So I was in this convo about the episode 'Threads', SG1 season 8 and it ends up turning in to a major shipper v ant-shipper debate of veiws on the episode that clogged a lot of opinions on the rest of the episode, my question is, why are their shippers and anti-shippers how there are in stargate, with shippers just wanting their characters to get together, and anti-shippers not wanting any characters to get together and finding that any shipiness ruins the show for them.
Now I am a big fan of Buffy and Angel, and one of the key elements to the show is the character relationships, and it's those that make the episodes all the more interesting.
With SG1, a lot of the time it is the relationship of the team that draws people in, but there's no reason other relationships shouldn't come in to it, and we've had them appear for all the members of SG1. The relationships add another dimension to the characters, another motive for their actions, other challenges for them to face.
I have no real preference to any type of ship, I just enjoy watching the journey the characters go through. I know some people prefer the plot-heavy episodes with action and space battles etc, and others prefer the emotional ones, but can someone explain to me why many anti-shippers find the relationship ones ruin stargate for them, and shippers why they are so obsessed about their ship happening and well against a different ship happening?
my opinion is that as long as the writers stay true to the characters, which they have been (especially with the Sam/Jack ship for all you shippers who went them together but it shouldn't happen) and they make the episodes and relationships interesting, which they have done, then whatever they do is fine, and Stargate SG-1 is still a brilliant series to watch each and every week.
Now I am a big fan of Buffy and Angel, and one of the key elements to the show is the character relationships, and it's those that make the episodes all the more interesting.
With SG1, a lot of the time it is the relationship of the team that draws people in, but there's no reason other relationships shouldn't come in to it, and we've had them appear for all the members of SG1. The relationships add another dimension to the characters, another motive for their actions, other challenges for them to face.
I have no real preference to any type of ship, I just enjoy watching the journey the characters go through. I know some people prefer the plot-heavy episodes with action and space battles etc, and others prefer the emotional ones, but can someone explain to me why many anti-shippers find the relationship ones ruin stargate for them, and shippers why they are so obsessed about their ship happening and well against a different ship happening?
my opinion is that as long as the writers stay true to the characters, which they have been (especially with the Sam/Jack ship for all you shippers who went them together but it shouldn't happen) and they make the episodes and relationships interesting, which they have done, then whatever they do is fine, and Stargate SG-1 is still a brilliant series to watch each and every week.
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