The destabilizing effect on team dynamics of any within-the-team pairing niggles at me too, no matter who it is. And it strikes me as a pretty hard sell for onscreen!Jack to have a romance with anyone on his team while they're serving together.
This is my biggets thing. maybe it's the canon part of me that struggles with shipping or slashing Jack so much. (Though, it doesn't apply to the other characters for me, so that's a bit on a contridiction.) The most I can get out of a fic and really believe the characters are in character, whether ship or slash, is if it doesn't go anywhere. If it stays in a state of UST. That just seems more believable to me. Now that we're post series, I wonder if that will change for me.
My biggest hang up with Jack and Daniel is that I don't see it going anywhere. If they do have feelings they probably don't even know it and wouldn't act on them if they did. It would take something extraoridnary to break that boundary. I think this where my love of "aliens made them do it" comes to play.
Sam/Jack is similar for me. I think Jack respects Sam and their careers too much to do anything. It would take something extraordinary to change that.
So onscreen, I don't see it going anywhere. In fic, Jack ship and slash would have to done with a certain finesse for me to enjoy it.
I think it's awesome that you're flexible in reading and writing while maintaining your core conception of the Jack character.
Maybe I'm weird? I've learned to separate the two. I can write for the sake of the idea not for what I personally believe. it's opened up a lot of doors for me and I'm happy. But I may just be weird ;)
What do you think about Jack/Kerry? I liked her so much, and I've always been intrigued by that brief thing they had, wanted to read more about what was going on there beyond what we saw on the screen. But I haven't seen a lick of fic.
I didn't like her much, actually. I wanted to like her but my problem wa sthat she was an obvious plot device. I have a hard time getting past that. if she asn't just a plot device, then I think I would have enjoyed that brief interlude with them. It shows Jack still yearns for physical and romantic relationships. Itw beene side of Jack to explore.
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Date: 2007-09-15 05:33 pm (UTC)This is my biggets thing. maybe it's the canon part of me that struggles with shipping or slashing Jack so much. (Though, it doesn't apply to the other characters for me, so that's a bit on a contridiction.) The most I can get out of a fic and really believe the characters are in character, whether ship or slash, is if it doesn't go anywhere. If it stays in a state of UST. That just seems more believable to me. Now that we're post series, I wonder if that will change for me.
My biggest hang up with Jack and Daniel is that I don't see it going anywhere. If they do have feelings they probably don't even know it and wouldn't act on them if they did. It would take something extraoridnary to break that boundary. I think this where my love of "aliens made them do it" comes to play.
Sam/Jack is similar for me. I think Jack respects Sam and their careers too much to do anything. It would take something extraordinary to change that.
So onscreen, I don't see it going anywhere. In fic, Jack ship and slash would have to done with a certain finesse for me to enjoy it.
I think it's awesome that you're flexible in reading and writing while maintaining your core conception of the Jack character.
Maybe I'm weird? I've learned to separate the two. I can write for the sake of the idea not for what I personally believe. it's opened up a lot of doors for me and I'm happy. But I may just be weird ;)
What do you think about Jack/Kerry? I liked her so much, and I've always been intrigued by that brief thing they had, wanted to read more about what was going on there beyond what we saw on the screen. But I haven't seen a lick of fic.
I didn't like her much, actually. I wanted to like her but my problem wa sthat she was an obvious plot device. I have a hard time getting past that. if she asn't just a plot device, then I think I would have enjoyed that brief interlude with them. It shows Jack still yearns for physical and romantic relationships. Itw beene side of Jack to explore.