Daniel Jackson Without Guilt

I am a Daniel Jackson fan. I have always been a Daniel Jackson fan. That was never all I was, but I never apologized (and never will) for loving the Daniel character.

I was an SG1 fan first and foremost. I bought into the team as family concept and the ideal that four diverse people, one of whom happened to be a woman, could be fast and loyal friends without any other encumbrances. I believed that, I wrote over 100 stories about it, I loved it.

Until they killed the team I knew, showing bare shadows of what I once believed the team was all about. Until they decided having the team member who just happened to be a woman fall in love with one of our family members who was also her boss was a good idea. Until they drove the wedge of sexual love into the mix of comraderie and devotion that once defined the team. Until that wedge became a sledgehammer that divided the team into the haves (special love not on the same level as the others) and the have nots (the other members of the team who clearly still feel the same way, but are diminished for the sake of the 'special' relationship). Until that wedge became a dirty little secret that can never be spoken aloud but lingers like the odor of ten day old mastadge dung, causing our once nearly perfect heroes to reek of dishonesty and indiscretion.

They can't put the secret back in the box. They did it once after D&C, but they let it back out again too many times. The team is dead, long live Daniel Jackson.

I am a Daniel fan. That's all I am, thanks to PTB. I am the embodiment of that self-fulfilling appelation uttered by Brad Wright a few years ago. I am the Daniel fan you made me, PTB. And, except for the deepening regret for the team we've lost, I'm not one bit sorry to say so.

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Posted by JayEm at March 24, 2004 02:41 AM