Okay, I admit it

[superbadgirl]

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.

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[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

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.