#lemme write an entire essay about why i love daniel

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Tbh I think that person in the replies is just cherry picking. I at no point in my watching of SG1 or any other Stargate media have woobified Daniel. He's a dude who does shit bad sometimes, (Absolute Power, S4, EP17 comes to mind as an example) that's what makes him interesting. Humans are fallible and he's no exception. S1 of SG1 is so flawed for so many reasons and Emancipation is the worst rated episode for many of those reasons.

I also think a lot of people try to equate 90's and 00's culture with ours now. Yeah, it wasn't too long ago, (I say as we're close to the 30th anniversary of SG1) but things (media, television, movies, culture) were different. The fact that Sam is treated as a PERSON and not just #woman is so refreshing to me.

No, I don't condone Daniel taking Sha're as a gift but they very obviously had a connection in the movie. Past that, I really don't see what he's done to make it seem like he thinks women are below him or that they don't deserve respect.

Finishing off that insane and rambly rant, all in all, Daniel is the most popular character in SG1. Be it hated or loved, he is at the forefront. A lot of men hate other men, be it fictional or otherwise, for the very specific reason of "women really like that dude." That's usually what I see it as, but I guess some people *ahem* have their reasons.

so apparently there are people who hate daniel? not a bunch because i’ve only seen two old posts about it and maybe i don’t get it since i’m not even halfway through the show but what did he even do

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whiskey deserved better : an essay. by me. So far, I’ve seen the movie twice, and I am not getting into all the things wrong with it but focus on whiskey and pedro in this thing;;

here we go! 1. We’ve seen a lot of his scenes in the trailer. A lot of us based our idea of Whiskey on that, and we felt pretty fucked over when we got presented with  - what exactly in the movie? An incredibly inconsistent and poorly drawn character. Lemme explain;

2. His motives. We don’t get to learn about them until the end; Whiskey is out to avenge the death of his wife and unborn child by the hands of druggies. No, wait. He’s out to boost Statesman Bourbon shares. Or - what? His motive literally changes from one moment to the next, and it’s not only inconsistent, but also all over the place. Considering we learn that he is running the NY HQ, we gotta assume he knows something about sales - enough to not argue that meth heads and some teens that smoke pot at festivals and in their dad’s garage would invest in Bourbon that costs 50 Bucks a bottle, thereby causing shares to rocket. Though this motive only lasts about 3 seconds, before he goes full on Oberyn Martell, holds a small speech about his late sister wife only to eventually get his ass handed to him.

3. Leading me to point 3; We don’t care. We cared more about John Kramer and his motives, because we got properly introduced to his character and backstory. They made us care. We could relate, and at least say; yeah, I get what he is on about.... With Whsikey, we get this guy that is supposed to be kinda funny, but that we don’t get to know well enough to actually care about to relate to. Therefore, we don’t really give too many shits about his whole agenda. Yeah, dead wife and kid, tragic, but we don’t care about you enough to care about that.  Also, genocide? Come on.

4. Whiskey and Ginger. This is mostly my POV on the entire thing, but her we go; From the incredibly old fashioned way he tried to hit on Clara at Glasto to Ginger’s comment on having had to go through with this whith Whiskey, who had no idea what he was doing, I got the impression that Whiskey was a lot less of a womanizer than he made himself/ was made out to be, possibly still being stuck in love with his high school sweetheart. ‘BUT HE PULLED THAT THING ON POOR GINGER’ - as he didn’t remember Maria (I named her that, sue me). BUT WHAT ABOUT HIM VOTING AGAINST HER? I kinda don’t believe the whole ‘he so sexist’ thing, as we can clearly see that there are other female agents on the table. Imho, he likes Ginger (watch him hit on her and listen to the things Pedro and Halle say in interviews), and the idea of her in the field gives him Nam flashbacks to his late wifes fate. He’s being a protective asshole. BUT THAT TIME HE YELLED AT HER ABOUT NOT FIXING HARRY RIGHT.  -. . . after she asked him why Harry shot him in the head. He ca hardly tell her it was because he has this poorly scripted hidden agenda. But idk, #4 here is prolly the most subjective one. Moving on.

5. His character only exists so they can cram in another fight and another death scene. Whiskey contributes nothing to the storyline in terms of things that would make his character as an individual stand out; It might as well have been any other agent, had they changed the stupid revenge backstory. Gin. Rum. Vodka. They might as well have been accompanied by Agent Jägermeister, might have accidentally - for real this time - dropped the antivirus as they got attacked, and the entire movie would have unravelled the same way. Agent Whiskey and his backstory literally only exist because someone went; not enough boss fights. It’s so lazily written, it’s not even a plot twist. Like, they put it in the bloody TRAILER!  Yay, another POC character that dies because ACTION!!!

6. Jack Daniels Burger. We get it. Haha. 

7. “This ain’t that kinda movie, bruv’ As if to prove my point 5, he literally rambles on about revenge for his sister wife instead of just killing Eggsy and Harry. It’s not like he could possibly let them live afterwards anyway, or am I wrong? He seems like a clever guy, so wtf is this??? And not only that - while Whiskey didn’t seem to have any actual issues with people - hence maybe his reluctance to kill Harry and Eggsy straight on? - he suddenly turns full asshole - AGAINST MERLIN, who he at no point had beef with whatsoever, stating that he’s gonna chop Harry in small enough pieces to fit in a bucket and still have enough room for ‘their Buddy Merlin’ That doesn’t sound like proper character development or anythign to me, just a sad attempt to get the viewer to dislike a character that they otherwise wouldn’t have cared about too much, because we simply weren’t given enough to care about to begin with. Hes literally just in this film so he can be wasted in a ‘cool’ fight and a ‘cool’ death. I know I sound like a broken record, but I’m hella angry?!

8. BONUS;; .PEDRO DESERVED BETTER.  Pedro has more scenes than Halle, Jeff and Channing together, yet his name wasn’t in any of the trailers or on the poster. And no, going ‘We put the well known names on the thing to draw in a crowd’ isn’t a fucking excuse, cause it wouldn’t have cost you shit to just slap another name onto there. He deserved it. Also, his ‘lack of popularity’ some might bring up as an argument is a shit argument as it didn’t stop the official fox twitter account to bank in on his GoT popularity by throwing out photoshop edits. Pedro is a lovely, incredibly gifted nugget, but his characters dialogue seemed so forced and scripted most of the time, even his acting couldn’t make up for it.  tl;dr they wasted a great actor and the possibility of a great character on behalf of lazy writing and a cool looking but completely redundant and unnecessary fight scene and im salty af.