Because I really needed another shiny

[phoenix64]

After three years SGA has finally snagged me. Honestly, I'm mostly pleased about it, mainly because I've had a thing for Joe Flanigan since, oh, 1995, and it was killing me that he had a successful show and I just couldn't get into it*. I tried, I really did, I tried lots of times over the years, but I just couldn't make the connection. (And oh, if you only knew some of the shows I have connected with - yeesh. But my ability to emotionally bond with a phone commercial is a subject for another post.) I was never an SG-1 fan either. But I tried again recently with "Doppleganger" and it hasn't let go of me since.

Also, this show has some great fans. Some of you are on my Friends List. I really love how fan_eunice characterized the show recently: it is ensemble shiny fun where the misfits and losers are the heroes, and I'm continually surprised that they manage to avoid destroying the universe every day before breakfast. So even when I kind of wanted to yell at them for being sort of stupid in the most recent episode "Tabula Rasa", I felt more like patting them on the head. Especially to see if anything could make Joe's hair lie down.

Now, I need icons. *gulp*

*You know, when I first got on LJ a few months before SGA premiered, there were less than ten users or communities that listed "Joe Flanigan" as an interest, and he had one fansite that was just starting to get going. Hee hee.

Comments

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

SGA owns me, and almost entirely because I continue to be fascinated with John's hair. Oh, I know there's other stuff and I like it, a lot, but I can't stop staring at his hair.

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Massively adorkable, and always has been.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

it is ensemble shiny fun where the misfits and losers are the heroes, and I'm continually surprised that they manage to avoid destroying the universe every day before breakfast.

Are you sure she wasn't talking about Torchwood? *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

...And SGA claims another one! I love this, because my fannishness for the show was kind of eclipsed by my Doctor Who fannishness (understatement of the century), and now folks on my flist are getting into SGA for the first time and squeeing about it. It makes me love it again, yay!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I've watched SGA since the beginning, but I never connected with it strongly either. I enjoyed it while it was on, but never thought much about it any other time, that type of thing. I was vaguely aware that the fandom was growing probably beyond my ability to comprehend - including even non-SG1 fans! which was weird to me because the only reason I watched SGA was its connection to the Stargate universe, which I'd been a fan of since 1998 or so. I just sort of shrugged and chalked up my ambivalence to having my emotional cup full with other things. I can only obsess about one or two shows at a time, it seems.

So with SG1 out of the way, as I suspected, I'm warming up to SGA more. I do remember back to an episode called "Instinct" which was the first time I found an SGA episode more engaging and provocative than the SG1 episode that aired right before it. So I should have known there was potential!

Especially to see if anything could make Joe's hair lie down.

Hee. He never even gets helmet hair, does he?