#it's just INTERESTING

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

fascinated by the dynamic between house and his...old friend

[seefaofthemist]

So I'm currently in Season 3 of Sg1 and I have been hit with another difference between Sg1 and Atlantis.

The SGC is a job. Atlantis is home.

Don't get me wrong, the sg1 team is pack bonded and absolutely feral about each other. They are family. They are friends. They are also coworkers. They commute to the sgc. They have houses and apartments and lives outside of the stargate program. (Well, some of them do.) They get paid, go on vacations, and get benefits. In the end, this is a job. A job you love, with people you would die for, at a place that could be a second home, but a job.

Atlantis is a home first and a job second. They live there. They fall asleep to the sound of waves lapping against the piers of Atlantis. They go for runs in the catwalks. There's a chess club, a mensa chapter, an outdoors club, they go fishing and play volleyball together. They go for dates in the cafeteria, have Atlantis movie nights, and meet up for breakfast. They're a tight knit community.

The SGC is also a military base and it shows, it's barren and impersonal, there are a few exceptions to this, like Daniel having a picture of Sha're on his desk, but for the most part there's little to no personalization. Even the lighting is often very sterile and military. Again, there's exceptions, like the often warm and yellow lighting used in Daniel's office, but the hallways are all extremely sterile. (There's something to be said for the way that Daniel is most often the one breaking up the uniform and military vibes of the base, but that's another post)

Atlantis, on the other hand, is heavily personalized. They hang posters on their walls, they have golf clubs, art supplies, and remote control cars. There's dirty clothes on the floor of their quarters, a mini fridge tucked into the corner, and books left open on their beds. There's something so familiar and comfortable about Atlantis. A sense of belonging that doesn't come across as much as in Sg1.

Honestly, I think it comes back to how militarized the SGC is and how civilian Atlantis is. The vibe is less found family military heroes and more Atlantis is a home to the lost and the broken.

[antianakin]

As much as Saw and Luthen are definitely different characters, they also fulfill a VERY similar role within the narratives and in the universe of Star Wars. They're both the grizzled old rebel who's given up so much of themselves to fight the Empire that, in some ways, they've become the Empire. They've had to twist themselves into someone they hate because they believe it's the only way to take out their enemy. They're technically on the same side as the rebellion and clearly have been affiliated with the rebellion in the past, but have ended up at odds with the main rebel alliance by the time of Rogue One. They've been at this for pretty much the entirety of the Empire's reign and neither of them live long enough to see the fruits of their labors but both play a vital part in the beginning of its end. They also both end up with a young girl they have to take in and care for at some point who they have a very complex toxic relationships with and who has to kill them/leave them to die.

I don't know, it's just interesting that they're SUCH similar narratives with such similar places within the context of the greater story.

[sbd-laytall]

Smallville | 8.02 | "Plastique"

[waxwing-ed]

why are dandy's world fans always the most annoying people alive (not directed at anyone here)

[butch-pilot]

Wonderful experience meeting a cool person and then seeing their Tumblr blog, realizing they're even cooler than first suspected

why thank you, it's always funny when people have talked to me a bit and see my blog after, because I think I come across very differently on here

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

introducing Pierce's father and making him this horrible racist person actually puts Pierce's character into a wildly different light. like, Pierce has always been a super racist character. if you're not white, he knows 10+ slurs for you and has used at least 4 of them in the last week. but Cornelius. Cornelius is racist to everyone. he's got slurs locked and loaded for Finnish people. Pierce grew up with this hyper-racist as a father and then he unlearnt 70% of it, which is. fascinating. and impressive, in a very pathetic way

[rayatii]

Pardon my lateness, but I was only today years old when I realized that Rosh HaShanah is directly related to the Arabic term for the New Year, "رأس السّنة" ("ra's al-sana", or "ras e'sene" in Lebanese dialect), which literally translates to "the head of the year" (yes, as in the literal head).

[half-milk-equation]

More fucked up evil men should act as aroace representation methinks

[theycallme-ook]

I need y'all to know for the record that I am NOT having a pjo phase. This madness extends to none of the rest of the franchise, it's just about Jason Grace and will end when I finally say everything I have to say about Jason Grace. I am possibly the first person in history this has happened to.

[sickofthis666]

I think it's telling that, being in a 100% male academic training (Engineer in on-board electronics systems), my brother took longer than his classmates to find an internship outside of the country because, contrary to them, he had "scruples" and refused to go for the easiest/most obvious option: working for a weapon manufacturer.

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

have one of those "THK lives" AUs and insert a character who is super upset with them because the bugs they cared about died to the infection THK was supposed to stop for good

[buryyourrevolutionaries]

not to be a "bobby's alive truther"...but isn't it a LITTLE suspicious that work song was playing during his death..."no grave can hold my body down"...when there's a (potentially real) script that has bobby buried alive...i'm just saying y'all

[offthewall1979]

was his plan to be cute forever

[thesweetnessofspring]

Was wondering yesterday if Peeta's parents roles were switched--so if Mr. Mellark were the one calling Peeta names and hitting him and Mrs. Mellark was nice and soft-spoken--how people's opinions of them would change.