Yes, I lost interest during S6, too. I even thought that was the last season and was ecstatic when I finally realised that we were getting a S7 and Daniel was back! In retrospect, I quite enjoy watching S6 on DVD, it has some good episodes and episodes that I didn't really like at the time I find quite entertaining these days, and I was never one of those fans who hated Jonas. All the same, when I watch a S6 episode, I never can help wondering what it would have turned out like if Daniel had been there instead of Jonas.
And S6's Abyss still rates as one of my top five episodes (the one where O'Neill is captured and tortured by Ba'al and Daniel in his Ascended state turns up to comfort and help him.) The script for that episode is just...sublime.
I could never get into Atlantis either. The one character I like is...erm...the Scottish one, whose name currently escapes me. And, no, not just because he's Scottish.
Oh, hang on, I've got it. I think. Beckett?
I'm kind of glad we never saw anything definitive with Jack and Sam. Mainly because I was always terrified TPTB would screw it up and then I'd have canon to contend with that would spoil my own little fantasy. So long as they never did anything that definitively meant they never got together, I was cool. That way, I can happily be assured that at some point in the future they live happily ever after together.
What did really, seriously tick me off was when, in S9, they made no attempt to explain where the heck Jack went to. We got plenty of spoilers and leaks, but nothing on screen that was canon. Which I thought was a really shabby way to treat the character after 8 seasons. As far as canon goes, one minute Jack was General in charge of the SGC and there was no reason to suspect he would leave and the next he's gone and replaced with Landry and we never got to hear what prompted that decision.
Never mind the fact that, for me, it's just so totally OOC for Jack to be behind a desk in Washington. I don't like to think of Jack being that unhappy.
I feel slightly better these days though - now that I've resolved in my own mind that the Washington post is just a ruse and that every morning Jack closes the door of his office and is beamed up to Thor's ship and spends the day off fighting enemies and having his own adventures in space.
The S9 characterisations of Mitchell and Vala were one of many, many reasons why I couldn't watch. In S10 - for the most part - not only do they not irk me, but I actually enjoy watching them, thanks to the changes they've made in them. I'm still slightly baffled as to how we got from Vala the leather-clad, worldly, self-centred, sex vixen to Vala the childlike, eager to please and needy for approval team member. But I figure something happened in S9 that I missed. I do wish though that they'd stop making her wear her hair in bunches like a pre-schooler. :rolleyes:
CotG - Children of the Gods. The Pilot. Basically, I'm due to start from the Pilot and work my way through all eight seasons to the end of S8 (Moebius - S8 finale). Fun time!
I have to rate those two eps among my favourites too. A lot of people don't like the comedy eps like Citizen Joe (the one with DC and the stones) or The Other Guys, but I've always enjoyed eps which let us see the team from outside eyes.
BTW, as a J/S shipper have you read
Sally Reeve\'s fanfic ? If not - you've missed a real treat. As Sally Malcom, she also wrote two of my favourite Fandemonium novels - A Matter of Honor/The Cost of Honor.
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