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I'm very much in love with Sheppard and McKay at the moment. I think they have the possibility to take Jack and Daniel's place in my heart, when Stargate ends. Or shoudl I say, if it ever ends?
Okay, that won't be the end of Jack/Daniel, and they'll alway be my one true pairing love, but it will mean no new canon, no new pictures of them. If someone can take that place, it's probably John and Rodney.
They belong together. It's so obvious that they care about each other a lot, but not unusual among memebers of a team like the Atlantis crew.
Sheppard and McKay however, seem to have a special connection, one that doesn't exist between the other characters. The looks they exchange, the jealousy...
How could I not love that?
I can't help but feel that something is going to happen between Jack and Daniel that will make me sad. I keep making jokes about their old married coupleness, squeeing about it.
truth is, as much as I love to see them together like that, old married couples do break up. They may not ever stop loving each other, but sometimes they just can't live with each other anymore.
Neither Jack nor Daniel are easy people to be with. Daniel is a very driven person, very focused on his work. I don't think he ever really learned how to relax, how to just be.
Even on Abydos he was working on that cartouche room, a discovery that -as far as he knew - could never be shared with anyone able to understand it. This is his life. Not because of a lack of alternative, but because that's what he is, that what he has always been, even as a child.
The same could be said about Jack, but it's different with him. Jack is a soldier. He is an air force officer, a general, a career military man. He will never stop being that. But unlike Daniel, Jack can will stop working one day. I don't think Daniel will ever stop. Look at his grandfather. And besides, he doesn't need his body for his work the way Jack does, he "just" needs his head.
And here's where the problem's come in. Let's not kid ourselves: Jack's retirement is just a question of time. I don't want to speculate about RDA's participation in coming seasons, I'm just talking about my J/D bubble world. And in this world, Jack has reached an age that makes retirement very likely.
And I don't think he is opposed to it either.
Jack has found happiness with Daniel. And now he wants to combine this with the other things that mean happiness for him: a house, a cabin at the lake, a place not only to be, but to stay. Maybe even a family. Jack has gone through so much, and now, with Daniel, he finally has his chance of finding peace, of just being himself.
And I don't think Daniel is ready for this. I'm sure he will wants this, eventually. But not now. Now, he doesn't even know that he will want this eventually.
See, Daniel was always an outsider. Probably in his private life - there is no canon on that, but it is rather probable. Certainly in his academic life. With the SGC he has finally found what he always wanted. And for an archeaologist and a linguist to have not only the whole world, but the whole galaxy to discover? I bet Daniel wishes he'll become 200 years old, and he still wouldn't have seen enough.
Daniel has only been with the SGC for 8 years, 9 if you count his time in Abydos. Okay, let's not forget that he was kind of dead for a year. Compared to the time Jack has spent with the Air Force, that's not very much.
In the last years, with all the alien sex, saving the world, dying, fighting, making up they did, Jack and Daniel didn't have time for "routine". But once they get a break, the problems every couple has will start to show. And the worst of these problems will be their different plans for the immediate future.
Oh, don't worry. They'll get their happy ending eventually. But I can't shake the feeling that something bad is going to happen, that they'll break up, and that poor Jack will suffer again. Somebody really needs to kick Daniel in the head and tell him how much Jack really loves him, and how rare that kind of love is.
That's why I'm incredibly happy to have John and Rodney. Because they are happy and funny and sexy and very angst-free.
And I just realized that I don't even have a McShep icon. I'm such a bad fan.
Okay, that won't be the end of Jack/Daniel, and they'll alway be my one true pairing love, but it will mean no new canon, no new pictures of them. If someone can take that place, it's probably John and Rodney.
They belong together. It's so obvious that they care about each other a lot, but not unusual among memebers of a team like the Atlantis crew.
Sheppard and McKay however, seem to have a special connection, one that doesn't exist between the other characters. The looks they exchange, the jealousy...
How could I not love that?
I can't help but feel that something is going to happen between Jack and Daniel that will make me sad. I keep making jokes about their old married coupleness, squeeing about it.
truth is, as much as I love to see them together like that, old married couples do break up. They may not ever stop loving each other, but sometimes they just can't live with each other anymore.
Neither Jack nor Daniel are easy people to be with. Daniel is a very driven person, very focused on his work. I don't think he ever really learned how to relax, how to just be.
Even on Abydos he was working on that cartouche room, a discovery that -as far as he knew - could never be shared with anyone able to understand it. This is his life. Not because of a lack of alternative, but because that's what he is, that what he has always been, even as a child.
The same could be said about Jack, but it's different with him. Jack is a soldier. He is an air force officer, a general, a career military man. He will never stop being that. But unlike Daniel, Jack can will stop working one day. I don't think Daniel will ever stop. Look at his grandfather. And besides, he doesn't need his body for his work the way Jack does, he "just" needs his head.
And here's where the problem's come in. Let's not kid ourselves: Jack's retirement is just a question of time. I don't want to speculate about RDA's participation in coming seasons, I'm just talking about my J/D bubble world. And in this world, Jack has reached an age that makes retirement very likely.
And I don't think he is opposed to it either.
Jack has found happiness with Daniel. And now he wants to combine this with the other things that mean happiness for him: a house, a cabin at the lake, a place not only to be, but to stay. Maybe even a family. Jack has gone through so much, and now, with Daniel, he finally has his chance of finding peace, of just being himself.
And I don't think Daniel is ready for this. I'm sure he will wants this, eventually. But not now. Now, he doesn't even know that he will want this eventually.
See, Daniel was always an outsider. Probably in his private life - there is no canon on that, but it is rather probable. Certainly in his academic life. With the SGC he has finally found what he always wanted. And for an archeaologist and a linguist to have not only the whole world, but the whole galaxy to discover? I bet Daniel wishes he'll become 200 years old, and he still wouldn't have seen enough.
Daniel has only been with the SGC for 8 years, 9 if you count his time in Abydos. Okay, let's not forget that he was kind of dead for a year. Compared to the time Jack has spent with the Air Force, that's not very much.
In the last years, with all the alien sex, saving the world, dying, fighting, making up they did, Jack and Daniel didn't have time for "routine". But once they get a break, the problems every couple has will start to show. And the worst of these problems will be their different plans for the immediate future.
Oh, don't worry. They'll get their happy ending eventually. But I can't shake the feeling that something bad is going to happen, that they'll break up, and that poor Jack will suffer again. Somebody really needs to kick Daniel in the head and tell him how much Jack really loves him, and how rare that kind of love is.
That's why I'm incredibly happy to have John and Rodney. Because they are happy and funny and sexy and very angst-free.
And I just realized that I don't even have a McShep icon. I'm such a bad fan.