This. Shades of grey, I love it. (Torchwood is excellent at shades of grey.)
Stargate, in the beginning, was very good at that as well. Jack the soldier/leader always wanted to shoot first and ask questions later, and Daniel the civilian/archeologist wanted to talk with the aliens. Over the course of several years Daniel became more soldier-like while Jack softened up. It was great to see but it took the fight out of it a bit. I loved the early years because again I could see both being right from their POV. Jack has had many bad experiences and became wary and untrusting, and Daniel was too naïve and trustworthy sometimes which got them into trouble and then it was interesting to see them work on a solution both can live with.
I had quite to smile when in the “Devil in the Dark” Star Trek TOS episode we had a very similar situation with Kirk wanting to kill the beast but Spock said it is the last of its kind and we can’t. But then when Kirk was in danger Spock was ready to kill it while Kirk already had made friends with it. Somehow this episode felt very Stargate like to me ;) I guess it is a simple theme we can find in lots of science fiction.
They do??? Really? How odd.
I think the actors where just happy to be out of the studio for a change. They stayed in the middle of nowhere in a hotel while shooting and there are lots of funny stories John Barrowman and Eve Myles like to tell at conventions. Apparently John was so frightened after they told each other ghost stories that he slept in Eve’s bed… I’m sure they had fun filming it but it still makes for a bad episode (I also rather choose to ignore the Jack statement of that he used to be a torturer. It does not fit with the view I have of the character and they never came back to it either)
Oh yeah I love the Torchwood Babiez! That was a great evening many years ago when someone had linked to it and I explored it. Very well drawn and also really, really spot on and funny. I wish there was more.
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Stargate, in the beginning, was very good at that as well. Jack the soldier/leader always wanted to shoot first and ask questions later, and Daniel the civilian/archeologist wanted to talk with the aliens. Over the course of several years Daniel became more soldier-like while Jack softened up. It was great to see but it took the fight out of it a bit. I loved the early years because again I could see both being right from their POV. Jack has had many bad experiences and became wary and untrusting, and Daniel was too naïve and trustworthy sometimes which got them into trouble and then it was interesting to see them work on a solution both can live with.
I had quite to smile when in the “Devil in the Dark” Star Trek TOS episode we had a very similar situation with Kirk wanting to kill the beast but Spock said it is the last of its kind and we can’t. But then when Kirk was in danger Spock was ready to kill it while Kirk already had made friends with it. Somehow this episode felt very Stargate like to me ;) I guess it is a simple theme we can find in lots of science fiction.
They do??? Really? How odd.
I think the actors where just happy to be out of the studio for a change. They stayed in the middle of nowhere in a hotel while shooting and there are lots of funny stories John Barrowman and Eve Myles like to tell at conventions. Apparently John was so frightened after they told each other ghost stories that he slept in Eve’s bed… I’m sure they had fun filming it but it still makes for a bad episode (I also rather choose to ignore the Jack statement of that he used to be a torturer. It does not fit with the view I have of the character and they never came back to it either)
Oh yeah I love the Torchwood Babiez! That was a great evening many years ago when someone had linked to it and I explored it. Very well drawn and also really, really spot on and funny. I wish there was more.