#SG1: moebius

[ekaterin1701]

All heartbreaking in different ways, except Moebius where I feel that things worked out well for AU Jack & Sam.

Sam/Jack + alternate timelines/realities

[agent-troi]

lol alternate jack named his boat homer

also i reallllly wanna know what they did to fuck with the timeline bc daniel and sam are even bigger nerds than they already were lmao

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

I made a half joke over a week ago that it would be really funny if Daniel ever got possessed by a Goa'uld. You'll never guess what episode I just watched

[ekaterin1701]

Threads vs Moebius. I’ve only just realised that they’re wearing the same colour tops 😀 ❤️

[ekaterin1701]

How long had they known each other at this point? A few days, maybe? Then we get that kiss 🥰

Stargate SG-1: Moebius, Part 2

[dr-futbol-blog]

Would the real Dr McKay please stand up?

While this is a record of John Sheppard's bisexuality, let us start from the beginning.

Rodney McKay was introduced in the main series, Stargate SG-1. In it, he is presented as a sexist and abrasive character who is later revealed to harbour a hurt little boy within. He claims to have a predilection for "dumb blondes", which is to say, beautiful and brilliant women way out of his league.

He aggressively, blatantly hits on Samantha Carter. In fact, his behaviour is so over-the-top that one has to wonder whether it is (consciously or subconsciously) designed for failure. Hitting on women you know will turn you down, in a way that will inevitably lead to them turning you down, both protects one's ego and keeps one from winding up in an actual relationship with an actual human being.

That is, for reasons of inadequacy, poor self-esteem, repressed homosexuality, pick your poison, he a) approaches only women he knows he can't get, b) approaches them in a sleazy over-the-top way that will inevitably lead to him being turned down and c) he does all of this extremely publicly, not hiding and in fact encouraging his reputation was a womanizer. A+, very heterosexual.

Only, this is lampshaded in the two-part 8th season finale of SG-1, Moebius.

In the episode we are once more presented with an alternate reality. This is a divergence from our reality whose main difference is that the stargate was never found at Giza. In the episode, we follow Samantha Carter and Daniel Jackson who are essentially themselves but whose lives took different courses. That is, their characters were not changed, only their circumstances. And it follows that the same is true for all the other characters.

In this reality, Dr. Rodney McKay is the lead scientist at Cheyenne Mountain. The fact that he is similar to the Rodney in our reality is lampshaded later in the second part of the episode where McKay tells Gen. Hammond: "It's a ship that goes through the gate -- it's a Gateship!"

This parallels his words in Rising (S01E01), where he says the same thing to Dr. Weir, defending his naming of the shuttle as Gateship: "It's a ship; it goes through the Gate, I, I… Fine -- Puddle Jumper, you are clear for launch."

We are meant to understand that this is the same Rodney, only that circumstances have altered the course of his life.

Why is this important?

His introduction in the episode is curious.

At the end of Moebius, we are shown a rare kiss between Carter and O'Neill who never get to consummate their unresolved sexual tension in the main text of the show. The kiss was preceded by Carter lying to O'Neill about his attraction to Daniel Jackson instead of O'Neill. Earlier on, O'Neill had wondered whether Carter and Jackson were in fact a couple -- which they both vehemently denied. Before their kiss, O'Neill tells Carter: "It's just, you know… first impressions. I kinda thought he was… Never mind."

He waves his hand in the universal sign for "bent".

Jack O'Neill thought that Daniel Jackson was, upon first impression, a gay man. Even though he met him along with an attractive woman, the first impression one got from Daniel Jackson was that he was a gay man. This has nothing to do with what Daniel's orientation is or was, in this reality or the other, just that in this one he gave off the vibe that he was gay. At least on initial meeting, an impression that might later be rectified, Daniel Jackson came off as a gay man.

So why does this matter?

When we first meet Dr. Rodney McKay, it is also the first time he meets Daniel Jackson. He gets, that is, a first impression of Daniel. Rodney barges in with the very suggestive: "Don't touch anything, please! Leave the touching to the experts."

McKay looks at Daniel from top to bottom, openly checking him out, gaze lingering on Daniel's dick. After this, he looks at Major Davis. To confirm the reading of his gaydar? To check whether the Major noticed him checking the guy out? Acknowledging the hot officer in his personal space? Who can tell!

Turning his attention to Sam, McKay subsequently completely ignores Jackson to the point of rudeness.

Note that Major Davis is, in this reality, sporting the gayest moustache that ever moustached. He is ripped straight out of a Village People album cover. If we are meant to think that Daniel in this reality comes across as gay, what are we supposed to think regarding the man with the gayest moustache this side of Tom of Finland?

After McKay checks out Daniel, whose first impression is that he is a gay man, Rodney quickly glances at Major Davis and then his entire demeanour changes. He is very curt towards the Major. They continue their exchange, Rodney antagonistic toward Jackson and now aggressively hitting on Sam, even going so far as to obviously and crassly grab her ass:

McKay: I'm sorry -- what are your areas of expertise? Carter: Astrophysics. Jackson: Archaeology. McKay: And I would listen to you because…? Carter: We're on the tape. McKay: Now you -- you I would listen to if you were reading the phone book. You see, I love this whole sexy librarian thing. Look, why don't I take you to lunch, get you up to speed.

On his initial meeting with Daniel Jackson, the man who comes off as gay, Dr. Rodney McKay reflexively checks him out and then starts immediately performing the most odious kind of heteronormative masculinity.

We get another lampshade in his line to Carter: "I hear it's lemon chicken today -- it's my favourite, hmm?" This Rodney claims openly to like Lemon chicken which he is allergic to in our reality. There is something else he is performing here that he is allergic to in our reality: his preference for chicks.

