Thank you everybody. I see you're discussing Pete Shanahan, so I guess I'll add my two cents in to the conversation. Before I do, though, I should probably mention that the only thing I'd seen David DeLuise on before SG-1 was Saved by the Bell: The College Years, where he played a slob at ap oker game. So as you can tell the image in my mind of him wasn't so high to begin with.
That said, I didn't particularly like his character, for some of the reasons mentioned before. I think Pete Shanahan as a character failed for a simple reason - TPTB were trying to tie up all kinds of stories together in the episodes he was in, and did it poorly.
I don't see him as a stalker, because I realize that the background check in "Chimera" was really only an attempt to tie the "A" story of Sam and Pete to the "B" story of Daniel and Osiris. I agree that it was a foolish way to do it and very sloppy writing, but I see what they were trying to do, which IMHO was not to create some obsessive boyfriend for Sam but someone normal (or at least relatively so), but at the same time keep him around and tie him to the other story.
The same thing happened to Pete in "Affinity". They tried to intertwine the A" story of Teal'c and his neighbour, with the "B" story of Sam and Pete, and with the "C" story of the Trust, which was once again poorly put together and appeared so clumsy.
What do you guys think? How wrong am I?
That said, I didn't particularly like his character, for some of the reasons mentioned before. I think Pete Shanahan as a character failed for a simple reason - TPTB were trying to tie up all kinds of stories together in the episodes he was in, and did it poorly.
I don't see him as a stalker, because I realize that the background check in "Chimera" was really only an attempt to tie the "A" story of Sam and Pete to the "B" story of Daniel and Osiris. I agree that it was a foolish way to do it and very sloppy writing, but I see what they were trying to do, which IMHO was not to create some obsessive boyfriend for Sam but someone normal (or at least relatively so), but at the same time keep him around and tie him to the other story.
The same thing happened to Pete in "Affinity". They tried to intertwine the A" story of Teal'c and his neighbour, with the "B" story of Sam and Pete, and with the "C" story of the Trust, which was once again poorly put together and appeared so clumsy.
What do you guys think? How wrong am I?
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