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superbadgirl ([personal profile] superbadgirl) wrote2006-08-26 02:14 pm
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Okay, I admit it

I find it depressing when authors I like write SG-1 stories filled with Vala-love. I really do. Just as depressed as I got with the mass exodus of writers to frigging SGA from SG-1.

Yeah, I know, I'm totally inflexible on this issue. Shame on me. I just...she doesn't belong on the show (on a full time basis) and I don't like her in fanfiction (on a full time basis) and it bothers me that SG-1 is forever changed (to me) because of her. My brain already wouldn't go past mid season five, but it still feels like there's this pall hanging over the earlier seasons because I know what happens after them, even if I refuse to think about it openly.

I'm PMSing and just frustrated as hell at the moment. Will try to watch season two tomorrow and hope it pulls me out of the funk.

[identity profile] moonshayde.livejournal.com 2006-08-26 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:(

As a canon writer, I know for me, it's tough. If I want to write anything set in Season 10, she's going to be there. I can't speak for other people, but I try to stick to the show without gushing into overwhleming love for any character. It annoys me no matter who. And it's annoying for me because while I no longer hate the character, I still don't feel she belongs on the show. I think the only reason why I don't hate her anymore is that they don't make Daniel into this man I want to throttle everytime they are in the same scene together. But even though I'm enjoying Daniel this year (I was on and off about him last year and the year before), I'm getting fed up that the writers can't seem to keep them apart. You want Daniel and Vala scenes, fine. But not all the time. It's like Sam and Jack all over again. I don't mind scenes with Sam and Jack, but I swear most of Season 7 was just the two of them together. I can't stand when writers do that.

I'm more annoyed though with people posting about Vala love. I know that is so evil of me. I'm all about people having their own opinions. We like what we like and that's it. And I'm trying very hard to keep that mentality when I see people disagree with me. We all have our own opinions. But I want to flip out and scream when people are gushing over Vala and CB. I think CB is fine a ctress, but how the heck did we go from fans liking the team and everyone else to just Vala exclusively? It hurts me and it shouldn't.

And boo to the exodus too.

*sigh* I'm whining.

[identity profile] moonshayde.livejournal.com 2006-08-27 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm actually going to go and invalidate myself as a canon writer now ;)

Earlier this year I wrote a long long fic that took place in Season 9. I think it was my way of trying to keep on enjoying the show with a direction and characters I wasn't really sold on.

See, I do like Mitchell. I like his character. But he's inconsistent and it ticks me off. I never liked Vala so that's a different story.

Anyway, by writing a fic in Season 9 I felt like I could take control of the things I couldn't control. If I didn't like the direction things were heading, I could mess with it and make it "better." Maybe you can say that is the antithesis of canon. But I stuck to the canon of the show as much as I possibily could while trying to fix what I saw were inconsistencies and poor writing/plotting. I don't always succeed but it's all abut what I feel like afterward.

(And if I write Vala in Season 10, I can control how big of a role she has. Etc. Yes, it sounds silly, but I'm not 100% normal anyway. Heh.)

So I guess for me writing is theraputic in terms of my show obsession.

But I'm writing my own original stuff now, so the point is mostly moot, unless I write fanfic as a break.

[identity profile] betacandy.livejournal.com 2006-08-28 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I feel the same way. People have recced S9 stories to me which I'm sure are very good, but I totally can't get into them because they feature characters I just don't give a crap about. It's no one's fault, it's just annoying.