In the Pegasus galaxy, McKay is either completely oblivious to the advances of women ("You don't know what to do?"), engages in performative over-the-top womanizing ("I disgust myself sometimes"), or uses women to perform masculinity and to make himself seem more desirable to other men ("They think I'm a shut-in. So I was thinking that if I was to, say, show up with a woman -- a beautiful woman -- that they would maybe not think that I was like, a complete loser"). He expresses jealousy when other men receive attention from beautiful women while seeming to have no interest whatsoever in these women themselves. Hot women are objects to him, he barely sees them as people (literally, in The Game).

This is textbook. This is a closet so deep in Narnia the audience gets second-hand frost bite.

Note that while in Moebius we are shown a superficial difference between this Rodney and our Rodney with regards to lemon, later on we are shown that they are essentially the same. The Rodney McKay of this reality is the epitome of a closeted gay man performing over-the-top heterosexuality in a military environment where, although as a Canadian civilian contractor he is not himself in jeopardy, he has to protect the identities of gay soldiers, like Major Davis, whose careers are on the line.

Oblivious or not, Rodney McKay does not like women. He does not respect them, sees little use for them, can barely tolerate to have them around. This much seems to be true of him in every reality.

[spockvarietyhour]

Continuum-time babey

[california-112]

Moebius time :I

[stargatesg-1obsessed]

Louder for the people in the back !!!

Why the Stargate fandom can officially declare Sam/Jack canon (even though the producers forgot to mention it)

Although the relationship between Samantha Carter and Jack O'Neill has never been officially confirmed, it has been hinted at in both SG-1 and SGA, as well as in interviews with writers, producers, and cast members.

Joe Mallozzi (producer) said in this blog post

“Jack and Sam could have gotten together after Jack’s retirement, but it was never made canon because, quite frankly, it wasn’t my call. Still, despite the lack of official confirmation, it was only natural that they should get together after the events of Threads and, in my mind, they have been together ever since.”

If, for some reason, you don’t think that they got together, here’s a big list of reasons why, as soon as they possibly could after the frat regs that had been keeping them apart for so long no longer affected them, they finally managed to have a proper romantic relationship, as well as some proof that was slipped in to SGA and SG-1 when they did.

I’ve tried to take my ship goggles off for this, and to only pick out moments that objectively show the relationship between Sam and Jack (and have, in doing so, had to miss a few of my favourite episodes off the list!), but despite that there’s still a hell of a lot of support for this perfect ship.

Keep reading

[agent-troi]

[syfysource]

Stargate SG-1 "Children of the Gods" & "Moebius Pt. 1"

[threshergm]

@coffeechevrons

Stargate SG-1 - Behind the scenes - Season 8, disc 6 - Behind the Stargate: Secrets revealed part 2 - I have to kiss Amanda.

[agent-troi]

[aw-eather]

“There is nothing in this world that makes me feel the way I do when you kiss me”

I made these as a thank you to the gorgeous @sarabahama who was kind enough to Beta read my fic. A true angel <3 Thank you for all your advice and kind words, you really encouraged me to finish it and write more! 

 I also just really wanted to gif all the kisses with pretty galaxies on them. 

[stargate365]

[SG-1] 8.20: Moebius (2/2)

Previously on SG1... we failed to time travel and screwed up the timeline. Congratulations us.

Hi Jack!!

Kowalski? Dude we’ve missed you!!

Lol, Jack seems unsure of how to deal with these kids. I love it. :D

“Oh you so have to let us go with you!!” “Please!!”

“You do have the address to get us back home, right?” “Yeah.” Flashbacks to ‘94 anybody!?

Lol, Rodney looks bored af. Kinda wish I could introduce him to his other self.

What is it with him and GateShip1? Dude, he will never let that one go. Where is John when you need him.

Congrats guys you just got caught.

Why does nobody ever try to run away from the glowing balls?

Well hi grumpy Teal’c!

Whelp, that’s this Daniel lost. Hi Apophis.

“Kneel before your god!” “Kneeling.”

“He claims he’s from the Tau’ri.” “You weren’t supposed to tell him that.”

Apophis has a beard!

“To be honest with you, I’m insane!”

Yeah Sam, you’re telling him this now??

“Safety off, point and shoot... not at me”

“I don’t really like guns.” “Neither do I, How do you feel about explosives?” “Those I like a little better.”

Dude, what the hell? Other Daniel got snaked?

Whelp, he’s dead now. Guess Teal’c was right.

Oh no, not Kowalski... again. Why is he always dying?? He’s almost as bad as Daniel.

So much for obeying George and not travelling in time.

Watching SG1 trying to pretend to not be familiar with each other is fascinating.

So he speaks english and he knows sg1. :D

Daniel!! You and you’re insane ability to not die!

“Well this cant be a good sign.”

Trapdoors!! I love them!!

Holy crap Daniel. When you plan a rebellion you don’t do it by halves!!

Lol. Daniel telling Jack that the ship turns invisible. Muhahahahaha!

“I wonder if the future me has a boyfriend.”

Jack finally admits he thinks Sam is hot!!

“I’m kinda attracted to Daniel.” What the hell? She’s lying, she’s got to be. Not that Daniel isn’t awesome bc hot damn, but the way she said it...

That is exceptionally good timing... and it failed. Crap. 💩

Sam snogged Jack!!

“Wait a minute, I thought you liked Daniel.” “I lied.0

Chaaarrrgggeee!

“You can come out now.” “In a minute.”

Time loop is closed, and... hold on, isn’t this the same as the end of Threads?

[justplainmels]

8.19 | Moebius Part 1

“She wouldn’t let me go back and watch the Cubs win the World Series.”