kickin' it old skool
I watched me some SG-1 over the holiday weekend, which was mostly dopey, and BTW you guys, NOT ONE LITTLE BIT GAY. I mean it. I am not trying to hate on anyone's OTP, but the Carter/O'Neill thing is SO VERY MUCH CANNON that I can't believe that any slasher slogged through ten years of that crap to be all, "oh that ONE time O'Neill grabbed Daniel's arm just before he jumped off a balcony in his alien induced suicidal depression!" Come on. O'Neill didn't even scratch behind his ear and look shifty after he did it!

Compared to SG-1, SGA is totally (not that this is news to us) SPACEGAYS ON CRACK.

Also there were a number of heartfelt episodes/scenes in the early seasons which included O'Neill's ex-wife. She was very classy and heartbroken and a tiny little bit dykey and clearly invested in O'Neill as a person even though their marriage fell apart in the maelstrom of the OMG TRAGEDY TRAGEDY MAKE IT STOP I ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRAGEDY OF YOUR DEAD KID ALREADY.

I cannot help but contemplate what would happen if Sheppard's CANNONICAL (and not in the sense or being a nun with super-powers, although that might be the best AU ever)ex-wife showed up on SGA. Totally not the mutual agonized respect-love-angst-fest that SG-1 had, I'll tell you that for free.

I like to believe that the divine ex Mrs. Shep is either an experimental fighter pilot from Iowa named Shirley (she called him Shep and he called her Shirl), who ends up in Atlantis attached to the Daedalus as a pilot of the next generation of 302's, or a French scientist named Monique, who routinely tosses her jet-black curls over her shoulder and snottily informs the (idiots) who underestimate her that she has more important things to do than stand around waiting while they figure out how to get their jobs done.

I think Lorne develops a little crush on Shirl while detached to the Daedalus to learn the 302's and assess their potential as a military blah blah blah and then when they finally get to Atlantis there is a total HELLO AWKWARD scene in the gate room, while Lorne tries to figure out how bro's before ho's applies when the bro is question is totally gay and (at a minimum) all three of them know it.

In other news, Rodney develops an obsessive (not to say creepy) fixation on Monique, because for all his wild accusations about Sheppard and any number of Gals from Pegasus, he realizes that Monique is the only person who Rodney has met who he is absolutely sure that John Sheppard has definitely absolutely fucked. He finds himself eying her in the labs and trying to engineer situations where she is in the same room as John, and then he spends and awful lot of time having confusing fantasies about having sex with her, or possibly about watching John have sex with her, or maybe there is a threesome in there somewhere.

I'm clearly incapable of getting a completed story past my internal sensor, but, oh, I think maybe I could tell more tales about Shep and his ex if SG-1 and its rampant hetero-normativeness would quit bringing me down.

In other news, I am now 35 and still not knocked up.