why can't i let gooooo

[naushika]

Rewatching SG-1 has led me on a whirlwind of emotions. I thought maybe I'd see things about the show differently, now that so many years have passed. But it hasn't turned out that way, like, at all. I'm just re-experiencing all the same emotions that I felt when the show was on the air, but on a more compressed time schedule. lol.

I'm just barely into season 8 now and I just watched the episode with Jack's first day as general and Sam leading SG1 and feeling insecure and nobody's really confident in her leadership. And I'd be ok with that if I knew it led to her blossoming as the leader of SG1. But instead Cam will be coming by and they have to co-lead the team and sigh. And it's not even anything against Cam - I actually really like him - but it's like, on the show, nobody thinks Col Carter can lead SG1, and behind the scenes, nobody thinks Amanda Tapping can carry the show.

I don't know why I let it get to me so much, it's been ten years, it's done, it's over! But it's just stirred up in me today because I just watched that episode and then I went to amazon to buy the s9 and s10 dvds (BECAUSE I NEVER DID BECAUSE OF MY RAGE) and on Amazon it's all TOP BILLING BEN BROWDERRRRrrr and Amanda Tapping is literally not even on the cover.



I'm just not ok with this!

(Also the arrival of Elizabeth Weir made me want to rewatch Atlantis too but I know my rage levels for Atlantis are like 58204 times worse than SG1 so I'm just not gonna go there haha.)

i just have a lot of sam feelings ok



But I'm going to buy those seasons and really try I pROMISE. Maybe I'll learn to like Vala this time

Comments

[skieswideopen]

I love seasons 9 and 10, and I love Cam, and I completely agree with you. It's rage-inducing that Sam wasn't put fully in charge of SG-1, and that Amanda Tapping wasn't trusted with carrying the show. SOOO annoying.

[colls]

i just have a lot of sam feelings ok
THIS IS PERFECTLY FINE AND ACCEPTABLE AND EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE SAM FEELINGS NOW AND THEN


sorrynotsorry for the capslock.

Also, how did you re-watch so fast? It took me years. YEARS. haha.

I never saw those DVD covers, for my re-watch I bought the massive 10 season box set which had a plastic stargate on it - no character photos - so avoided that irritation.

[timetobegin]

stargateeeeeeeeeee

yes like vala lol. its not her fault the writers treat her terribly sometimes.

Sam was treated badly so much though wtf was the point of cam. i watched farscape first so that always endeared me to them but UGH THAT SAM gets the hate so rude.

[fromtheashess]

I don't really anything Cam except maybe resent him a little. He's just kind of there and takes what should be Sam's spot as leader and its just not ok. SG-1 should have been her's. I had no idea about the behind the scenes stuff but knowing that makes things make so much more sense now. Its still bullshit but its like the final pieces of a puzzle being put into place.

Vala I do actually like. Probably because she's not taking anyone's spot like Cam does. I just see him as this usurper and its bs that he's defacto leader when Sam has way more experience.

[mfirefly10]

I watched seasons 9 and 10 first so I think that really colored my opinion of things. Like, I love Cam and I love Cam and Sam as co-leaders. But that's probably because I didn't realize until I went back and watched the earlier seasons that there was ever the option of Sam being the leader on her own. Which I would've preferred, tbh, though I still would've wanted Cam on the team. Just as Sam's subordinate. Watching things backwards is also why 9 and 10 are my favorite seasons. I fell for the team dynamic with Cam and Vala so I just couldn't care as much about the show without them.

Aw, you don't like Vala? She's my favorite so I'm biased there :)


UGH, Atlantis. I appreciate that it gave me Elizabeth Weir but there is SO much about that show that makes me rage. Particularly the way they treated Elizabeth/TH.