See, now, "Far Afield" is the story I kept looking and looking for when I first started reading SG1. Because, you know, I wanted someone to 1) address the Great Looming Darkness 2) without letting it be an excuse for angst or bad plot machinations or what have you.
The Great Looming Darkness issue (what an apt description) is, I think, one of several things that deflect people away from SG-1 and over to the shinier SGA side of the street.
Hmmm. I think so. But that's only partly it; I know some people who would really, really love SG1 who nonetheless sort of rebound off the fandom. I mean, I can get them to read SG1 FF that I rec, but I can't get them to commit, even though I know they'd be all over the aspects of the fandom that I can't handle. It's just a very tough fandom to get into for some people, especially multi-fandom types.
But SGA, I think, will stop having such fannish overlap with SG1 fairly soon. Already it's being colonized by people from the fandoms with which it has much more in common. Because, really, unless they change a lot about SGA in the upcoming seasons, it isn't SG1, never will be; the "Stargate" in the title is kind of misleading, in that it seems to promise much more similarity between the two than there really is.
(Oh, I know, SGA characters were designed to be sort of like SG1, and there's the gate and the Ancients and the Alien Menace of Terrifying Badness and Might. But the mechanics of the show, at least as played out in fan fiction, and the underlying dynamics that are of the greatest interest to FF writers? Very different.)
And, wow. Talk about nattering. But it's an interesting question, SG1 v. SGA, and why it's so much easier to get into SGA than SG1, and I just kind of...um. Babbled a lot. Which is really not that unusual for me. Sorry!
*shuts up before entire brain leaks out of fingers and onto screen via keyboard*
*silently loves on you for writing brilliant, brilliant story*
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The Great Looming Darkness issue (what an apt description) is, I think, one of several things that deflect people away from SG-1 and over to the shinier SGA side of the street.
Hmmm. I think so. But that's only partly it; I know some people who would really, really love SG1 who nonetheless sort of rebound off the fandom. I mean, I can get them to read SG1 FF that I rec, but I can't get them to commit, even though I know they'd be all over the aspects of the fandom that I can't handle. It's just a very tough fandom to get into for some people, especially multi-fandom types.
But SGA, I think, will stop having such fannish overlap with SG1 fairly soon. Already it's being colonized by people from the fandoms with which it has much more in common. Because, really, unless they change a lot about SGA in the upcoming seasons, it isn't SG1, never will be; the "Stargate" in the title is kind of misleading, in that it seems to promise much more similarity between the two than there really is.
(Oh, I know, SGA characters were designed to be sort of like SG1, and there's the gate and the Ancients and the Alien Menace of Terrifying Badness and Might. But the mechanics of the show, at least as played out in fan fiction, and the underlying dynamics that are of the greatest interest to FF writers? Very different.)
And, wow. Talk about nattering. But it's an interesting question, SG1 v. SGA, and why it's so much easier to get into SGA than SG1, and I just kind of...um. Babbled a lot. Which is really not that unusual for me. Sorry!
*shuts up before entire brain leaks out of fingers and onto screen via keyboard*
*silently loves on you for writing brilliant, brilliant story*