one simple question: what if they hadn’t spotted Jack’s parachute in Redemption Pt. 2?

But as time went on, it grew into a love letter to Stargate fandom and the SJ fandom in particular. Hopefully, you'll catch the traditional references to canon throwaway lines, the traditional fanon, and references to many a tumblr thread. I'd love to know what you all recognize. :D

Read on AO3 (you’ll need to be signed in) or under the cut below.

chapter 1: there are moments that the words don't reach

“This is Observer One. Visual confirmation. The X-302 has entered the hyperspace window.”

Sam reached for her headset. “Colonel? Colonel? Do you read?” She was aware of everyone’s eyes on her, and hoped to God that her voice didn’t sound as shaky as she thought it did.

The neon green countdown blazed on, even as all other motion in the room seemed to come to a stop. The milliseconds flashed by. Sam bit her lip as the countdown halted at 00:00:00.00. 

“This is Observer One…there is no sign of a chute. There is, however, a light show going on up here.” In the silence of the observation room, the crackle of the speaker made the words sound callous, mechanical.

“It worked! Deep Space is estimating that the Gate detonated over 3 million miles from Earth,” Walter reported, excitement muted by the uncertainty of Colonel O’Neill’s fate. Sam barely registered the sentence. She closed her eyes, willing the chute to appear. Please, please, please…

“This is Observer Two. Still no sign of a chute. I repeat, no sign of a chute. Mission command, there’s nothing up here.”

The sound of the speaker pierced the tension like a needle popping a balloon. The uncertain, unspoken hope seemed to seep out of the room, leaving only sorrow in its wake.

Slowly, voices broke the silence. Tentative search and rescue plans were suggested, calls to the President and the Pentagon made. The scientists tried in vain to figure out if Colonel O’Neill could have been knocked off course if he’d been too close to the hyperspace window, but the satellites still showed nothing. The truth was there was an overwhelming possibility he simply hadn’t managed to get out of the X-302 in time. 

Sam lasted an hour. She managed to escape the room of exhausted, relieved, mournful lab coats with only a short nod to General Hammond, who looked at her with sympathy and told her to go get some rest. She barely held it together as she stopped by her locker to grab her keys, not bothering to change into civvies and trying not to see Daniel and Teal'c and the Colonel's lockers, sitting there as if nothing had changed. 

She thought she'd be able to let it out once she got home, but the same desperate emptiness continued. It was better than being on base with all eyes on her, but the desperation and terror followed her, as if she wasn't allowed to feel here either. The silence was oppressive, everything too immaculate, too quiet.

She knew where she wanted to go. She could almost feel a physical pull towards the place, the solid house with its yellow kitchen and backyard forest and comfortable, slightly haphazard sofas. Instinctively, she stiffened against the idea, knowing how it would look, not wanting to admit to herself why she wasn’t comfortable in her own home. But the tug persisted.

Finally, Sam gave in. He's dead, three million miles away. The Stargate is gone anyway. Nobody will care. Not bothering to collect her cell phone or pager from the counter, she drove to Jack's house on autopilot, hastily unlocked the door with the key marked J on her keyring, and stepped inside.

The aroma of the house hit her like a physical blow--pine and sandalwood and a hint of Jack's cologne--the kind he wore Earthside. Sam closed the front door and leaned against it, and the tears came. She slid down the door until she was curled against it as her body was wracked with sobs. 

She cried not for her team, but for her family, because that was what SG-1 had become over the past five-odd years. For Daniel, closer to her than her own brother, her partner-in-crime in all things academic and the most open-hearted, curious person she'd ever known. Technically Ascended, but as good as dead to his friends--he couldn't work through the night with her, couldn't secretly stuff his extra coffee supply in their packs, couldn't give an impromptu lecture on some obscure ancient mythology and its connection to the Goa'uld. 

For Teal'c, who without a Stargate could never return to Earth. Whose wife was dying. Dead? She'd never know, Sam realized. She'd never see him again either, her wise, thoughtful, loyal friend, who conveyed far more with a single word than most did with a hundred.

For Jack, the only man she'd ever really been in love with, who had been through so much, given so much, and continually believed he deserved so little. Who’d made her laugh, made her think, given her confidence. The intrepid leader of their little family, the heart and soul and deep down inside the most optimistic of all of them, even if he’d never admit it.

And Sam cried for herself, too. The one left behind.

The sobs quieted and then there were only tears streaming down her cheeks, ones she couldn't stop, and then her eyes ran out of tears and her cheeks dried a bit, until they felt sticky rather than wet. Sam sat like that for a while, staring sightlessly into the house, back still pressed rather uncomfortably against the door.

When it was too painful to sit curled up on the floor any longer, she stood stiffly, went to the kitchen, and got a glass of water.

Sam didn't remember moving there, but she ended up in Jack's bedroom. She'd only been in there a few times before--a few times when Jack was injured and Janet kicked him out of the infirmary, and SG-1 was taking turns caring for him, and one team night where Teal'c had gone to kel'no'reem a bit too early and her, Jack, and Daniel had gotten rather drunk and decided it would be much better to watch TV in Jack's bedroom, all three adults squished on the bed. Generally, for obvious reasons, she'd tried to avoid the room, but she found herself sliding between the covers, burying her face in the Jack-scented pillows, hiding from the sun and the day in general in a very un-Carter-like manner. She loved him, she missed him, and she'd never see him again. There hadn't been a parachute. Funny how all those things she never allowed herself to think about came to the surface, now when it didn't matter anymore. Everyone who mattered had known for years.

The tears came again, and she cried herself to sleep.

