Originally posted by Stef
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Nice one poundpuppy - sorry I only looked just now there! Speaking of new banners Stef, yours is pretty too.
Maybe it has something to do with SG-1 being near the end (of the tv incarnation at least). 'Ships are much easier to handle being established when they're in a film time scale, if they are going to establish them anyway.
'Ships - speaking generally, there are exceptions - are much harder to maintain as established without dulling the characters on a one hour/week level. Great writing can do it, and good variety of focus in an ensemble show (basically it not being constantly about them, limiting screen time devoted to a fic and using it wisely) but being honest, what evidence is there that this particular crew of TPTB can handle an established 'ship sensitively?!
It might be that with two hours and an ensemble cast for the SG-1 movies, it's a lot easier to have DV. But with whole seasons (hopefully? - undecided) of SGA to go, it's a lot more difficult and dangerous a prospect. Put bluntly, if they screw it up, they've got a lot less scope for damage limitation.
I put it negatively like that because that's probably the way they see it in terms of SGA, whereas DV is a much lesser gamble in some respects... SGA is only just going into Season 4 and resolving 'ships quickly isn't really an efficient way to get to a second 10 season run. Depressing but true.
kay x
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