Originally posted by Catysg1
spoilers for s8's threads below
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(tucker case - ship discussion thread - #558)
http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....&postcount=558
It's hard to say, not only without seeing the characters, but also without having seen how TPTB go about ship-building with characters they're actually able (and willing) to write and present as a couple.
They couldn't do that with Jack and Sam. To the extent that they were shipped at all by the writers, it was always on the sly, bogged down in character "outs" and ambiguities and inferred preferential treatment. Characters like Pete SPOILERS
Spoiler:
A quick, open and obvious kiss in an appropriate moment would have felt far less ham-fisted than those long stares, clumsy silences, gauzy, soft-focus shots with the music swelling and the action frozen in implied-ship limbo long enough for everyone to clue in. (Okay, bit of an overstatement, the gist being that a single small but overt gesture weighs the plot down far less than any great honking heap of subtle "clues.").
The "disaster" of Jack and Sam is what comes from the writers' shipping a couple they were never prepared to actually write.
It could be a quite different ballgame with characters they are prepared to write openly for.
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i just thought some of what this post said rang very true. what you do you think?
sally
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