***

That was how Janet found her, having begged General Hammond to let her off a few hours early. He'd acquiesced fairly quickly, obviously concerned for Sam as well, though neither mentioned her by name. When Sam hadn't answered her phone or pager, Janet had driven to her house, then to Daniel's apartment (not yet cleaned out), and finally to Jack's house.

"Oh, Sam, honey," she murmured, sitting on the edge of the mattress. Motherly instincts taking over, Janet pulled the blankets over her sleeping friend, tucking her in like she used to tuck in Cassie.

Then, she headed down to the kitchen to cook dinner. Sam could use some comfort food when she woke up, and god knew she couldn’t cook it herself.

***

Thirty miles above Colorado Springs, unbeknownst to the SGC, four Jaffa manhandled an unconscious Jack O’Neill into a holding cell, then clunked away.

[bagheerita]

I kept my opinions in the tags because I didn't want them to be obnoxious if you disagreed. (I know sometimes, especially with stuff we're really salty about, people saying "well actually" can get annoying. It's like, okay fine but just let me be salty about it!!) But now, let me expand upon the idea of "I would have liked for jonas to have stayed".... *cracks knuckles* this got really long im sorry

I think for me, there's always a part of me that sees the show on two levels: the production level and the character level. On the character level, I understand Jonas' choice to return to his home and I believe that it is a choice that his character would make in the situation that he is presented with, so I say it's a "good" choice for him; "good" meaning well supported.

On the production level, I understand that the producers would jump at the chance to get Michael Shanks to come back, and that maybe they didn't feel confident enough yet to try to get audiences to care about a 5 person team, especially since (so I've heard) a lot of viewers didn't like Jonas at first. (I only watched the show on DVD after the fact so I can't really comment on that. I missed Daniel, but I never held his absence against Jonas. I think I was aware also, to an extent, of the behind the scenes reasons for Daniel/Michael's departure.)

I can respect Jonas' choice, but I can also despise the production for their choices.

There are so many ways they could have had Jonas stay and be a part of the SGC even with Daniel's return, so many situations they could have set up that could have kept him as part of the show!!! As much as I understand Jonas' choice in the situation he was presented with, the production wrote that situation and placed the character in it and drove him toward that choice, and I call them cowardly for doing so.

Jonas was a great character on multiple levels, not only being a kind and intelligent person, but his dynamics with the whole team and the alien perspective he could bring. (The Teal'c & Jonas vibe reminds me a bit of Ronon & Teyla on SGA. There's a whole "we may be from different worlds but sometimes you need someone else around who understands just how nuts these Earth people can be" vibe that I really love.)

(And even if you keep the part of the show where he went home, season 8 or 9 as RDA was leaving the show would have been an excellent time to bring Jonas back to stay. I think he could have had a really great dynamic with Cam, and it would have felt less like Cam was dragging SG1 kicking and screaming away from what they would rather be doing if he got a chance to vibe with Jonas first. [They could geek out about old mission reports together!!] Cam, Vala, and Jonas as SG1 with occasional appearances from Sam, Teal'c, and Daniel? Perfect. If you got all 6 of them in a room together the aliens aren't outnumbered by the Tau'ri anymore, can you picture the dynamics. *grabby hands*)

Since I'm rambling now, I wanted to go back to your original post and mention this part:

I think it's a lot of fun to show a character like Jonas, who learns quickly, and pair him with Daniel, who is highly intelligent, but spent longer learning his field.

I agree with this so much!! The Daniel & Jonas dynamic is phenomenal. I adore them together, which makes it all the more annoying that they had so few chances to interact. It kind of reminds me of the Sam & Daniel dynamic? Just smart people vibing: even though they have different areas of interest they can recognize each other's passions and support each other.

You refer to Jonas as being optimistic, which I totally agree with, but I'm not sure if I would say Daniel is as optimist? If he is it's a totally different flavor from Jonas... He's snarky and sarcastic yes, and there's a darkness in Daniel that Jonas doesn't have. I would say that Daniel firmly believes that every person should have the right to have the freedom to make their own choices in life, and that he thinks if presented with the choice between good and evil most people will choose good, so maybe he's an optimistic existentialist? I dunno, now I've wandered far from the topic and it's getting late and i must sleep

Hi. Don't mind me, I'm just gonna rant about Stargate SG1 for a bit. (Specifically about Jonas Quinn)

Jonas wasn't Daniel. And I love that about him. (I love Daniel too though. Don't get me wrong. I'm just not a fan of a character getting replaced by a different character that's basically just a recolor.) Jonas was naive and optimistic, Daniel was snarky and sarcastic. (Daniel was still optimistic, yes. I'm not denying that. But it definitely showed in different ways.) Jonas smiled almost all the time, and he was generally cheerful.

He was also smart as a whip. I think it's a lot of fun to show a character like Jonas, who learns quickly, and pair him with Daniel, who is highly intelligent, but spent longer learning his field. Their dynamic was wonderful. I love the scenes where those two get to interact.

Speaking of dynamics, Jonas was the second alien to be a main character, and it was wonderful. His dynamic with Teal'c was one of my absolute favorites. (I think they tried to recreate some of that with Vala in the last couple seasons. I still love her, and I think her character was interesting. I just think they tried to remake some of the Jonas-and-Teal'c-fun with her.) Teal’c really took Jonas under his wing. He took one look at the smiling naive man and just went "this is a child. he is a literal child. i must protect him." (Although, that may just be Teal'c with the entirety of SG1...)

And one last thing! I will stand by the opinion that Jonas had no reason to leave. He made a home on earth. SG1 became his family. It took a while to get there, it wasn't easy because of what it took for him to join the SGC in the first place. But he made a home. And what? Suddenly he's just going to leave that because he's deemed useful by his home planet again? Come on. Be real. They were just looking for a way to write him off. And it's disappointing.