a. My first attraction to Daniel was Movie!Daniel, who is passionate and logical and sees everyone and learns from a woman he could easily dismiss as irrelevant. I was... less interested in Daniel on a Quest, but I still loved how he approached problems and I love how surprised he was by Jack's different priorities every single time. Later seasons Daniel is so much more worn down and tired. I'd define him now by his tenacity, but sometimes I wonder if he needs to reevaluate the decisions he's made, because they do seem out-dated occasionally. I mean, seriously, Daniel, the celibacy is so last season!
b. I love how committed he is to ideas and people and wonderful things. He really does have his heart in the right place, but he can be a bear if you disagree with him: condescending and absolute.
c. I suppose it would be the dichotomy of the big picture vs. the individual. Sometimes Daniel can turn on the diplomacy skills and talk a crazy pissed off morphing alien *out* of destroying everything and everyone (manipulative sob), but other times he's really okay with huge loss of life in service of the greater mission. Including his own sometimes. It would be nice if he were a little more of a collaborator in those instances so that other people's opinions could be at least considered, but I'm not sure it really occurs to Daniel that he might not be right.
d. I used to write Daniel without thinking about it too much, but lately I find him very intimidating. It's easiest for me when he's dealing with Jack, because then they're at least talking a lot--it might not have anything to do with what they're actually saying, but there are sounds and words and things. Maybe it's because I've started writing from Cameron's POV and I think Cameron finds Daniel to be really, really, odd.
e. Like No One is Watching: It was Sam’s voice that Daniel heard, he was pretty sure. Of course, he was also reasonably sure that Sam should be… somewhere else, so there was a good chance as well that she was a hallucination.
Trumping all these musings, though, was the overwhelming confusion about why a culture that seemed to be Central African in origin would be so adept at Chinese water torture.
f. I'm writing him right now, provided I can commit to using his POV, but Teal'c keeps trying to tell me what he thinks, and it's so darned interesting. It's a friendship story, roughly in and about Avatar. Here's a snippet, actually (this will change, btw, I haven't even completed the crappy first draft of this):
“It’s ridiculous to even hint that you are replacable,” Daniel had said, his voice rising in to a pitch completely inappropriate for kel no’reem, one open hand gesturing sharply at a place on the wall behind Teal’c’s shoulder.
Teal’c turned his head to look fully at his companion as he said, “you have all gained a significant understanding of the Goa’uld, including fluency in several dialects. You have a breadth of understanding of the mythic history on your planet, and now you are now capable of discerning the truth in your ancient stories.”
“So have the Jaffa,” Daniel interrupted, only to stop after having said it, to apparently consider whether he had just argued against his own point.
“You have alliances among the ranks of the Jaffa, the Tok’ra, the Tau’ri populations, and even, however inadvisedly, the Goa’uld themselves,” Teal’c continued, “You have friends among the Asgard, and other free peoples. I shall add myself to their ranks if my usefulness here becomes obsolete, and count myself honored to do so.”
Daniel Jackson opened and closed his mouth several times before he said, finally, “I would miss you.”
Teal’c replied, “I have not yet taken my leave, Daniel Jackson.”
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Date: 2007-09-12 11:18 pm (UTC)a. My first attraction to Daniel was Movie!Daniel, who is passionate and logical and sees everyone and learns from a woman he could easily dismiss as irrelevant. I was... less interested in Daniel on a Quest, but I still loved how he approached problems and I love how surprised he was by Jack's different priorities every single time. Later seasons Daniel is so much more worn down and tired. I'd define him now by his tenacity, but sometimes I wonder if he needs to reevaluate the decisions he's made, because they do seem out-dated occasionally. I mean, seriously, Daniel, the celibacy is so last season!
b. I love how committed he is to ideas and people and wonderful things. He really does have his heart in the right place, but he can be a bear if you disagree with him: condescending and absolute.
c. I suppose it would be the dichotomy of the big picture vs. the individual. Sometimes Daniel can turn on the diplomacy skills and talk a crazy pissed off morphing alien *out* of destroying everything and everyone (manipulative sob), but other times he's really okay with huge loss of life in service of the greater mission. Including his own sometimes. It would be nice if he were a little more of a collaborator in those instances so that other people's opinions could be at least considered, but I'm not sure it really occurs to Daniel that he might not be right.
d. I used to write Daniel without thinking about it too much, but lately I find him very intimidating. It's easiest for me when he's dealing with Jack, because then they're at least talking a lot--it might not have anything to do with what they're actually saying, but there are sounds and words and things. Maybe it's because I've started writing from Cameron's POV and I think Cameron finds Daniel to be really, really, odd.
e. Like No One is Watching: It was Sam’s voice that Daniel heard, he was pretty sure. Of course, he was also reasonably sure that Sam should be… somewhere else, so there was a good chance as well that she was a hallucination.
Trumping all these musings, though, was the overwhelming confusion about why a culture that seemed to be Central African in origin would be so adept at Chinese water torture.
f. I'm writing him right now, provided I can commit to using his POV, but Teal'c keeps trying to tell me what he thinks, and it's so darned interesting. It's a friendship story, roughly in and about Avatar. Here's a snippet, actually (this will change, btw, I haven't even completed the crappy first draft of this):
“It’s ridiculous to even hint that you are replacable,” Daniel had said, his voice rising in to a pitch completely inappropriate for kel no’reem, one open hand gesturing sharply at a place on the wall behind Teal’c’s shoulder.
Teal’c turned his head to look fully at his companion as he said, “you have all gained a significant understanding of the Goa’uld, including fluency in several dialects. You have a breadth of understanding of the mythic history on your planet, and now you are now capable of discerning the truth in your ancient stories.”
“So have the Jaffa,” Daniel interrupted, only to stop after having said it, to apparently consider whether he had just argued against his own point.
“You have alliances among the ranks of the Jaffa, the Tok’ra, the Tau’ri populations, and even, however inadvisedly, the Goa’uld themselves,” Teal’c continued, “You have friends among the Asgard, and other free peoples. I shall add myself to their ranks if my usefulness here becomes obsolete, and count myself honored to do so.”
Daniel Jackson opened and closed his mouth several times before he said, finally, “I would miss you.”
Teal’c replied, “I have not yet taken my leave, Daniel Jackson.”