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ext_2780 ([identity profile] aizjanika.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] moonshayde 2006-08-02 06:26 am (UTC)

I'll be honest, though, I have never seen UST between Jack and Daniel on the show either. I've seen chemistry between them--something that made me think "These two guys mean more to each other than is apparent from the things they say." It can be fun to interpret as UST, but I see it as just that--an interpretation.

I have no problem with shippers doing the same with Sam/Jack, but I don't believe that it’s canon on the show, that I must see it, or, in your phrasing above *g*, that it can't be denied. *g* I think it can be denied. *bg*

When I saw them together in scenes even in the early seasons, I only thought, "He's beginning to respect her as a fellow officer." Later I thought, "They are colleagues that have absolutely nothing in common and can't even carry on a conversation about anything personal the way that normal people would who have been working together for X number of years."

In Death Knell (and I would add Metamorphosis) those Jack/Sam moments came off as extremely false and forced to me. In Metamorphosis, especially, when Jack told her to rest, he didn't hold out his arms and say, "Lean on me." It was just bizarre that she did so. There had been nothing between them up to that point to indicate they'd ever had that type of intimacy or working relationship or any type of relationship. It just felt...awkward and weird and forced. Death Knell was almost as bad.

What episode was it that Jack and Sam had a phone conversation? That just seemed to be like this huge neon sign saying, "See? They do talk about personal things! And they know each other so well!" It felt false because there had never been anything between them up to that point to indicate that they ever had those types of conversations and everything to indicate that they didn't. Sam sounded strained instead of easy and Jack/RDA sounded off to me.

But like I said, there's always a risk. You can't please everyone.

I would never say anything to an author about this, because everyone's mileage on this may vary, but if I read what seemed like UST between Sam/Jack or Daniel/Vala or anyone else in a gen fic, I'd probably feel that the author didn't label it in order to trick people into reading it--people who wouldn't normally read that type of story. I'd never say anything to the author, though, because I respect that some authors want people to accept their work as a whole and not to prejudge it.

Even if it wasn't meant as a "trick," it would mean that the author and I didn't see eye-to-eye on the characters and thus I'd perceive the characters to be acting out of character in a gen fic. There's nothing wrong with that, but that would be my indication that this wasn't an author I wanted to read. And I don't mean that in a bad or mean way. There are plenty of authors out there who write great stories that I don't read because their type of story doesn't appeal to me. I have no expectation that any authors are writing with me in mind. *g*

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