Merry Day After Shipmas!
I'm just off to catch up on what I missed on the Shipmas thread but just to comment on the movie vs the series...
I loved the movie. Really enjoyed Kurt's rendition of O'Neill at the time and I thought it was a good buddy movie between him and Spader.
I have to admit though that the Stargate movie is now something that I have as 'AU' in my head.
The events and everything I keep as canon (Jack losing his son, the suicide mission to Abydos, Daniel getting the Stargate to work, meeting Sha're, etc) but I just substitute our Jack and Daniel.
I have to say though that I did once watch the movie, into COTG, etc for my fanfic bible and I think what RDA and MS did incredibly well was to make the transition work - there are flashes of Kurt's O'Neill in RDA's performance, and MS does emulate Spader's mannerisms very well to provide a solid version of Spader's Daniel.
Personally, I prefer RDA in the role. He brought an irreverence and an ability to mock the outlandish situations they found themselves in that I think was needed for the character to work long term.
I also do miss Sam and Teal'c whenever I watch the movie now. And as fond as I am of the Daniel/Sha'uri dynamic, I miss my Sam/Jack. Yay, got this on topic!
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