X-Files and HP and SGA/SG1

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fashes introduced me yesterday to the hottie known as Krycek through judicious (or is it injudicious? ;D) use of the marathon.

The man is SHINY! (sometimes literally) And just keeps loosing his Mulder!puppy. Granted I've only watched his eps. up to S3 but that shall be corrected sooner or later.

Also, amanuensis1 made a facinating observation (SPOILERS) about how if you are reading for romance/characterization JKR's writing will seem less effective, 'cause she's a plot-driven writer.

Then again, I'm wondering how much of the current pairing-wangst surrounding HP fandom right now is the wish/need for an Epic Romance, and instead JKR's delivered a (what sounds like) believable Teen-y Romance.

I don't know if it's just me, but the use of Epic in relation to a character seems to be popping up just more and more. I think the use of the word first consciously registered for me in this SGA post by merryish where she talks about the Epic-ness of the SG1 characters versus the near-mundaneness of the SGA characters. Where even if the SG1 people fucked up, they fucked up Epically.

In a funny way, I've noticed myself being drawn more and more towards characters that are less Epic, than are Mildly Strange People Thrown Into Epic Situations.

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okay, fine, more than just 'mildly' strange, granted.

Which is both funny and kinda perplexing 'cause I'm not quite sure when/where/how I made this shift, or even if there *was* a shift at all and instead it's only now that I'm consciously registering it. Maybe it's 'cause it's just more amusing watching normal-ish people flail around at impossible tasks?

::ponders:: Or maybe it's 'cause I associate Epic with Broodyness...which is not one of my character hot-buttons. Will have to chew more on this.

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[girl11.livejournal.com]

My knee-jerk reaction was to disagree on SG1 being just Epic-ness, but when I thought about it I couldn't find more than a few isolated incidents to support my side. ^^;; It's actually making a lot of sense to me now that I've pondered it a bit.

What I find interesting is how the writers seem to have become conscious of that difference between SG1 and SGA (and SGA's better ratings performance) and are trying to jokingly acknowledge the Epic-osity while bringing some normal-flailing-around into SG1 - and how those seem to be my favorite elements from this new season.

I was going to go into a whole SG1-specific thing about how my favorite bits from the past have also mostly incorporated flailing-ness, but it really served no point. ^^;;

[phreid.livejournal.com]

my favorite bits from the past have also mostly incorporated flailing-ness

ooh, please do go on!

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hee! man, squee is ALWAYS appreciated in this journal. I get energized just seeing your energy, so squee away!

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I agree with you about the epic-ness thing, especially with SGA vs. SG-1. I've been noticing it more and more in SGA--when they try and go for plots that are Big and Epic and Dramatic, those eps kind of... fall a little flat. For instance, the episodes that dealt with the Genii as a threat to their little colony of Atlantis felt a *lot* more effective to me than the episodes that dealt with the epic OMG THE WHOLE GALAXY IS DOOMED! Wraith plots, imho. Whereas in SG-1, well, they were dealing with 'OMG THE WORLD IS DOOMED!' plots on practically a weekly basis. It *worked* for that show; not so much for SGA, which I really *like* about the show. It's not about Epic people trying to save the world in Epic ways, it's about people stuck far from home trying to save their asses. And--okay, I could babble on and on about how much I love how mundane the characters of SGA are, but I'll stop there. :)

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=D if anything, I think that the mundanity of the characters also helps increase the scope of what they're dealing with, they're not Epic, but because it's sorta...oh! you know, could it be that we, as readers who've been trained by past myths, are used to seeing Epic Heroes succeed, and thus the mundane character's struggle is therefore more uncertain and all fraught with peril?

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

The man is SHINY! (sometimes literally) And just keeps loosing his Mulder!puppy. Granted I've only watched his eps. up to S3 but that shall be corrected sooner or later.

:giggles: Mmm, Krycek.

Linzee

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DOOM.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Heeee.

Careful of that doom, man -- XF only leads to pain. Sure it starts out shiny, but then there are alien babies.

Then again, it might be better for those who aren't shippers. *g*

Linzee

[meret.livejournal.com]

If you're looking for Krycek/Mulder slash I highly recommend In a Dark Time, parts 1-4 and the interlude. http://www.drizzle.com/~eliade/xf_index.html
It's my favorite M/K story in fact. :)

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SQUEE! ::bookmarks::

[stormfugue.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love Krycek/Mulder! X Files allows for all sorts of pairings, both het and slash, but K/M is one of my favourites, closely followed by Mulder/Skinner ^_^

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=D They'reloveissoviolent!