SGA: Critical Mass meta and

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lierdumoa's posted meta on Critical Mass, and since we brainshare, I was pretty much pointing at it and going, "YES, like that!"

The 'cause, y'know, the thing I love about SGA is that it has flawed characters and it has them unrepentantly. They are flawed in such a way that you are forced to go, "WTF, man, WTF." And there is NO redemption, there's no fixing, there's no castigating of the characters, there's no shame.

There is no higher force going, "Oh my god, that was a bad character trait! We must punish this character and make sure to show people what *good* character traits are!" And no, Rodney never really changes from Trinity (not in a major personality way, he becomes more cautious, true), Beckett never really changes from Poisoning The Well (he's still hopeful for gene therapy as WMD, and, y'know Conversion), and the effects of these irredemeable character traits will keep on causing waves and fuckups and I *love* that. Granted, the dialogue is sometimes cringe-worthy; but I love that characters are allowed to be fuckups and to be sometimes incompetent, I love that this show allows me to *hate* these characters sometimes because you're *supposed* to hate character flaws.

I love that SGA, not only a war show but a sci-fi show, allows character to be *average* in scary and frightening ways, imperfect. And in a way, this makes it darker than many texts I've come across; because it's not the brave Hero getting tortured and you know they're going to come out all shiny, but because Pegasus galaxy will FUCK these average people up. They will come out tarnished and stained and filthy.

w00t! ::adores::

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In other news, I...er. Insta-vidded?

I was planning on using this song for HP, but then this idea attacked me harder, and I was like yes, just like that, and 2 hours later I have a vidlet-thing. o.o It's just a little bit evil.
Arose, 3.6MB (temporarily offline)
Summary: Rodney has problems with things that ascend.

It's un-betaed, and it's short, and I'm strangely really really pleased with it. ::pets baby!vid:: Uses American Beauty soundtrack.

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I love that SGA, not only a war show but a sci-fi show, allows character to be *average* in scary and frightening ways, imperfect.

YES. As much as I loved Stargate SG-1, SGA works for me on this level in ways that show didn't. They can't be compared I guess, because while they come from the same universe, they FEEL different. And SGA feels right for me. It's not about extraordinary people doing extrordinary things. It's about average people (while they have their skills, and Rodney's giant brain, I find all of them so---like, outcasts, and geeky, and that guy I walk by in the store, bickering with himself about which video game he'll play first), doing extrordinary things by the seat of their pants. I love this show.

I can't download the vidlet just yet because my CPU is focused on uploading vids, but I'll check back tomorrow. :)

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I can spell. Truly, I can. *facepalm*

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They can't be compared I guess, because while they come from the same universe, they FEEL different.

::nods:: I think it was loligo that mentioned that the two shows are as different as they could possibly be while still in the same universe.


It's about average people (while they have their skills, and Rodney's giant brain, I find all of them so---like, outcasts, and geeky, and that guy I walk by in the store, bickering with himself about which video game he'll play first), doing extrordinary things by the seat of their pants. I love this show.

YES! ::highfives::