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"Turns out they’re just audio recordings of static. Hundreds of hours of it."

Leverage S05E03 The First Contact Job.

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STARGATE SG-1 S06E12 | Unnatural Selection

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I've been rewatching Stargate SG-1, and... my guys...

The audio is so clear. Even during a firefight, when characters are "whispering", I can hear what everyone is saying. The loud noises aren't overwhelming. I can turn off the subtitles

In dark scenes, things are well lit, and I can see what's going on

The action scenes are clear easy to follow

There are practical effects mixed with CGI

How is this SciFi channel show from the 90s more watchable than modern, big budget movies today?

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I’m currently rewatching Stargate SG-1 and this just hit like a fucking truck and I desperately need to talk about it.

There’s this moment, barely a few seconds long, in S2ep7 of Stargate SG-1, “Message in a Bottle,” that I didn’t even notice on my first watch through. The team is talking to a frightened alien that has infected O’neill and poses a world-ending threat. They’re trying to bargain with it, come to an understanding, and the alien is using O’neill’s emotions and memories to try to reckon with trusting them.

Now, a consistent theme with O’neill, especially in the early seasons, that his emotions are only expressed when it isn’t him speaking. Daniel explains O’neill’s past to Carter, the clone seeks out his ex and paves the path for apologizes, this infection. Only when an outside force pushes him to express something, does he ever.

And this alien that has infected him, expressing it’s will to survive, says “O’neill desires this as well. He wishes to live.”

It then turns, pointedly, to look at Daniel. Daniel, the only other member of the cast from the original movie. The only character who was there to see O’neill at his worst, who went with him on what O’neill knew was a suicide mission.

Daniel, who knew the O’neill who wanted to die.

Dnaiel, who convinced him to try finding a purpose in protecting people again.

The camera lingers on Daniel’s face for a moment, before the alien looks away again. The conversation continues. It’s been said, and said to the person who probably needed to hear it most.

O’neill wants to live.

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s03e21 Crystal Skull

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at least Daniel’s figured out suits.

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a while ago i compiled all stargate novels into one big spreadsheet including publication info and tried to put it into one coherent timeline

also on a completely unrelated note

this is definitely not a google drive folder with all stargate novels as ebooks and pdf

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whatever the fuck is going on w richard dean anderson rn im so into it. he looks like my highschool us history teacher. he looks like rock n roll grandpa. this man had to be fit and hot for 20+ years let him be old and normal!!!!

actors get old and suddenly every tabloid is like you’ll NEVER recognize this OLD FUCKING MAN and I’m like no actually that’s my friend Jack O’Neill from stargate sg1

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GUYS my girlfriend MADE this for me for christmas!! with her own two hands!! she even wired the chevrons to light up and i’m so impressed and happy and just wanted to share it with the world

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Listen Daniel’s involvement with the Stargate program makes total sense but also it’s so funny to think about him being part of a field team. Like “hi we’re SG-1, arguably the most famous warriors in the galaxy. Our team consists of a war vet, an Air Force captain, a high ranking rebel of the people we’re fighting, oh and also we gave this archaeologist a gun.”

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I love when the problem at hand doesn't require the skills of everyone on the team, so even though it's a dire situation they just have to entertain themselves. Like, in 5x1 Sam and Jacob are working to repair the spaceship:

And Jack and Daniel are just:

One of them brought that ball on a mission to space....

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This is so fucking funny. Late 90's early 00's syndicated scifi was great.

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Some people on tumblr said “asexual Daniel Jackson” and I said “holy shit how did I not think of that” and I rushed to AO3. And turned up almost nothing. 😔

Daniel Jackson’s interactions with Hot Babes (TM) are often written to fulfill a certain type of fantasy which involves the male nerd being Unaffected or perhaps Oblivious to the Hot Babes’ (TM) flirting/interest, which can easily read as him being unaffected by sex appeal. This adds, in my opinion, insta-appeal to his relationships with both Sha’re/Shauri and Vala. With Vala the idea that his exasperation with her flirtations is not just him being cranky and hard-to-get and having walls up but also (or instead) that that’s not what he wants in a romance, that he likes her but not the way she hits on him and doesn’t really communicate the difference, is very interesting to me and makes his continual rejection of her advances feel less like a reason they shouldn’t get together. And with Sha’re/Shauri idk it just adds texture. Just cuz.