Sam Carter/Amanda Tapping Discussion/Appreciation

[Skydiver]

Spoiler:

Do battery operated substitutes not count?

Ow! Ow! Stop hitting me, Sky!

mmhm, i wonder

is that where a zat gun come in???

wham, bam, pops up ready for action????

[minigeek]

Hey! We accountants have interpersonal issues...Don't we? *Oh. My. God. No we don't*

LOL! You funny. I'd green but apparently I have loved you too much lately!

Slurp!
mg

[minigeek]

mmhm, i wonder

is that where a zat gun come in???

wham, bam, pops up ready for action????

And some of them provide more action than others, let me tell you.

[Mandysg1]

Spoiler:

Do battery operated substitutes not count?

Ow! Ow! Stop hitting me, Sky!

Nevermind Sky, what about me

Bad TJ, Bad

[minigeek]

Nevermind Sky, what about me

Bad TJ, Bad

Hey, as I recall SKY was the one who STARTED the whole thing! If ya ask me, she needs to self flagellate first. *snerk*

[RepliCartertje]

to sky and TJ
But than again there is truth in it

[Mandysg1]

Boy are we having a busy time for Leo birthdays

Here's a pic of when we all got together to celebrate, boy do Leo's know how to celebrate



Sorry if I missed anyone, but I used the Samandan Birthday list

[minigeek]

Boy are we having a busy time for Leo birthdays

Here's a pic of when we all got together to celebrate, boy do Leo's know how to celebrate



Sorry if I missed anyone, but I used the Samandan Birthday list

Apparently something's got all of your attention(s) at once, too... hmmm... wonder what it could BEEEEE....

mg

[Mandysg1]

Apparently something's got all of your attention(s) at once, too... hmmm... wonder what it could BEEEEE....

mg

Oh it must be the smell of Cam Ham

[LaCroix]

I stayed up late last night watching a show called Deadwood. It's a period peice show set in the late 1800's and as far as I can recall, Amanda hasn't done anything like that.

If AT had a chance to do something like that, I know I would watch.

[WhatFateAlmondRoca]

LOL that is high praise!

I did like it. There were moments (like

Spoiler:

Cameron having 'final say' over whether they proceeded with one of the experiments at one point

that rankled a tiny bit) but other than a couple of those, I had fun watching and for me, having fun watching is what it's all about. So I decided not to overanalyze it this time and simply admit - TPP had some fantabulistic Carter moments in it, some very neat writing, and it's an episode I'll almost certainly watch again!

Hugs,
mg

I think you are spot-on about not overanalyzing. I, too, watch it for fun and too much mental ___ation is just not fun any more.

<---still hasn't seen it but thank you, AD and others for restoring anticipation for new SG eps - something I haven't experienced in quite a while.

[ChevronSeven]

pets the nice accountants

That's right. You never know when you need one. We accountants get a bum rap.

[Gate gal]

Hey thanks, yeah I'll be on here alot in the future don't worry

Spoiler:

I really think that the writers are turning Sam into a 'pretty girl' well this is the impression I got from Season Nine. Which is not how I like Sam! I hope it doesn't continue into Season Ten

Season 10 fixes that

Spoiler:

Sam is back in character this year. Her science skills are being utilized more than her military skills right now, but I think she'll get to "up the body count" as the season continues. I think Pegasus Project was a good Sam episode.

[Gate gal]

Astro *did* blush

And the fics that I'd like to see made into a Stargate episode (or arc)

Rachel500's 'A Pond With No Fish'
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2945618/1/

and

Strix's 'The Knife Edge of Madness'
http://vikingchick.gyrfalcon.net/knife.htm

.... and I now see that Chopingal has beat me to that rec!

...and something along the lines of
'The Working Hour' by afq
http://www.gateworld.net/fanfic/arch...heworking.html

...and I'll wait to post additional ones until after others have posted their choices

Oh, sign me up for Rachel's A Pond with No Fish. I loved that one! I'd also like to see Graceful Encore made into an episode, but since it involves Pete it would have to be AU. (It is a miniJack and Sam's daughter fic.)

[astrogeologist]

From a previous post:

Since some folks have groused that Sam is too perfect, that she always knows the answer... and that they want to see more of situations where Sam *doesn't* know the answer and doesn't figure things out... I set about to make a list of the times that Sam *didn't* know the answer -- because I think they've done a good job (sometimes too good) of showing Sam as not-perfect and not always having the ansewr (much more so than most scifi lead science-types) - and they started this in Season 1. (Frankly, I think they've gone too far to the 'don't know' side over the past couple of years...)

At any rate, here's the list that I have so far, and I'd like help adding to it

Adding:
Season 1: Children Of The Gods - Daniel is the one who figures out how to get the gate connected. Sam doesn't - even after working on the project for years before they originally went to Abydos.

Season 6: Paradise Lost - Maybourne gets her zat and uses it against both her and Jack. Sam doesn't figure out the new alien technology that creates the 'window-gate' that Maybourne and Jack go through. She also loses it with Dr. Lee (very human thing to do).

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Previous List:

Spoiler:

Not Super!Sam – she has her human sides, she has her vulnerabilities, she doesn’t always have the answer, she doesn’t always save the day

Season 1: The First Commandment – she can’t pull the trigger on Jonas (she isn’t the perfect soldier – she’s human)

Season 1: Solitudes – she didn’t think of dialing another gate. She didn’t save the day and rescue herself and Jack. (not Super!Sam who always comes up with the answer)

Season 5: Red Sky – they screwed up that sun!

Season 5: Desperate Measures – she doesn’t get herself out of this one. Jack swoops in and saves her.

Season 6: Forsaken – she got cold-cocked and tied up, then got put on the sidelines because of wooziness.

Season 7: Avenger 2.0 – she definitely didn’t save the day here. Felger had to reprogram the ‘Gate and Jack swooped in and saved both Carter and Felger.

Season 7: Fallen – she can’t run the ‘digger’ well enough – Kianna must operate/drive the machine

Season 7: Death Knell – she outruns the SuperSoldier for awhile, but it ultimately outlasts her and Teal’c and Jack swoop in and save her.

Season 8: New Order – Jack and the guys and the Asgard save the day. Fifth lets Sam go

Season 8: Gemini – RepliCarter fools her and gets the frequency/code to the Ancient Replicator gun.

Season 9: Beachhead - Carter isn’t needed to go with the bomb after all.

Season 9: Camelot – Sam can’t deal with the SuperGate fast enough

Ship – the whole Pete saga, Jonas, Jack – she definitely doesn’t have the relationship thing down.

And, then for contrast, here's a list of episodes where I think that Carter was a main hero, or *the* main hero, or did something decisive towards victory for that episode.

Episodes where Sam *did* save the day, where she was figuring things out, where she could see ‘the answer’, where Sam was the hero

Singularity – heroically going back down to Cassie
Hathor – taking on the Goa’uld, saving the base, saving Jack from being a Jaffa
Seth – using the hand device against Seth
1969 – figuring out the time travel/sunspots
Fair Game - where she uses the healing device on the Goa’uld
A Matter of Time – great Science!Sam
2010 – Science!Sam, Ship!Sam, Heroic!Sam
2001 – falling through the horizontal ‘Gate
Small Victories dumb ideas – blowing up the O’Neill to save the Asgard
A Hundred Days -creating and building that particle accelerator
Foothold – saving the SGC, and Earth
Paradise Lost - figuring out that Jack and Maybourne were on the moon
Grace – saving the Prometheus, it’s crew, and the aliens