[ SECRET POST #4365 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4365 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Stargate SG-1)


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[Great British Bake Off]


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[Umbrella Academy]


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[cook and food writer Samin Nosrat, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat]


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(Kim Taehyung)


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[Avengers: Endgame]










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Comments

[fscom]

02. https://i.imgur.com/DDLhx9F.jpg
(Stargate SG-1)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! It was great!

[sparklywalls]

This first broadcast before I really got into fandom properly so it was one of my first ships without fully realising it!

And yeah I liked that there was mutual respect and O'Neill was shown to be someone who would never take advantage of his superior rank in taking advantage of her and then washing his hands of it/screwing her over.

I do remember getting annoyed when he was partially written out of the show (because RDA wanted to be iirc) and they continued to be coy with the "ooh did they or didn't they get together properly?" stuff in SG-1 and SGA. But now I've had a few years to digest it I kinda understand why they never made it overtly obvious. Once O'Neill took a back seat in the show they probably didn't want him overshadowing all the other parts of Carter's journey. That and I guess it's fun to keep speculating.

[philstar22]

I didn't mind that they kept up the will they/did they a bit. What I did mind was them making the new character team leader instead of Carter. She should have become team leader (and frankly was more suited to that role than the leader of Atlantis role). It would have been better if Mitchell had been brought on as a new team member, but with Carter in command. It just felt odd for her to be taking orders from him at that point. The dynamic was off for me because she was so clearly ready to lead a team herself.

[sparklywalls]

Oh agreed. I remember being SO mad when Mitchell was the head of SG-1 cos, as nice a guy/character as he was, he wasn't the one I'd been invested in for the best part of a decade and surely if anyone deserved to take O'Neill's spot it was Carter?

Her Atlantis role felt like they were throwing her a bone but it didn't really work. And that got taken away from her too in the end.

[esteefee]

Yeah. She had seniority, experience, pure leadership skills...and Cam was..this cornfed pie with zero experience. I like Cam but he was her inferior in every possible way.

I loved her in SGA though. I will never forget the Colonel...Colonel...Colonel scene, or the way she dressed down Ellis that time.

[philstar22]

Yup. And there was also the fact that while he was a great leader, in most other areas she was actually better than him. And he know it and respected her talent. So there was enough give and take there for me to get past my usual dislike of age differences.

[nightscale]

Yeah they were great, there was a lot of mutual respect for each other and it was wonderful.

[(Anonymous)]

I know this ship had a huge following, but the fact that he was her CO made it an absolute no-no for me. The age gap just exacerbated that. I mean, I respect that lots of other people didn’t see it the same way, but for me, I just couldn’t get past the power imbalance of him being her commanding officer.

[(Anonymous)]

SA That was supposed to be “no-go”, not “no-no”.

[philstar22]

I couldn't see it turning romantic while he was her CO. But them getting together once he retired was fine with me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but they addressed that in-series, and the fact that they didn't actually go there on screen because of that reason is part of what makes it compelling. They both know they can't be together because of regulations, and the show doesn't do anything gross or weird to enable it. It's just two good, ethical people mutually pining while also engaging in wacky space hijinks.

[esteefee]

Yeah, that's what I loved. They showed the purest discipline and respect for regs and didn't do anything (well except for the timeloop ep heh) but UST ridiculously.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

*shrug* I’m not saying other people shouldn’t ship it. It just hits a lot of do-not-want buttons with me personally. Plus, long-time pining is another ship-killer for me. I shipped Sam with a lot of people, but I just couldn’t go there with her and Jack.

[dinogrrl]

That, and he was the one who had someone suggest to him to retire from his job so they'd be able to pursue a relationship. Rather than the woman giving things up for a man.

I usually get pretty annoyed when two main characters are paired off in a series, but I didn't mind this one at all. They weren't forced, they played off each other like proper independent characters and the development of their relationship just felt natural (as did pretty much all of the various character relationships, romantic and non).

[silverr]

I love them too! You've done a good job articulating what's so great about it.

[(Anonymous)]

YES!

[(Anonymous)]

They're both mature adults. Been around the block. How does age difference between those two signify. Whut?

Being in the same chain of command, now *that's* an issue.

Just... they both have experience. They're out of the slightly-irrational -teenager stage. How is there power imbalance except for the rank issue? I seriously don't get it.

[(Anonymous)]

He's 15 years older than her, which is close to a generation older

[(Anonymous)]

And? Does that really mean that much once you’ve both hit your 30s?

[(Anonymous)]

That’s the age difference between the actors. I’m not entirely sure what the age difference between the characters was, since I believe both characters were supposed to be younger than their actors’ ages.

But I agree with the AYRT that the chain of command issue is a far bigger issue than the age issue, at their ages.