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Recently DD and I bemoaned how we're both losing interest in the fic side of hockey fandom, and we both haven't found a new fandom yet. DD mentioned that she's never seen SGA, I have literally 13 pages of bookmarks for fics alone, it's been four years since I watched any of it – so we decided to watch some SGA episodes so I could rec her fanworks :) She's seen the pilot years ago so we started with "Hide and Seek." Right now the next episodes I'm planning to show her are "Underground", "The Storm"&"The Eye", and then I'll see how much she likes it and go from there. It was fun going through the episodes list and explaining to her that yes, there is canon bodyswap, there are canon doppelgangers etc. etc.

DD's main reaction after one episode was "I didn't expect it to be so funny." I'd forgotten how many funny and plain hilarious moments SGA has in every episode. I can think of other space shows that are funny, but not like that. There must be some though, maybe anime?, idk.

Other things, I'm annoyed because our DM switched our D&D session from Friday to Saturday. I said I could do Saturday if necessary but actually I don't want to, because otherwise on Saturday I wanted to go to a Silent Disco. I've never been and I think it could be fun. Otoh, undead and shapeshifters and treasure… I should just have said I can't do Saturday instead of trying to be accommodating, ugh.

Comments

[out_there]

Off the top of my head, Firefly and Farscape. Those are two space shows guaranteed to make me snigger in an episode and quote lines. ("Your side, my side!" gets repeated a lot in this household.)

That's probably why those are the two series I have on DVD. Big space epics are great, but I want banter and affection in there too.

(Which SGA does fill nicely. Plenty of jokes, fond moments between the team, wacky science and heroic moments.)

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Farscape had plenty of funny moments, but from what I remember (&what I watched) overall it seemed a lot darker than SGA. It's also not as colorful, and colors are important for me for mood when watching TV.

Firefly had great funny scenes too, but iirc less frequent than SGA. Though it's been a while since I watched it. It does have fantastic quotable lines.

[out_there]

It's also not as colorful, and colors are important for me for mood when watching TV

In the serious episodes you might have a point about the colour tones, but the wackier episodes were quite vivid and bright. SGA is more consistently brighter (all greens of planets, and blue/bronze of Atlantis, and black's of space).

But its funny that I'm now tempted to watch more Farscape to try to pay attention to the colour schemes now.

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I've only watched one and a half seasons of Farscape, so I'm not an expert. It did have colors too, but the inside of Moya is a lot darker than Atlantis. Plus outside views of Moya feature black space and outside views of Atlantis have the sky&ocean. SGA has a lot of outside views :)

[naye]

I hope you continue enjoying revisiting/discovering Atlantis! I'll always remember that show fondly.

Hope you managed to get something figured out for tonight's D&D/Silent Disco.

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I do! We watched a few more episodes today and it was fun. I almost forgot how pretty Atlantis is *_*